Yes, a firefox is a red panda. (Not the same as a regular panda.)

That’s not a firefox.

This is a firefox.

FTFY: Google pinned another man’s sex crime on a doctor, and a German court says Google must answer for it.

I wonder if they also plan this for their game engine and “online services” library that are included in many other developers’ games.

*For an unspecified period of time, to be terminated without refund at the publisher’s whim?

when something is submitted and approved and breaks shit

Not to defend AI, but this already happens in the kernel, often. It has been this way since long before LLMs were around.

Not-quite-spoiler: If they find the stool, be sure to have them break it.

I dislike the mines in Stardew Valley because the combat feels awkward and frustrating with a mouse and keyboard. Is it better with a game controller?

Let’s be careful how we phrase things here. JavaScript form submission and navigation are choices, not needs.

Also, progressive enhancement / graceful degradation exists. When competent developers (or bosses) want script effects on our sites, we can include them and make the sites continue to function with scripts disabled. It might require more work, but it is absolutely possible.

Framing the script-based approaches to these things as if they were needs contributes to the problem, IMHO.

(I am referring to the vast majority of web sites, of course, not special-purpose web applications like games.)

Web developers are complicit in browser fingerprinting, by insisting that sites require JavaScript (or WASM).

All of us are complicit in browser fingerprinting, because we tolerate this script dependence.

IMHO, a web site being allowed to execute arbitrary code on visitors’ hardware should be an anomaly. The vast majority of them could be built to deliver the same information without requiring that inherently dangerous permission.