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This is on .ml, so I’m sure we’ll see some of it shortly. Or this post disappears out of a window.

I can virtually guarantee a lot of people here not only can imagine it, but use CLI applications heavily every day.

Huh? Admittedly XML is a joke, but if that’s not it…

it completely ignores the collateral damage

I don’t think so. I try to not be overly “conspiratorially minded” but I’d 100% believe in a millisecond that the “collateral damage” is the point all along here. Google is pushing constantly for more control and this is just another item in the long-ass list. After massive pushback on Manifest 3, they “cancelled” it a while back and now they’re right back pushing it again.

This. People who are freaking obsessed with the dude can keep the spam to themselves, that way it’s actually possible to avoid having five tons of Elon’s mental diarrhea shovelled at your face all the time.

Turns out arbitrary code execution is actually great(!)

Funny, but unironically a pretty good idea.

And not only that, but the stupid front page with stupid irrelevant news, some of which are literal, blatant attempts at fraud - “[random B-celeb from your country] has a money making tip They don’t want you to know!” and that sort of shit - in the browser they relentlessly push, nag about or just “accidentally” reset as default every cunting week.

Dozens of popups, random notifications - like… why? What person with, I assume, at least half a brain stem in their head could possibly think these were good ideas?

“I don’t give a shit, show me the web page and shut the fuck up!” has turned into a mantra when I have to use Edge. That’s not good.

Way too realistic, they don’t want to hear shit like that. Way too true.

I swear Microsoft, particularly the Windows and Edge divisions, have consultants on retainer directly from Hell - specialists in making things absolutely infuriating for no particularly good reason.

Is it wrong? Definitely awkward, but I’ve seen this construction before. Not a native speaker…

In the EU, they certainly aren’t allowed to “assume consent”.

Certainly by a greedy one. Greed and stupidity are often better explanations than outright malice, but… yeah, they’re a bunch of assholes, too.

It would’ve been the exact same gag if these were Italian or Japanese or whatever.

It’s not important to the joke.

Home of CHALLENGE PISSING! (How does it work?!) “If you can piss six feet into the air straight up and not get wet, you get no install fees!”

Considering the target audience, it’s not too surprising it sometimes takes about a decade for a new idea to seep in.

It does not. A “native” but unappealing way is to use charmap and/or memorize a bunch of (highly arbitrary) “alt codes”: 0176 while holding alt makes °, for example. Mostly if you need a bunch of special characters, you use the “appropriate” keyboard or some third-party workaround.

Shit, I just noticed, that is what I said. And here I’m being all sassy. My bad - I did mean Edge of course.

(Edge really is fucking awful though, so you’re lucky, I guess)

[sass-reduced because having written the wrong damn thing, it’s my fault]