That's curious, I use Facebook a lot for local and niche interest groups and have never seen any cross-promotion of other Meta services. Probably an EU thing.
Meta is focused on stealing more market share from X and preparing to turn on ads.
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
If there's XMPP involved in that pattern then I question your recollection of events that happened. If anything this is going to be more like e-mail where commercial service providers might want to set up some obstacles to avoid spam but also hurt little guys in the process. We'll see how that goes with EU DSA laws though.
I tried to use AutoSleep and it's just too janky and annoying to use though. Being able to trigger alarm early based on sleep cycle stage was a game changer though.
After a bit of teasing and some original edition delisting, Ubisoft has - slightly prematurely, it would seem - announc…
MUDs, Usenet, and open source all play a part in 50 years of IF history.
Nintendo business model, like any other, is a product of trade-offs. They sell hardware without subsidies. That hardware is outdated so it's vulnerable to emulation and piracy which is why they are so intent on fighting it. Since they don't need to make up for selling hardware at loss and don't get into expensive development they have to compete on quality and fun. They seem to be doing very well on that front - you're so sour about about how Nintendo is making it hard to get their old games but that's because those games are still worth playing.
As to Pokémon, it's not a very good example. Pokémon Company is 32% owned by Nintendo which could be argued is the reason that their games are so bad. Nintendo very rarely does sequels that don't offer anything of considerable novelty. They'd probably be openly pissed at Pokémon Company for damaging Nintendo brand if it didn't rake in so much money.
While it annoys us, they have always primarily served Japanese market and those guys seem to be enjoying limited drops and stuff like that. We need better laws on game preservation because public companies exist to maximize value and can't be expected to do charity.
It's hard to dispute that Nintendo is the only big player with a healthy business model. Their games are mostly fun, original and free of in-app purchases. They keep churning those games out at the time when everyone else is in a slump. Their litigious behavior is shameful but in other areas they are that idyllic model.
Having own client API doesn't affect ActivityPub compatibility.
Turning all communities into auxiliary c/piracy circlejerk is proving detrimental to experience of everyone else though. I usually ignore posts that don't interest me and downvote offtopic stuff only.
This place loses its function when people vote on posts based on whether they like companies mentioned rather than content value or newsworthiness.
Apple has suspended work on the second-generation Vision Pro headset to singularly focus on a cheaper model, The Information reports. Apple was...
They'll probably pull the rug one way or another. Maybe they won't because users could then move from Threads to a Mastodon instance that supports their favorite app and still keep in touch with all the people they follow.
The Switch is bucking industry trends until the not-so-bitter end
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/13974372
The Switch is bucking industry trends until the not-so-bitter end
The Threads API is finally here for all developers.
watchOS 11 appears to include a new feature that allows an Apple Watch to automatically detect and record when you're taking a nap. As shared on...
T9 dialing, or Text on 9 keys, is a predictive text technology that emerged in the late 90s to make it easier to type text messages on devices with...
Apple is set to conclude a lengthy antitrust investigation by the European Union into its mobile payments system by making significant concessions to...
One less life sim game to look forward to.
Nearly 20% of Microsoft SQL Servers running have passed end of support
That beige box running a server is easily forgotten ... until it goes wrong
Cue the lawsuits, potential fines, dueling allegations — and, for Leonore Gewessler, a great campaign ad.
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/13910617
YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos
YouTube is testing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add "Notes" to provide more context and information on videos.
If you're reliant on third party add-ons you don't have a choice. Bloomberg and Eikon are two examples that didn't have a good Python API back then. Even after I started to use Python more sometimes I had to script opening up Excel itself, forcing formula refresh and exporting that.
You also need to consider that average Joe at a big financial corporation knows Excel so he uses that for everything. People that know Python are more expensive.
There are environments where Excel is used as glue that does faux-ETL for very unpredictable data which is so small in volume you don't even consider a database. Also, database would mean MS Access which is just icky so it was used only when necessary.
I think at certain point you're kind of expected to switch to INDEX & MATCH. I did plenty of Excel macros for work back in the day and at similar point I just switched to doing things in Python.
Microsoft Excel is arguably the world’s most important piece of business software. Can it also be a sport?
That seems adequately priced for the piece of art it is. Also too expensive for me :D
Oh wow, that's amazing. That second link is like a whole art gallery. How much are those?
Apple recreating Google Inbox would be an ultimate power move.
There's no real harm in that unless they spam, at which point those accounts can be banned which shouldn't overwhelm moderators.
I guess it's fine as long as EPP led governments in Poland and Lithuania do this, just not Orban because he's a bit of an ass.