Dead air on the NOAA weather radio channel. I think the fires maybe took out the station?

#PalisadesFire #EatonFire #CAWx

To be clear, I'm well aware that Apple claims they do not sell private data. But settling a lawsuit alleging they lied about that does not inspire confidence.

Nothing says innocence like a settlement. But the buried lede here imo is the allegation that Siri recordings are sold to third parties. I bet most Apple users would be surprised to learn that.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/apple-agrees-to-pay-95m-delete-private-conversations-siri-recorded/

You'll see a ton of these posts this year. Remember:

• End user sentiment is meaningless in monopolies
• AI drives data center construction and compute sales. Everything else is downstream.
• The true believers are fewer than claim it, and also don't care about users.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai

Does it feel like Big Tech no longer cares what you think? You're not imagining it. 2024 gave away the game.

https://taggart-tech.com/year-of-disconnect/

@da_667 I would say code is where the utility is clearest, but the cost of making the tool valuable is utterly bananas compared to the value—and that's for quite the niche, to say nothing of everywhere else it's being mindlessly jammed.

@da_667 Part of this is to demonstrate the magnitude of negative sentiment. Truly, I've not seen a disconnect between consumer preference and corporate strategy this wide since, I dunno, Windows 8 removed the Start menu. But that change didn't endanger the internet or, like, the power grid.

Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.

Very brutal issues facing @Vivaldi re: profile syncing. #HugOps to the team working the problem.

https://vivaldistatus.com

@quillmatiq @snarfed.org Congratulations! What kind of non-profit is this?

@erincandescent @thisismissem @mwl On the other hand, if there's a way for Mauritius to be compensated for maintenance, there's a sense of justice about it.

For very good reasons, the .io TLD is going away.

Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove country code “IO” from its specification. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which creates and delegates top-level domains, uses this specification to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once IO is removed, the IANA will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones. (There is no official count of the number of extant .io domains.)

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure

(every.to)

(H/t @mwl )