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Wow I didn't realize that Canvas Fingerprinting was exclusively used to detect fraudsters! Especially the wily ones who figured out how to delete their cookies! That's really cool - like how they scan everybody's files now to detect pedophiles (exclusively!).

This is never ever a problem unless a developer insists on always using the most cutting edge version of a library. There's no law that says you have to use the bleeding edge of every library when you make a program. Another issue these days, is that library maintainers often add new features or delete old features without incrementing the major version number. In the olden days it was assumed that minor versions were for bug fixes that don't break compatibility, and when you wanted to change how the library works in a major way, you increment the major number.

Now a lot of stuff is contnuously buggified so there is no concept of stable and in-progress.

Speedrunning is mostly cheaters using combinations of emulation, save states, etc. I don't think speedrunners actually speedrun on unmodified consoles in one go at all these days. Of course back in the day anything other than playing on a console attached to a TV would have been considered cheating and gotten you thrown out of the community.

Nobody will care what Notion or Figma are in the future. I don't know what they are, nor do I care to find out. Saas simply doesn't exist for many people, it's not a software model that all people are comfortable with.

Why the leading zero in the year dates but no leading zero for the RFC numbers, word length, or bits?

EDIT: I checked your web site and you DON'T use leading zeros in front of dates there. Just trying something out? Enlighten me please...

All by design. The idea is to keep older devices, ones with perhaps no government backdoors, and unauthorized software, off the Internet completely. Same reason there's a big push to kill X11 - it runs great on computers from before hardware backdoors were common. With the Trumpenreich looming, these devices will become very useful. IF they are allowed on the Internet.