Can he please be the first passenger?

I'm gonna lose a lot of karma for this comment, but it just has to be said.

Your poor choices of technology is on you. You bought into these things with ideals that they would all play nice together and not use enshittification to "enrich" your experience. You can't blame an entire (sub)industry for your poor choices.

I've invested in many, many devices in the HomeKit ecosystem and can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that they work well, provide value, and have experienced none of the enshittification. Many of you will say that it's less capable, and that's fine by me. The devices do what I need, when I need them, and I don't have to worry about the company spying on me or taking features away. In the many years I've had these products I've experienced precisely none of what this author describes.

I'll also say that it strikes me that this hellscape is what the EU envisions as a consumer benefit. No thanks.

We've been there for some time. Actually, I don't think we ever broke free from those days. Different browsers support different features and standards and market share dictates what the web developer decides to support. Unfortunately, that has resulted in Chrome becoming even more arrogant and forcing enshittification on the world through ads. I'm having to switch between browsers daily because of website support or brokenness in one site or another. It's very, very frustrating.

I don't see Firefox doing much to improve this situation... but I don't see many other browsers doing it either. We *almost* got there with the Blink engine being integrated to all these different browsers, but that's Google's version of the web and not necessarily based on standards. Now we have Google muscling their vision of an ad-based economy on us and 2024 stands to be a real battle.

The only reason Google may be seeing this and warning about it is the cyberattacks are causing them to lose ad revenue in Taiwan.

Sadly, Jeanine Banks sounds like every other IT manager I've ever worked for.

It took Apple about 10 years to pull together the Vision Pro solution. Google and Samsung think they can pull it off in less than 1 year? Ok.

While you're at it, please redesign SMTP.

What happens in my house: my son gets a Lego set. He excitedly spends hours building them (or one hour, if it's a small one). then he plays with it a little. A few days later I find it in pieces and deconstructed all over the playroom. A few days later, something else comes out as he institutes his own creations and modifications.

It's not a matter of lacking the manual, as we have kept every manual for every set he ever received. He knows where those manuals are, too.

To me, it seems like Lego has stuck a good balance.

I can hardly believe this article was posted without researching the EULA. I would imagine it addresses this new feature. If it does, that's not news (other than the usual EULA hilarity). If it does not, that's news.

In general, I like this approach. However, my faith in Microsoft's ability to produce a sane design for CLI management is not high. They have been moving toward this for about 5-6 years now, so it shouldn't surprise anyone. However, working with Powershell is no walk in the park. Sometimes I think they assign commandlet design to different members of the team. Those team members (thousands of them!) work on the commandlets from their own point of view with little oversight into the syntax or object model.

For instance, the object types that you would expect out of one Powershell commandlet (after you figure out the syntax, that is) is not what the next command expects as input. This has been the most frustrating part of Powershell and I keep hoping that eventually they will attack this with a more holistic approach to produce something with a little more clarity and sanity.

Yes.

For me, the enjoyment of Angry Birds has nothing to do with parabolic instinct. It has everything to do with causing destruction with different methods and giggling over the silly graphics and sounds. The game is entertaining. This feels like an attempt at a scientific explanation for popularity. Why can't a game just be fun?