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Hi! You can now follow Techmeme here: @Techmeme
Also, why is this place so popular now? Did something happen?!
If you use @fastmail and want a Calendly-like meeting scheduler, https://simplymeet.me/ seems good and is free for personal use.
Calendly not supporting CalDAV is quite a limitation.
@jameswakibia @donmelton The problem, however, is that DRS for plastic is not working in the West. Plastic recycling is a lie (Google it).
The better solutions are to mandate glass or aluminum, use plant-based plastic when necessary, and burn plastic to make electricity.
Twitter announced it is shutting down Revue, the email newsletter service I use, on 2023-01-18.
I need to find a new inexpensive way of sending mass email.
http://help.getrevue.co/en/articles/6819675-we-ve-made-the-difficult-decision-to-shut-down-revue
Theoretically, there's a way to avoid the app store chokepoint: web apps.
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A company that wants to sell stuff without paying the app tax could hypothetically deliver a web app that the user could download and install via their browser.
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But you can't have a web app without a web-app-compatible browser, and you can't get a web-app-compatible browser in Apple's App Store.
Read the whole thing from @doctorow
Apple reportedly is preparing to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone—but only in the EU.
Government regulation works.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/13/23507766/apple-app-store-eu-dma-third-party-sideloading
My SAS flight is winter weather delayed and I will miss this afternoon’s sessions, but I am en route to #APIDaysParis!
Today’s random “I wish this existed in Sverige” item: frozen vegan corndogs
Major telecom companies are demanding that online content providers pay for their services to be accessed on the network of providers.
💸It'd be paying twice for the same data.
Read @epicenter_works & @edri 's paper summarising the myths of the industry: https://edri.org/our-work/network-fee-new-attack-on-open-internet/
@jerry kubernetes is what happens when you take about 5-10 years of institutionalized tech debt, reinvent it, and create an entirely new parallel universe of tech debt as a consequence
Which is to say that it's highly effective and yet much of it is, to some degree or another, simultaneously needed yet unnecessary
A must read by Geoff Nesnow.
"Covid-19 is not just like a cold. Letting it rip unimpeded is adding an enormous, unsustainable health debt to ourselves, our families, our businesses and our society. Herd Immunity was never possible and certainly isn’t now. Long Covid isn’t just real, it’s devastating and surprisingly common."
@nikovirtala This would be sensible copyright policy: once no longer commercially viable (evidenced by active commercial licensing) it becomes public domain.
@jeremiahlee handshake agreement, although I think the more appropriate and radical solution is that anyone can be a gentleman
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