CSS-Tricks didn't get paid $4m. They got acquired. The previous owner of CSS-Tricks got $4m.

Got acquired => got paid. CSS-Tricks the entity (up to the point of acquisition) got paid the money. If and how the money was divided between the people involved doesn’t seem be public info.

It wasn't divided.

This is certainly not just affecting interim releases. Ubuntu 26.04.1 has been released but is currently held back from do-release-upgrade for the LTS channel (which IIRC is unusual for a LTS's .1 release) due to rust-coreutils issue:

> Users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 26.04.1 LTS via Update Manager a couple of weeks following this release after some planned backports to address regressions in a recent version of rust-coreutils.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-released/8...

Given that Safari needs the most debugging and automation tooling for Safari was hardest to come by, this is a welcome change. I wonder if it works with pages on a connected iPhone though? Anyone tried it? Because debugging on iOS Safari is the most maddening. (No, responsive design mode doesn't cut it, iOS Safari has its own special bugs that don't manifest in desktop Safari merely emulating a phone viewport.)

Not to mention my $299 total Tailwind Plus lifetime license (was TailwindUI, then paid the difference for the Plus bundle) has like 100x more stuff in it than $90/yr or $149 lifetime for—check notes—11 UI transitions...

Alternatively, it's all made up bullshit. It's not like they're gonna be sued for libel, so they can say whatever they want as long as it suits whatever narrative they're pushing at the moment. "Look at all this scary stuff! (But we definitely didn't do any real damage!)"

Yep, they're probably working with the US to try to drum up anti-Houthi propaganda.

Flash => HTML5 was a travesty for creative little games on the web. It never recovered. Even today the authoring tools are crap for the average person with an idea, if you ignore AI vibe coding for a minute, which overcomes the tooling deficiency by being experts at the difficult tooling. (But I guess Flash => HTML5 was only a part of it, the rise of IAP everything, which was also pioneered/popularized by Apple, may have played an equal or larger role in the demise of that game genre.)

I agree the authoring tools were excellent. I think it goes beyond Flash though.

I have this book from 2008 on Flash web designs and they're so cool, there's so much detail and love put into them. Then they all became flat and soulless.

Same with skeumorphism. I bought yesterday two iPhone 4's, one with the original iOS and one that had been "upgraded" to the flat laggy version with all the detail, all the love, all the joy sucked out of it.

The exact same thing happened across the entire digital landscape, more or less simultaneously.

So far Apple has been using default-checked checkbox during onboarding process for OS-level “help us improve…” diagnostics collection. Not sure about this specifically.

I don’t think that counts as an automatic opt-in, given that it’s presented to the user directly during the setup process.

It means my mother will have it on, at least, if they use the same pattern.

That’s fine, just let it die. But they gotta milk the goddamn IP dry.

It's been like 11 years since the last game, it seems a bit reactionary to call that "milking the goddamn IP dry."

Hear me out: if they actually worry so much about the hypothetical of AI mass killing, maybe they should first do something concrete about the reality that their models are deployed right now to kill people in a certain war-torn region of the Earth.

This is more of a sound bite than a substantive argument. If someone is worried about AI killing _all_ humans, shouldn't they absolutely focus on that?

> If someone is worried about AI killing _all_ humans, shouldn't they absolutely focus on that?

This is more of a sound bite than a substantive argument because we can consider natural disease, biology research, aliens, climate, supernovae, asteroids and what not as threats to _all_ humans. Literally nothing is being done about any of these but AI can actually help with all of them.

On the other hand, "AI killing _all_ humans" is the least likely event compared to those listed above. Of course, of you build or operate a nuke plant the wrong way, or a car for that matter, disaster will follow, but AI is much easier to secure than a nuke plant or even a car - a lot easier. "A dangerous token generator" is just an extremely dumb attempt at deception.

Whether it’s intentional requires a legal investigation to establish. Since when is “hey we didn’t mean it!” in a corporate press release enough to establish lack of intent in a criminal matter?