I know there are a lot of people claiming LinkedIn is garbage. Many of these comments start with "I uploaded gibberish for my CV..." and I am thinking "well what real human would see that and want to reach out to you?" Of course you only get spam, duh.

I've used LI for centuries now, and have used it for a variety of purposes, including keeping in touch with former colleagues. I agree they (Microsoft) should have just left it alone long ago, and it is far less useful than it has ever been which is unfortunate.

Many years ago my high school buddy and I were sitting in the car, just pulled into a parking lot for a strip mall. We see a cop running in as fast as he can, talking into his radio. My buddy exclaimed "CODE SEVEN!!! CODE SEVEN!!! HOLY SHIT" jumped up and ran after the cop.

Perplexed, I took off after my buddy, finally getting close enough to yell "hey what is a code seven?" to which he turned his head back in my direction, yelled "FREE DONUTS" and kept running.

"Hey Siri, can you post in slack on the dev standup channel that I had to take my daughter's car to the mechanic and I will be an hour late today?"

"Hey Siri, when is my next cardiologist appointment?"

"Hey Siri can you open Everfit and tell me what my workout is this morning? I need to know if it is running or core and lift."

IDGAF about podcasts or email - until Siri can interact with me on the stuff I actually use, it is by definition useless. Apple's iOS team needs to be (should already have been) working on an action registry so apps can tell Siri what they can do, so I can use Siri to interact with the APPS on my phone, and not just change the song or some other trivial crap.

I also miss the historically-useful "spoon." option.

I read "we don't want Amazon to give us the Elastic treatment, and this is the only option we got at the moment."

Should have read "researchers trained ChatGPT to believe it had a liberal political bias, but it had nothing to do with being liberal and would equally work with a conservative goal."

Do people even freaking READ anymore? Gah.

The internet was already bad enough, then the world wide web brought in the great unwashed masses and the downward spiral began. Idiocracy soon took over and I'd estimate less than 5% of what we find online to be of any true value nowadays.

All along I've been astonished at the myopic and ignorant hot take that since it is on a computer, it didn't really happen, therefore there's no accountability.

If I run around shitting on innocent people, it shouldn't matter if it is in meatspace or cyberspace, accountability is a bare minimum requirement for a society.

What this case does is provide badly-needed legal precedent that threatening or harassing people online is just as harmful as in person, and all I can say is "finally, FFS!"

- get rid of the folks constantly redesigning things that never needed redesigning
- replace them with folks that actually USE firefox as a daily driver in a technical role (e.g. develop websites)
- target concrete metrics to determine "progress" like rendering speed, memory management, crashes
- legitimate, concrete effort to involve 3rd party community - code, documentation, tutorials, advocacy, feature planning and roadmaps
- complete transparency and candor regarding donations/funding, where they go

You can't have an article about Bruce Willis and AI generated video without an actual video!

Finally, the Macho Munchkin gets something right.

Tons of comments here from folks that clearly never took the time to read the actual letter.The letter is not that long or hard to read, and although the list of names is long, it is also painfully obvious whether someone backing this letter likely had any relevant expertise or not.

The letter: https://spotifyopenletter.word...

I'm astonished and saddened that so many folks would have such loud-but-clueless reactions to this letter without even bothering to casually scan the contents.

Excellent point! That said:

Which major tech/FAANG companies are NOT part of the PRISM program? Do we have any (mainstream) options?

I qualify with (mainstream) because some obscure, less-than-automatic DIY approach will not work for my wife, dad, neighbor, etc. Even ProtonMail for example, never really caught on, as it was just too hard for non-technical folks.

If it ain't markdown, it ain't a freaking document.

People say the most stupid stuff online. It's a known phenomenon that has been backed by scientific study for years that people think that they are anonymous, and therefore social norms and pressure drop, and they act like, well, poo-flinging monkeys.

Why in the hell aren't they held accountable? Why in the hell are we instead arguing about free speech, social media, and a whole slew of crap that has nothing to do with the actual core problem?

"But now you're just giving up your privacy!!1!" you claim in horror.

That horse left the barn in the freaking NINETIES, folks. There's no such thing as anonymity online, and actually never existed - this has always been a rookie misconception. Every click, every packet, every dns request, every POST and GET, All The Things are logged. When cyberspace has the same social norms (and consequences) as meatspace, the whole world will be better for it.

Someone please explain to me why we have to continue with this fantasy.

This is an honest question. I don't care what party you are or are not beholden to, or what social media platform you love or hate - if you're spouting BS then you're the problem, not the government or social media.

The press should most definitely NOT be getting a pass on this, either. IMHO if you are publishing information online, and it is not clearly opinion or factually correct, you should be held accountable.

This epic misinformation is public enemy number one at this point, and the solution is messy no matter where you look. The social networks are just amplifiers of the real problem which is people not being accountable for what they say/publish.

Fight me! hehe