But if you can’t summarize the solution to a complex societal problem with a history to it into a single simple sentence that can be used as a punchy “hot take”, clearly you just don’t want a solution! /s

Way too many people in the world who are more willing to believe that things suck because everyone’s too stupid to try the “obvious” solution, instead of the fact that most societal issues are icebergs of complication and causes.

whose workers work on them entirely based on their need to be done

You mean there’s projects out there where it’s not a bunch of individual devs all working on their personal pet features and ignoring all else?

Wow, meme necromancy

Solo IT/Dev? I’m so sorry.

It is, but there are a ton of people pushing for women’s issues and other currently hot button social topics who are incredibly aggressive themselves, and pretending those people don’t exist, or that it’s okay when pointed at the non-marginalized group is a problem.

Let’s not pretend that explicit misandry doesn’t exist just because it frequently comes from people hiding behind the shield of championing women’s rights. Let’s not brush off misandry because men aren’t marginalized.

Go to town about whether or not it’s worse, but I find very often that people want to pretend it simply does not exist.

Most posts like the one you’re responding to would get a lot of support if it were flipped to be a woman going off on a guy, but generally when things like thay are brought up you get decried for whataboutism.

So… you didn’t read anything. Not even the comment you just replied to.

For fuck’s sake, just block people. You aren’t some hero protecting the innocent.

I sincerely hope you find more important things in your life to consider accomplishments and valuable uses of your time.

There’s a concept of acceptable levels of risk. Companies are not going to shut down out of fear, or miss out on the business opportunities of online presence. There’s money to be made.

Even with things as serious as spectre allowing full dumping of CPU and RAM contents simply by loading a website, I can’t think of a single company that just said “well shit, better just die”.

Serious, potentially business ending, security issues usually have a huge amount of effort when discovered put into mitigations and fixes. Mitigations are usually enough in the immediate “oh shit” phase. Defense in depth is standard practice.

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People have taken it way past the point of sanity now, but they are better for game consoles from PS1 era and below. Especially for 2D games, as the pixel art was often designed around the square aspect ratio, and the tendency of CRTs to soften images and blur minor details.

It’s how the waterfalls in Sonic appeared transparent. Every line alternated between waterfall and background, so when the TV blurred it slightly it looked transparent instead of alternating lines. You’ll also often see it in old games with dithering, using a checkerboard pattern of two colors to approximate a third color in between the two when “smoothed” together.

Like I said though, people take it way too far. Most people don’t need a reference quality Sony Trinitron monitor meant for professional video editing studios with less than 500 hours of time powered on so it’s still in perfect shape. You do you, but there’s some real elitist shit I’ve seen, and some audiophile level “$600 cable for digital signal” delusion going around.

As long as you aren’t streching a “square” image to a widescreen one, it’s really up to preference on the blur/softening side. And even the streching is just the one point I’m personally elitist about.

As moderm screen resolutions get better, we get better and better approximations of CRT screen effects through using graphical shaders. There’s some mad genius shit out there that does things like simulating how the electron beam scans across the CRT vacuum tube.