It really bums me out that I fully believe this is it.

Megacorps seize the demand for regulation (to regulate them) in order to write regulation that purportedly does that, but in practice mostly closes the doors behind them and cementing their stranglehold on society. For Microsoft, Apple, and Google it's a small thing to agree to age verification if that means all the potential competitors will have to do so too.

The cheapest time to shut down a competitor is before they get to market.

Link to AMDs description of the new pricing being criticized: https://www.amd.com/en/products/software/adaptive-socs-and-f...

I love the way they buried the “we are no longer supporting an entire operating system” in a small missing tick, half way down the page…

Oh, no, it's sillier than that.

They do still support Linux... but only if you give them money.

This might be a good opportunity for Microsoft to bring back their 'total cost of ownership' advertising campaign.

You don't 2.5x your stock price in two months by underextracting value.

There's a C-suite of five people and a board of advisors I couldn't be bothered to count before their public beta for an AtProto instance.

That just seems too heavy an operation for my taste. Seems prone to either infighting or raising too much early capital.

Permissive licenses don't protect against projects that decide to change the license when releasing a new version.

Copyleft protects against that as a general rule. However some projects that rely on copyleft require contributors to sign license agreements granting the project owners a more permissive license.

Raymond Chen has two blog posts that first describes why Space Cadet was removed because of a 64-bit rounding mode bug and then a follow-up post a decade later clarifying that that might not be the full story.

It's a fun bit of Windows history trivia.

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=58... - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220106-00/?p=10...

> Adobe used to be $600 per month, then it became $20 when distribution scaled.

What product is this referring to? I haven't heard about Adobe having any offering that is quite that expensive?

Pretty much every word in English seems to have an innuendo meaning to someone, do anyone truly care past the age of 15?

I find Tangled's language a bit annoying because I'm pretty sure if this caught on it's even more single word concept rather needlessly. If the protocol is called Knot, then call a server a Knot instance or Knot server. If the runner protocol is called Spindle, each server which responds to that could be a Spindle runner. That'll serve two functions: It'll let people contextually hook the terms up against existing terms and still retain the option of evolving into singular word concepts if they prove successful enough for that to happen.

From my point of view as a non-native speaker, the frequent overloading of commonplace words add to the confusion of learning English. I don't like that. It's far from a big hurdle, but just big enough to earn a soft little sigh from me.

Your comment was the only thing that made me even care to comment: Isn't it rather unlikely that the person you're commenting on takes issue with a kink rather than any other reason why "knot" and "spindle" might be poor choices? Who knows, they might even have a good reason, but you started out with assuming bad faith and at least I tend to just leave conversations at that point.

There are a lot of executives acting in a way that makes me believe they're less interested in viability than causing a stockmarket supernova.

I admire people who do that.

Writing down what you learn cements knowledge, and sharing what you write might help someone else.

Ubuntu's upgrade tools wait until the .1 release for LTSes, so your typical installation would wait at least half a year.