It seems like dating apps to me. You have a large population of highly motivated undesirables to filter out. I think we'll see the same patterns: pay to play, location filtering, identity verification, social credit score (ELO etc).
I even see people hopping on chat servers begging to 'contribute' just to get github clout. It's really annoying.
- A company vibe codes their own app to replace a SaaS. Great when they only wanted a small chunk of the functionality.
- Startups benefitting from AI coding are copying mature SaaS companies and competing on price.
- Mature SaaS companies are branching out into each others domains. Notion is doing email. Canva is doing an office suite.
Maybe you are right and the companies do want to pay and not worry about these problems. But now they have a lot more SaaS options to chose from. The incumbent companies like Salesforce and Atlassian have less of a moat. Maybe they'll keep the power users but if a customer is only using 80% of the feature set there is new competition.
Competition might come in the form of a startup but it can also come from existing SaaS companies expanding into adjacent domains. Canva now does docs. Notion does email. etc
It took a while to load but once I was in I found it like reading a magazine. I was expecting it to be more of a Tiktok UX.
It's kind of like the opposite to my Wikipedia project Redactle.net which takes a lot of effort.
OP, since you're encountering load issues I would suggest narrowing your corpus to Wikipedia vital level 3 and caching all the content since it's only 1000 articles.
For my game redactle.net, I blacklist the Wikipedia article for 2 years. I figure there is a tradeoff between novelty and allowing the pool of articles to shrink. The Wikipedia vital level 4 category has 10k articles and probably half of them actually meet the criteria (length, number of languages etc) for making the cut.
Fortunately you can get adapters to take 18/20 volt batteries to any other (18 and 20 volt rechargeable are the same cells, but they measure the voltage differently). Likewise most 12v systems have adapters.
There are two issues: some manufactures put more smarts in the battery than others. So never run the battery completely dead which some combinations allow. Never charge the battery with other than the OEM charger.
Don't buy the off-brand batteries (which sometimes are counterfeit that look like the real thing) since they sometimes are not safe.
That would be bad. The reality is that government can't micromanage technology. We could be in an alternate universe stuck with NiCad battery packs and 6v lantern batteries because the laws weren't kept up to date - particularly because the NiCad manufacturers and lantern battery manufacturers dumped money on politicians to cement their position.
I think the most I could get on board with was the mandating of USB C by the EU. You can have whatever connectors you like so long as you have the USB C. And then of course we can get lost in what "USB C" actually is.
Government "micromanaging" technology is why you can actually plug things into the phone network. Things like modems. For the internet. Before the government slapped AT&T, you leased the phone and it was wired into the wall and they could take you to court for connecting anything "unauthorized" into the wall.
It's also why PC compatibles ever happened at all.
It's also why Apple phones finally have a standard port. Which you admit.
Interoperability is not natural, and IP laws make it trivial for companies to utterly block as we are dealing with today. Interoperability often requires regulation to force companies to allow people to interact with "their" standards.
The government can manage interfaces in a way that enables standardization and interoperability without limiting capabilities.
You are conflating so many things. I was speaking about the "government" (there are hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of them) regulating battery standards for power tools - you address none of that. Yes I made a broad statement about government micromanaging which I stick by even as a staunch pro-regulation power to the people type of person.
Even if the EU (a specific government entity) hadn't stepped in over the USB C thing it would have been figured out eventually we just didn't want to wait.
I don't see how you can use AT&T as an example for your point. AT&T was our US government forcing us under threat of state violence to use what technology they deemed was allowed.
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