I read your reply as the scenario from GP is unlikely to happen in practice or has low impact. To me it seems you need to make frequent backups of "your" data to have a copy of it.

Can i run multiple PDSes with my own single identity to not give one provider exclusive power over access to "my" data?

Ideally, a client app would make these backups for you automatically. I hope Bluesky official client will add automatic backups (in addition to the existing manual export flow that already exists). It's not hard to set it up as a GitHub action today if you're technical but making it accessible to non-technical users seems important.

>Can i run multiple PDSes with my own single identity to not give one provider exclusive power over access to "my" data?

Not really since there has to be a source of truth where the writes happen. I guess you could manually replicate changes between multiple servers but there still has to be one that applications know to talk to. I'm not sure what problem it would solve. This seems similar to "can I have multiple deployments of my site" — you sure can, but you might as well deploy it elsewhere when you actually plan to point to it.

I personally believe that the chance of Bluesky PBC suddenly swapping all of their software to no longer be built on atproto to be a very low chance, yes.

There’s middle grounds here; for example, due to some recent moderation decisions, some users have decided to move away from Bluesky PBC-run PDSes and to self hosting. Those users did not need to proactively backup to move. The proactive backup cases are things like “Bluesky PBC’s servers disappear suddenly” or “they ban your account.”

I don’t think you can run multiple PDSes, but since it’s quick to move the canonical version, I don’t see that as a huge drawback personally. In the same way you’d fallback to the secondary if the primary turns out badly, you’d set up a new PDS and point your identity at it.

Well, what you describe is not terrible way to run things. Eat your own dogfood. To get better at it you need to start doing it.

Sure, but if the product in question is at best tangential to your core products, it sucks, and makes your work flow slow to a crawl, I don’t blame employees for not wanting to use it.

For example, if tomorrow my company announced that everyone was being switched to Windows, I would simply quit. I don’t care that WSL exists, overall it would be detrimental to my workday, and I have other options.

True. i didn't mean "not terrible for employees" i meant "not terrible for company goals". Yes, these are intertwined, but assuming not everyone quits over introducing AI workflows it could make Microsoft a leader in that space.

Personally i would also not particularly like it.

I find these tools super awesome, but i never use them beyond trying them out once, because they don't usually come with coreutils or something like that.

Haven't found a way to use these tools in a user-local way.

For my own homemade tools, i put the binary in my dotfiles and they end up in .local/bin and i can use them by default. I can do that because I don't need to update them.

The value is in leadership, and being able to avoid certain classes of bugs from appearing in the first place. Troubleshooting just happens to be the skill that allows you to gain the knowledge to lead.

Exactly:

"I found the root cause and corrected it. It may be an issue in these other two places so we should check there as well."

"Great. How do we avoid issues like this in the future?"

"By doing X thing a different way, and ensuring that Y thing is also in place."

It's even worse than that.

Making troubleshooting skills a profession in itself makes reliability a property of a specific person or team and not a property of the system. The former doesn't scale.

You’ll never be able to build a (large, complex) system that is consistently, inherently reliable over time and in response to change. You want to aim for such reliability but you still need troubleshooting ability.

I'd pay for news, even bad ones. I see it like a donation to the Red Cross or something.

My experience and reasons for not paying anymore are similar. Used to pay for The Guardian for some time, but when they started pestering me about a subscription renewal the whole thing felt a lot less classy. Now it suddenly was about me and not news anymore.

Me too: never again. I would pay for anonymous vouchers or similar where I'm not identifiable to the newspaper, though.

Can you name a few LLM-based features in browsers that users find useful?

It is in my screen reader, but it is used mainly in the browser - accessible description of an image without alt text. Translation of languages which I don't know is also nice.

Generally, I thing that the llm should be its own service and everything else should have an easy way to connect to it, but I'm a lowly user, not a product manager.

For accessibility it is truly awesome. Yes it can be wrong and isn't perfect, but the alternative is having no knowledge of the image at all. Alt descriptions are often missing or not detailed enough to be useful for vision impaired.

Having much better text to voice could also be nice for the blind. While screen readers are fine I don't know how bothersome that robot voice is for longer texts.

I'm okay with robot voices, tbh. The neural voices need modern hardware, and there is latency even then, together with some artifacts. Especially when speeding through a known screens I prefer responsiveness over fidelity or other nicities.

one: in Arc browser, if your Ctrl-F find window doesn't find and exact match, it turns into a LLM question box that will try to answer based on the page content

Ctrl-F without match is often useful result in itself.

I've been burned by LLMs several times where it always came-up with some answer while it was either misleading or there should be no answer at all.

can you at least switch that, because if that is the default behavior I would hate it so much

Yes you have full control over when you use ai and when you don’t

Rename tabs based on website content /s

I found I'm ok with the divide. Both can coexist and in our case it works.

I manage people and anecdotally I see engineers having collectively more output if they are in the office, and they do grow in seniority on average.

The remote folks produce sum-of-its-parts impact and do well, but grow slower and not as much.

More senior folks really benefit from WFH, they have similar performance, but I as the manager of the team miss out on a senior person training the junior folks.

We don't offer remote positions for junior candidates.

Are you asking because you have the power to implement some of the missing features, or because you will tell me I don't actually need what i think i want.

1) i never could get password/autofill syncing between several devices working quickly and reliable as in chrome.

2) no app mode in Firefox

3) on desktop i don't like the UI and i would need to install userchrome stuff to "fix" it.

It's very subjective, but I won't try switching again before certain things I value in Chrome are available or work similar well on Firefox. You can switch based on ideology alone but I want convenience more than that.

Ok so if you're not going to switch then don't talk about it. Google will continue to make Chrome shittier and more user-hostile much like every product they've ever released since they were founded and people like you will continue to go "yeah but what about app mode or whatever." It's not ideology, it's history.

> Google will continue to make Chrome shittier and more user-hostile

Other than this ad stuff (which I agree is tremendously hostile) Chrome has acually been getting better. The dev tools, performance, UI, and memory usage have improved considerably this year.

You want to censor me because i have a different opinion than yours?

I assume you have good intentions and want to advocate for Firefox and have it have wider adoption. I want the same thing, but it's imo not enough that Chrome gets shittier (it doesn't in my opinion btw in terms of UX), Firefox needs to become better to win.

What things are you talking about? I haven't used chrome outside of work for years, so forgive my ignorance

I recently switched to Firefox and the main blockers for staying on it were a bad experience with syncing of passwords and such a across devices, the UI (i found a nice fix but it's tedious to setup), and no app-mode.