It’s not clear to me what the changing colors of the words mean as I scroll around?

News consumption impacts political decision making, like who I want to support or oppose in local, state, and national elections.

That seems a pretty high impact decision we want all the members of our society to be making on a regular basis.

Staying informed of current events being a vanity activity is an idea very heavily pushed by people who are radically opposed to broad democracy in favor of some variety of elite rule, a distressingly common position in general, and particularly in tech spaces.

True, I don’t have the right to vote in the place where I live, so that definitely reduces my incentive to engage in news.

But out of friends who engage in news it’s disproportionately at the global and nation level, so I don’t think they are really optimizing for civil engagement.

Voting is just one way people engage in the political process.

I live in a country that tends to deport noncitizens who “engage in the political process”, unless it’s in support of the incumbent government.

I wish the same rule applied to their site design. It’s 90% ads on mobile, almost completely unreadable.

“There are only two hard things in computer science. Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.”

My favorite form is when someone shouts "concurrency" in the middle of the sentence.

> This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android)."

Seems like it’s even easier, just join the meeting via browser.

I’m not familiar with a way to enforce this type of restriction in the browser.

From the Article, if only to be pedantic enough that I agree with 'yes a browser might work'

> The company plans to start rolling out this new Teams feature to Android, desktop, iOS, and web users worldwide in July 2025.

OTOH we will see if there's any type of weasel-wording on whether browser is in fact non-supported (i.e. will go to audio-only mode.)

The other possibility, is that every 'supported' platform has some form of DRM that results in the functionality working even on browser (just thinking out loud about DRM functionality possibilities) means Windows/MacOS/Android/iOS all work but everyone else is out of luck.

Browser DRM like WideVine and PlayReady do the enforcing

I've disabled DRM on my Firefox browser.

Sheesh, we've come to a state where browsers can no longer be referred to as "user agents".

Really? I didn't know it was possible to use DRM like WideVine for peer-to-peer video.

Teams is going through a central server and bouncing it out to participants, right? Not p2p.

I thought Teams was a reskin of Skype so whatever they used to do…

Same way Netflix does I’m sure.

My immediate thought was college kids on campus.

It’s basically your apartment building example (esp. something like the STEM dorms)

When this stuff breaks in the hours leading up to a homework assignment being due, it’s going to discourage the next generation of engineers from using it.

There are bunch of tabletop wargames, but Warhammer has the network effect going for it.

If you want to go the local hobby store and play a game, most other people are playing Warhammer, that’s what you play too.

You might prefer Bolt Action, but if nobody else in town has a Bolt Action army, it’s an uphill climb.

I recently attended a big Wargaming convention. While all sorts of games were present and being played, 40K has orders of magnitude more people playing it.

How are the SIPC premiums being paid?

Let’s say I invest $250k with you. From my research it appears the SIPC premiums on that amount would be more than $12/year.

How does that work?

Also consider that a good judge is doing a useful service to society, but isnt necessarily in the business of maximizing other people’s happiness.

One major point I don’t see addressed, are endorsements public or private?

I could see major (but different) issues with both scenarios.