It’s only gotten worse, far as I’m aware. Right wing grifters and crypto grifters.

Nota bene: Not just laid off, replaced. With other people.

Basically spent a ton of money and talent and business disruption to turn over 80% of his workforce for shits and gigs.

Zac Bowden used to post a video for every single new insider build of Windows to cover any change he could, he’s bought the original Surface table from 2007, he’s been covering and championing all things Windows for at least a decade. To get someone like him off side, you really gotta be fucking the dog.

In the near-term, a better idea might be to establish an alternative under a co-op model, like Subvert is trying to do for music as a Bandcamp successor. Vendors are part-owners of the entity and have input into its governance. Any code should be open source, too. Federation would be great to later help turn it into a truly resilient global platform.

Yeah fr. Edge is a better browser than Chrome. I know that’s a bar you can walk over, but…

Hasn’t been the case so far with sidebar, Firefox view, Pocket or any other stuff I’ve not wanted in the past. If they did start doing dark patterns bullshit with this AI stuff, then yeah, I’d switch. In the meantime, I’ll use FF until it gets worse than the alternatives, or an alternative gets better than FF, whichever comes first.

This is good enough for me. If they have an on boarding step/popup to say “Try our AI crap” and I have an option to say “No and don’t ever bother me about this again”, then it’s fine.

It gave up

I am using Dynu. It works fine and it’s free, no complaints. Their app for Linux to update periodically didn’t seem to work well from my experience, I just set up a cron job to do it instead.

If they were going to get enshittified, they should’ve been smarter about it to gradually introduce lock-in. The switching cost of going to Jellyfin is almost zero. Did it in an afternoon about a year ago. Ya done goofed, Plex

I don’t know why this is getting down voted. With regulation and healthy competition, this is what happens. When antitrust regulation is weak, R&D and innovation stops and rent seeking takes its place.

Yeah hey. It does not feel like a web app at all, never would’ve guessed!

They’ve said that this is a big stepping stone towards support for Microsoft’s graph api and lots of on-prem servers will still be using EWS for ages to come.

Anyone hear a loud hissing sound?

Who wants to give me a billion dollars to dig a hole and I’ll give you a billion to fill it back in and we’ll both say to investors we posted a billion dollars in revenue.

Raymond’s book is an amazing read and full of stories very much like this one.

Communities, friends, family and media are your discovery algorithm! Get involved in things. It makes your music acquisitions meaningful and makes the experience of discovering and listening to music so much better.

I don’t think that’s what they’re saying

I just try to describe it like email. “You’ve got your gmails and your outlooks and your yahoos and whatnot, you pick one you like, but they’re all email and it won’t stop you seeing emails from outlook guys if you’re a gmail guy.”

Took me ages to understand this. I’d thought "If an AI doesn’t know something, why not just say so?“

The answer is: that wouldn’t make sense because an LLM doesn’t know ANYTHING