If you look at the charts you linked, you can see the users activity (post per day and comments per day) is falling sharply since last month. Subscribers count mean nothing if a big proportion of the active posters leave.
redcalcium
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Those microtransactions-laden mobile games employs a whole stack of evil tricks to make sure their users got addicted and can't miss even a single day not playing.
I'm sure those kids sneaking out of home to find wifi aren't doing so to play Mario Kart. They're probably playing one of those free to play mobile games.
Did you miss the fact that this TV has a camera that can count the number of viewers and can detect obstruction? Obstructing the ad screen broke the ToS and when they detect it, they can cancel your account and demand you too send the tv back or get charged $1000. Oh, and it's also have a microphone in addition to the camera, which will double the fun.
On the chromium side, there is the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) which is used absolutely everywhere. Not sure about gecko situation though, but at least their JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey, also has quite widespread use. I don't think I've seen projects not related with Mozilla/Firefox that use gecko though, but perhaps it's because I never look hard enough. It's usually either WebKit or CEF.
I could see this deployed in hotels or other public places by the CIA so they can monitor their target's movements. The main benefit is it doesn't require placing a bug/camera in the room because the routers could be placed in another room, so if the room is swept for bugs, they won't find anything suspicious. Not too far-fetched considering the kind of shenanigans they frequently do aboard.
Mildly uncomfortable.
The referenced windows update website, v3.windowsupdaterestored.com, can't be loaded on Firefox because it uses vbscript instead of javascript.
That's make me wonder, does the internet archive preserve those sites? Or do those IE-specific sites lost forever because their contents can't be indexed by the internet archive?
Could also happen if your ISP uses CGNAT, which put a bunch of users behind a pool of IP addresses. When one bad user got the shared IP addresses into an IP blocklist somewhere, the entire group will now taste what it's like being treated as filthy bots by half of the internet (a.k.a. captcha hell). Ironically, you can escape the captcha hell by using a VPN with "clean" IP reputation.
I'm self-hosting an instance of voyager and it's been great so far. The devs are pushing updates so often, sometimes I have to update it twice in a single days.
You could setup a status monitoring system and then configured it to send out messages for critical alerts. For example, I'm using Vigil to monitor my services and it's configured to send email alerts when something is down and then sms alerts when things are still down for too long (in case I didn't read the email).
If you compare post per days from before the strike, it definitely falls. It's no longer an upward trajectory despite subscribers growth.