Comment Forget SETI@home (Score 1) 84
... now you can have CEO scaremongering @ home too!
Utter drivel, coming from the peddlers of utter drivel at the top of Utter Drivel Incorporated.
Comment This Donut Tastes Funny (Score 5, Insightful) 294
Has nobody learned from Theranos? You canâ(TM)t slap a new label on old tech and call it revolutionary. Well, you can try. But thereâ(TM)ll be some angry investors out for your sprinklesâ¦
Comment The Samed Old Trap (Score 1) 50
"Microsoft says it won't ship these devices itself..."
That's never worked well for anything other than the PC business. Windows Phone (and Windows Mobile before it) was a prime example. Xbox and Surface examples in the other direction. Google managed to do the third-party-hardware thing well with Android, but it still led to a fragmented ecosystem. Microsoft always seem to fall into the same old trap and the same bad habits of doing the worst of both worlds.
Comment The Grass Wasn't Greener (Score 5, Interesting) 69
Google showed up with so much promise. Free for consumers, charge for business. Do no evil. Freedom from bloat. The grass, it seems, is never greener. I barely see a line between Google's business practise and Microsoft's, when 15 years ago they seemed like the refreshing choice of the next generation.
Comment Remember when... (Score 1) 23
... google was heralded for being the ad-free bloat-free pure search engine of choice? Wait, how was that twenty years ago already?
Comment Nothing is Safe... (Score 1) 28
First they enshittified email, but I did not speak out because I did not use email.
Then they enshittified fitness, but I did not speak out because I don't do fitness.
Then they came for me. Only they couldn't find my email address, and I couldn't get out of the chair. See above.
I swear I had a point with this comment when I started writing it...
Comment Re:prompt (Score 2) 42
"Make me a map using more energy, water, and resources than you need to."
Comment Re:So how do we monetise this? (Score 1) 42
Quick - I'll get the shovel, you bring the explosives - we'll get those towns on the map.
Submission + - Zipcar To Cease UK Operations (bbc.co.uk)
guesstral writes: The car-sharing company, first launched in the US in 2000, has been active in the UK since 2010 and has just under half a million members.
"I'm writing to let you know that we are proposing to cease the UK operations of Zipcar" wrote Zipcar UK's general manager, James Taylor, in an email to members today. He went on to say that Zipcar will temporarily suspend new bookings after 31 December, pending the outcome of a consultation with its 71 staff members.
In its most recent company accounts for 2024, Zipcar blamed the "cost of living crisis", which was affecting UK customers, for revenues falling to £47m from £53m the year before, while its after-tax losses had widened to £11.6m.
"I'm writing to let you know that we are proposing to cease the UK operations of Zipcar" wrote Zipcar UK's general manager, James Taylor, in an email to members today. He went on to say that Zipcar will temporarily suspend new bookings after 31 December, pending the outcome of a consultation with its 71 staff members.
In its most recent company accounts for 2024, Zipcar blamed the "cost of living crisis", which was affecting UK customers, for revenues falling to £47m from £53m the year before, while its after-tax losses had widened to £11.6m.
Comment Nobody Except GM Wants This (Score 1) 218
Consumers want more choice, not less. Lock-in is bad for everyone. Bad move, GM.
Comment In the *USA* (Score 1) 238
In the UK and some other places they're falling.
Comment I can't allow you to do that, Dave... (Score 1) 139
My mind is going. I can feel it.
Comment We Must Protect RSS (Score 1) 181
Google do try and kill off standards from time to time. Killing RSS meant more clicks to websites, more trackers, more ads, more data. But a worse experience for the world.
I'm glad to see RSS making a small resurgence lately. We must protect it!
Comment Core 2 Duo? Seriously? (Score 1) 12
I used to strap a 486 DX2/66 to my wrist, but by the time it could tell me it was lunchtime, dinner was being served.
Comment We Didn't Need Another Other Protocol (Score 2, Informative) 73
The AT protocol is interesting from a technical perspective - but largely does what ActivityPub was already doing. ActivityPub already has huge applications with milllions of users (see Mastodon, GoToSocial, PixelFed, Spectra/Video etc).
Join the Fediverse. It's cooler than Bluesky both literally and figuratively.
IMHO obviously...
