They even used to say ads were a bad idea [0].

[0] https://indieresearch.net/2014/03/30/advertising-and-mixed-m...

And then Sam Altman famously said he wasn't sure how they would monetize, and they would ask ChatGPT how they should make money.

Aargh. I've been wanting a large poster of Missile Command for a while now, but can't seem to find one at a decent price. Having one printed is difficult too as I can't find high-res, large image files of it.

Thereby forgetting that some people like to open links in a new tab.

And for the ones that remember to implement middle-mouse click to open new tabs, forgets that one can also do CTRL+click to open in new tab, or vice-versa.

Just use <a> please :)

Or just right-click -> open in new tab

Oh, that's interesting! I always thought French-speaking people (I'm from the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) actually expected this type of language.

I think it's just some kind of design trend or something. But I don't know anyone who isn't at least a little bit put off by it from a user perspective.

French has the added difficulty of requiring to choose between "tu" and "vous" if you want to use the "your..." style. So you can instantly see if the website is trying to fake being your friend.

I think Flemish websites just use "jouw whatever" but it's much less direct and jarring than being called "tu" in French by a corporate entity (not a native Dutch speaker though, but I've been living in Flanders for quite a while now).

Software in Dutch has a bit of a tension between je/jouw and u/uw too. Je/jouw sometimes seems to familiar, u/uw too formal. And I feel the balance between the two is different in Flanders vs the Netherlands.

For something like Facebook, it's OK to use je/jouw. But for something like a government website, or perhaps things like banks or insurance companies, je/jouw is not appropriate and u/uw should be used.

I just checked some samples: Facebook uses je/jouw, LinkedIn uses u/uw, government website MyMinfin uses u/uw. That all seems appropriate, so the choice is perhaps not as delicate as I first thought.

Yeah, it looks like the French websites are actually doing it less and less.

Choice quote from the opposition in the article you linked to: "If social media is shut down, the country will become chaotic."

It's quite funny when you get pushback from maoists that you're being too extreme when attacking freedoms.

I learned about it through Freaks and Geeks, so I was in the right mood when watching The Jerk decades after its release.

Where was the cutoff point?

Adding noise to the signal here, but "Don't look at the balance sheet as the game. Look at the people and the assets as elements used to stage a show, and put on a show that people want to believe in." is a quote I want to remember forever.

Please don't do this here.

It makes you wonder whether they use the app themselves...