“Privatize the profits…”

…to the surprise of no one with a brain.

Okay, so on further research it looks like the vulnerabilities were all part of that library, and not inherent to the protocol itself.

Edit: the vulnerabilities mentioned below were all implementation-dependent; the protocol appears to be fine.

I haven’t been following Matrix development too closely, but last I heard, both the protocol and the reference implementation had serious flaws, including gaping security holes. As in, issues that couldn’t be overcome without a clean-slate redesign. Did they somehow manage to salvage something useable?

Even US houses above a certain age have the same problem.

Something something cold, dead hands

I’m partial to Fascinating Horror’s coverage of the subject.

If it ain’t open-source and federated, it’s only a matter of time until it enshittifies too.

Capitalism.

Sure looks like it.

Get fucked, assholes.

I feel like propping up the industry primarily responsible for one of the largest (if not the largest) crises in human history is an appropriate place to draw a line.

I mean, you’re petroleum industry apologists, so for a change I’m not that broken up.

First of all, the article talks about JavaScript, not Java. Secondly, who writes “Java” in all caps?

CSS now is… a tad more complicated than it was 25 years ago, FYI.

There’s a difference?

“performance”

“mistakes”

Only NOW?