Asia has a very unique financial system in this sense. They are not reliant on 3rd party payment processors that can be counted on one hand, and they usually support P2P payment between banks. They also usually prefer to use QR than NFC (like on wechat, line, and kakao). This is one example standard that I found from Indonesia called QRIS, and they are expanding it wherever they can. Of course Visa is upset about those lol (see the section about US Government response)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRIS

By your logic type PD spec is stupid because it is also used in PC. The use cases extend beyond PC. Think video wall system where cabling can be messy and pretty much everyone got their own standard. This would allow a single daisy chain and simpler cabling.

For once I am with apple on this one. The bad thing about passwords is their randomness. Humans are not very good at remembering very big entropy

Yeah, honestly we should have a way to instrument JS without actually making the JS runtime able to read the measurement data

I uhh, misread that as North Korea at first. I need to sleep

This is borderline virus that eats up user ssd write cycle

Ironically, using web push and web notification would solve this privacy issue since it falls upon the browser to provide the push mechanism. And browsers can be used without an account unless they want to enshittify that too

Bigger power delivery spec. The hope is that it should be possible to drive a huge display from a single cable for data and power

It makes it to the news before. The HDMI forum is understandably upset by that

Yeah, it's how software should be. Learn from other mistake. However, I'd also like to point out that I think it's better to focus on build system ergonomic rather than a package management ergonomic. Let git be the package repository and the build system be aware of git repo. That way I think it would solve a lot of supply chain issue being centralized

There are areas that can be improved to reduce waste tho. Providing e-reader for example instead of a full blown tablet to reduce book waste is I think would help. Plus students don't have to lug around their textbook AND workbook at the same time. Like legit, tech can be helpful IF they are implemented TO ACTUALLY HELP and not to sell something

Great write up and I am surprised it isn't more common knowledge