"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

He has cut spending "brutally" from the $400 million annual budget, he said, freezing hires, slashing expenses, canceling construction of a new gym, ending the retirement match to employees and giving up 20 percent of his own $720,000 base salary.

Funny, if he lowered his salary to $500k that would likely not only fix the budget but provide a surplus.

Capitalism has triumphed over education now, too.

I worked in the finance business a couple of times - and can tell you that in 2019 the number one fear of anyone in banking is fraud. Nothing else is even remotely close. I've heard some execs say that the future of their business will likely be determined solely by how well they manage fraud.

To let random transactions with no supporting details go through unchecked, would be heading in the opposite direction at a very fast pace ;-)

I don't think there's much malice in this practice, it is more about "ok can we confirm that this is really the person we issued the card to, and is it being used legitimately?"

Some banks offer one-time-use credit card aliases which, IMHO do an awesome job of protecting the consumer from some moron storing their payment details and then getting compromised in the future (happened to me what, five times now?). For me that is the biggest risk as there's just no such thing as "anonymous online anything" let alone transactions.