If component prices keep going up and the respective monopoly/duopoly/triopoly for each component colludes to keep prices high/supply constrained, then eventually devices will become too expensive for the average consumer. So what’s the game plan here? Are companies planning to let users lease a device from them? Worth noting that Sony already lets you do this with a ps5. Sounds like we’re headed towards a “you will own nothing and be happy” type situation

> Sounds like we’re headed towards a “you will own nothing and be happy” type situation

That's when I sell of my current hardware and house, buy a cow and some land somewhere in the boondocks and become a hermit.

It could be a level up from that.

"You will use AI, because that will be the only way you will have a relaxed life. You will pay for it, own nothing and be content. Nobody cares if you are happy or not."

We could also vote the policians protecting these uncompetitive markets out of power and let regulators do their job. There has been too many mergers in the component market.

You also have to look at the current status of the market. The level of investment in data centers spurred by AI are unlikely to last unless massive gains materialize. It's pretty clear some manufacturers are betting things will cool down and don't want to overcommit.

> We could also vote the policians protecting these uncompetitive markets out of power and let regulators do their job.

Could we though? Even if gerrymandering and voter suppression weren't already out of control, and getting worse, there are very few politicians who could or would do anything about all this.

Elections aren't going to save us.

Would be more impressive if this was done for something obscure like Microsoft Visio. Theres countless oss ms word editors/libs Claude probably ripped off

The schema Visio’s files save to is very complex.

There’s stuff like diagrams.net, but that’s not compatible.

Yup that’s why I suggested it. The vsdx schema is notably complex and I don’t see a lot of code examples in the wild. I seriously doubt an llm would be able to output working code for it. Docx is a common use case and a quick google search yields multiple popular libraries that understand the format. Anyways, cool that an llm was able to output a functional docx editor, but that’s certainly not impressive or a groundbreaking feat by any means

Citation needed. I know folks using the free plan that have gotten ddos’d and cloudflare kept them online. Can you point me to an article where cloudflare disconnected someone for getting attacked

They definitely used to do this ca. 2011-2012, any bigger attack and they'd drop you right away if you were on a free plan (and slightly slower if you weren't). But well, that was almost 15 years ago.

I do something similar. I bootstrap all my new installs with brew cask https://github.com/fastily/autobots/tree/master/macOS/setup

I bootstrap it using Brewfile (plaintext file read by Homebrew), which supports Casks too.

Same here.

Probably easy enough to write a script that will iterate that list and run the proper xattr command to remove each from quarantine.

> They know that with enough reports in a short period of time they can get the content removed for a while

This can be accomplished with bogus dmca notices too. Since google gets such a high volume of notices the default action is just to shoot first and ask questions later. Alarmingly, there are 0 consequences (financial or legal) for sending bogus dmca notices

Action against DMCA abusers has happened in a few instances, but it's still largely an unsolved problem without sufficient deterrence from abuse.

https://techhq.com/news/dmca-takedown-notices-case-in-califo...

it is a weapon the music industry wanted, but now has this unintended consequence.

I think it's high time google stopped acting as judge jury and executioner in the court of copyright enforcement.

The law says they have to.

The law also says a counter claim can be immediately filed. Google don’t follow that part.

Google has nothing to do with filing a counter claim except accepting it if filed. The content owner is the only one who is allowed to file it.

Google do not immediately reinstate on counter claims.

They shouldn’t, because the original claimant has 10-14 days (depending on exact timing) to sue. If they don’t, they reinstate. Which considering many other folks it can take 6 months…

[https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...]

Not saying Google is good or anything, but this is well trod ground at this point.

There’s also hummingbird: https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird

Sadly this project is getting steadily slower. Adopting async made it slower than Django. But this is due to Swift limitations. Hopefully Swift replaces Codable and improves async performance.

Personally I gave up a long time ago and just installed Debian Linux. But it’s wild to me that the average non-technical/casual windows user has to put up with so much bs… it’s an atrocious ux

I’m using steam on Ubuntu 24.04 with 9y old hardware (which was mid-tier when new), playing mostly 2d platformer games and older resident evil titles. Never had any issues, this setup runs like a champ

There’s already a free self-hosted version of this that’s significantly more capable: https://github.com/C4illin/ConvertX. Not sure what your path to profitability is here but you may want to rethink your approach

Not everything is about profit :)

you're still avoiding the question. Why does Microsoft decide RTO "layoffs" are the right tool for 2025, but not 2022-2024? Many companies used both tools at the same time. Why did Microsoft wait until 2025?

Because it's politically expedient. They know the political climate is currently hostile to them requesting H1Bs while doing layoffs. RTO lets them get another round of layoffs without calling them layoffs and avoid the bad PR.

Microsoft compensates less than other top tech companies and remote work aligns with their lifestyle-first approach to compensation. Being on the early end of RTO would have worked against the perception that Microsoft is "the tech company with good work life balance," but now that most other companies have done it first they can get away with it as just them following the industry trend.