It’s important for a movement to have both practical, achievable goals and aspirational ones. There’s plenty of room for content from people showing us how good it can be, without really caring about how we get there.
That’s Not Just Bikes niche, and he does a good job at it.
Hardware has a cost. Running a service has a cost. Providing updates has a cost. If you don’t think you should be responsible for the costs of the things you use, you’re going to be disappointed pretty often. Venture-capital funded startups can only give away free shit for so long before they have to start giving returns
But self-driving also depends on up-to-date mapping data and continually improved algorithms for the autonomous systems to work properly. An ongoing cost to the customer makes the most sense for a service that has operating costs to the service provider.
google is introducing an API for websites to request a cryptographic attestation that your browser is the official version that it claims to be - that is, not some other browser pretending to be chrome, or a modified version of chrome. apple has had an API to do this for years, and nobody seemed to mind that, but google is pushing it as a standard that any browser could implement and that's made a lot of people very angry.
the main concern seems to be that it will squeeze smaller browsers that don't implement it out of the market. in response, smaller browsers are apparently choosing not to implement it.
not in canada it wasn't. all the US politics is very left-leaning, but the canadian right really took over on reddit. there were a few left-wing subs like /r/onguardforthee, but most of the canada-related subs were hard right-wing.
aaronsw was not involved in the creation of reddit. When his company was acquired by reddit, he was granted a "cofounder" title as part of the deal.
while it's a dick move to erase him, "you can't change history" is a poor argument when the only reason he's considered a cofounder in the first place is because history was changed.
he died in 2013. his involvement with reddit ended officially in 2007, but even by his own admission he stopped any involvement with the company when it was acquired by conde nast - he was part of reddit for less than a year.
his death really doesn't have anything to do with reddit's current trajectory
and even doesn't even know what's happening enough to make a decision whether or not to resign, his staff will keep him propped up for as long as they can wring a little bit of power out of his husk.
yeah, ad-free youtube, downloads, and background playback is only a couple dollars more than spotify. it's one of the easiest subscriptions for me to justify.
and i don't just mean "because it's google and google is an ad company". what specifically is it sending to some internet server that firefox doesn't? both the firefox and address bars send what you type into them to a search provider. as near as i can tell, firefox's committment to privacy is to say "we protect your privacy" while doing all the same stuff that chrome does.
he offered to buy twitter for a joke, and he actually did buy twitter because a court forced him to. not because this was some grand plan to accomplish anything - he literally spent months in court arguing that he shouldn't have to buy twitter, and he lost. that's the only reason he owns twitter now.
from just the memory numbers last time i saw server graphs, it's gotta be at least an order of magnitude more than that.