This is good, actually. Teach the kids to game robots from a young age!

Isn't brave owned by that weird crypto guy? And based on chrome?

They were never giving it away. They included wordpad with your purchase of windows. They no longer do. I don't think anyone is saying that windows is not "within their rights", they're saying that this degrades the product we already pay for. That is worth complaining about, even if our ultimate recourse primarily ends up being to find an OS that better serves our needs.

Honestly though I'm struggling to understand why you'd think that's about Microsoft's rights to begin with??

Certainly. There's a big difference between me giving cash and uplifting someone who is actively harming people today, and supporting a dead man's art.

Of course remember there's nuance as well. It doesn't cost me much to stop interacting with JKR's output, but buying quality shoes that don't in some way support sweatshop owners or fast fashion represents a significant time/money investment on my part.

And if there's something important for my health than it goes right out. idk, maybe Dr. Scholl was there on Jan 6 and I was prescribed those Dr. Scholl's foot goobers by a podiatrist, I'm not going to quibble too much.

Which ties in to the privilege of being socially conscious. It costs me nonzero money and energy that some might not have to do all of these things. I cannot blame or fault the person who works at Chick-fil-A paying rent, even if their work supports CFA.

Yooooo that's actually awesome. If they hit Apple next that'd get even better.

The play store has some weird security items attached to it that blocks your bank or even some games if your phone is rooted. I'd love if Google was forced to drop stuff like that to retain users.

Hamas is reported to have killed 1400 in it's initial attack. Nearly 3x that number of just children have died in Palestine in this genocide.

This does suck though. To start, a counter-offer-based model begs discrimination. You should be getting yearly raises commensurate with (at absolute bare minimum, not even necessarily accounting for inflation) the increase in productivity from year to year.

This is to say nothing of work environments. Unions could reduce or end crunch. Not just as hard blockers, but mandating the kind of project management that doesn't require crunch.

There's also a history of wage suppression.

https://www.inc.com/jeremy-quittner/silicon-valley-wage-collusion-class-action.html

They'll only get better at it, especially as the market continues to turn and companies continue to consolidate.

They targeted drivers. drivers

Had to deal with a contract like this too. If you're in the US or London, watch out for FDM Group. When I was there, if you stay for longer than 2 weeks in their training, their contract requires you to pay 20k.

This is almost certainly not enforceable, but that's either litigation or a hit to your credit.

They scoop up folks (like myself) who have trouble getting a software dev job, and then send you of too various parts of the US to work for pennies with a client. I can allow that the cheap contract labor might be necessary for high risk hires, but that fee-intimidation-tactic is fucked.

(I actually would quibble about whether it's necessary/moral for "high risk hires", but I'm not interested in having that conversation with people right now...)

I wonder how easy it would be to make an extension and fake it's popularity? Make make it intentionally broken or something, so users immediately uninstall it too.

Sounds like an easy $10k, assuming the scammers would actually pay.

+1 Hate that Connect uses a chrome browser and not my system default. :T

Not that it contradicts your comment, but it's worth noting those ads could well have been inserted by the platform or the podcast publisher.