Sorry, but this isn't news. This is literally the exact warning scientists have been giving since the 1950ies of not earlier. If this is news to anyone making bigger decisions they need a spanking.

... layer is? Is it FOSS? Is it cross platform? Ditching a web layer for something native is a good idea, even better when Rust is the main PL, but I'd really like to know what stack exactly they're using and if it's running a FOSS cross platform GUI. Can someone enlighten me?

... desperately needed.

This tax of course is bullshit unless it's public infrastructure used for that traffic.

I personally suspect that such policies would advance the development and utilization of modern offline protocols and foster citizen driven thumb drive networks and similar workarounds which in turn would significantly improve everyone's mental health and quality of life.

Point in case: I've been using email for almost 30 years now. It was ancient back then and is basically unusable for any non-expert who doesn't have the advanced knowledge to spot spam and fishing. I totally get those normies that have zero interest in messing around with smartphones and the modern inet because they don't trust it. I wouldn't either.

My 2 cents.

... around and will still be when all the "commercial Social Media" nonsense has gone the way of the Dodo.

I see nothing wrong with forcing teens to get to know some IT basics and learn to run their own IRC node or webforum. It's the way better way to do things anyway.

Getting emotionally worked up about stuff happening on Wikipedia and with your contributions is a thing you should avoid. Wikipedia has parts and aspects that brink on the random, recognizably driven by ego, ignorance and some mild state of perpetual edit-war. I still occasionally contribute a litte but make a point of not caring to much about what happens with that info.

If there is a fact that I need to be out there in the public, I post it on my own website. Problem solved.

Other than that people shouldn't forget that the internet - Wikipedia or anything else - is a virtual Mad Max Fury Road where you best keep your head low and use a nice bouquet of throw-away spoof accounts to get around and do things. Especially in spaces run by entities or megacorps that are totally beyond your control. As I guess every IT expert here will agree.

... offline capable and redo E-Mail with default encryption and signatures. And in a universal time tick of 3 hours for message passing and updates.

Problem(s) solved.

... and it's still a really useful and powerful tool. Truly impressive IMHO.

When corporations do this it's usually the first step in a major overhaul. The last to go will not get treated so politely, they'll be kicked out.

It's simple logic. I can't provide real value-add as a regular developer or IT expert anymore. AI is good enough in most cases. At the same time we're experiencing a demographic collapse. This means that people are becoming more valuable, not less. The Nash equilibrium of a society banking on this sort of automation is somewhere beyond a fertility crisis and the collapse of culture. The only winning move is to exit the industry, I'm not needed here anymore. I'm currently looking for ways to go back closer to performing arts that I did in the 90ies using my extensive IT skills as a cultural technique rather than a job.

... Anti-Matter Grenades?

Pretty much this.

AFAICT and have heard the cascading climate change effects have already been kicked loose. The planets albedo (it's ratio of reflection) has already dropped into a feedback loop that will only accelerate things. We can kiss our glaciers goodbye and the dutch will likely have to find a new place to stay within this century. As some island nations already have to know.

It's it a guzzling Harley or something with 7+ liters per 100km? Or a SuperCub with 1.5 liters? The latter would be somewhat acceptable IMHO. The former not.

... cybersecurity: .Net C# and Java.

*Dadum* *Crash* *Thud*

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.

... I hope this move doesn't screw it up.

For the uninformed: Deno is basically the "new" official non-shitty successor to Node.js. It's secure (closed) by default, supports TypeScript natively without the need for transpilation, has the full browser API on the server side and comes with a bunch of neat other features that turn Jamstack development from the bloated and fickle shit-show that is Node into a chill walk in the park. I've been using it exclusively for a few years now and have come to avoid Node.js like the plague for real world deployment.

The new Xiami 18 Fold is probably still available and is basically the exact same shell hardware build.
And AFAICT it's cheaper and better in the specs. Which was to be expected.

Gotta envy Apple though, how much they got their fan crowd under control. Pretty impressive IMHO.