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dietspriteon Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions

Yeah, how they don't just build a native app and hire any UX agency of any repute given their immense resources and investment is beyond me.

dietspriteon Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions

If Amazon wants to continue to recoup this investment from Alexa sales, Amazon needs totally different leadership on the Alexa team. Alexa's app and user experience are terrible. Adding a skill is a highly convoluted process.

Most notably and most recently, the decision to drop access from 3rd party apps to its lists is an incredibly short-sighted idea. No one wants to use Amazon's software. Make Alexa effortless to use with 3rd party software. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/31/24168681/amazon-alexa-thi...

dietspriteon Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech

This reply is either a troll post or you're severely disconnected from reality.

dietspriteon Tiptap Stable Release, Tiptap Collab and Hocuspocus 2.0.0 Are Out

Awesome work, guys! Created an insanely good product.

Looking forward to Notion-like block note support ;)

dietspriteon Salesforce, but for Dating

In before the cease and desist from Salesforce

dietspriteon I decided to stop working on Mighty

Couldn’t of happened to a nicer guy

dietspriteon Show HN: Bike – macOS Native Outliner

Great - thank you

dietspriteon Show HN: Bike – macOS Native Outliner

Great job with this. Going to try it out now. Slightly off-topic: What is the name of the song in the video? I want to play it on loop as I work

dietspriteon Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B

Feel like left or right, most elected US officials are corporatists and not willing to bite (or even upset) the hand that feeds them. That said, the right is decidedly not in favor of stronger enforcement/regulation.

White-collar enforcement is at an all time low: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/trump-ove...

dietspriteon Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B

They've already laid off 26,000 people in recent months - after spending almost all of its available cash on stock buybacks over the prior decade.

Src: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/28/investing/boeing-job-cuts...

dietspriteon Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B

Boeing:

- Responsible for 2 plane crashes that killed 346 people

- Engaged in a government cover-up and was charged with criminal fraud conspiracy

- Fired CEO left with $81 million exit package

- No one went to jail

*Fined $2.5 billion - 2% of annual revenue

dietspriteon Poll: Switching from WhatsApp

From a security perspective, Signal seems like the winner. I just wish they'd invest in better design/UX across the board especially their desktop app. Their app looks and feels like a boilerplate Electron app.

dietspriteon Show HN: Automatic VPN Generator – Protect Yourself at Sochi and Starbucks

Can you use these services' VPN (Rackspace et al) for using BitTorrent?