If you're at All Things Open, be sure to drop by the #dynatrace4developers booth! Cool group of people!

Everyone is suddenly an expert on tariffs.

Google discontinues Nest Protect smoke alarm and Nest x Yale lock Google continues backing away from smart home hardware.

RIP Nest Protect. They were the best smoke detectors both in terms of design and functionality. While much of the function lives on with the First Alert partnership, the First Alert hardware just looks awful. 😢

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

TIL: Windows is not just an operating system, it's also an app. 😬

Just wanted to remind everyone that Safari is the new Internet Explorer.

Don't charge this battery. It's very dangerous. But make sure you charge them every three months or so.

After four days, I unplugged my @GoogleFiber router and plugged in my old first-gen Google WiFi mesh.

While Google Fiber-provided stuff was super fast w/ WiFi 6E, the lack of custom DNS or DHCP options were just unbearable. Using a pihole is impossible (which makes sense coming from an ad company.)

At what point do we just hard-fork WordPress and the plugin directory and leave Automatic to play in the corner by itself?

Seems like it's time.

In a shocking act of cowardice, New Orleans postpones the Sugar Bowl. I thought this was America, where we don't let the terrorists win.

I guess Delta Airlines trademarked the term "Login"?

Biden Commutes Sentences of 37 Death Row Inmates The move prevents President-elect Donald Trump from executing most men on federal death row.

What a massive abuse of power. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

There is clearly some unwritten rule that all public transit announcement systems must be poor quality and unintelligible.

Who do I need to follow over here in the tech scene?

What happened to Intel? And why is Pat Gelsinger out?

I really think Intel's board was premature in firing him. He told them the turnaround was going to be slow and expensive. Brian Krzanich put the company in its current state and it's going to take > 4 years to fix it. So, now what?

www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24...

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