This is pretty much what happened with HomeAssistant. Tying all the integrations together in one platform.
It's now at the stage of "copy these files to a pi/buy this box we make"
The overall aim is to integrate most open things, and find ways to work with/around more closed off products.
If any federated banning networks do pop up, I'd expect them to form groups, with different groups having different standards. And the idea being that if someone's banned from one place with similar standards, the rest of the group probably wouldn't welcome the content.
It'll come down to places and groups being reasonable, and not banning for stupid reasons (at least by that group's standards). And if they are unreasonable, it'll reflect on the group, as nobody would bother posting to those instances any more.
And in a way, the ultimate "ban" will be with the host instance, similarly to email.
An admin at lemmy.world might get a report that an account is spreading csam links everywhere, and to consider banning them, for example.
They have boiled one of the most well cooked frogs in the entire tech industry
Plus, there isn't that much by way of an alternative for the same money. Edit: I've just done a little legwork, and Tidal might work for me... Even with the recent price hike, it's £4/user/month for a family plan, for access to 95% of the world's music.
For all its flaws, and really hit-and-miss algos, I struggled to find something better for around the same money.
Stock splits
"Holy shit guys, it's cheap now, buy, buy, buy!"
If I hear code yellow, I assume I need to grab a mop and bucket.
Thirded. I set Mint as the default boot, then have a copy of windows available as an alternative OS option when required.
Hell of a way to bury the announcement.
When Broadcom announced the purchase a year or so ago, I abandoned all further VMWare certs, and put the time into getting my head around the alternatives.
I still have to use VMWare for 90% of my job, but I'm absolutely treating it like a locked-in platform, and assuming that anything I learn to do in VMWare, I need to understand the underlying concepts, not just their interpretation, and how I can do similar things on other platforms.
I've been really pleased with the feddit.uk community so far. It probably helps that a lot of us are geographically similar.
Simple solution:
Botswana has fewer elephants.
Sunak can claim to have deported 20000 imaphants.
Rwanda gets a truckload of money from the UK.
Kagi has been doing a decent job for me, with the downside that it's paid, and does use results from other places.
They go into detail about how they work, but it's them paying for results from lots of engines, plus their own engine, then heavy duty filtering of the results.
Plus a ML results summarizer you can press after searching.
It's the same with machine learning.
People persuading ChatGPT to spit out some code, then getting offended when coders point out that you can't rely on GPT enough to use it blind.