LeoRidesHisBike t1_ix7ft3s wrote on November 21, 2022 at 9:12 AM

Reply to comment by tuxzilla in European Union strikes €6bn deal to develop own broadband satellite network by Sorin61

Does anyone but SpaceX even have the lift capability for thousands of satellites?

LeoRidesHisBike t1_iucczrh wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:48 AM

Reply to comment by Bleusilences in Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support by Tweho

Some amazing 20/20 hindsight there. When ActiveX was a thing the web was much less hostile. The concept of ActiveX (let devs use existing COM controls and native code to do "real software" vs the limited things JavaScript could do) was pretty cool, just didn't anticipate how many security risks were hidden.

We didn't get that same level of efficiency in browsers again until Web Assembly... 20 years later.

Native software is so flexible/powerful that's the only safe thing to do is completely isolate it from browser execution. But that wasn't well known at the time.