One really annoying thing that I just found in practice is that this change breaks copying and pasting links directly from the Google search results.

Now, I need to click on the link and access the page to “unfurl” the URL so that I can paste a nice, human-parseable URL into a chat.

Google may have just made me actively want to switch away from it.

I rotate my watch between wrists so the skin gets some rest.

Left wrist in the day, right wrist while I'm sleeping.

I'd have expected some gesturing to the AirPods or to a phone, and not assuming that the flyer person would know that those magical earbuds would translate everything he said.

> Disturbing if true, as it suggests my "everything" backups aren't really full backups at all.

Randomly, Chromium-based browser profiles can't perfectly copy across macOS machines either, because of some HMAC hashing that happens to extensions.

Day One was acquired by Automattic in 2021 [1]. The move to a subscription model happened in 2017 [2].

[1]https://dayoneapp.com/blog/the-next-chapter-of-day-one-at-au...

[2] https://medium.com/day-one/day-one-goes-premium-424492fd0a5b

Yes, yet the bulk of my issues outlined in the post were after that.

Either they kept introducing even worse policies, or they allowed them

> Look at what happened to Automattic’s legal counsel, one HN comment that didn’t align with Matt’s world view and he was canned post haste.

I remember this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789765

According to the legal counsel's LinkedIn, he left two months after.

I remember seeing that on his avatar since the early days of the WP Engine drama.

I've never seen this, but that comment at the end is priceless.

> Like him or hate him, he grew WordPress to be one of the most popular open source projects of all time. It seems fair to call him a key advocate.

As someone who has contributed to WordPress: WordPress grew on the back of volunteers.

It would be unfair to most non-Automattic "volunteers" if he was attributed all/most credit for what it had become, especially pre-Gutenberg.

I wish AI companies wouldn't post their primary announcements on fElon-enshittified Twitter.

Use Bluesky or, I don't know, have a news site. They could vibecode one in minutes.