đź”— Sonos workers shed light on why the app update went so horribly | Ars Technica:
Employees claimed that Sonos’ desire to get new customers and please investors was becoming more important than ensuring that old hardware would work properly with the new app. Indeed, this is exactly what happened when the app released. Spence admitted in August that many customers, “especially those with some of our older products in their systems, are having an experience that is worse than" before. Examples included “existing speakers missing from their Sonos systems,” “errors while setting up new products,” and latency, per Spence.
đź”— Being quietly radicalised by being on holiday (Interconnected):
We all form a government which is a kind of enlarged co-operative really. Why don’t we make a basket of essentials, democratically argued about and iterated over time, then nationalise not-for-profits to run supply chains and shops for them?
Just… take essentials out of the for-profit bit of the economy.
Our priorities have lost their way somewhere along the line.
I remember reading and appreciating this post when Matt first wrote it back in April. It reappeared in my timeline this morning and I still appreciate it.
I always wonder what the person who inevitably shows up in any discussion of electric vehicles shouting about how we’re just propping the oil and gas industry and what really needs to happen is for everyone to go car-free thinks they are accomplishing.
đź”— The indie web should be a universe of discovery:
The indieweb should feel like the Norrington Room: an expansive world of different voices, opinions, modes of expression, and art that you can explore, peruse, or have curated for you. It’s not about any particular goal aside from the goal of being enriched by people sharing their lived experiences, creativity, and expertise. It’s a journey of discovery, conversation, and community, not a journey of extraction.