Sadly Mozilla is not immune to following the dumb fads that run through Silicon Valley, but Firefox is still clearly the best browser option.

I think you got it and effectively answered it, thanks.

How do you work the office only having space for 20% of employees? Makes a lot of sense but would be annoying to hot desk. My office only has us in two days a week but has not cut down on the number of desks at all, giving up the potential savings.

So trashy

Yeah I think it’s pretty much just in NYC for now, with a big launch in Minneapolis in progress. Hopefully they get to Denver soon!

It has already been done, that’s what the article is about: https://drivers.coop/

Currently based in NYC, but getting ready for a big launch in Minneapolis in response to the incumbent rideshare companies pulling out of the city in protest of increased rideshare regulation. Big opportunity to seize some marketshare without needing that much startup capital if your better financed competitors are removing themselves from that part of the market.

Yeah exactly - the proposal here is to have a driver-owned worker cooperative run the app.

The breakup this is referring to is splitting off the Android operating system from the rest of Google.

Airlines must be pretty crazy to think not letting people use their phones is going to decrease air rage

I would never pay to purchase a digital copy of a show. Either get physical media or pirate it. Anything else is just a long term rental.

What is bluesky? Basically a twitter clone that was spun off as it’s own thing by the twitter team that was working on federation when Musk took over. It’s pretty good if you liked the pre-Musk twitter vibe or a slightly smaller scale and leftier version of it.

https://bsky.app/

Meaning Jack Dorsey? He had some involvement in starting bluesky but is more pushing his own “nostr” site, and has had a hilarious arc of being ever more hostile to bluesky and its left-leaning userbase.

It’s in sort of a weird intermediate space - it does have a federated protocol, but currently the main bluesky server is the only thing on it.

Awful, we really need some kind of federal fast track for these sorts of badly needed projects that cuts through the NIMBY bullshit.

Fantastic. Remember guys, we’re all on the same side on this one. This should be a signal for the US to get its ass in gear to do the same, but it’s not like China expanding its renewable energy capacity is anything but great for everyone.

Tracks with my experience - I played around with it when it first went live and then got bored and moved on, haven’t been back to it in months.

Hard to have sympathy for this woman, but these TikTok battles where they basically have influencers competing to see who can get their followers to donate more money to TikTok do seem pretty fucked up.

That’s terrible. How can Firefox usage rates be declining? It seems like every day there’s some new scammy feature being rolled out in all the other browsers.

It’s so funny seeing the people trying to fearmonger about not having enough lithium and other minerals for electric vehicles.

Trains are easy enough to electrify with current technology, no need for batteries.

“More exciting news: around the end of this month, we’ll release a public web interface. With this, you’ll be able to view posts on Bluesky without being logged in on an account.” - huge news, this is critical for making bluesky a plausible place to base your online presence.

How do I trick my computer into thinking I’m in Europe?

Yeah it’s definitely not a twitter only problem, the internet is getting so puritanical these days. Both Apple as you mention and payment processors using their influence inappropriately bear a lot of the blame.

Haha I don’t think Musk is happy about articles describing how bad a job he’s doing.

Huh I’m also a regular DDG user but I never have that experience.

Yeah I’m pretty much exclusively on DuckDuckGo these days, which is partially based on Bing but with a lot more privacy, and never really have any trouble.

So depressing when the bad guys win. iPhone keeps getting worse quality relative to competitors and keeps gaining market share… that thing with the blue and green bubbles should really be illegal.

Good job EU, screw you Apple

This article came out in February and seems to have been pretty dead on, down to Musk reviving the ridiculous x.com branding.

Yeah I don’t think any big social media company has ever successfully launched a new website, only bought startups.

It’s shocking to me how these freaks can get away with saying “we don’t think your communications should be private” with a straight face

I’ve been in Mastodon for a few months and Bluesky for a few days, and Bluesky just blows it out of the water as a twitter replacement. Easier technically, a lot more of the people I follow are on there, people are easier to find, and most importantly the algorithm encourages rather than discourages engagement.

It’s not necessarily so easy, there aren’t substitutes for a lot of the communities on twitter. Though I did just get into Bluesky the other day and am already spending more time in there than on twitter.

It’s not necessarily so easy, there aren’t substitutes for a lot of the communities on twitter. Though I did just get into Bluesky the other day and am already spending more time in there than on twitter.