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If you attempt to join a zoom call from anything but Chrome, you will get a prompt telling that "You need to be on Android 10 and Chrome 91 or higher".

Because it is good for a very narrow scope of things, once you go beyond that, it becomes a kludge to work with.

People hate on React but it is the product of 2 decades of various experiments. It is popular because it really works.

Remember when they created "COBOL" so that everyone could write programs? This is just round two.

If you think it is different, just think of how many people write books professionally, or even publish online.

Once the noise settles down a bit and boardroom shakes off their delusions as you can see in rehiring in Ford and Zuck who was very bull on AI remark about "not being it". It will be just the same, but different.

Ford: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o IBM: https://qz.com/companies-rehiring-workers-ai-layoffs-automat...

Is being pompous and on the nose part of being in mathematics?

"I was in Switzerland", "I was invited to a talk", "I started a machine learning company", look at me bro.

If you carefully read the article, it just explain how it is an economic decision, and one which sooner or later will be no longer the case once they can capitalise on with anything above free, which is the lowest of the lowest bars.

But even to entertain this is crazy, not because of decades of history of capitalist and market enterprise in general, but very specific cases of Technology Companies starting with these kind of feel good ideas and declaring "Don't be evil" or things like " access, safety, and shared prosperity" as their core ideals, turn into absolute panopticon and collaborate with unjust killing of women and children in less than a decade.

The market isn't for free.

IE6 stagnated because that was ideal for Microsoft who was mainly in the business of desktop; Chrome is now eroding user privacy and becoming a rubbish OS because that is ideal for a Google's Ad revenue and web based business. It is the same.

Chrome and friends (Edge, Opera) are basically the new IE6 and only people who are new or forgetful will disagree. I hate Mozilla for missing up so bad with their stewardship of Firefox time and again, but alas, it is the only reasonable option on the table.

And while I do hate Mozilla, Google is to be disliked even more.

It is because you think the contention is about being identifiable, while that is hardly the case.

Most people understand or at least accept that in order to facilitate payments and a company to follow various laws that are generally understood as "good for all" (like AML and tax avoidance), but require ID to access is not the same.

It is identical to accepting to paying for National Parks car pass or camp ground fees but protesting access fees. Not the same thing.

We’ve had export restrictions on different chips and even cryptography software in the past. It doesn’t last forever.

Yeah, in the long everything will happen, from 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 being the winning Powerball numbers to heat death of the universe, but as the colloquial goes "ain't nobody got time for that!"

Once an institution or person has proven that they will take adverse action against you, it is foolish to bank on them again.

The AirPods Effect 1 month ago

For a non-solitary species that requires almost 2 decades for self-sufficiency, isolation is not a question of personal opinion, it is fundamental.