Once again, attention is being drawn to the underfunding of open-source projects, especially small software libraries. They’re hard to monetize, yet many companies rely on them. This time the criticism is aimed at Google. The company could do more, but has for many years supported the projects with staff time and funding. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes in »FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs« for thenewstack.io ...
Dylan Patel writes for Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” This recent progress has direct, immediate implications for our business strategy. Who would pay for a Google product with usage restrictions if there is a free, high-quality alternative without them? And we should not expect to be able to catch up. The modern internet runs on open source for a reason. Open source has some significant advantages that we cannot replicate. ...
Amazon now also has a Chrome extension that lets you send articles from the web to your Kindle so you can read them later. What I find interesting is that the article is always displayed in landscape orientation. I didn’t realize you could store that kind of info in the book format. I wonder what else you can put in there… While we’re on the subject of the Kindle: so far you can’t get your notes off the Kindle without opening or copying the .txt file via USB cable. I protest! ...
I’m often asked how to disable the spam filter in Google Mail. It seems this “trick” isn’t yet widely known, so no worries — I’m happy to share how to bypass the filter. Personally, I sometimes found Google’s spam filter a bit too aggressive. Important emails occasionally ended up in the spam folder, which caused confusion. Instead of accepting that, there is actually a small “trick” to bypass the filter and regain full control over our emails. ...