> It's really interesting how some people seem to take skepticism, disinterest, disappointment, apathy about AI almost personally.

It's a bit like NTFs a few years ago. It's a cult, and they're all in.

Would you rather have no choice?

I get the sentiment, but it's nice to finally have lawmakers and regulators standing for what's right - for once.

No Apple nor Google doesn't mean no other. Someone/something will step in.

I would rather that developers do not have the choice to choose an app store where anything goes.

It’s funny how when Apple threatens a European company the EC can act within days, but when a German company is violating the GDPR, it takes 4 years for them to act. What a strange coincidence.

> I would rather that developers do not have the choice to choose an app store where anything goes.

That's not up to you. What you get to decide is which stores you're willing to install apps from. If lots of people refuse to install apps from unrestrictive stores then developers who want to reach those users will have to meet the requirements of more restrictive stores.

You would only not have this choice if the app has a dominant market position, and then can force you to get it from a store you don't want to use. But then your problem isn't an overabundance of trust busting, it's an insufficiency of it.

More similar in that they force them to obey the regulations, yes. But regulations cover things like interoperability & anti-competitive behaviour, and here retaliatory actions. I'd very much like _all_ choices to be forced to behave the same w.r.t. not being able to retaliate against protected action, or all be forced to follow the same laws.

There are plenty of ways to differentiate in a competitive market. Good regulations set baselines for fair play, both toward customers and competitors. Whether or not that makes some aspects of those choices more similar isn't really relevant. Or if it is, it's because it makes them similar in good ways. Ways that are pro-customer and pro-competition, but they won't do unless legally required.

I agree that there are plenty of ways competitors could differentiate themselves. But in the current market, I think there are very few competitors, and even fewer ways they currently differentiate themselves. And the most notable recent regulations would eliminate one of the more meaningful differentiations.

Differentiating on percent of app / subscription price taken by app store?

That’s not what I had in mind.

Sure. In the same way that all sports are similar in that most have regulations against fighting.

But we’re not in a situation where there are very few sports, where many people complain about the lack of choice in sports, and where regulators are attempting to eliminate one of the very few meaningful differences between the existing choices.

Bring me back to outlook desktop 2016 please

> Toss the results in a report the contributors can access with links to supporting dashboards, then watch your data platform costs drop, contributor productivity increase, and customer retention get longer.

So the answer is to use a dashboard.

In the same vein, the term "single pain of glass" has always rubbed me the wrong way.

It's just a fancy way to say, don't use other dashboards, use ours.

Doesn't mean anything, honestly. Strava is also donation based if you think hard enough.

I should have clarified... I wrote my comment too quickly. The code isn't open source afaik, however the service is completely free and donation based.

According to the analysis of Reuters, it's worth around 8 billion.

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/elon-musks-x-is-black-...

Piracy is looking more and more tempting.

I absolutely loved this article. We could all learn from being more empathetic towards each other. I'm going to use the tools mentioned in the article to improve my relationships with my colleagues.

Is this why the WindowsApp/Ubuntu folder was hitting upwards 70Gbs recently?

I never really paid attention to the size of the VHD, and assumed that I had somehow generated gigabytes of dist and node_modules.

I hate that you're right. It doesn't apply exclusively to the UK