That article, and its many versions in other outlets, is a weird (successful) attempt at changing the narrative. The news that triggered all of it was that Microsoft cut off the ICC chief prosecutor's access to his email. Microsoft comes out saying "we did not cut services to the ICC, just its chief prosecutor". The media widely announces "Microsoft did not cut services to the ICC". That's not news, that's just marketing for Microsoft.
The original news, and the claims by Tuta, are still correct: Microsoft cut off the ICC chief prosecutor's access to his email due to US sanctions.
Bespoke version soup is unsustainable, but part of why people keep doing it is that it tends to work fine. It tends to work fine in part because OS-level libraries come from a different, much more conservative world, in which breaking backwards compatibility is something you try to avoid as much as possible.
So they can take a stable, well-managed OS as a base, use tools like mise and asdf to build a bespoke version soup of tools and language runtimes on top, then run an app on top of that. It will almost never break. When it does break, they fiddle with versions and small fixes until it works again, then move on. The fact that it broke is annoying, but unimportant. Anything that introduces friction, requires more learning, or requires more work is a waste of time.
Others would instead look for a solution to stop it from breaking ever again. This solution is allowed to introduce friction, require more learning, or require more work, because they consider the problem important. These people want Nix.
Most people are in the first group, so a company like Railway that wants to grow ends up with a solution that fits that group.
Nebula[1] is an alternative to YouTube for and by youtubers. I'm fairly certain it's much bigger than Floatplane. It has ad-free versions of the creators' youtube videos, early access for new videos, and exclusive content. It seems to be pretty successful.
It is also, like Floatplane, totally irrelevant without the pull from YouTube, because that's where the audience finds these creators in the first place.
I would love to love nebula, I bought a one year subscription. I let it lapse because discovery was awful, I found several nebula authors from YouTube, but never via nebula.
For reference I just typed "sls free toothpaste with fluoride" into a search engine and all the top results are good. They are SLS-free and do contain fluoride.
The price you quote seems to be for 5 PiB of storage, not 5 TB. The $96,000 covers the first 400 TiB, and after that it seems to be, or at least start at, $20 / TiB per month. If I understand it correctly that means it costs roughly the same as the major cloud providers, except you also have to supply your own hardware. Very much not aimed at small business.
I haven't used it and you might already be familiar, but I've seen people mention fooyin[1] as similar enough to foobar2000 for them to make the switch. Might be worth checking out.
> Search "io" on Google right now and see what comes up...
I don't know about you, but neither of them comes up. Google I/O has always been something you have to search for including the "Google" part and this news is all about Jony Ive, not the nondescript company name.
The reason the send button on the old design is hard to see seems to me to be that it doesn't stand out in any way. The only difference to everything else on the screen is that it's blue instead of black, but the contrast isn't big and it's between two less important icons.
Here's a 30-second edit of the first picture that undoubtedly breaks material design guidelines, but also solves the problem without introducing any new problems: https://kappa.lol/7Zuuc8.png
The problem with a text button in a case like this is that the translation of "Send" is longer in most languages and even much longer some languages.
> …which is totally understandable… if the hiring manager had communicated that.
I agree that the hiring manager could have handled it much better, but as a rule: If at any point during any hiring process you feel like you need to spend even close to a full time week of work on anything without being very explicitly told so, you are wrong.
The original news, and the claims by Tuta, are still correct: Microsoft cut off the ICC chief prosecutor's access to his email due to US sanctions.
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