Very good move on their part. It's time more people do so. Beside, Forgejo (powering Codeberg) looks very interesting. I plan to play with it more next year.

This is quite a rant. Now I admit I'm not in love with passkeys and this piece shows quite well a lot of arguments against them.

Interesting point, let's not forget those devices indeed don't give us enough access to run whatever operating system you want on them.

Unsurprisingly this ecosystem keeps being more and more closed.

Or why the XML roots of the web are important to keep in shape. I'm not necessarily in love with how verbose XML is, but it's been a great enabler for interoperability. That's indeed the latter reason which pushed Google to try to get rid of it as much as possible.

A change in culture and political will is indeed necessary. The relationship between organisations and US cloud providers isn't healthy.

Running interesting models locally gets more and more accessible.

Interesting framework to reason about lock-ins. It's not only about depending on a vendor, there are other factors to keep in mind. Now obviously I'd see the risks around cloud hosting in particular in a different way than the author... but I guess we're biased differently there.

It's funny how old games can still have a cult following. It's unlikely to stop too... That's the good thing about limited lock in. Self hostable private servers, ability to play offline, tools to produce mods... They all contribute to such very long term successes.

Looks like I'm a digital packrat of some sort! There are reasons behind it and it's well explained.

Maybe it'll at least be a wake up call for governments and businesses to let go of their US cloud addiction. There are reasons why you don't want such vendor lock-in. The political drama unfolding in the United States makes obvious why you should think carefully at how dependent you are from your service and infrastructure providers.

This will definitely push even more conservatism around the existing platforms. More articles mean more training data... The underdogs will then suffer.

Very nice editorial. It's clear that the level of trust in the technologies we depend on is low... but that's not due to the technologies themselves it's more about the business practices around them. In the end the solution will have to be political, in the meantime we ought to support the good players.

Good reminder that models shouldn't be used as a service except maybe for prototyping. This has felt obvious to me since the beginning of this hype cycle... but here we are people are falling in the trap today.

Definitely a good post. No you don't have to go all in with cloud providers and signing with your blood. It's often much more expensive for little gain but much more complexity and vendor lock in.

I tend to side on the "boring tech" side, but indeed this is a good reminder that what we want is finding the right balance.

Indeed there are more and more signs of the Apple vendor lock-in to be in trouble. And that's a good thing.

This was only a matter of time before we'd see such a move. This doesn't bode well for things like ZLUDA.

Not unexpected of course, but at least it makes it clear that Microsoft is actively trying to prevent users from using the browser they want.

A little victory for European users trapped in the iOS ecosystem... still more needs to be done though.