Sorry to tell you tomatoes are flavourless in Europe as well.

I lived almost 7 years in Germany, and the average tomato at a supermarket was lightyears beyond the US. Then farmers markets are even better.

Funny enough, the further east you go, the better they taste.

But tbf, only for a few months when the many small farmers grow them outdoors and sell them for unbelievably cheap.

Rest of the time it's greenhouse tomatoes like everyone else.

I lived almost 7 years in the USA, and the average tomato at a supermarket was lightyears beyond Germany. Then farmers markets are even better.

I am willing to participate in a blind taste test to resolve this issue.

Yep. You have to grow own tomatoes to have good ones. Which is something only few people are willing and have option to do.

Except the available seeds are probably decreasing in quality as well.

No, there are places dedicated to preserving and making available heirloom seeds.

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange: https://www.southernexposure.com/

Seed Savers Exchange https://www.seedsavers.org/

Open Source Seed Initiative partners with multiple seed exchanges: https://osseeds.org/

Is there a market for good tasting tomato seeds? :D

It's actually fascinating - I remember my grandmother scooping out the seeds out of vegetables and drying them, to be used next year.

The villagers also traded them as apparently they had different varieties.

You can go to your profile options and enable showdead to be able to read censored comments.

Those are non-Han. They aren't considered common people or people at all.

You are correct... it is unfortunate that if you are born in the wrong place to wrong parents you get treated that way...

It's also sad that people praise the CCP like the OP here...

Also, nothing stopping CCP from doing the same to han/everyone else as well... mao zedong's stupid policies come to mind...

They shouldn’t have to demand accommodation. That’s the point.

It takes something that once was made accessible, through active effort, and makes it inaccessible. That's the point.

Where did you get the idea that discrimination has to be the result of an active effort? Anything that makes one group of people excluded or treated worse is discrimination, even if it is the result of an oversight.

Your second sentence is basically exactly the problem: able-bodied people are arbitrarily treated as the “default”, and others are left out.

People like you are exactly why laws like ADA were created and collectively we have decided not to just disagree with you but to pass legislation that makes it illegal for people to follow this lazy and selfish position. The first fights were over physical access and in a lot of cases it required significant reconstruction or re-architecting of spaces at great expense. The next round of fights will be over online access, where the cost of compliance is significantly less -- expect tech firms to start losing these battles now that it is much easier to attach specific harm to failures to provide accessibility.

> Able bodied people are the default because they are the absolutely overwhelming majority.

Almost everyone develops some disabilities as they age. 10-15% of the population has some disability, which is a huge group. I hope you would not argue for discrimination against ethnic minorities on the same grounds.

It's not an oversight because the author of this post advised them of the potential issues and received acknowledgement.

The internet was very accessible by default for a long time. Plain text is very accessible. Plain HTML written by humans is very accessible.

> And my point is that discrimination is an active effort, which this is not.

That is an absolutely incorrect and indefensible point. Discriminators can be individuals, but discrimination is systemic. It can be a result of collective acts of malice over years or generations, or can be simple ignorance- being left out of the scope of the discourse and never really given a chance to get in the loop.

Discrimination absolutely does not require an active effort. Neglect is just as effective at keeping people out.

In any case Cloudflare's inaccessibility is a direct result of choices they "actively" made. Technical decisions, prioritization, maybe even company culture.

And remember, I advised them of the need to pay special attention to accessibility in this product over a year before it launched.

Exactly. They deliberately chose not to do anything about it.

It's not a matter of agreeing; it's a matter of the US govt is saying these are the rules for doing commerce or hiring employees in the US. As codified by the ADA. Post domino case, that clearly applies to company websites.

In this case the data basically exist in accessible form and they are doing nontrivial work to make them inaccessible.

I don't think I've ever seen a news website with no cookie warnings. Cookies are necessary for the functionality of the ad networks and analytics tools that news websites need to survive. Not to mention the rest of gdpr requirements.

Punycode should be permanently disabled. No upsides at all.

Did you read the text at all? The world speaks more then english.

Just 13% of the world speaks english. It is not a reference for how we do or should write on the web.

It would maybe make sense to restrict url display to the computers language setting.

That's good in theory. The reality is that punycode never took off anywhere in the world.

Unless you're proposing we let it live in case someone somewhere ever uses it. Then, sure.

How does the popularity of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.%D1%80%D1%84 square with your theory that it "never took off anywhere in the world" ?

Of course that registry actually has a sane punycode policy, so such impersonations are impossible there, whereas they're happening all the time in .com. Maybe time to re-evaluate your idea of "reality" versus "theory".

Not for English speaking people, as a Dane it is nice to be able to use our actual alphabet to spell words, even if the letters weren't in the ASCII alphabet.

Though why you should be able to purchase .com domains with punycode, I don't know.

Each TLD gets to set its own rules for name registration under that TLD. In particular they all have punycode policies. For example a country which uses a Latin alphabet with a handful of extra characters might requires names under its ccTLD to be from that alphabet, and not, for example, Cyrillic. Or a TLD operated on behalf of a region dominated by one writing system might require names to use that writing system. The attention of TLD registry operators was drawn to the need to prevent the exact types of fraud we're seeing here.

The .com TLD registry's priority is profit at any cost. A crook's money is just as good as anybody else's, right?

It's funny that both in the Ars comments and here someone talks about punycode.

This is a birth certificate not a Grindr profile.

I agree that both browsers are fast enough, and still, Chrome is faster.

Eich was competent and happy being paid peanuts. Maybe they shouldn't have burnt that bridge ;-)

Android exists.

Apple exists too. That's why I criticize both in due measure.