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That and their foray into crypto, both easily and permanently disabled with clearly labeled toggles along with all telemetry.

Most AWS docs are over-engineered marketing designed to get you to pull in 8 other billable services just to use the one you wanted in the first place.

Knowing how to decipher their docs and navigate support is a resume-worthy skill.

The Eufy SmartTrack card is great! Mine is non-rechargeable and going on year 3. They have released a rechargeable version called the “E30”.

Honestly, not well. It’s hard to articulate to a 4 year old that people like us are hiding for fear that they’ll be taken by “army men”

Accurate, if even a bit softer than how it really is.

I never felt unsafe in my west side Chicago community until the Black Hawks started doing daily intimidation runs. Until they abducted community members who were out working one day, gone the next.

I used to push a wagon with side pockets full of bubbles, snacks, and toys. Now there’s fewer toys to make room for gas masks for kids and adults.

Chicago is a tough town. People here are doing an amazing job restraining themselves and others. I’ve heard on more than one occasion people in crowds reminding one another to not give them reason to pull in the Guard.

This will likely not be the case forever.

More people need to see what’s happening here. This is not sustainable; generational harm is being inflicted on those directly targeted and those who seethe with anger and have to explain to kids why their friends aren’t around anymore.

In some cases, sure. My anecdote:

Electric car. Horn keeps failing. $15 part, $900 to do the work. Why? Because to get to the horn, the entire front end of the car has to be disassembled, including the hood, bumper, fenders, you name it.

My fuel car’s horn assembly is easily accessed through the engine bay with a single bolt to remove it.

Efficiencies in one area seem to have led to extraordinarily difficult repair abilities elsewhere.

I won’t even go into how the air filters are replaced — but it starts with removing the dashboard…

Same; I switched to ControlD when it appeared NextDNS was on autopilot without support or fixes.

Withings makes smartwatches that do not scream Apple Watch

All the takes on this release miss one crucial point: if you want people to adopt E2E encryption, you must reduce friction. For users of Gmail, that means familiar elements and flow to their usual use of Gmail. If this lets even a handful of people use more secure messaging, it’s a win. For Google workspace-centric orgs it’s a good step in the right direction.

If you disagree, go set up GPG on a non-tech’s computer, tell them they need to use Thunderbird or some other helper app(s), and see if you can even go home before being asked to remove it all.

There isn’t. Your software is incorrectly flagging it. Please don’t make accusations without proper vetting.

It does not. If you believe otherwise, elaborate on your claim.

Not sure if sarcastic but it’s a bit premature to assume that’s how it’ll play out. The first part — indiscriminate firings - is underway. Whether anyone left will be capable to do the work that will still be there is yet to be seen.

Just today, there’s this whoopsiedoodle where it seems firings were a bit too indiscriminate and later rescinded. Just like twitter, only at the DoE. Most cool.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-...

This seems less like professional speaking and more like preemptive feelings management.

As a gen-x’er, I find myself having to navigate these waters often as directness is likened to being unnecessarily aggressive, rude, inappropriate, etc.

I would never speak like this and would quickly disabuse others using this style of speech. You’ll do more harm trying to be saccharine than just saying what you mean in an appropriate tone.

“Aspirational sugar” is as common in startup culture as in Fortune 500 sales contracts, they’re just messaged and “de-risked” differently.

Thanks! That’s all I wanted to see, and you provided a good example. “viscerally offensive” and “SEO spam” made my eyes roll like a slot machine wheel.

You continue to suggest I’ve insinuated he is extorting others and I have done no such thing. Please stop that. A protection racket does not need a quorum of victims to be distasteful or illegal.

I said no such thing.

The more Matt tries to explain himself, the more this looks like a protection racket.

Welcome to the fray, and congrats on your reply being wonderfully written. Matt would be wise to take your advice.

Now begins the portion of the proceedings where lots of dirty laundry gets aired, discovery feels like a visit to the proctologist, and absolutely nothing good comes of it for either side but for the attorneys.

Makes Matt look like just another guy with money throwing a tantrum because he didn’t get what he demanded. Sad because many thought highly of him before he went off the reservation.

> When asked what his legal counsel has advised regarding his speaking out publicly, Mullenweg told The Repository, “When you’re right, you can talk. When you’re wrong, [the lawyers] tell you to shut up. My lawyers are fine, they’re like, ‘go for it!’”

Every time he posts or speaks, he does more damage to his reputation and that of WordPress. His lawyers have probably told him to shut up, but he seems like he’d make a miserable know-it-all client.

Look into “industrial” or “commercial” displays. Many of them are the traditional dumb display, but they may not have the refresh rate or other features you want in a consumer device.

This demonstrates that the same post-commit checks and tests that were lacking in the product also exist within the marketing department.

This is a[nother] highly unserious move and unforced error.

Possibly clickbaity fluff pieces like this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-glue-pizza-i-tried...

Stuff like this really doesn’t serve them well as a “serious” outlet.

I follow the author of the fluff on social and I found the Altman article interesting, but I’m less and less amused with filler pieces and suspect others are too.

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I can remember an unused IM account from a lifetime ago but not a single ffmpeg flag.

There are many ways to do it free on a Mac, too, including vendor-provided software.

SteerMouse fills a niche, it is not a requirement. Akin to, say, HydraMouse on Windows.

Water is metered now, but still extraordinarily cheap.

Most forever-on fountains in the city are that way not because the water is abundant but rather as a means to reduce the amount of lead consumed by users.

Each spring all fountains run continuously for about a month to flush the system from winter stagnation.

Highly recommend reading “When McKinsey Comes to Town” for a close look at decade after decade of malfeasance.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634029/when-mckinse...

I'm sure you've considered how the BIPA law in Illinois applies since it's one of (if not the) strongest biometrics privacy laws in the U.S. Could you share some detail on how you store and process unknown voices before consent?

For context, this is BIPA: https://law.justia.com/codes/illinois/chapter-740/act-740-il... and it's why Facebook, Google, and others have sent fairly large settlement checks to Illinois residents over the last few years.

No lies. A shocking amount of architecture work is resume-driven development masquerading as “best practices” and often ends poorly.

So many difficult to troubleshoot, needlessly complex, and less-reliable services exist for no practical reason.

Lots of people need to remember they are not Google and should focus effort on what matters instead of “scale” they’ll never reach.