@jack Yeah, that sounds likely.

@pkra Yeah, I just found out. It was... very interesting to read what he had been up to :-D

@pkra :-D

@pkra Yeah. And it's pretty easy to hit a problem area where there are no good recommended solution.

@jackyalcine Technically, this was anti-competitive behaviour from the Youtube team. Apparently the Chrome team is very pro-competition but because other teams are incentivised to promote Google products, the 'support the web, not just Chrome' message gets lost and replaced with 'all Google, all the time, everywhere'.

@K7ATR@mastodon.sdf.org Yeah. It's become very hard to avoid the Google panopticon.

@kitt It’s great!

@baldur Chromium-based PWAs, in the Windows Store, that can be progressively enhanced to use native APIs a la Electron but without Electron's downsides. Could be compelling.

Still don't agree with MS's decision but it isn't hard to see the appeal. Not sure they can pull it off, tho

@patrickrhone Yeah, it feels very much like a move made out of fear.

@szbalint Agree entirely.

@eli Yeah. Part of the problem here is that the drive to dissociate HTTPS from 'secure' establishing it as a more private norm, while sensible overall, also requires wholesale reeducation of the user base about what is and isn't secure. They're doing all of the changes but none of the education.

@smokey Ah, yeah. That's another classic.

@eli Huge fan of Babylon 5 as well. Very different kind of series.

@zack Yeah. Didn't use to have that response, but they've done a very good job of changing my mind.

@gio It's both an extremely thorny problem and a pressing one. Which is the worst kind of combination.

@Alonealastalovedalongthe Yeah, all of the computing devices I own have a headphone jack and I intend to keep it that way if at all possible.

@eli It'd be an interesting hook 😄

@amit It turned out better than I hoped :-)

@martinfeld Thanks! ☺

@martinfeld I work with a New Zealander. The way she describes her home country, at least the 'way more sheep' part is indeed very very true 😄

@martinfeld Iceland suffers more from 'small dog syndrome' than cultural cringe. As in, there is an implicit assumption at home that Icelandic culture (books, music, art) is on average better than the rest. We're even a little bit proud of the more parochial parts of our culture (like books about tractors). It appeals to the national sense of humour.

@martinfeld Nah, I'm not the target market.

@eli It is tricky, isn't it? 😊

@JohnPhilpin I wish I knew who said it first. I heard it first in Iceland during the crash but am certain it didn't originate there. Could be from anywhere.

@JohnPhilpin Yeah. Which is why many of them dismiss both indie-/self-publishing and the web out of hand. Let's them keep up the illusion.