It shouldn't be! Forcing big companies to unbundle product pricing would give new entrants to the market a fighting change at success.

Should they have to un-bundle Windows Explorer, Notepad, Photo Viewer, Control Panel, and all the other utilities as well, under the same logic? If not, why?

1) technically? yes, absolutely- apps like explorer or photo viewer should only use public APIs so other companies can make comparable apps on the OS with 90% market share 2) these are all OS utilities, not workplace apps - there's a big difference between Adobe/Microsoft Office/Google bundling their apps where there's a very clear, very powerful disincentive to compete vs something like explorer.

> these are all OS utilities

I think part of the problem is "what is an OS utility" and "what is an app". All your OS configuration could be done via a REST API, text files or some other well defined protocol. So you could have competing configuration apps that all help you manage your config in their own way and unbundle the control panel. Realistically looking at your average sparse linux distro shows just how "minimal" an OS can be, and even they bundle applications. Yet, I realistically don't thing consumers or the tech market at large would be assisted by a law mandating that all operating systems be as minimal as the linux kernel (no GNU/Linux, that's bundling!). And even if you did go that far, now we get into arguments over monolithic kernels and micro kernels.

>these are all OS utilities

sorry, no, that shouldn't be allowed either. as someone who's working on a cloud task scheduler, OS's should be forced to unbundle thread management. Linux needs to be banned in the EU until it doesn't come with a default thread manager.

multiple people at previous jobs joked about how using FMLA would get you fired or at minimum banned from promotion

If your company is even halfway legitimate they will have what they collect / monitor in your employee handbook or a privacy policy somewhere.

Zulip is more of a Slack-like instant chat system with threading as a first class citizen; CQ2 looks like threads only exist in the context of one "root" document vs a channel in zulip where threads can intermingle.

And neither Slack nor Zulip are suitable for complex discussions.

Zulip's core design goal is to make it effective for complex discussions, and our users tell us that it's working. E.g., cutting-edge math research https://zulip.com/case-studies/lean/; Rust language development https://zulip.com/case-studies/rust/.

$24 a year is too much?

When every other aspect of the app is basically free, yes. I would pay once for the functionality, not as a subscription.

They offer a lifetime price of $128.

https://www.photoprism.app/membership/faq

> Are there alternatives to a recurring subscription? > > Yes, our Plus members automatically receive a free Lifetime Essentials membership after 24 months

There are downsides to over-medicating, even if your personal budget for health is ~unlimited. Nobody wants to be a false positive.

no AI company wants to be the one generating pornographic deepfakes of someone and getting in legal / PR hot water

But what if you flip the things the other way around; deepfake porn is problematic not because porn is per se problematic but because deepfake porn or deepfake revenge porn is made without consent, but what if you give consent to some AI company or porn company to make porn content of you. I see this as evolution of OnlyFans where you could make AI generated deepfake porn of yourself.

Another use case would be that retired porn actors could license their porn persona (face/body) to some AI porn company to make new porn.

I see big business opportunity in the generative AI porn.

Which is why this should be a much more decentralized effort. Hard to take someone to court when it's not one single person or company doing something.

Open-source projects where all the developers work for one company tend not to do too well when that company dies, especially if there isn't a large ecosystem around the software yet.

It breaks a lot of websites, I used NextDNS for about two years but got tired of the headaches.

They do, he says so in the article.

Not the call center. I'm referring to the technology running the bank itself (handling transactions etc). Most credit unions use the same tech made overseas. It wouldn't surprise me if they're the source of the data leak.