They were actually spun off from J&J a few years ago

They prefer vaporware. Big promises, absolutely no delivery.

“It looks like you’re trying to build AGI! Need help taking over the world responsibly?”

"It looks like you think whatever I am doing with all this venture capital is AGI! Should I bother to correct you?"

1. Password spray

2. Access non-prod environment

3. ???

4. "Look at me, look at me, I am the CEO now."

I reflexively read #4 to the tune of Flobots - Handlebars

It was a "Captain Phillips" reference for me.

Reflexively? That song is almost 20 years old! (oh god now I feel old too)

“How is this not any different than a popup in Windows nagging me to switch to Edge? Or to buy O365?”

The implementation. I would argue Microsoft is far more egregious on how it shoves “recommendations” in your face compared to Apple or Google.

Lots of sites have ads for example, but you can quickly discern well integrated ads vs ones that are distracting.

I left Digg for Reddit after V4 dropped. It’s kind of surprising what Digg has turned into. I would have expected it would just continue course as it was (still maintaining comment sections & voting etc) but surprised it’s now just staff picked content from other sites.

Is it even that at this point? It looked kinda like Gizmodo now where its a few authors rewriting content from other pages, and then a ton of ads. I will say I scrolled for a little bit and my take away was generic tech blog, nothing too egregious but it doesn't do what it once did.

Could you elaborate? I've used them for years and have been very happy with their service

Is that even up to disagreement? The main subs certainly are