Conversation

Notices

Embed this notice
Austin 🚎 (signaltap@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 09:53:08 JST Austin 🚎

This was the only way we were able to access any email for the whole blizzard in Texas in 2021 because the rare signal that came through was so weak... This is a legit asset during disasters that is getting mothballed for what I assume is pretty marginal money, and probably has negative impacts in people in less wealthy nations too
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/25/gmail_basic_html_discontinued/
In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.online permalink
Attachments
1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: regmedia.co.uk
  
  Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024
  
  The blind think this is not a visionary decision
- Embed this notice
  Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 09:53:33 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️
  in reply to
  
  @signaltap @vampiress See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
  In conversation about a year ago permalink
  Attachments
  1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: login.wikimedia.org
    
    Embrace, extend, and extinguish
    
    "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found that was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors. Origin The strategy and phrase "embrace and extend" were first described outside Microsoft in a 1996 article in The New York Times titled "Tomorrow, the World Wide Web! Microsoft, the PC King, Wants to Reign Over the Internet", in which writer John Markoff said, "Rather than merely embrace and extend the Internet, the company's critics now fear, Microsoft intends to engulf it." The phrase "embrace and extend" also appears in a facetious motivational song by an anonymous Microsoft employee, and in an interview of Steve Ballmer by The New York Times.A variant of the phrase, "embrace, extend then innovate", is used in J Allard's 1994 memo "Windows: The Next Killer Application on...

Public

Conversation

Notices

Feeds