mavrc

> Unions are forced participation.

They quite literally are not, at least not in the US; half the states have right-to-work laws that prohibit this explicitly, and there are likely some protections even in the states that don't have a blanket protection.

I was there too. People always say this, but just because a thing changed once does not mean it will happen again. In this case, the population scale alone has changed by over an order of magnitude.

Just doing some quick searching - the first numbers that come up when you search for "how many people used the internet in the year 2000" are on the order of 350 million or so. Comparatively, now, in 2023, Reddit alone has some 450 million users. It would seem right now that Tiktok has about three times the number of active users than there were total Internet users 23 years ago.

Additionally, there are literally hundreds of billions of dollars now resting on Chrome remaining the dominant browser.

Short of government intervention (or absolutely monumental fuckup on Google's part somehow), Chrome is here to stay.

> Or how JKR on Harry Potter went from being vilified by conservative voices to the modern "She who will not be named" of Lefty HBO.

well, that's for one very specific and notable reason alone, not because of some shifting moral landscape.

> Seems like a Microsoft issue to me.

except that any app could do this, and it just happens to be Teams that did.

i'd like to be able to store a phone on the shelf with a properly conditioned battery, to be able to disable the radios during flight, or frankly anywhere else I don't want to be located.

Interesting how different people have different desires.

> Why are people so down on DNS over HTTPS?

It added yet another thing I have to implement, test and maintain through whatever changes they decide to make.

Nothing like adding extra work for every enterprise IT team to make new friends.

There are also some massive security issues with making all https traffic blind that making only the data blind didn't create - like the ability to blackhole known unsafe domains as they appear.

> Greed and morality can't mix. I personally support morals.

Hold up, your position is that users that prefer something 'easy to use' as opposed to something 'powerful' are immoral? What am I missing here?

> Regardless of our views on encryption, we need to have a conversation about that shift.

Not trying to be snarky here: I don't understand what this conversation looks like. What does it look like? What purpose does it serve, what it's ultimate goal?

I'm also a huge FOSS nerd and it makes my personal AND professional life a lot easier, and I totally agree with you.

If the problem is that the ruthless winner-take-all nature of professional environments is destroying open source, then you need to fix both problems, not one of them. Trying to fix only one won't help.

Walled gardens and exclusives are mutually exclusive.

Perhaps you're thinking of CD Projekt Red, who have actually been fighting exclusives and walled gardens for quite some time.

> Anyone who can connect a device to their wireless network, run a program, and forward a port can get equivalent functionality

I am very capable of all of those things and I don't agree.

To install a camera on my porch somewhere, I'd need first to run power to it, which is a difficult proposition that would probably mean I need to hire an electrician to do it right, as I'm not confident at all in my ability to properly do electrical wiring in places where it needs to be properly weatherproofed. And adding electrical to a near-as-makes-no-difference 80 year old house would look pretty hideous. Then, need to set up a server with redundant spinny storage and offsite backup, which, while not being terribly expensive these days, isn't particularly cheap either. And I don't even know how to begin approaching the mobile app notification issue. Doable, I'm sure, but does Blue Iris have notifications and remote access for viewing built in?

Or, alternatively, I paid $160 for a Ring doorbell and installed it in place of my existing doorbell in an hour or so.

I wish I had more control over it, and I _really_ wish they had an open public API. But at the same time, from a time/money investment point of view, getting the Ring was an obvious move.

Having done this myself, in my case, a quick email to the Humble support team got the order cancelled and I was able to re-order at the correct price.

I agree that it would be nice if the price required active confirmation; it's too easy to choose the wrong thing.

I've had a few friends volunteer for this already; in my limited experience they are typically used only for a period of time (weeks not years) and are typically marketed as "use our tracking device and get a safety discount."

It strikes me as creepy, but I might think differently about them if I needed a discount.

While you're right in theory, in practice, the OP is right. Pai is chair because Trump was elected, the balance of the FCC board was skewed because of this as well, and so the only thing between us and a non-neutral internet is now gone.

In an ideal world, we would pass a law demanding ISPs provide neutral service. However, this is far from an ideal world, and that will never happen.

I am too.

In particular, the idea of AI-driven ads to improve targeting to near-as-makes-no-difference perfect levels is rather unnerving. We're at a moment when the influence of companies or governments in social media is still somewhat obvious/trackable, often because it's driven by actual people. Making it better and then making it automated would result in a system where it would be basically impossible to tell the difference between ads and actual people.