Firing 10% of their workforce on the one hand.
Tracking employee PC screens to supposedly train AI on the other.
Get fired or get tracked.
Well, isn't that convenient...
For RSS/Atom feeds presented as links in a site (for convenience to users), developers can always offer a simple preview for the feed output using: https://feedreader.xyz/
Good luck downloading a firmware upgrade for these. Oracle requires a subscription nowadays, even if there are security related issues that the firmware resolves. And mind you, it's not a $29 subscription.
Once ad agencies/networks take note of this feature, they will 100% start using it and abusing it.
We're already seeing some ad networks using initialization scripts to bootstrap their ad setup, with dynamically constructed secondary scripts that have a high fetchpriority (so they supposedly load faster than others).
For reference, modern news/media sites may load multiple ad networks (3-4 on average perhaps) in order to optimize ad performance (revenue) or inject different kinds of ads or sponsored content. If we take Google's Ad Manager (or similar) as the base network to serve ads (own or third-party), many times we see additional networks like AdSense, Taboola, Outbrain, Vidverto (to name a few) or other local ad networks that do some sort of header bidding, ad injection, sponsored content display, in-read ads/videos and so on.
I don't see why some won't abuse this spec to force-inject their stuff earlier than other ad networks and of course at the expense of a site's performance...
I hope you don't live in the US buddy... If you don't, you're probably fine. If you do and Netlify decides to go after you, it's probably gonna be tough and costly.
Which is crucial Netlify is called out for this. Hiding behind the "fine print" is pathetic, not a way to do business.
As someone who's worked primarily on news/media sites for the last 15 years, I can totally relate and agree on all your points.
I would also argue that there are non-code issues that could easily be resolved. Bundling fonts for example. Decide on the top 100 with support for all or almost all characters, based on usage etc., and bundle them in the browser. That would shave possibly hundreds of KBs of each page's size.
On the flip side, stuff like lazy loading could become standard and use the attribute only to force-load content. Or stuff that is used on every freaking site (eg togglers as native html tags).
Seriously, if any VC is reading this, get this man some funding to make it a real project. Even at double or triple what it costs, it's still cheaper than any other commercial competitor.
I'd say Mail-in-a-Box, along with Modoboa and iRedMail, are perhaps the only serious open source email server setups right now, that are not based on Docker. Commercial ones do exist in the form of cPanel and Plesk (if you need some sort of support), although the underlying software is pretty much the same.
The only downside with MiaB is it is unnecessary complicated to update (both the software AND the server OS). This shouldn't be too hard to address in the future...
From my understanding (not part of the SF tech bubble), S.A. had his shot as the CEO of a company that came to prominence because of a GREAT product (and surely not design, manufacturing or marketing). Just consider WHEN MS invested in OpenAI. He probably went too far for reasons only a few know, but still valid ones to fire him...
His previous endeavor was YC partner, right? So a rich VC turning to a CEO. To make even more money. How original. If any prominent figure was to be credited here beyond Ilya S., well that would probably be Musk. Not S.A. who as a YC partner/whatever played Russian roulette with other rich folks' money all these years... As for MS hiring S.A., they are just doing the smart thing: if S.A. is indeed that awesome and everyone misses the "charisma", he'll pioneer AI and even become the next MS CEO... Or Satya Nadela will have his own "Windows Phone" moment with SamAI ;)