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Even if the report is inaccurate, Backblaze has never been profitable, which isn't great. Investors want to see a return on their investment. They'll keep pushing Backblaze to become profitable, likely eventually resulting in enshittification of some sort. We'll see if things have changed when they publish their Q1 2025 results on May 7.

One of the harsh realities in Silicon Valley is there's a lot of companies that produce great products but end up failing after going public, either because they couldn't find a good product market fit, or because they couldn't figure out how to make their idea profitable.

It was missing a bunch of features last time I tried it - no crossfades, no automatic playlists (for things like liked songs, decades, etc), no artist radio (play an artist plus similar artists), no way to play sonically similar songs (based on server-side analysis), no loudness leveling, no Android Auto. Maybe it's improved now - I'll have to give it another shot.

Unfortunately I'm not sure I know enough about audio processing and similarity analysis to be able to implement those features myself.

Yeah, unfortunately it's closed-source. It's a good app though! If you build something similar that's fully open source, with an Android app and Android Auto support, then I'd definitely be interested in trying it.

Have you tried Plexamp? It supports all the features in your list. You need a Plex Pass for most of its features though.

I'm not mentioning it to suggest your project is bad or to discourage you; I'm mentioning it since it might give you some inspiration for features to implement in your one :)

Bitwarden and Vaultwarden are different products. Vaultwarden is API-compatible with the Bitwarden client apps, but it's a completely separate project.

Both are self hostable. Bitwarden is designed for large deployments (like companies with tens of thousands of employees) so the design is very different to Vaultwarden which is designed for small deployments.

I used to self-host Bitwarden but switched to Vaultwarden a while back.

In the Bitwarden Android app, make sure all the autofill settings are enabled, including accessibility (which helps with autofill in apps that don't officially support it). Sometimes, system updates seem to disable them.

Also note that Android apps need to explicitly support autofill. Not all apps do. The "use accessibility" option is supposed to help with apps that don't officially support autofill.

Building houses that are properly insulated would help far more since people wouldn't have to use heating and cooling as often, yet that doesn't seem to be a thing that builders are actually doing. I'm an Aussie living in California in a house built in the 1960s, and it's better insulated than an Aussie house built in the 2010s.

In any case, updating food packaging to include an environmental score isn't a bad idea. Hopefully it'd work out better than the health score, which is still entirely voluntary and doesn't always make sense.

I think they're pretty different cases.

Amazon's one was essentially a side project for them, likely fully funded in-house using their R&D (research and development) budget.

In Nate's case, it was their entire product. They received funding from investors purely for the AI functionality that didn't actually exist or work. They specifically claimed that it did work, which is how they got the money. They spent all the investor money and had essentially nothing to show for it.

At least there's some competitors now, which could be used as drop-in replacements if Let's Encrypt were to disappear.

I suspect the vast majority of certificate authorities will implement the ACME protocol eventually, since the industry as a whole is moving towards certificates with shorter expiry times, meaning that automation will essentially be mandatory unless you like manually updating certs every 90-180 days.

This is sad to read, but I just wanted to say that I love the graphics in the article. They've presented the information in a nice way.

They already factored in some amount of tariffs into the US price. It's not really that it's cheaper in Japan, but rather it's more expensive in the USA. It's also US$65 cheaper in Australia, for example, and even cheaper in the UK.

(keep in mind that advertised prices in Australia and the UK include tax, so you need to subtract the tax to compare with US prices)

The tariffs are just a lot higher than everyone expected. Nintendo were probably preparing for a 20% tariff, not a 54% one.

Maybe! I'm sure there's loopholes of some sort.