I’m honestly surprised they made 10,000 sales.

People decide who to hire for what roles and who to lay off. People form unions and people bust unions. The shareholders are people, and the decisions made in their interests are made by other people.

When was the last time you saw a corporation making decisions and taking actions of its own accord, without people?

Maybe they will start to, now, as people delegate their responsibilities to “AI”

AI on its own isn’t a threat, but people (mis)using and misrepresenting AI are. That isn’t a problem unique to AI but there sure are a lot of people doing dumb and bad things with AI right now.

“We” haven’t moved anywhere, I just chimed in for the first time with my interpretation of what the other person was talking about. Jeez.

GitHub is a git hosting provider, but it also has its own service software for all the peripherals - organizations, issues, pull requests, all the user account management stuff, etc. AFAIK those parts are mostly/all proprietary.

That sounds like someone who topped out with highschool level programming tried to implement a hash algorithm.

!cars@lemmy.world could be a starting point

Fuel cell EVs can’t be fitted with charging plugs for religious reasons

I really need to hear that story.

iPhone 4 antenna “you’re holding it wrong”

iPhone 6 folding

Wireless mouse charge port on the bottom

Apple pencil charging on the iPad

iPads with display bright spots due to structural adhesives underneath letting go and cables pressing up

MacBook butterfly switches

Garbage cable quality all around

Somehow it still has a cult like Apple

Is that a Lemmy community… ?

They did. That’s why Beeper Mini exists.

https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush

https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/

https://www.wired.com/story/beeper-android-iphone-texting-blue-bubbles/

XPS are the exception to the rule of Dell’s quality, really. I guess the Precisions were also half decent, but I never bothered with them - they were ThinkPads but worse for the same price. Everything else is mediocre to bad.

GNU Network Object Model Environment

Yes

1. Website requires user to visit using particular browser
2. User refuses to use said browser
3. ???
4. No profit

Sure. And the further a fork diverges from upstream the more difficult maintenance becomes. My point is that relying on the open source model to fork projects making hostile changes only works so long as the community is actually able to maintain the fork(s), and so long as those forks actually have a reasonable chance of being adopted. It’s equally important, if not even more important, to try to ensure these large projects steer in consumer friendly directions than to react and fork to try to remove anti-consumer features.

Google has enough market and mind share that they can push this and it’s a real risk of becoming an anti-consumer standard regardless of any attempts to maintain a fork.

So what do I think we, as a body of users of the Internet, should do? Simple. Stop using Google Chrome and any other Chromium based browsers. Google has the ability to push these changes and make them defacto standards (and later, codified standards) because we collectively give them the power to by using Chromium downstreams.

“Just” fork it. Right.

It’s a massive undertaking to maintain a fork of something that large and continue pulling in patches of later developments.

Not to say that Brave doesn’t have the resources to do so - I really don’t know their scale - but this notion of “just fork” gets thrown around a lot with these kinds of scenarios. It’s an idealistic view and the noble goal of open source software, but in practical and pragmatic terms it doesn’t always win, because it takes time and effort and resources that may not just be available.