Oh cool, I did not know about this

You are so right.

This is a big help! Thanks!

I agree with the OP on this. Tie them up defending against an attack that will never happen. NATO is a defensive alliance.

I generally hate them in consumer-targeted apps. Theoretically, there’s nothing wrong with the model. Devs have to keep the lights on, especially if there is a cloud service behind the app. It’s all about what pricing model they set. However, pricing is hard. A lot of companies really screw this up right at the start. I also think a lot of businesses cannot resist the temptation to boil the frog and ask for more and more over time, until their pricing is way out of alignment with value delivery.

This one really surprised me.

example: https://www.adblockpodcast.com/

I think it’s because privacy is less an issue with podcasts (ads don’t have as many options to track) and enshitification of the experience has been on a slower roll than, say, youtube. Lately some solutions are out there in the form of commercial apps but they are limited and who knows if their biz model will survive. I’d like to see an open source solution but I haven’t found one.

NPR New Music Friday is helpful a lot of the time

Cost of doing business. This is a rounding error somewhere.

I don’t attribute it to an organized plan but they are stumbling and shuffling their way towards a dark future, one step at a time.

They are laying the groundwork for an autocratic government. With the right measures in place, it could happen fast.

Thats’s gonna leave a mark.

This is not good. Thanks for highlighting this. I flagged this for my company’s enterprise risk management committee to consider and act upon.

A lot of so-called low code can be a trap. I’m less afraid of SaaS so long as there exists an equivalent on-prem option. SaaS has a place for sure. SaaS-only is a concern, I agree. I agree with a lot of the assertions of this article, except I would probably first recommend Camunda 7 or 8 over SWF. Camunda is developer friendly, open source and has more mature offerings. A large part of the value of adopting process orchestration tools is the ability to support a model -> run -> monitor & optimize type of closed loop cycle. Camunda does this very well.

I’m done with corporate platforms

I installed it and took a quick look. It reminds me of Obsidian’s approach. I got excited about that, too, but I found it very burdensome to use in practice. What I need is a sort of life log that grabs a lot of stuff quietly from integrations and that I can then further augment (for things like meeting notes). The problem with all of these graph approaches (for me) is that they become burdensome to manage.

LogSeq

I never heard of it until now. I’m a veteran of trying out and dumping so many note taking solutions. I’m certain to try this one, too! Maybe I’ll finally find The One.

I recommend a reverse osmosis filter for anyone concerned. They strip everything from the water and require very little maintenance (annual pre and post filters, the membranes themselves last a long time). I have a small tap for it in the kitchen and it also feeds my ice maker. No hauling water, no pouring water into filter systems.

• Plex for streaming Movies / TV / Music
• Radarr / Sonarr / Lidarr + Prowlarr
• Calibre to manage my ebook library and calibre-web to serve it
• haugene/transmission-openvpn + a VPN