It only took us how many years?

Sounds good enough for my boss to me

At this point they should just consider disconnecting the UK from the wider internet

I was using the N900 when it came out and at that point Android was in no way superior to whatever Nokia was doing. Their main misstep was choosing Windows Phone and shipping the N9 as a dead-on-arrival product. Nonetheless the UX was pretty ahead of its time and we could have had a real Qt based Linux phone OS

Maemo and Meego were so good

And 16 year olds the british army: https://jobs.army.mod.uk/how-to-join/can-i-apply/age/#

I feel like most things degrade as a matter of scope-creep, while trying to implement features that are actually complex and non-trivial.

Take the unholy mess of modern Microsoft Office. MS Office might have been a good tool for a single purpose back in the 80s, but the addition of multiple generation/layers of features that have been halfway abandoned but kept for compatibilitys sake, make any more complex task non-trivial. There are multiple approaches for implementing templating MS Word, none of which are really good. MS Macros have been great… if you are trying to get arbitrary code execution on Windows machines. And collaboretive editing features include halfway abandoned sharing features and a half-baked Web Version of Office 365.

As a matter of fact I don’t believe this is purely out of corporate greed, but rather a lack of scope limitation during design. People don’t ask if they should, if they simply can do. We shouldn’t have macros inside of Text Documents, there should be another tool for that. We shouldn’t have SQL queries pulling into Excel Worksheets. We shouldn’t use Excel as a database, but people had to change names of biological genes to avoid these being autoformatted in Excel.

But as a matter of fact, in general one is limited to working with the tools one knows, so convincing someone to use the correct tool for a job will always be harder than just delivering additional features, that we know will make the overall product worse.

Guess he has only been working 250x as hard as the other employees

Reducing human oversight and intervention in HR will definitely not lead to problems down the road.

But then reversing sites will be so much more annoying

I think people should in general put as little trust as possible in corporations. Ensuring your tools, language and platform are as free as possible is a good idea.

Just look at the problematic situation for VS Code extensions by Microsoft, which are non-free.

If this passes, smartphone manufacturers are going to register their devices as religious artifacts

Whats what we get for buying cars from a software company.

I wouldn’t trust my country to competently run anything internet related

I feel like the fediverse would be better off without a lot of current X users

Art auctions are a scam, just some more so than others.

People have been hailing WFH after COVID as a lasting change. But it has always been clear that non fundamentally remote companies will never accept this as a permanent solution.

Hybrid is a really bad in between, the advantages seem marginal (more flexible remote days, less needed office space) to the disadvantages (people will still be mostly remote in meetings, commute times still a factor, work environments need to be duplicated between home and office).

I never knew I needed API fanfiction

Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer!

The Libertarian Institute is closely affiliated with the US libertarian party. They are anti war with russia. https://www.lp.org/no-war-with-russia

Just FYI that this source is not neutral