I do continually find it baffling that companies repeatedly replace existing products with something worse

I literally can’t think of one time some service or software was retired in lieu of a like for like* replacement and it wasn’t actually worse for a very long time.

I’m actually struggling to think of any example actually

I’m pretty sure it can’t really reach beyond his final breath

GitHub has been around for nearly 2 decades and was largely considered a mostly good thing until maybe the past couple of years. Also important to add that Microsoft seems to mostly have left it alone for the first couple of years (possibly with the exception of Atom, which it left very alone)

In addition to people just generally being slow to change, changing can take quite a bit of effort for some projects for varying reasons. Many of those same projects struggle to keep up with the maintenance workload, so they’re not going to jump at the chance to add more work to their plates.

Finally, some people just don’t care. For instance, the MIT license being popular is pretty hard evidence that FOSS doesn’t necessarily mean anti-corporate, and for many users GitHub still more or less does what it says on the tin.

Though I will say if the service disruptions and ad-injection bullshit continue you’ll only see GitHub competitors grow. GitLab seems to be going after their enterprise customers with some success.

You turn invisible off?

I see what my profile looks like sometimes (“last online 150 days ago”) and quickly toggle it just so people don’t think I cuddled a moving bus or something

This is pretty good, though I expect even if it’s accepted it’s going to be a long journey before you can reliably use it

If we’re adding stuff to http, it would be nice for some additional status codes, things have moved on a bit since the early days

I think I already read about drug dealers using delivery robots in cities where they have a presence already.

As soon as one of those Boston Dynamic dog bots can be bought at the nearest hardware store with an arm on them, I would not be at all surprised to find out they were being used for crime

I’m saying this with entirely no knowledge of actually how profitable pilfering catalytic converters is

Seems like a good policy to give non US AI companies a boost whilst also causing a US recession, given a large chunk of the US economy is currently being propped up by the AI bubble.

Wasn’t one of the results of the failed 90s encryption export controls, that as a result, other strong encryption schemes were created elsewhere and kneecapped the advantage that the US previously held in that area

Hmm, I guess denuvo’s not forever

… I’ll get my coat

My god, they incarnated the big brain wojack

Amex just flying under the radar inexplicably

Yes I understand what “such as” means before anyone says

Ingeniously? It certainly looks like balatro with dominoes

Isn’t this a message that the intended recipient will never see?

Thank you for your service

Even worse when the design is that plasticky kind of decal rather than the one that becomes more part of the fabric

Basically makes the shirt unusable in summer

Who is bike alpaca and joffrette?

I think this would probably be covered by unsporting behaviour or dangerous play.

There might be some stuff that would consider the ball out of play in this scenario too as no specific player has possession, but that might be a stretch

At least, yeah. The estimated lifetime for pressed consumer compact disks is 30-100 years (incl dvd/bluray), assuming a bell curve distribution, you should get at least that

VHS is cool to have on the shelf if you’ve got space, but unless it’s a modern reproduction, the tape is very much going to be turning to dust over the next decade or so.

DVDs/Blu-rays should have a good few decades left on them unless they were super low budget (i.e. basically on recordable media rather than properly pressed)

My computer configuration is best described as a construction of duct tape and chewing gum holding a house of cards in place

Tbh my server is getting a bit that way too, which is slightly more concerning

Big props for encouraging parents to actually parent rather than expecting the government to do it for them