Mozilla is dead to me after the TOS change. As a long time Firefox user, I am hoping they go out of business.

And most importantly, make your life hell so you quit instead of filing for unemployment. (Fuck Microsoft and every other company that pulls this)

This sort of impact measurement is all too common in tech. It leads to people randomly changing perfectly fine products and making them worse for no reason. They have to make a measurable impact to meet their performance review, so Google ends up with seven different chat apps instead of just maintaining one, etc.

Provider has to actually manage their network instead of getting away with hosting piracy, spam, phishing, etc. All these providers love to get paid by bad actors but hate any modicum of responsibility.

Exactly. Microsoft is a notoriously bad place to work ever since GE stack ranking. They don't care though since if US people don't want to work for them, they save money by hiring H1B1s.

We will definitely see some legacy sites just move to 1000 year self signed certs

I've tried advertising on Google a few times over the years -- the CPC is ridiculously expensive, implausible for most regular businesses to sustain unless your margins are vast. You're missing nothing. I let them close it when they wanted to do KYC.

Zelle, check, cash or crypto. Anything else is worthless -- especially those awful gift cards that are impossible to redeem and have built in expiry.

That's funny, but it does make me wonder if one day we might see a merger of the big hyperscalers. Competition is expensive, and no one at the government is regulating monopolies anymore. Would a combined AzureAWSoracle be able to jack up the prices, or would everyone just repatriate their workloads?

No, the REAL profit is in the inordinate 30% app store fee for releasing an Xbox game... on every digital game! (Boxed works differently, but they get a kick back there, too). Just like any app store, the devs take the full financial risk and MSFT gets risk-free revenue. Now, the problem is they're a third place console. Nintendo and Sony are kicking their butt (and Steam on PC). A lot of devs aren't bothering with Microsoft releases anymore since not enough potential users. So they had to buy the game studios so they'd have content for their stores, then the customers will come, then the developers, then those sweet exorbitant 30% fees!

Dunno about on the desktop side, but on the server side it seems quite easy to find dell parts on eBay, used/refurb sites, and via MSPs.

Used to actually have fairly good deals on dedicated servers. Then IBM bought them and jacked up the pricing. Not really surprising they're closing given they lost price competitiveness.

This is why the swipe fee should be 1:1 passed on to the buyer (not averaged across all customers and hidden). Make it clearly shown on the card's marketing and receipts. Let people shop around for the best deal and then $0.10 debit people don't have to pay for someone else's 4% amex swipe.

100% true. All of business basically just comes down to if your cost of user acquisition is less than the revenue per user. Every product I worked on that flopped didn't die because of technical reasons, but marketing ones. Not every product can be advertised cheaply enough to make the business model work.

Google demands you upload your driver's license to them, then they publish your home address on the app page for all to see. It's actually pretty bad safety issue for smaller creators.