Don’t worry, Recall will record everything done on the Windows machine.

Strange, Big Tech has no inherit right to operate in foreign markets. If they want to be in those markets, they need to pay their fair share. I would be glad to see them pull out of those markets, but that won’t easily happen.

“While answering a question about whether any executives had been laid off or had their compensation lowered, he said that, since rolling layoffs began this year, a “higher proportion of directors and VPs have been impacted than levels one through seven.” He also suggested that having to make the cuts is punishment itself. “Part of leadership is also making the tough decisions that are needed.”

Lol, if only the people being fired had someone to fire, then they could punished instead of fired.

Funny how we are moving back to bicycles, as cars aren’t scalable solution.

The remedies are damaging when you build your business on mafia money from Google to enforce their search monopoly.

No mention of unaffordable rents massively increasing the cost of living.

They did out feature Chrome by keeping Manifest V2 support.

the ACI allows the bloc to select from a wide range of retaliatory measures, such as revoking the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, for example, software downloads and streaming services.

Holy hell that would be glorious to revoke protection of intellectual property of Big Tech.

Planned Obsolescence is a problem across all consumer electronics that depend on the software being updated. It’s not limited to Big Tech.

The only way I see to solve it is to force vendors to release hardware specs and unlock bootloaders so you can install your own software on it.

An even better solution would be to force vendors to release their software when the hardware is end of life via their planned obsolescence.

It’s great to see small advances in right to repair for hardware, such as replacing the battery or access to new parts, but those don’t help when you are stuck on an outdated OS version.

Remember when Tim Cook told someone’s mom to just by an iPhone in order to access iMessage. True colors coming out there, total douche bag.

Proton isn’t emulating Windows, it implements Windows APIs on Linux. The code still executes natively on the CPU.

It’s insane how wasteful modern software is. The infinite growth mindset causes companies to pack more useless features into software and load it up with spyware and adware.

Google and Facebook’s tracking and ad software are a big cause of computing waste in most websites and mobile apps.

The US government is one of the buyers

Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.

This is how you kill general purpose computing.

Using AI to produce software faster only helps capitalists companies extract more value out of their workers in a shorter time. This actually reduces worker worth, as their salary isn’t increased to match their increased output, the company takes more from them.

Outside of a work context there is zero incentive to use AI, as you can take all the time to learn and craft quality code.

Worker owned companies are the way forward.

One counter point is young people drive the technology trends. Look at how social media and the Internet in general took off in the early 2000-2010s, it was driven by younger generations using these technologies. Now everyone is on social media after the younger generations at the time pioneered it.

If younger generations do rejected apps, smart phones, and surveillance capitalism, maybe there could be change in the direction.

I wonder if they will implement the same malicious compliance as they did in the EU with the junk core technology fees and notarization requirements.

Another big problem not mentioned in the article is companies refusing to hire QA engineers to do actual testing before releasing.

The last two American companies I worked for had fired all the QA engineers or refused to hire any. Engineers were supposed to “own” their features and test them themselves before release. It’s obvious that this can’t provide the same level of testing and the software gets released full of bugs and only the happy path works.