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If you think PHP is slow then you haven't used Python.


I've checked my own archive and they haven't embedded any tracking pixels. Don't spread nonsense.


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Disregarding the strange rant for a moment, is it purely for tracking purposes or does it just use their CDN for CSS, images etc?

(Wouldn't be surprised at all if it was tracking, this is Facebook after all, but there are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to use a a CDN)


There's a bunch of absolute paths in the generated HTML that link to inline icons and other chaff. As I'm never actually logged into FB, they show up as broken images when you view your offline archive.


> for some reason

Do share what exactly it was before accusing people of covering it up.


Have you not heard of AB testing?

It's certainly possible that one of the biggest arms of surveillance culture can AB test people on what they do with their exported FB profile.


I personally hate the stench of weed. Prohibition is good because people think twice before making an entire street reek just because they want to get high.


i dont know what part of earth you are from


I'm sure most people who've clicked the play button on that video have done so on their mobiles in portrait orientation so... sorry gramps


Sometime in the future we'll look back and wonder how our televisions and movie screens became vertical. This post will go into the evidence basket.


I lol'd, I'm reading this on a vertical monitor right now. My secondary monitor is vertical due to cramped desk space, so I can have my horizontal monitor still centered when I look straight ahead.


Developers are a bit different in this regard. I used to use a vertical monitor in 2007 because, well, it's pretty great for big chunks of code and web development in general.

As good as it was, I never wanted to watch videos in that way.


Back in the day, yes. Today, they ban everything that's not "US kosher", pun intended.


I think you're looking for a deep meaning that is not there. Video games are fun, period. The 12-yos that play Fortnite couldn't care less about dystopias.


There might be meaning in the timeline actually.

Internet was hardly available in the year 2000. It takes a lot of bandwidth (and probably CPU too) to run a 100 players FPS. It wouldn't do well before broadband got ubiquitous, almost a decade later.


I understood it as "people who like this genre deserve a game that is not crap"


It's difficult for me to imagine a game that 50 million people bought and played for several hours as "crap". It has its warts and there are certainly things I don't like about it, but 50 million people don't accidentally buy Shaq Fu or Big Rigs or whatever is the latest Sonic the Hedgehog game.


Just by looking at the screenshot I already knew the "Electrum" client was written using Qt. :P

QMessageBox displays text as HTML (formatting, links and all) by default, which I've always thought is a terrible choice.


They weren't building a multi-platform product, and in fact he resents that so much Mac code was foisted on them.


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