At this point in time, Chrome was jumping bounds ahead of the others with standards, and most websites were specifically written for webkit, even beginning to disregard Firefox. Worse, Chrome was often going back and forth on how a certain new standard should implement, leading to, for instance, CSS files declaring 7 or 8 different ways of doing a linear-gradient.

Your sentiment on Microsoft isn’t unique, which is part of why the web consortium wasn’t actually keen on listening to them most of the time. Them having monetary/OS influence didn’t actually lead to a lot on the W3C - they went ahead of them for most ActiveX work.

To a performer: “Every time you perform is better than the next.”

To anyone: “I find you argumentative and easily offended.”

Best part of an insult is heading off the retort.

As a web dev, I feel awkward reminiscing about the thin period of web history when IE was a solidly built, standards-compliant browser.

It was like the IE team saw their history was causing them to lose all market share, and committed to fixing misdeeds since they held an underdog position. But for most, it was too little too late.

For several years, I tested in IE, not Chrome, because it was most strictly standards-compliant, and I could be sure that if it worked there, it would work in other browsers. (Now, if you use Edge, it’s just a repaint of Chrome)

This just goes to show how ignorant some fans are! They use OWLS, not parrots! Some people! /s

Trails in the Sky turned this meme into a weapon. (/minorspoilers)

Back then, I was wondering when it would stop being “too soon”.

I will admit though, that years ago I laughed unendingly at a YTP clip of My Little Pony showing Rainbow Dash happily doing a loop-dee-loop into the east tower.

I’m not great at Linux, did programming for most of my life in Windows, but so far I’ve gotten by for about a year in CachyOS (uses Arch). Having it work so well in gaming has been a strong motivator.

“Hey, I tried the recommended GUI package manager and everything got messed up. Is anyone looking into this?”
“lol just use pacman -Syu in terminal”
“…k, guess I will, but I’m not about to recommend this to anyone else”

I’ll have to be cautious about this advice, as I’m not a therapist, but: Ask for help with something. Any task they could be more qualified for, or that you need a second person, rely on them a bit. When they help you, thank them wholeheartedly, even with a gesture like a gift.

People like to feel that they’re needed and appreciated, that they have some worthiness in people’s eyes. But don’t fault yourself for lack of this action - it’s impossible for everyone to do this for everyone they know, and self-harmful minds do a lot to hide themselves.

Best of luck.

I’ve tried, man. I at least got better at socializing in a common atmosphere, so I don’t feel so distant, but many people just don’t reciprocate communications. I invite a repeating occasion for people, and they’ll need 8 reminders or just not show up, to the point I don’t bother. When I realize I’m always the initiator, I decide that connection isn’t important to them.

God forbid a deeper need like confessing to traumas or needing emotional support. Some of the slightest favors I’ve asked of people have been too much. All the “above and beyond” actions I’ve ever seen in my life where people do things for one another have been in fictional media, never between actual human beings.

Oh, this is just one of them; there should be two other keyholes. When the three medallions of the Founding Patriots are reconfigured into their true form as Keys of Genesis and inserted in these keyholes, they unlock the way to the Path of Radiance, at the end of which is a power capable of turning back the Antichrist.

Although, it’s hard to tell from the photo; if it’s brass, not copper, then it’s just an old furnishing anchor.

“Your rights end where another’s begin.”

A nicely summarized mantra to push back on the paradox of tolerance. Many people use free speech, free market, etc, as an excuse to impede others, and this is my response to that.

I’m always a sucker for scenes that show people are better than people give them credit for. The scene in Spiderman 2 when the subway car passengers refuse to give up a fainted Peter to Doc Ock is a good example; another is in The Dark Knight, when Joker tries to get two ferries to detonate the other one’s bombs, and neither does.

I am well off, but not well off enough to lift other people out of their misery. I contribute what I easily can, but every day I wish for the world to change, even if that means having less income as a result.

Please don’t repost Trump’s shit.

My idiot cousin posts a new conspiracy theory to pastebin every day. I don’t give him attention or follow his “commands”, I just shame other people who do.

My OP…this is what the text shadow filter was made for. I’ve fudged it in Paint.NET, I’m pretty sure anyone can figure it out

Yes! Rodent corpses make great fertilizer. Just missing the step where you kill the rodents…

I do this sometimes on Lemmy. “I’m with you on Sony and disc games, but here are the arguments their lawyers would make about it…”

I get annoyed when someone posts a “side” I agree with, but uses a complete zero-thought, easily-defeated argument to defend it. A classic one is “If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.”

I haven’t maintained my personal website in ages. That, of course, means it loads instantaneously, in comparison to all these Library of Congress websites.

I’m really glad that it prompts more ideas from people. I think in my vision, the journey is less about being a touching, violin-strung struggle of a poor woman surviving with only the shirt on her back.

Rather, making it to a doctor is rather early in the story, when she receives the opinion that no medical knowledge in the land can save him, and she’d need to study the world and invent her own treatment to have any hope. As a result, her persistence and all-encompassing expertise ends up making her into something of a legend.

The idea of someone going to all lengths for a victimized beloved is, in part, based on a real legend who sadly didn’t get their happy ending; a human trafficking investigator named Susan Trimarco, who started her work to find her own missing daughter.