Such a poison pill could be considered a feature insofar as it discourages consolidation of companies.
There are very few, if any, projects big enough to be a consideration to NOT acquire an entire company.
Readit Newshacym commented on Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted) evanhahn.com/stopping-bad... · Posted by u/emschwartz
I don’t think this is the world we were envisioning, where leading companies are suggesting content, tracking our history, and feeding us more socially optimized streams just to keep us hooked and give us dopamine hits.
What I’d prefer is something like dailyflow (I saw it on HN yesterday): a local LLM that tracks my history and how I’m spending my time, then gives me hints when I’m off track — more aligned with what I actually want to see and where I want to go.
It’s not the world we were envisioning, but to the people getting rich off us, this is exactly what they wanted.
hacym commented on Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam romanzipp.com/blog/no-you... · Posted by u/romanzipp
Canon makes lots of software, so a little disingenuous to say that they are a hardware company that doesn’t get to charge for their software.
hacym commented on I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own bold-edit.com/wrote-my-ow... · Posted by u/redman25
Everybody who worked writing code in the 70s-90s is smirking at “wait over a second”.
Back in the day, I used to go get my coffee, shoot the shit in the break room for a few minute, and come back to find my debug runs just starting.
Amazing how technology has improved and matured in 50 years…
hacym commented on Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? ux.stackexchange.com/ques... · Posted by u/wscourge
Because Windows is made with poor attention to details and in a tasteless manner. For instance, when Windows XP came out, I remember clearly how some stock icons weren't properly aligned on the same baseline (it was corrected in some later SP).
Fascinating! Computers didn’t exist before Windows or Windows XP!
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hacym commented on Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work nypost.com/2023/08/05/zoo... · Posted by u/sh_tomer
>By... using Zoom to connect to those meetings?
It was a rhetorical question pointing out that zoom would still be used for meetings.
>What's the point of joining a Zoom call from an office when you could join it from home?
Because you are already in the office.
No, I was already at home. That’s where I live. You have it backwards. Going to the office is the inconvenience here.
You just don’t like how they work
Yes, you're right. I just don't like companies who practice blatant profiteering at user expense. But in your case, I'll make an exception. Get ready to grab your ankles, a new iPhone is coming soon.
Very strange way to look at a company. By definition they are trying to make a profit.
I use an iPhone. I like the experience. It’s not my entire personality. It doesn’t define me.
You seem to want to live in a world where people are defined by their technology purchases because you believe your choices are better and it gives you a weird sense of superiority. It doesn’t, and you should really consider being less angry about it.
Excited to see what they release in the new iPhone, though. I’m sure it’ll be very usable, fleshed out features that I don’t have to deal with constantly to make work. After all, my time is my most valuable asset and it’s well worth the extra $5 or whatever a month for everything to work.
It's what I do. I fix stuff --- and I know things.
lol You seem like the last person I’d ask for help. You would lecture the person needing help the entire time.
Apple doesn’t sell phones that “need” to be fixed. You just don’t like how they work, and that’s fine. Doesn’t mean you have to show your ass any time anyone says the word “Apple”.
Headphone jacks are no longer common on Android phones either so this is a very strange dig at Apple. Samsung, Google, and most other mainstream companies haven’t included them in years.
The official adapter from Apple costs $9 and works flawlessly.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35...
They also removed it after ridiculing Apple for the move.