Hey, this is Alex Jones, nuance and honestly aren’t allowed /s
Hey, this is Alex Jones, nuance and honestly aren’t allowed /s
I was always more of a dos/win95 and then Linux person but I did appreciate the Apple vibe and what they were trying to do with their ecosystem in terms of usability. The Wintel monopoly was a scourge but you’re right, Steve Jobs was also terrible.
They used to be cooler and their products have always provided a superior experience. They were counter culture in the 80s, 90s and 00s with their bluebox roots, anti-IBM/anti-Wintel marketing, tiny market share and focus on creators and education.
Now that they are successful they are essentially using Microsoft’s old playbook and bullying everyone into using their products. Really makes me sad.
Only a matter of time before they move the goal posts again to protect their monopoly. Tim Cook is a bully.
It sucks, but at least it’s in a centralized location. Back in the INI file days you’d have to set the config in various places. Which, come to think of it, is kind of how things work in Linux.
Related to the OPs problem, do you know if there is a Startup folder in Windows still? Back in the Windows 95 days we could just drag a BAT script to that folder and it would always run on login.
Registry keys are inferior but they do exist. The last time I used Windows I just had to set some magic reg keys and it was easy to make that happen.
Sure, but all of those things could have been done by extending the existing protocol.
Also, fwiw, it has had media sends, presence and support for encryption for a very long time. The rest could be added. All of those things could have very well been an IRC client with a couple of extra features and a server upgrade to queue messages.
And those developers get told what to do. The wheel also gets reinvented by PMs and entrepreneurs who think they can do it better. Sounds like someone is salty about their software maintenance job.
I suppose that applies more to XMPP, but not everything has to be a business, and you don’t have to be an ass about it.
fwiw, XMPP/Slack/Discord/etc basically solve the same problem that IRC already solved. Software Engineers just reinvent the wheel again and again as everyone loves a green field.
That said, Meta cannot be trusted. They’re going to do a year or two of embrace and extend, pretending to be good citizens. Then they will invent some crisis that causes them to want to de-federate, likely that content on other servers is not moderated to their standards or that convoluted features of their extended protocol are not being met. This take seems pretty spot on to me.
This is beautiful.
I read tons TXTs in the 90s that sparked an interest in how-things-work and eventually lead to a career in software. People like him really change lives.
May he RIP
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Awe, do you need to sell Tesla shares to support that Twitter debt? Poor Elon.
Also he’s very concerned about AI while trying to replace every taxi driver with it.
Yup, Elon is such an ass that I’m cheering for Mark Zuckerberg of all people. What crazy times we live in
It could be profitable if they just stuck to the basics. Having 2000 employees is ridiculous, they’re trying to do too much.
It’s funny that they think they can’t be replaced. It will take a while but 5 years from now Reddit will be the MySpace of social news of they don’t stop bullying their users.
Probably the first time they have paid attention to Skype.