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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • “local Incognito” is some real mental gymnastics. If the witness protection program told people they’d help them go incognito, but only hid them from their own families and made it easy for strangers and enemies to find them, would you really consider that be what a reasonable interpretation?

    Stop defending people who use shit like huge ToS docs and dark patterns to weasel out of deceptive marketing



  • I mean, they called it “Incognito”.

    Incognito: having one’s true identity concealed

    If it doesn’t conceal your identity, then that’s pretty clearly misleading. They’re not selling to experts, the users of this are laypeople. It’s like if you sold a “waterproof phone” and the packaging all made it look like it could withstand water, but then when it got wet it broke and you were like “people just assumed it was waterproof, it’s not our fault”.
    Sure experts could tell, and enthusiasts would read the expert opinions on it, but that’s not something you should expect of laypeople considering how it is presented.





  • USB-c has a bunch of futureproofing in it, like a bunch of pins that aren’t used yet. And even without those pins, is supports usb4v2, which has 4 lanes of PCIe 4, and they keep doubling the speed every minor release of usb.
    If we get to a point where those other pins are needed in the next decade, I’ll be surprised.

    So unless there is something physically problematic with the connector, like after all this time we suddenly realize that the design causes failure in some common scenario, or material science leaps ahead and the port becomes too large for consumer devices, then it’s probably good that they’re not making a new standard.