Then as smart phones took off, all the companies quadrupled down on the walled garden idea

Yahoo and MSN had interop before smartphones existed. AIM and Google Talk (Jabber) as well.

When smart phones took off, Facebook Messenger actually had Jabber support (which also gave it interop with AIM and Google Talk).

The consolidation and walled gardens unfortunately came back later.

systemctl disable systemd-critic.service

Systemd-init, the core part of systemd, offersa wide range of features surpassing other init systems. More features lead to more bugs and security vulnerabilities.

This is a bad take. Many of systemd’s features improve security significantly. And having all that code in one cohesive place can’t possibly be inherently less secure than the cornucopia of init scripts we used to use.

And if the backup was merged into existing contacts, just take a new one. Then you can purge all contacts instead of trying to sort through the broken ones.

Adversarial interoperability is not exploitative.

They do. Even back in their pre-UEFI days, it was possible to flash BIOS from a properly-formatted USB drive by holding down a magic key combination at power on. But it was not exactly publicized as a supported method.

“What? You don’t want to share this to someone you haven’t spoken to in a year?”

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/42623/what-is-it-that-strips-vocals-from-audio-when-a-1-8-audio-jack-is-partially-unp

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Bitcoin is deflationary. There is a hard limit on the total number of bitcoins that will ever exist. Every so often, the reward for mining a block is halved. Eventually there will be effectively zero reward for mining at all.

That might have been true a decade ago. But GPUs and FPGAs have long been obsolete for mining Bitcoin.

Mining is happening on custom silicon in large-scale operations. They specifically observed several of those large-scale operations in multiple nations and extrapolated out. I don’t see how that methodology is flawed.

Human beings who want to speak with other human beings.

I know. It can seem like a strange concept to some people. It’s strange to me that they find it strange.

I asked DALLE-2 for a “wide shot of a delivery driver in a Louisiana bayou with bagged food” and it gave me this:

That’s certainly a fascinating way to interpret “bagged food.”

Holy moly!

“If we don’t have Spotify working properly across Play services and core services, people will not buy Android phones,” Harrison testified.

Google: Sorry, other devs! You just aren’t as important as Spotify!

[I mean, they aren’t wrong. But this does not bode well for them!]

They already did

Clearly this was before Apple became one of the largest advertising companies.

Thanks, I’ll look into them.

Lately I’ve been carrying around my Logitech Zone 750 headset because it’s the only thing I’ve found so far that actually lets other people hear me clearly. I wish there were more Bluetooth headsets available with a real mic (i.e. one that actually extends out to your mouth).

They’re great for the person on the other end of the call?

How are they for phone calls in noisy environments (for the person on the other side of the call)?