I think it's still un-answered, because there are specific definitions for what a "sperm donor" is, making them not responsible. And I doubt this 'new' father was eligible or asking to that form when he tried to make a baby with his then-wife.

Competition will increase, but Microsoft still has the monopoly advantage - they have the inside lane on integration with office apps. They must make more off leveraging their office stuff into cloud and AI revenue than they do on the office software itself (citation needed.)

Youtube doesn't seem very personal to me. The comments are almost always by strangers about the video itself, and not about various random people who happen to be watching it. Any meaningful interaction among commenters is almost nonexistent. Youtube is not where Jr. Highschool kids go to torture each other on a personal level and it doesn't seem to be built to promote that.

You can upload a home video and send it to your acquaintances and hope they watch it, but I don't think many people do that, and especially not tweens.

The GDPR includes the "right to be forgotten" which is part of the GDPR. It grants individuals the right to have their personal data deleted by providers.

Granted it feels different when only rich people can do it and they use skeevy means to accomplish it...

What are your feelings on plain old bookshelves full of plain old paper books?

I can't see it as very tempting until more people have gigabit ethernet to their house - I don't.

Hmmmm.... that's the kind of thing I like to hear

And the clone army of kangaroos.

I would put that as a prompt into Midjourney and make a funny picture but what's the point

If it's not self-hosted, like Nextcloud, if there an advantage of going with "any other company that's not google"?

And to be fair Nextcloud does have (an attempt at) browser integration. It didn't work well for me (and I know I'm not the only one, from online postings) but for all I know it works great for lots of people.

Yeah is the premise here that AI is NOT making leaps and bounds in video generation and adoption of that capability? Because it is. I'm not comfortable with it. Or more than that, I think it is or will be quite harmful. But it is.

Easy website password management is important. Yes, you can keep it all in a separate place, and copy and paste it over every time you're on a different device, it's just a pain. But if Bitwarden has good browser/tablet/phone integration cross-platform, I will give them a look. I seem to recall they charged money for that stuff, but maybe I am wrong, or maybe it is a reasonable price.

Yes I have developed software for a very long time, but I've recently retired (albeit not really by choice) and I think maybe I'm getting to the other side of wanting to fiddle with them. Kinda sad.

Not theoretically hard, but a pita to make it all work and keep it all working. I'm in the process of slowly getting dragged away from firefox to chrome because of the google password manager. I tried for a long time to work with the Nextcloud password manager, I prefer to keep my logins managed on my own hardware, but the web browser (etc) integration was such a PITA and it never got easy. Nor do any 3rd party websites integrate with it so a login to your profile there is accepted as a login to their website, with limited information sharing to the website, like it is with google. It's getting really hard not to hand my life over to them.

and has been pointed out, Zuckerberg also got excited about the "meta" (VR/AR) idea to the point of renaming the company and investing 10s of billions which was all a big mistake. So although I do think he has decided to go for it, and isn't lying, that doesn't mean they'll succeed.

I don't think lying is what it is, because meta is paying out the nose for top AI talent. What this says to me is they believe they are nearing an important threshold, and backing it up with money.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/1...

If google wants these products to be good, they need to eat their own dogfood. Maybe today the product is not that good. If so, they REALLY need to use it so they can make it better, until it spreads organically outside of google.

Of course this will only work if people have the freedom to experiment, and their suggestions are heard, and make their way back into the product. That's hard to do at a big company.