Don’t take your real phone with you. Just get a cheap burner phone that you can reset after customs went through it.

Who cares, Musk is going to find him trillions in the budget with his efficency office /s

Many people attack if a post does not reflect their world view. I have learned that in most cases, this is primarily an issue of their limited world view, and not one of my post.

Simply ignore the idiots, and, if they escalate, just block them. Don’t let them control you.

What ads? (User without premium, but proper browser and adblocker)

Depends how they behave. If they behave like “Expats”, who don’t care about integrating into our society, don’t care about learning the local language even after years, they are not welcome.

If they integrate seamless (and this does not imply giving up their identity, just to make sure), and become a good member of this society, be welcome.

Maybe they should focus on the tax exempt status of some “churches” that had their fingers too deep into politics this year.

Absolutely my creed. In my industrial niche, touch screen never took hold - when your action is actually (or at least perceived) important, nobody wants to rely on touch screens.

Always remember: the cartels don’t pay tariffs when smuggling drugs.

Let’s put it this way: You can produce unreadable code in basically any language. With Perl, it is just a bit easier.

And of course if you have the discipline of a good programmer, even your casual Perl programs should be readable. That’s what differenciates a good programmer from a hacker.

I have to admit that using CL-PPCRE does not really help me understanding the regexp any better. But this may be because I deal with complex regexps for decades now, and I just read them.

Short: Yes, of course. Long: Well, this is really a long answer, depending on your needs…

Thanks! Now I know what that meme is about.

At least those were a) just banner ads and b) not as annoying as modern JS/HTML5/popup/popover ads are. You just scrolled down a few pixel, and had 100% information.

FDunny, though, that I only know Pepperidge Farm from memes. I assume that is/was an American brand, right?

Those were one of the later plagues, too.

My first contact with the web (I had been in the internet for some time already) was when a collegue at university told me about the Arena browser, and this new system, “like Gopher, but with Hypertext and pictures”. And yes, I’ve seen the CERN website, served from Tim Barners-Lee’s NeXT cube, too.

So yes, I knew the web before there were ads, the internet when services were normally open to all sides, and when people on the internet that were actually much smarter than average.

I wonder how future historians will compare the October 7th, 2023 and the April 19th, 1943 events.

I remember life without adblockers. Back when they were not needed, because web sited did not have ads.

That’s why professionals use XML or JSON for this kind of projects and SQL for that kind of projects. And sometimes even both. It simply depends on the kind of problem to solve.

That’s why I work with an extraordinary diligence to avoid making errors from the very start. Debugging is only a measure of last resort.