Looking at this a day later, I can't really see a valid reason for doing this. It costs them nothing to post to X. In fact, X was one of the places I saw the *most* engagement with them. Bluesky is not a nice place, Mastodon has limited engagement. I would think that they'd want to remain on a platform where some folks really needed to see what they were saying. Now they've cut themselves off from a potential audience.

Looking at their board of directors, and into their past associations, it's now a lot more obvious. They pushed John Gilmore out in 2021.

Remember this? https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

First comment is "a time of transition. Wonder if they will make it through with their integrity intact? Only time will tell."

Now we know the answer.

Garbidgecollect surfaces etc...

Oh yes im pissed off that proton and cedega are in the news but im not and there dead ans burried. Looking at some of the changes made to direct3d it seems steam os requires that apps dont count activex instization and it wouldnt suprise me if it forced software nulling of buffers because thease some things that make strict directx 3d slow and by passing them gives substantial performance increases unfortunally someone put me in a cardboard coffin before i was able to roll this out when i wrote dirextx9 for vanilla wine many moons ago. So, im going to revisit direct3d with levels of strictness vs performance with some of the features being able to be rolled out across the entire activex architecrure in wine. I also wrote a text literal pdf importer and some other funky stuff along the way so you should soon be able to edit pdfs with a text editor instead of current vecror implementations the lengths someone has gone to to prevent the release of this are outstanding so hopefully its as disruptive as direcrx9 for vanilla wine was back all those years ago. If you find my corpse somewhere you know why.

At least where I am (California) Apple News is a solid product. I've been a very happy Apple One subscriber and enjoy it. One reason for me anyway is that I can read our local papers with no paywall, and I use the magazine selection as well. And yes, I've been a huge Apple fan for years. :)

but I certainly get value out of it.

and only if I could hide literally every other trace of unverified content.

Knowing I was dealing with actual human beings might be kind of nice for a change.

The reality is that I'd probably just delete my reddit account and not think twice about it.

It's ruining sports across the board for many people, and I really hate that it's leaked out of Vegas the way that it has.

Nothing like seeing FanDuel and Draft Kings ads on what feels like every sporting event under the sun.

I'm so sick of seeing gambling advertisements.

That's the thing about Google Maps right now. At least on the desktop, for me, I barely even notice aside from the "Sponsored" label.

At this point I'm willing to see what they actually do with it. Apple knows users generally hate ads and want more of an ad-free experience now.

If anything, they need to fix the dumpster fire of ads in News.

If you want to but hookers, you better try the darkside of Facebook I'm vanilla baby

but what would be nice is a verision of wine or crossover that actually played the games on the wine list. Directx implementations ontop of opengl or vulkan aren't actually complicated so why complicate it more than it's worth, that's stay on staff for you, never bother to finish what they have started and always want to start another one. clean clear cut, what was the renaissance of pc gaminging on linux under wine, directx 8, 9 , 10 or 11

being disabled i've had to rely upon 1000s of miles of shakes pony, but this is coming to an end and I'm looking at getting myself a motor vehicle.
What first I must consider is the gas milage, because with a nice enough motor vehicle you can get anyone to drive. I'm not looking at 3 charge points per day followed by fireworks in the bedroom or anything like that but really the must is the car must stay on the road. that being said my mum has lost two wing mirrors and I remember the time someone crashed into me and i lost my revering indicator, jealousy no doubt, so with all these jealous drivers armed with guns are those exterior censors going to keep you out of the gutter, and we all know about censorship. I would say yes and know, unless your prize hobby is driving a milk float.

Managed code has shown us that we should not be cared of the null hypothesis, and good precompiler should be able to check for thing like dealocs b being set to null, and memory allocation pairs without then need of Microsoft's interference. but where is this taking us infinite loops are also something a precompier can warn about, there's no excuse for sloppy code, i would expect that the deverlopers are missing all the computer warns and just skipping over them, oh why is my code pretty colours, all in all shoddy management company deservers to go under.

If you are saying that perhaps the ongoing "healthy at any size" and body positivity advocates may be a part of the problem, I think that you are correct. Over my years, I have noticed that there was a social shift at some point and it feels like nowadays we almost glorify obesity and shame folks that are in shape.

Google has become one of the worst companies on the internet, and the worst *for* the internet and I'm worried about how much farther they will sink.

They're an advertising company that wants to *be* the internet, via Android & Chrome/etc.