That doesn’t help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of 1 of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZ’s capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.

Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing

Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.

500 million justifies using some very fancy data recovery means, as long as he’s sure it’s the right drive.

They also kicked Jack to the curb went he tried to go full Musk on content moderation.

They will always have slave labour as an “unfair advantage” (to use management-speak euphemisms), so prices might remain low.

Ireland systematically trying to make the EU a race to the bottom is hilarious /s

It was a joke to make the point that vim can be the easiest tool to use if you are trying to do a complex task.

Easy is relative. What are you trying to do? Replace a value in an yaml file? Then nano is easier. Trying to refactor a business critical perl/brainfuck polyglot script in production? Then you probably want to use vim (or emacs if you are one of those people)

Ah, yes the “Don’t build the Torment Nexus” 🔁 “Big Tech announces the Torment Nexus” loop

Theoretically they can, in practice it’s less than ideal. And that doesn’t solve all the other distros or the combinatory explosion of supporting several distros and versions.

Flatpaks on the other hand give you a single runtime of your choice to worry about (though they still have lots of cons too).

Until they drop it for flatpak as they did all NIH-driven products.

Probably because PPAs only work on Ubuntu and there are more Linux distros and even then it meant having to build and test a package for a couple of different Ubuntu versions.

Holy mother of false equivalence. Google is not supposed to be a random dude on the Internet, it’s supposed to be a reference tool, and for the most part it was a good one before they started enshittifying it.

unready technology that spews dangerous misinformation in the most convincing way possible is being massively promoted

Everyone that needs a universal time is just using UTC.

And Apple said they are finally going to support RCS.

The users are the ones getting screwed. The costs of business are always passed to the customers. In the case of Google’s and Apple’s taxes this means all the customers and not even the ones doing IAP purchases because unlike actual sales taxes, apps aren’t allowed to charge them directly to the buyer.