But is it USB-IF’s fault manufacturers tried […]

Yes, it absolutely is USB-IF’s fault that they are not even trying to enforce some semblance of consistency and sanity among adopters. They do have the power to say “no soup certification for you” to manufacturers not following the rules, but they don’t use it anywhere near aggressively enough. And that includes not making rules that are strict enough in the first place.

They are not bad at this. You are bad at understanding it.

I work with this stuff, and I do understand it. Some of my colleagues are actively participating in USB-IF workgroups, although not the ones responsible for naming end user facing things. They come to me for advice when those other workgroups changed some names retroactively again and we need to make sure we are still backwards compatible with things that rely on those names and that we are not confusing our customers more than necessary.

That is why I am very confident in claiming those naming schemes are bad.

“don’t even bother learning it” is my advice for normal end users, and I do stand by it.

But the names are not hard if you bother to learn them.

Never said it is hard.

It is more complex than it needs to be.

It is internally inconsistent.

Names get changed retroactively with new spec releases.

None of that is hard to learn, just not worth the effort.

TL;DR: The USB Implementers Forum is ridiculously bad at naming, symbols and communication in general. (And they don’t seriously enforce any of this anyway, so don’t even bother learning it.)

Conserve what? Certainly not the environment, human rights, common decency or democratic traditions. So, what else?

So his “crime” that you want to punish him for is that he improved things in a way that made sense in the context of his time instead of looking decades into the future and forcing a drastic change immediately long before society was anywhere near ready for it? Seriously?

I drew better trucks in crayon when I was 5.

I like to describe it as “a five year old’s idea of a cool car”. I guess you had better taste than most at that age.

He also complained that Harris is now leading the Democratic ticket […] “because of political reasons … even though she never received a vote.”

How dare these guys do things for political reasons in an election? Is nothing sacred any more?! /s

You can buy gold (and other precious metals) as exchange traded commodities, no reason to have them physically delivered to your home and risk damaging your floor.

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

Biden should give an executive order to lock this guy up for treason.

When people complain about that, point to the SCOTUS decision that the president can do whatever the fuck he wants without legal repercussions.

If any of the people who complain even vaguely hint at violence in reaction to this, give an order to lock them up for treason, too.

Keep this cycle going until the last grunt has understood that this type of behavior will not stand.

Once all the people willing to call for violence are locked up, use the same reasoning to disband the current SCOTUS and replace it with something that is not an embarrassment for a modern democracy, with a strong recommendation to immediately renounce the ruling that made all of that legal.

By the time the dust has settled Biden will be too old to be persecuted for any of that anyway.

I know none of this will happen, writing it out just as a happy little fantasy.

The Next Great Thing™ will not make a number of users that is significant to any real world scenario move away from Windows. The only approach that might have a chance to do that is something that looks and feels as close as possible to Windows. Yes even the parts of Windows that are bad. All of it, except the most glaringly obviously horrible stuff (like ads in menus). And that also includes all the programs a significant number of users care about either running there out of the box without having to jump through any hoops or a replacement fulfilling the same “looks, feels and operates almost identical” criteria.

People care about something feeling familiar and not having to relearn stuff a lot more than about shiny new features.

If Google wants to push webp because it is smaller than previous formats, and jxl is even smaller than that, why would Google have an interst in blocking jxl?

Not saying Google did not or does not block jxl, just you chain of logic as to why they do that does not make sense to me.

An “outspoken Israel advocate” wants to get rid of books about the Holocaust and antisemitism in general? I am very confused. Usually right wing extremist demands make some kind of sense from within their twisted world view, but how does that fit together at all, in any world view?