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🔗 Adobe Diddles With Your /etc/hosts File

> They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud already installed when you visit on their website.

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> They didn’t have to do this, of course. In fact, quite obviously, they definitely should not be doing this. Adobe is just a third-party developer, no better, no more trusted, no more important than any other. Imagine if every piece of software on your computer added entries to your /etc/hosts file. Madness. Adobe should be ashamed of themselves. Adobe used to be a bastion of best practices for developers to follow. Now their installer/updater is indistinguishable from malware.

<p class=“attribution”>💬 John Gruber</p>

@lmika just messing around in my head with meaning.

@lmika a single person is niche .. Simon Williso on posting about kiwi parrots .. far and wide or niche?

@hollyhoneychurch ‘almost’ is the key word that recognizes your keen insights in the decision making process.

@lmika Depends what b how you define niche .. I am 1 person in a sea of 8.5 billions … and counting. That’s pretty niche. If I find it interesting, useful, funny … and I have the time .. I will post.

The work of Steven Wilson, a quote from Russell, a movie review an essay on the role of structured thought in the world of AI to some might seem broad .. to me it is all connected.

@hjalm 🔪

@bradenslen I don’t think he needs any help.

@kaa which one isn’t the muppet❓

@promptslinger.bsky.social yup - got that t-shirt - it was more the ‘arguing about CSS’ that resonated. I am not any kind of tech maven - thoug enjoying the expansion of my mind and the learnings - but when I found out it was adding identical classes to an already bloated CSS - because it couldn’t be bothered to find the original class already defined in the previous session that I lost it.

@manton

In other news .. France has its own colour on these two maps

🔗Smoking Rates By Country

🔗Wine Consumption Rates By Country

AND - on the smoking side .. we shouldn’t forget to include vaping … because when it comes to Vapes (like ‘arms’) - the US beats out the world - both in consumption and production - even with the massive massive health warnings.

Meanwhile - France beats out the US with coffee, though only by 25% (ish): 🔗Coffee Consumption Rates By Country

.. and yet for all of that

🔗 Life expectancy in France fully 3 years more