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I'd have expected some gesturing to the AirPods or to a phone, and not assuming that the flyer person would know that those magical earbuds would translate everything he said.

> Disturbing if true, as it suggests my "everything" backups aren't really full backups at all.

Randomly, Chromium-based browser profiles can't perfectly copy across macOS machines either, because of some HMAC hashing that happens to extensions.

Day One was acquired by Automattic in 2021 [1]. The move to a subscription model happened in 2017 [2].

[1]https://dayoneapp.com/blog/the-next-chapter-of-day-one-at-au...

[2] https://medium.com/day-one/day-one-goes-premium-424492fd0a5b

> Look at what happened to Automattic’s legal counsel, one HN comment that didn’t align with Matt’s world view and he was canned post haste.

I remember this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789765

According to the legal counsel's LinkedIn, he left two months after.

I remember seeing that on his avatar since the early days of the WP Engine drama.

I've never seen this, but that comment at the end is priceless.

> Like him or hate him, he grew WordPress to be one of the most popular open source projects of all time. It seems fair to call him a key advocate.

As someone who has contributed to WordPress: WordPress grew on the back of volunteers.

It would be unfair to most non-Automattic "volunteers" if he was attributed all/most credit for what it had become, especially pre-Gutenberg.

I wish AI companies wouldn't post their primary announcements on fElon-enshittified Twitter.

Use Bluesky or, I don't know, have a news site. They could vibecode one in minutes.

Thanks for this.

I try not to waste my time on WordPress drama anymore, but it's sad reading his tweets from today and thinking how someone I used to respect for supposedly being kind and generous (or just good at writing well to get what he wants) has fallen so far.

They'll continue to have plenty of existing passive revenue as long as WooCommerce users continue to use Stripe, and large enterprises continue to buy in to WP.com VIP.

Not the parent, but Google Photos has been decent as a secondary backup. They even backup Live Photos now.

The two formats I've found that they don't back up accurately are rotated photos (if one's a stickler for "originals") and cropped screenshots (JPEG instead of PNG). Possibly the sidecar files for edits too.

Which country are you in?

> My wife just preordered an 18 pro.

I guess this is from a reseller, and not from Apple.

Musk also stole @valentine from me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856983

I'm shocked. I always thought that Matt held the majority of the voting shares, and that the board of directors was mostly there as a rubber stamp.

My iPhone 14 Pro is almost 4 years old and at 65% capacity. I don't know how everyone else is (not) using their phones.

As a forum administration enthusiast, I still remember the fiasco when Invision rugpulled "lifetime" and "perpetual" licence holders by saying that it was only for those major versions.

I was so glad when XenForo came about and gave those sleazebags some competition.

Looks like this was covered by Eclectic Light:

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/02/28/friday-magic-how-to-make...

Yeah, I wonder what's going on within the macOS division, but then again Liquid glAss is a thing.

> Hotmail was an unusable product, it was so painful to use it and Gmail took over the entire market in a year. Nobody ever said: "oh, I miss X about Hotmail"

Hotmail was a 1997 acquisition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook.com#Launch_of_Hotmail

I thought Windows 7 was a sweet spot. Windows 10 was acceptable too.

I abandoned Windows almost entirely for macOS and server Linux before 11 was forced onto everyone.

As another thread has made it clear, Bill was no longer CEO at this point.

His role was pretty much the biggest shareholder having direct access to some of the company's top executives.

I read this somewhere else in HN (possibly in one of the Azure threads):

Microsoft's moat continues to be in the number of enterprise contracts that have already been signed.

It's easy for someone to get access to Copilot Copilot because their large company already has an Azure billing agreement set up somewhere.

> When I look at the blatant bugs MacOS and iOS had in the last years, I also think that the current Apple big shots never use their stuff or they would have noticed.

The crazy thing is that it's more likely that most people in Apple are using their own products, versus any of the Android phone manufacturers or within Google, where it's likely a few of them would be using the Apple ecosystem instead.

Many of them are definitely dogfooding it, but it's possible that there are communication or empowerment issues.

> This is how learned helplessness looks like when you’re a high level executive.

Must be nice being so useless, yet getting paid so much.

Though I guess these people must have been good at politicking to rise so high.

> The agents could presumably even file the necessary paperwork on your behalf.

Someone's name needs to be at the bottom of the paperwork, and those court filing costs would also add up.

A problem right now is that GPT-6 is just a chatbot, and wouldn't be able to file any counterclaims (which involve human lawyers and billable hours) when fElon decides to wage a battle of attrition in the courtrooms.

They're meant to be seen from across the station.

(They could have put multiple displays, but noooooo.)

> their decision to use 'anticlockwise' and 'clockwise' for the full Circle Line

I saw this on a banner a few days ago:

https://imgur.com/a/gMZXYRs

I don't know what kind of groupthink is festering within LTA, but I'm guessing someone who shouted the loudest got the rename through, and the no-blame, face-saving culture meant that they have their hands tied for a while.

Randomly, I just wanted to point out the irony that Grok's public shares are fronted by a Cloudflare captcha.

fElon is already stealing from everywhere else.

Claude can be told to run OpenCode or other harnesses via CLI.

I've been doing this myself, all the time. (The ability to get second opinions and code reviews from Sol and other models is priceless.)

There's nothing restricting it to only controlling subagents that are other Claude models like Opus and Sonnet.

Also, I'm not sure that there's a one-level downgrade. Subagents can be pinned to any model:

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents