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    Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better

    Maybe these experiences should be minimum expectations, but we should also reward behavior we want to see. Otherwise, companies will get away with whatever we put up with, and if we only ever complain, there’s no incentive for them to try to do better.
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    Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it

    Landfills? I worry about my house! Loads of old devices sitting around wherever I last put them before forgetting all about them. Old laptops, old iPhones, handheld radios, old rechargeable trackpads or shavers or AppleTV remotes lost in the couch. Where are my first AirPods? My Palm Treo? My...
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    Texts disprove Trump admin claim that no bombing plans were sent to reporter

    “Not true, and if it is it’s not our fault, and if it is it’s not a crime, and if it is we’re immune”
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    Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

    And it will be dark times indeed if and when they ever change their style of art.
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    Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers

    Ah, I see. Yes, thank you. I could have included additional context that may have been helpful. As a non-European inclined to join European organizations in seeking alternatives to US-based providers, indeed as one who has already moved critical services to Germany, I can offer that the process...
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    Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

    What do these companies think will happen when all the free work they're scraping now goes behind walls to defend against the abuse?
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    Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers

    European privacy laws are worth studying carefully. There may be stronger protections, but there are no fewer provisions for surveillance or obligations on various classes of entity that collect, control, process, and otherwise handle data. They do things differently in ways that could be...
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    Apple TV+ reportedly loses $1 billion a year, and that’s okay—for now

    Of the three or so hours of the day truly left to my own discretion, a one hour show is a huge investment of time. One, maybe two streaming services are going to get that. It doesn’t take a huge library. It takes a good one. And you’re not going to see “high engagement” from me. But what you...
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    Apple reportedly planning executive shake-up to address Siri delays

    Take the time to do it right and make something differentiated. The best disruptor right now would be an assistant that isn’t yet another funnel cake of happy horseshit. I’m plenty happy with boring in the meantime.
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    After 50 years, Ars staffers pick their favorite Saturday Night Live sketches

    I see super happy fun ball and colon blow are on here already, so here’s my number three: View: https://youtu.be/e134NoLyTug
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    Apple now lets you move purchases between your 25 years of accounts

    Reminder that DRM and stipulations by IP hoarders remain a primary constraint in all this. Keeping this from being an avenue for piracy or whatever is part of the reason this is so complicated.
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    AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

    It's kafkaesque how even putting a captcha in front of your site just helps train models.
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    The perfect New Year’s Eve comedy turns 30

    This was my favorite Coen brothers film for a very long time. In fact I’m not sure which one I might like better. A hallmark blend of realism and supernatural, out of such unlikely characters and setting, draped across a pitch perfect rise-and-fall-and-redemption story. All the Coen brothers...
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    Making tiny, no-code webapps out of spreadsheets is a weirdly fulfilling hobby

    Answering my own question: a lot, but not as much as I thought. I've been hovering over SwiftUI for a while. It's not drag-and-drop like this by any means, but it is easier to get going than I expected. I made a simple CRUD app in Glide in about an hour. I made the same app with SwiftUI...
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    Making tiny, no-code webapps out of spreadsheets is a weirdly fulfilling hobby

    What would it take to graduate from this to a SwiftUI app?
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    Honda and Nissan to merge, Honda will take the lead

    I keep forgetting people hate the leaf. Mine is still in great shape and keeps being perfect for the majority of trips I make, all within a 5-mile radius
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    Honda and Nissan to merge, Honda will take the lead

    That’s Honda’s guy speaking. It’s like trying to pour a hole into another hole
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    Honda and Nissan to merge, Honda will take the lead

    “Create mobility value through chemical reaction” as a way to describe what these companies do makes me want to set fire to something
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    AT&T says it won’t build fiber home Internet in half of its wireline footprint

    AT&T is really showing the value in escaping regulation by abandoning regulated activities in favor of whole new endeavors that can completely ignore regulations. As uber did to cabs, Airbnb did to hotels, and Trump did to presidencies