I’ve had similar thoughts. As much as I’ve tried, I can’t fully imagine the unlimited wealth these people have and what it does to your brain.

It’s all deeply weird, and films like the Mountainhead increasingly seem like they might be more accurate than not.

There’s just clearly some limit around accumulated wealth where it detaches people further and further from reality.

Well it is their reality. It's more like most people live in a different, crueller reality than them.

It’s the customer who is wrong… for being happy with their purchases!

HomeKit Secure Video devices. Block the device's internet access at your router. Apple can't see the video, it doesn't go to Amazon or Flock, nothing counts against your iCloud storage.

Easy Button option for us lazy folks.

I don't think I'm overly paranoid. I do still have a HomeKit compatible encrypted video doorbell that cannot talk to any outside vendor.

Once in a while it has turned out to have been good to have. Never critical, but good to have. And I don't have to give everything to [Amazon/Ring|Flock|local PD|whoever]... unless I choose to.

Most of these people just need like two or three static pages and a domain name. Same as it ever was.

I build things iteratively all the time, without anyone seeing most of it. I move things up for review and QA after I'm satisfied that I've done the things that need doing, and done them well enough for purpose. Customers aren't the only opinion on what's good or bad. They're more like the final and most important.

Now that process is much, much faster.

Some of these companies have increased headcount since their post-COVID cuts.

Some of this has nothing to do with COVID boom numbers. Some are bailing water as fast as they can (Atlassian, et al), some are treading water and betting on future returns from AI (Block), etc.

That seems to have been Dorsey's approach. The business has been stagnant, so cut the roster and bet big on some future returns from AI.

It sure didn't reward Atlassian. If anything it accelerated the long, downward slide.

Atlassian hasn't made money in 10 years. Of course they can't ride on the latest stock slop meme, that company is such an unmitigated disaster it beats even their terrible software. And now they keep spamming me with that Rovo garbage, god I hope they go down among all of this.

Many of those are self-reporting, anyway. It's not there to stop bots.