WebKit

Sorry that’s not correct. It used to be WebKit via QtWebKit, but now it’s Chromium via QtWebEngine.

Fun fact: the KHTML code base that was developed for Konqueror was forked by Apple to create WebKit, and Webkit has been adopted by Google for Blink, so Konqueror is kind of the origin point for all current web browsers except Firefox (which is descended from Netscape).

… and there are now terminal browsers like chawan that can render images mostly correctly.

Oh good, so they’re kind of on the level of Netscape Navigator.

Well yeah, functionally it is the standard design. In terms of making a readable clock, this is probably the most practical. Anything more would require some major changes to the mechanism.

This 1970s style of sci fi art:

It always felt like it spoke of a brilliant and fantastic future.

Ming the Merciless

as played by Max von Sydow in the 1980 film Flash Gordon

Ming is this potentially goofy over-the-top villain, but Sydow’s portrayal makes him dignified, threatening, majestic and malevolent, never laughable.

There is, you have two sets of numbers for each hour marking like this:

or like this:

This requires no change to the time mechanism, so you can pretty easily modify the face of any standard analog clock to be like this.

https://archive.org/details/GorillasQbasic

You can also play it in your browser:

https://classicreload.com/play/qbasic-gorillas.html

QtWebEngine

which is Chromium

WebKitGTK+

which is WebKit

and all the tui browsers

…yeah, and I’m sure someone out there still has a working telegraph, but I wouldn’t list it as part of telecommunications infrastructure.

Do you think any of these qualify as anything more than hobby projects?

I’m not sure I’d consider a single-threaded browser application to be relevant in 2026. IE7 still technically exists too, and if you really wanted to you could run Netscape Navigator, but I wouldn’t count them among functional current browsers.

There are 3 browsers. Everything else is just a reskin.

Well… the first colleges were established to train clergy, because reading and writing were rare skills at the time, and there was a demand for trained clergy who worked as clerks, accountants and record keepers for nobles who could not themselves read or write, which I think just circles back to the workforce productivity thing.

This is also true for Confucian schools in China. The students were not clergy in the religious sense, but they learned reading, writing and tradition in order to become useful administrators for local rulers.

Hmm, depending on whose opinion you listen to, education systems have always been built around workforce productivity:

RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

“… the current system was structured for a different age. It was conceived in the intellectual culture of the enlightenment, and in the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution
[…]
it was driven by an economic imperative of the time
[…]
we have a system of education that is modeled on the interests of industrialism, and in the image of it.”

Striking is a revolutionary act and it should be normalized

An action (any action) cannot be normal and revolutionary. These are antitheses.

inflation does this too given that the rich have access to investment vehicles that the poor don’t

This is true with the way that things currently are.

In theory, investing is participating in the economy, and functionally better (for everyone else) than simply keeping money in a static account (or just keeping it under your mattress). In a deflationary economy, everything beyond basic needs grinds to a halt because spending money is disadvantaged. This fucks over the poor who have to spend most of their money on basic needs, while the wealthy sit on their hoards like dragons.

I am… actually not clear on whether you are referring to my comment, or the comment I was responding to.

If you were referring to me, I want to say that I’m not looking down on the potential good, I am criticizing the framing of unionizing as revolutionary. I think talking about it this way is a mistake, the kind that is made by people who want politics to be exciting, who find discussions of good policy to be boring. This kind of framing supports the narrative of the owner class who try to imply that striking workers are unreasonable violent malcontents.

Good policy should be boring. Unionization should be as mundane as arranging direct deposit for your paycheck when you start a job. It should be just another form that you fill out for HR. It should be normal. Employers should expect that their employees will participate in collective bargaining, and should be treated as unreasonable nutjobs if they speak (or take action) against it.

This probably seems like it makes sense when you’re a teenager, but most people with children want a stable society and a reliable income.

Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you’re the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.

What’s scary about this is that we’re basically already at this point with things like Voyager. The only way to solve problems on the probes is to upload new code to them. Some of the folks who fixed the communication problem in 2024 are well beyond retirement age; some of the folks that designed the Voyager probes are dead and gone.

As @tal@lemmy.today pointed out, TCP/IP was standardized in 1982. The knowledge of the people who built the founding protocols of the Internet is fading, and here in 2026 the system built on top has grown so complex that no one really understands all of it. If you thought link rot was bad, just wait, in a decade or so we’re going to see some serious infrastructure rot. The Internet will increasingly have the kind of legacy problems that Windows does, where Microsoft is forced to sustain old bad features because users are dependent on them. We can’t even get rid of TLS 1.0. There are still telnet endpoints exposed to the Internet, in production use.

Considering that they hired Wine devs and basically said “keep doing what you’re already doing” to build Proton… yes.

If I give you my page and tell you to enter your credit card details in, why would you do it?

Because I’m paying for something?

Why do people need to tell everything to the agreeing website?

I don’t know, it’s probably circumstantial.

Probably a lot of the data being shared is from chats, but not necessarily all of it. We know that OpenAI scrapes the Internet at large for training data, which would include data sets of publicly leaked PII (such as the OPM breach). It’s entirely possible that the data OpenAI is sharing about users was not given to them voluntarily by those users, but has simply been aggregated, analyzed and correlated by their AI tools.

If that’s how they learn not to share intimate and personal data with the billionaires, then that’s how they learn.

Let’s not engage in blaming the victims.

There’s no reason to treat the behavior of these corporations as if it were normal and inevitable, like they were a force of nature or something. Put all the blame where it belongs, on the people running these companies.