False. We have absolutely no confirmation that any particular allegation that Horvath made has any merit whatsoever. And we will not have such confirmation unless the matter is brought to (and resolved in) a court of law.
You can never please SJWs, no matter how much you bend backwards. They'll always find something to complain about. That's the meaning of their entire existence. That's what you're missing.
> Despite Microsoft’s purchase of Skype, Messenger is still going today, a little Methuselah wandering in the Microsoft product mausoleum.
Not exactly. Messenger has been End-of-Lifed except on Windows 2000 (in all territories) and in China (on all platforms). On any other platform or territory, your login is refused and you're told to upgrade to Skype.
It is technically possible to block the IP ranges of reading/caching web apps, as well as refusing to show content to readers blocking ads, but few providers bother. Neither usage scenario is practiced widely enough to significantly impact ad income, except on sites that serve a very tech-proficient userbase.
You can do the same thing for free with various browser extensions, of course, but then again, you can filter ads with browser extensions, too, and that's the only or major benefit that a lot of sites offer you as a reward for subscribing.
One should think of this less as a sale of services and more as willing patronage of the arts.
It serves a technical purpose just as much as their ego. It makes it possible to search for someone with a specific make and/or model of product in order to ask for help or recommendations, or gauge someone's expertise/seniority/subfocus within the forum's focus during a discussion.
I very much doubt that any business except the smallest mom-and-pop store could run entirely on Chromebooks. Certainly no IT business could run on them.
Heartbeats are not logged on a standard configuration, so if people other than the confirmed parties independently discovered the vulnerability, told nobody (or at least nobody who would tell anybody), and then exploited it on systems where heartbeats are not logged (which would be most of them), then how could anyone possibly know?
The claim of Ada Lovelace being the first programmer rubs me the wrong way. Obviously, Babbage would know how to program his own computer. He designed the damn thing.