Darin Fisher has worked on every browser from Netscape to Firefox to Chrome. Now he’s at The Browser Company working on the Arc browser, and he said some blunt things to David Pierce about the reality of Chrome:
Chrome exists in large part to put a search engine front and center, which Fisher describes to me as like “a brick wall” for all kinds of browser innovation.
“...because rockets don’t talk back.”
As you enjoy your weekend, don’t miss this episode of The Vergecast covering exactly what Elon Musk has gotten himself into now that he owns Twitter.
Ransomware attacks still plague our healthcare system. Steve Cagle’s cybersecurity company is trying to prevent them.
Pretty funny to say you are buying Twitter to help humanity when you burned a hundred million dollars in legal fees trying to get out of the deal, my man.
Here’s John Gruber following up on a post by Basecamp’s David Heinemeier Hanssen, who argued that Twitter’s huge size compared to its revenue and userbase is the source of its dysfunction, and that Elon’s plan to reduce headcount by nearly 75 percent isn’t a bad place to start.
Everyone I know who has (or still does) work [at Twitter] has told me the same thing: the company is lousy with do-nothing employees and layers of bureaucracy to support their preposterously high headcount and needless managerial fiefdoms.
[Daring Fireball]
I love tracking the wireless industry’s machinations, and it sounds like there’s already a small battle brewing over who will write the 6G specs. The main fight? Whether network vendors will keep shipping closed hardware, or whether they’ll move to “Open RAN” which... well, we did a whole Decoder episode on it.
Batra told Fierce that open RAN came into existence because the standards weren’t moving fast enough for disaggregation in the previous generations. A certain set of operators – AT&T being one of them – decided to create the Open RAN Alliance in 2018.
[Fierce Wireless]
Stack Overflow is basically Reddit for developers. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar explains how the company moderates its content.
It’s $1,500, and you can get one on Meta’s website, Best Buy, and other retailers. Alex Heath, Adi Robertson, and I all have review units, and on a first impression: it’s an incredibly refined piece of hardware, but the display isn’t as much of an improvement over the Quest 2 as you’d expect.
Check back for our review shortly — we have to have a few meetings in the metaverse first.
You can use a mouse with any Android phone just by plugging it in but let’s take a moment to applaud this entire situation. Hard to say exactly what phone we’re looking at here but there’s a holepunch front camera on the left side, so our best guess is either a OnePlus or Oppo. Tweet at me if you figure it out!
