And it’s not just them, many businesses force you to call to unsubscribe, this should be illegal.
I managed to unsubscribe via their chatbot. Maybe because I’m in California where it’s actually illegal.
NYT makes more money from their games than actual news, right? Newspapers are dead and there is nothing to replace them. There is no loner money in informing the masses, only is disinformation. The people who can make money from the news and data buy surveillance data that is far more accurate than the government publishes and trade on it. You can’t have anything resembling a liberal democracy when the monetary insensitive are aligned like this and there is no pushback.
How is this not grounds to be sued into oblivion by Google and Meta? They clearly violate ToS for profit. This is something I expect to find on a dark web forum where 0days are traded, not in public.
US Government literally forced the sale. If the 1st amendment by bypassed by forced sales of the media that does not follow the party line, then what’s the point?
Crypto facilitates bypassing financial regulations, drug trade, evading taxes, extorting ransoms, breaking sanctions and so on.
I’m not at all surprised it’s popular. I’m surprised that even relatively sane US admin did not crush it.
And still, the Toyota breaking microcontroller code showed that coding practices in Real Engineering are somehow even worse. I hope that improved since then.
Does it need to be 50 million lines of code?
When you design with security in mind you might have to prune old code and drop some risky optimizations, probably drop some features.
Using a higher-level language might help reduce the line count as well at the cost of performance and memory consumption.