If you are in the UK, I'd like to beg 5-10 minutes of your time to file comment with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the proposed (toothless) "Interoperability Commitments" from Apple and Google.

These are dramatically weaker guidelines than even the EU's DMA, and Apple (particularly) has been utterly contemptuous there, ducking compliance for more than a year. Why is the UK rewarding scofflaw behaviour over these predatory practices?

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/

/cc @pluralistic

An uncomfortable number of my software projects are driven by one very specific phenomenon: I try to help people work with some piece of FOSS software they keep having trouble with, and I increasingly realize that the maintainers have so little interest in improving the reliability of the software, even despite literally offering to do the work for them, that my time is better spent building a replacement for it that does work reliably than to keep throwing time and energy at the same reoccurring problems for a decade without ever having any hope of them getting fixed.

It has escalated to "making a Linux distro" by this point.

Throwback to my 2014 'centrifuge' that I built at @hswaw .

The brick is a critical part.