MS is so disinterested in Windows that I believe they are slowly, very slowly, preparing for its UI layer to become a Linux desktop environment, which means they can abandon the underlying OS that they don't want to support, but still sell the desktop to OEMs.

Evey time Reddit gets a cash influx, the user experience gets forcibly worse. $50MM from Tencent: New Reddit happens. $60MM from Google for feeding the "AI": API rates skyrocket into fantasyland.

I expect the IPO (which is almost guanteed to tank) will lead to the end of old.reddit. At which point I am done, because new Reddit is the most user-hostile thing I have ever experienced that wasn't inside a Walmart.

Oh and you can probably install "EEA version" by just setting your region to one of the nations within EEA during install

Approximately .02 milliseconds after these changes appear on a Windows release channel, someone doing $diety's work will release a registry hack utility to perform the necessary changes.

Apparently he thinks FOSS licenses are about restricting rights to IP, but they're not.

FOSS licenses are about assuring authors always get the credit they deserve, then perhaps some say in how their product is used.

Just add a merch store to the app?

Physical stores gives people a venue to complain about all the merch Netflix has cancelled.

We treat all Python code in the workbook as untrusted, so we execute it in a hypervisor-isolated container on Azure that does not have any outbound network access.

Then how does the processed data get back to the local machine?

Looking past the Nintendo aspect to why they want do it: "increase our consumer exposure and relevance."

It's been clear for decades that MS has little to no presence in the mind of the average consumer. PCs are heavily branded by the OEM. Even XBox, Microsoft's most consumer-visible brand, barely mentions its ownership. The Windows icon means next to nothing to consumers.

Which is why their attempts (what, 3?) at phones all failed.

That one line confirms that MS knows they are a ghost brand.

They'll outsource manufacturing to non-industrialized countries, wherever they can get labor the cheapest. A generation ago that was the West outsourcing to Asia, next it will be Asia outsourcing to Africa and South America.

This is what China's Belt & Road initiative is setting up: economic colonization, before the West ever thinks of doing it.

The era of ultracheap stuff will persist until no more countries remain to exploit for cheap labor.

Reddit can't be bothered to add usability to their platform, never mind accessibility.

It's to the point where every 3rd party Reddit app is accessibility-focused.

Would be to make an AI clone of Barbra Streisand's voice. That'll keep these things from spreading all over the Internet.

Recruiters have learned that Java and Javascript are not the same thing. It's only been 28 years.

Yes, Mozilla will definitely send a random /.er a check for $0.69.

For readers and authors, you say?

Only if they are also stockholders or executives waiting for their golden parachute to deploy.

Maybe if publishing wasn't stuck in its antiquated ways, Brandon Sanderson wouldn't need to nab $40M on a Kickstarter.

Monumental lack of interest.