Onno (VK6FLAB)

Nice idea, but the monopoly laws already tried to address this phenomenon and companies just restructured to avoid them.

In your scenario, a company just has to split their market in half, rename the product for half their customers, and they’re no longer holding 50% of the market.

Not to my recollection. I mainly hung out on the comp.* and alt.best.of.internet groups. Together with another member we wrote the original aboi FAQ.

Edit:

Here’s something I wrote about it on another platform:

• https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/dx43ew/altbestofinternet_faq_email_on_steroids/

I’ve been looking for my first Usenet post in 1990, found a few close to the first, but not (yet) the first.

I would not be surprised if there are older posts predating the internet, stored on the Hobby Computer Club FIDO mirrors … assuming that they are still in existence.

And how will Instagram know who my parents are?

You mean like this:

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/anthropic-says-chinese-ai-firms-used-16.html

They are … but their billionaire owners are censoring them.

FBreader on Android phone and Calibre on Linux to manage my library.

You need to talk to your optometrist.

If they don’t give you answers then find another optometrist.

Source: I have weird eyes and my first several optometrists were not particularly informative.

Apparently it’s by subscription only…

I’m pretty sure that there’s a Chinese proverb that covers this…

I think that the context here is important, a formal setting of a lecture, not the cafeteria or someone’s dorm room.

Not for nothing, I suspect that if that’s the group dynamics in groups you participate in, you need to work on finding better groups.

History repeats…

Start your own “musings” community and have as much fun as you like.

Meow

Yeah, I belatedly realised that.

Apparently Debian ranks lower than the distros that are based on it.

What ranking are you using to arrive at this conclusion?

Pretty sure that you can use it with a CloudFlare custom error page.

So … a company that despite decades of effort, can’t make a competitive web browser with all the help in the world, is now going to distract itself with even more non-essential rubbish with absolutely zero chance of success … can’t wait to hear what the excuse is going to be when this CEO leaves to pursue other opportunities.

Meanwhile the Assumed Intelligence Ponzi scheme will have collapsed, taking with it a significant portion of the economy, let alone the ICT industry.

This timeline needs some tweaking…

Build a website on your preferred platform, you’re already using WP.

Create a static version of it. There’s plugins for exactly that purpose.

Put the static files on a web host, I use s3, but you can use whichever you prefer.

When you update the site on WP, run the static extraction again and update your actual site.