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  1. Comment on 'Arc' browser is now available to download without a waitlist (for macOS) in ~tech

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    cuz a browser is more than just the rendering engine, it's the features layered on top. Edge offers (imo) the best vertical tab UI and great tab grouping, and also pushes some Microsoft services...

    keep getting excited about new browsers that are actually just reskinned Chromium

    cuz a browser is more than just the rendering engine, it's the features layered on top.

    • Edge offers (imo) the best vertical tab UI and great tab grouping, and also pushes some Microsoft services which you can turn off (I do) but are there for some people (like shopping stuff, AI-powered search, etc).
    • Vivaldi offers tons of customization and features.
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  2. Comment on Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears in ~tech

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    I wonder though how much of reddit's costs are associated with chasing new features and such, though. How much could they have cut costs if they'd switched to more of a maintenance mode and slow...

    It never made money though. Facebook does.

    I wonder though how much of reddit's costs are associated with chasing new features and such, though.

    How much could they have cut costs if they'd switched to more of a maintenance mode and slow feature rollout? Instead, they completely rebuilt the GUI (engineers, designers, managers, etc) while trying to keep a lot of backward compatibility, add chat, added some kind of facebook-style profile thing, etc etc. According to Comparely, the highest paid executive(s) make nearly $800k a year. They also made official apps (more employees) rather than coming up with a way to monetize third-party apps (eg sane API pricing).

    Maybe they would have been fine if they'd tried to add more monetization without also blowing money on all that stuff. But also maybe not; I have no idea. It's just interesting to think about.

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  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    Women are either subject to unfiltered misogyny, have to hide their gender, or keep to certain "safe" (private or heavily moderated) parts of the internet. He's had, largely because of his "lucky...

    • Women are either subject to unfiltered misogyny, have to hide their gender, or keep to certain "safe" (private or heavily moderated) parts of the internet.

    • He's had, largely because of his "lucky hand", the leisure time and education to spend browsing the internet, interacting with people, reading news stories, etc, rather than only using it for, say, looking up shelters and bus schedules, social services, email, etc - things that you need the internet for but aren't idly being part of some global chatroom.

    • His Internet isn't heavily censored and filled with lies and propaganda in the same way that Russia's is (yes, America's got issues too, but...)

    You can probably think of more examples but that's a starter pack for why a platform made by (and maintained by) affluent white men is most comfortable for affluent white men.

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