What are you talking about. Cory literally coined the term to describe this phenomena. He is not confused by the idea of cheaper products with wider appeal. He takes issue with vendor lock-in that is weaponized first against the end-user, then against paying customers, and finally against investors themselves. This is first and foremost a criticism of online products and platforms, not mass-produced gadgets from China.

I have a use for them too, but unlikely to happen. Too powerful to abuse.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forward...

dewey was joking.

Happens to me too. Especially when a secret token or API key is on the clipboard, then all senses are heightened until I replace it with something non-sensitive.

Managing product data on the cloud does not mean public internet access, unless someone messes something up big time.

Facebook is already like this. People didn't stop watching. In fact, they mostly stopped caring if it's fake. And no point in debunking the obvious BS: they scroll faster than you can say AI.

On the heavy side, but TeamCity is full of goodies.

Is "preserve nuance" the latest incantantion that solves all chatbot mistakes?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/05/google-ai-mangles-news-he...

They are customers of the CDN too.

Briefly yesterday, linkedin.com was down with Cloudflare's internal server error page.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad review for Azure services, there are other explanations, like organizational inertia, contractual agreements, team preference.

You can feel the pain of GitHub migrating to Azure from afar. With a beast that LinkedIn is, there's got to be a good prize for someone at the end of the road before they pull the trigger.

I used it for a couple of days and was very impressed. Definitely a hidden gem, and super cheap.