Oracle was never really innovative on a technical level , it's first and foremost a company focused on selling licenses, and they're really innovative in that regard but if you fall for that as a company, I have no pity, this is their whole schtick.

Big companies in general are often rather conservative in nature while innovation happens on smaller scale and later expands.

The big problem is rather that a lot of innovation has been absorbed by the big companies via buyouts, especially when money was cheap to borrow. Innovation bears risk, buying an established solution and milking existing users much less so.

I don't think the users are without blame. A lot of people ignore the red flags when a solution is just convenient enough (we need the commercial support / this exactly covers our use case so we don't have to hire someone to adapt it / ...) and the vendor then cashes out when moving away from his solution would be really expensive.

I think there's still a lot of innovation lately, but a lot people are just looking for the next big thing that does everything it feels like.

Classic sidegrade

Doge (without that background) is 10 years.

The last one is a mix of doge and advice dog, which is almost 18 years.

One might say a forgery

Probably better than what some people actually eat

Anyone surprised? MS is one of the shadiest companies out there. Google gathering user data? "Don't get scroogled!" Microsoft account required for windows 11? That's completely different. Gamers in particular just fell for their self-imposed image as the good guys because of Game pass and constantly bashing their competitors.

If I remember correctly, it was them first charging for online services under Xbox Live Gold for functionality that was usually free on PC.

Or you know use your browser's tools to just edit stuff directly, it's much less work, like 100% real and is absolutely free?

Editing a picture is absolutely unnecessary

"Let's bomb ourselves, that'll show them"

Truly great strategy

In recent years that seems to be eating into every major OS… but six months into the pandemic, Mozilla laid off the entire team, killing its next-gen rendering engine, Servo.

(Much of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google, of course. This couldn't be because Rust was, and is, outshining Google's GoLang? Surely not?)

How does one even make that connection? Why would Google be interested in such a topic? I'm pretty sure GoLang doesn't make them money directly, but rather as it streamlines their in-house work. I don't think they profit off this even a tiny bit.

Also GoLang, while probably not a better language in every aspect, has some very neat properties which set it apart from Rust (and vice versa).

In fairness, smoking tobacco is one of the few routes of administration where outlawing makes sense. The overall societal cost is very high, even for non-smokers, as in second-hand smokers and cigarette butts littering. It's one of the few substances that health experts often recommend to make as unattractive as possible, be it through taxation or law.

I don't really mind vaping or heating that much, I'd be fine with making cigarettes illegal while keeping the alternatives. Unfortunately, latest legislation has imposed higher burdens on the latter while doing jack about smoking.

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That's generous wording.

"Diskussionen über die Vier-Tage-Woche werden uns nicht dabei helfen, dass wir unser soziales Niveau und unsere Umweltstandards dauerhaft finanzieren können", sagte der Finanzminister.

Was für ein Wichser. Verarschen kann ich mich alleine.

Kein Mensch müsste länger für irgendwelche Umweltstandards arbeiten. Man könnte sogar argumentieren, dass weniger Arbeit im Sinne von Produktion und logischerweise Konsum da sogar helfen könnten. Ich kann es nicht "wegarbeiten", wenn Konzerne subventioniert CO2 in die Atmosphäre blasen.

"sorry, I use Linux and have no idea how that Windows stuff works..."