From the headline I assumed it was some weird bug, instead it’s enshittification of an open source project. Suddenly they chose to hold ransom of the free users data, so they have to contact sales to know how many thousands of dollars you need to pay every year to access those old messages. It’s self hosted, this limitation doesn’t make sense, it’s pure extortion

“I really deserve a peace prize” > bombs people for Christmas

Unironically: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1997279325876367719 (the biggest asshole in the world says that it’s in Europe best interest to disband and become many small states with no international influence, and Medvedev approves the message

Look at this video from 4 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGHokrbjlz8

I updated even on the beta version and at the beginning I was like “well it’s a beta, surely they will fix it”… Then it launched with the broken taskbar and I thought “surely this will be patched in a week” - it took TWO YEARS

The taskbar on windows 11 for the first two years didn’t support dragging and dropping on icons or opened applications. It was completely unusable

On one side I feel like “cool, they managed to find a spy on this sophisticated way”

On the other side I’m thinking what kind of intrusive keylogging malware did they install on all their employees laptops…

When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to have a wonderful experience in those environments is just huge

It was working fine in windows 95. Suddenly all programmers became incompetent and can’t handle something like that?

In the launch version of windows 11 and for over TWO YEARS it didn’t even support drag&drop. It was working fine even on windows me

Because Elmo is famous for his donations and philanthropy…

No, don’t even buy LG.

I bought a dumb LG panel for my bedroom and I had to buy black enamel paint to go over the status LED. When the panel it’s off, the indicator LED it’s BRIGHT. BLUE. BLINKING. And it’s so powerful that I still see it because the light leaks from the small plastic vents. I also had to additionally insert a Shelly 1pm smart relay in the socket and program it with the logic “from 8pm to 8am if power usage is under 5 watts, cut the power; repeat the check every minute”

When the panel is on, instead, the status LED it’s off 🤷🏻‍♂️

I Remember a decade ago i read a post on blogpost on exactly this

I wasted thirty minutes to search but I didn’t find it, but it was something like Michael Jackson was shocked to learn during his First tour in mainland china that the locals gave him the Hanzi 迈克尔·杰克逊 where the last character means “inferior” or something like that, instead in Taiwan the locals chose 麦可·杰克森 which has a better meaning.

No, even closed their mastodon accounts

Nah, too complicated, and the pseudonymous traces are left forever in the Blockchain for public analysis.

The law allows unlimited donations to the presidential library, can directly send a bank transfer to that.

A corporation donating $200 mil to the presidential library (probably it can be even tax deducted) isn’t as shady buying the same amount of a meme coin

The Elon burn was epic

Yes but bribing trump is surprisingly cheap compared to the economic benefit that will get

Like the $1 mil dinner that would allowed Nvidia to make billions selling the GPUs to China (if China didn’t forbid anyone to buy those cards)

Or the tacky gold Rolex bribe that lowered tariffs to Swiss from 40 to 15%

Or that gold ingot from Tim Apple.

And so on

We scan your messages to protect you from scams 😉

And we track your GPS position to help you find your phone if it gets stolen 😉

From the description it seems to be literal malware

Well, we can try again next time. Let’s build another metropolis in the middle of a tropical forest and send thousands of people with airplanes.

Ps: if the new city in the middle of nowhere doesn’t have enough beds because they cutted trees too slowly, it’s ok to rent some cruise ships to host the people. The neat part is that they’re self sufficient, they burn oil to generate electricity

When I bought the faucet for my bathtub, the regular one was 35€ while the thermostatic one was 60€. I wonder why they still make the regular ones

Not in this case, this is the codec, but still, because it’s blocked in acpi, there’s no way to enable it again in Windows, even if you pay that dollar. Workaround: install Linux