Not uncommon - kuro5hin.org also killed by its own community just because they could.

edit - fixed .com to .org

tl/dr - Get an Apple TV and disconnect from the internet.

Why Apple specifically? You can disconnect any TV from the Internet, or never connnect them in the first place.

Why Apple? I have nore Apple stuff than I like but I'm not really an Apple fanboy for reasons. But, compared to the handful of streaming devices I've tried, there is just no comparison. The others were all total faeces.

Just delete the cookies after if you absolutely must go to the site.

Does this ban eventually extend to the support chat systems that we see everywhere now? And does that mean that soon we will not be able to insult companies for fear of hurting their feelings?

it may be do-able, to include this in a ToS clause as an encumberance on internal or external statements of disparagement, no disagreement or head to head exchanges publicly,or in chamber, at table, etc.

If roles are reversed, and those being watched were responsible for safety and security, little would change. The human race being what it is, the same tools would still be in place and in use in much the same way.

The protest is more about who watches the watchers. And neither will trust the other.

When it works it's amazing. Files are saved as is with date time stamp appended, so all do is to undo that. Great if you trashed something a while back and always quicker than getting it back via github. Haven't found anything using a similar approach - just copy the change to the mirror. if the file is moved, just make a copy of the changed file, if it is deleted, who cares, just ignore from then on. simple. Everyone else is being way too clever, compression and exact deltas history, etc

One recent issue required cloning the user account to get file history working. Just would not work with that account while any new account worked fine.

Current status is broken - the last two security updates report file history as broken. Git hub handles code ok, but for all the other stuff on windows file history was the way to go. Now cumbersome incremental backups.

I can't help wondering if the major labs think that tackling the alignment problem and implementing the 'kill switch' that is currently being proposed is going to be their moat.

Funny. I had a similar thought but instead of bad code, I was thinking of AI slop content.

That ship has sailed. A far as most are concerned gmail is email. So that is now the reality. Google has successfully, without any resistance, assimilated email and the web.

I run my own mail and I faithfully avoid chrome as much as I can but the ship is long gone over the horizon.

Sad. But so it goes.

Not true for me. All businesses of any size, and even most small businesses, that email me have their own domain. Individuals use a variety of services, and even one or two non-geeks use their own domains.

Surprise surprise : lots of companies really use gmail with a custom domain. No way to escape.

Lots do, and lots do not.

When i worked in small ISP, i did some stats on customer accounts (about 2k customers) and only about 10% was @gmail.com. But it was 5 years ago and in EU.

I have emails from gmail, hotmail, yahoo and my own domain. Also many browsers. I use Google stuff mostly because it works best. It's sort of how the free market is supposed to work?

Yes, largely, as long as we have all those choices, including using smaller providers and self-hosting email.

The danger is that a small number of businesses will lock others out.

With that attitude, certainly.

The README mentions that C# was used initially so I'd be surprised if that support is not still in there.