Scripting News: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Saturday, May 31, 2025
Why does Apple invent their own proprietary plugs when everyone else does USB? Even if you don't like to speak ill of Apple, you know why they do it. They want to control who can make add-ons to their products in hardware, just as they do in software. I still buy their products, but I also buy products that use standards, so I can use them on lots of devices. Now, the same thing happens in software from other people and companies. They can choose to use what already exists, or invent their own. Example, I chose MP3 for podcasting, did not invent a new format. If I were to do a social web network, I would use RSS, I wouldn't invent a new format. I want interop. I want to create an open platform, I don't mind making money, but that's not why I do it. #
RSS never had a big corporation acting as a benefactor. Is that why imho RSS hasn't been considered as the backbone of the social web? Probably more likely it's the Fog Of War nature of tech development. We have so many forks of so many things we don't know what anyone else is doing. It's easier to invent your own than figure out what the other thing did. Perhaps ChatGPT et al will change that. Yesterday I used it to get an understanding of how the content:encoded element came to exist and evolved, and you'd think I of all people would know, but I didn't. ChatGPT did. #
"Well, we're all going to die."#
"Well, we're all going to die."#
Linkblog items for the day
Telegram announces partnership with Musk's xAI. bbc.com
News influencers on Bluesky versus X/Twitter. pewresearch.org
Jalen Brunson Could Be the King of New York. He Just Needs the Crown. nytimes.com
Universities quietly negotiating with White House aide to try to avoid Harvard's fate. cnn.com
Federal ICE agents grab a local gardener from his job site in Great Barrington. theberkshireedge.com
How Trump Has Left the Fight Against Extremist Violence to the States. propublica.org
Trump's safety research cuts heighten workplace risks, federal workers warn. theguardian.com
You have to use something before your criticism makes any sense. scripting.com
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