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"Hey, what's a good name for our company that makes switches?"
"ANU?"
"Yeah, sounds good! Let's buy the domain for our website!"
@siracusa I heard your concerns that lawsuits weren’t a great way to regulate company behaviour on @atpfm and I wondered if you had seen this article: https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/03/22/a-few-thoughts-on-the-apple-doj-antitrust-case-from-someone-who-isnt-riding-his-first-rodeo/
It suggests that a conviction and the threat of a bigger future sanction like break-up makes companies self-regulate.
So perhaps Apple will go further for the US because of a vague fear, than they will for the EU where they maliciously comply with the letter of an explicit regulation.
From 1995 through to about 2008, I made my living from technology journalism (we called it “computer journalism” then, because technology really was computer). That means my career almost exactly s…
RSS is apparently 25 years old today. I am a comparative newcomer to it having written my first RSS reader 20 years ago.
As of last week, my Domino has been with me for five years, and I still treasure her.
(Unfortunately, her manipulation of probability is impervious to dust.)
So I have my own hosted RSS reader and also run a hosted Podcast reading service.
For 10+ years I have been fighting with feeds that are hosted behind Cloudflare that block access to server-side crawlers.
My current solution is starting to fail and I’m getting blocked more often again. Before I start trying to fix this myself, is there already an accepted solution? I know I’m not the only person who runs their own hosted RSS reader. What’s everyone else doing?
Moving from a job with a coding standard of “no early returns” to one with “return early, don’t use else” is a head-fuck.
@atpfm This seems like a good idea and relevant to your interests
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