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  • The amount of Labor that would go into it it really isn’t that high.

    This is what distribution is for.

    The company that owns the hardware is not the company that recycles it. The recycler can make a profit by reselling these components, they’re not allowed to.

    Many of these components still have to be pulled out so that labor cost is already a wash. The additional labor cost of testing, selling, packaging, and shipping is baked into the price in the secondary market.

    Not everything is worth being resold, but many things are and those things are often not allowed to be resold due to destruction contracts.


  • I disagree.

    I don’t necessarily know about new music, artists, or genres. I want to get a mixture of stuff I haven’t encountered.

    Something like 60% of the music I listen to in a given month I had never heard of 12 months prior. I’ve found so much music that I vibe with by way of generated playlists.

    Discovering something new that scratches my music itch is in itself a pleasure for me, and I can go back to it at a later date, like everything else.

    This doesn’t mean I support Spotify, but it does mean I disagree with your stance.


  • Define “inciting”

    This is where things get tricky. Leave that ambiguous and technically anything can be “inciting” if it’s in words.

    Whether that’s racism, or anti-authoritarianism, or just speaking I’ll about your government.

    Freedom of speech, as a concept, doesn’t work if it applies only to some speech. Controls around it will be abused and used against you at some point (Look at where the U.S. is heading).

    This makes me nervous about more authoritarianism, as it sets a dangerous precedent that can be abused.





  • I mean, lots of problems rise from this from interoperability, debug ability, removing control & ownership of your own data…etc

    Obfuscating the data means you (The user, via your own means) no longer have access to it, you cannot integrate with it, …etc This is a problem for a project that promotes itself for openness and compatibility.

    Firefox should not be solving your user level access permission problems, that’s not it’s job 🤦



  • Will these ever be useful on the second hand market

    Nope, not ever. Even if it’s standard form factor gear.

    They will be disposed of (“recycled”), since that grants the largest asset depreciation tax break, and is the easiest economically. The grand majority of all data center gear gets trashed instead of reused or repurposed through the second hand market.

    Source: I used to work at a hardware recycling facility, where much of the perfectly good hardware was required to be shredded, down to the components, because of these stipulations. It’s such a waste.


    Dumping bucket of tens of TB worth of modern RAM into a shredder is… Infuriating.









  • It really is a shame that Microsoft gave up their technical position in order to gain a market position. However, ultimately, that worked out for them.

    Microsoft didn’t keep it because developing a web browser is insanely expensive, and they where too far behind. While they where trying to pivot to Azure and other cloud ecosystems.

    With likely 1000+ engineers being involved in Chrome in a meaningful way, it’s an insanely expensive project, and Microsoft just couldn’t keep up.

    Now given that Mozilla has an engineering team 1/4 to 1/6th the size for Firefox really puts into perspective How astronomically well they have been doing with Rust.

    This also puts into perspective how unlikely other browsers like Ladybird are to ever take off, when a year of their development is eclipsed by a few weeks of major browser development. Compounding over and over.

    Shits a mess.