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    • scottalanmiller
      scottalanmiller last edited by

      That and every time they tell me about their product they talk about all the time I'd save... except it's all stuff already automated so no idea what time they are talking about. Seems like a solution seeking a problem.

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      • Dashrender
        Dashrender @scottalanmiller last edited by

        @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

        That and every time they tell me about their product they talk about all the time I'd save... except it's all stuff already automated so no idea what time they are talking about. Seems like a solution seeking a problem.

        and I can't get their site to load this morning

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller @Dashrender last edited by

          @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          That and every time they tell me about their product they talk about all the time I'd save... except it's all stuff already automated so no idea what time they are talking about. Seems like a solution seeking a problem.

          and I can't get their site to load this morning

          It's up here.

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          • Dashrender
            Dashrender @scottalanmiller last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

            @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

            @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

            That and every time they tell me about their product they talk about all the time I'd save... except it's all stuff already automated so no idea what time they are talking about. Seems like a solution seeking a problem.

            and I can't get their site to load this morning

            It's up here.

            It is now also. It was definitely down when I posted - isitdownrightnow.com said so.

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            • gjacobse
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              Insteon appears to have shutdown, breaking smart homes

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              • scottalanmiller
                scottalanmiller @gjacobse last edited by

                @gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                Insteon appears to have shutdown, breaking smart homes

                Wow. Never heard of them, but that's sure a warning to be heeded.

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                • scottalanmiller
                  scottalanmiller last edited by

                  Anyone remember Fleetsmith? They were a sponsor of SpiceWorld a few years ago (back when conferences were still a thing.) They had a booth and were making an Apple-centric MDM.

                  They just went out of business. Another one bites the dust. It always seemed like a decent product, but the Apple-only MDM model felt unusable.

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                  • JaredBusch
                    JaredBusch @scottalanmiller last edited by JaredBusch

                    @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                    Anyone remember Fleetsmith?

                    They just went out of business.

                    Umm what? Apple bought them last year.
                    https://support.apple.com/guide/fleetsmith/welcome/web

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                    • scottalanmiller
                      scottalanmiller @JaredBusch last edited by scottalanmiller

                      @JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                      Anyone remember Fleetsmith?

                      They just went out of business.

                      Umm what? Apple bought them last year.
                      https://support.apple.com/guide/fleetsmith/welcome/web

                      Yes, and shut them down today. They were still operating like a separate company, though. But now they are gone.

                      Their announcement said "Apple made the decision...". But their FleetSmith service was operating (and I think maintained) as its own entity, just owned by Apple.

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                      • JaredBusch
                        JaredBusch @scottalanmiller last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                        @JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                        Anyone remember Fleetsmith?

                        They just went out of business.

                        Umm what? Apple bought them last year.
                        https://support.apple.com/guide/fleetsmith/welcome/web

                        Yes, and shut them down today. They were still operating like a separate company, though. But now they are gone.

                        Meh, don't care about a company staying separate year+ after acquisition. The product still exists though. Or was that cancelled as well?

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                        • scottalanmiller
                          scottalanmiller @JaredBusch last edited by

                          @JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                          @JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                          Anyone remember Fleetsmith?

                          They just went out of business.

                          Umm what? Apple bought them last year.
                          https://support.apple.com/guide/fleetsmith/welcome/web

                          Yes, and shut them down today. They were still operating like a separate company, though. But now they are gone.

                          Meh, don't care about a company staying separate year+ after acquisition. The product still exists though. Or was that cancelled as well?

                          Product is gone as of today. Or more or less. All paid accounts are put into "free" status. So they aren't screwing people. But the free accounts have a time limit. So it's kind of a temporary holding pattern just to give people time to move off to something else. But lots of the features are gone and the team behind is gone.

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                            • JaredBusch
                              JaredBusch last edited by JaredBusch

                              macOS Server discontinued after years on life support

                              Apple is finally killing off the venerable macOS Server, directing users still clinging to Profile Manager toward Mobile Device Management solutions.

                              The move is arguably long overdue. Much of what made macOS Server a server was deprecated in 2018 as the company announced plans to stop the likes of DHCP and DNS in its product and directed users to handy open-source alternatives.

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                              • scottalanmiller
                                scottalanmiller @JaredBusch last edited by

                                @JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                macOS Server discontinued after years on life support

                                Apple is finally killing off the venerable macOS Server, directing users still clinging to Profile Manager toward Mobile Device Management solutions.

                                The move is arguably long overdue. Much of what made macOS Server a server was deprecated in 2018 as the company announced plans to stop the likes of DHCP and DNS in its product and directed users to handy open-source alternatives.

                                I thought it was discontinued LONG ago.

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                                • travisdh1
                                  travisdh1 @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                  @JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                  macOS Server discontinued after years on life support

                                  Apple is finally killing off the venerable macOS Server, directing users still clinging to Profile Manager toward Mobile Device Management solutions.

                                  The move is arguably long overdue. Much of what made macOS Server a server was deprecated in 2018 as the company announced plans to stop the likes of DHCP and DNS in its product and directed users to handy open-source alternatives.

                                  I thought it was discontinued LONG ago.

                                  It was forgotten about long ago, and existed as only an "application" in the app store.

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                                  • scottalanmiller
                                    scottalanmiller last edited by

                                    Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.

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                                    • Dashrender
                                      Dashrender @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                      Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.

                                      Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.

                                      /sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.

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                                      • scottalanmiller
                                        scottalanmiller @Dashrender last edited by

                                        @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                        Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.

                                        Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.

                                        /sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.

                                        "but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.

                                        I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)

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                                        • Dashrender
                                          Dashrender @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                          @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                          Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.

                                          Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.

                                          /sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.

                                          "but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.

                                          I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)

                                          Sure - but this happens all time. Competitors buy companies to get the customers to move to their product by shutting down the one one they just bought - granted not exactly the same...

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                                          • scottalanmiller
                                            scottalanmiller @Dashrender last edited by

                                            @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                            @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                            Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.

                                            Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.

                                            /sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.

                                            "but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.

                                            I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)

                                            Sure - but this happens all time. Competitors buy companies to get the customers to move to their product by shutting down the one one they just bought - granted not exactly the same...

                                            Right, don't get distracted by something completely different. That's viable and real, but in no way whatsoever what's happened here which is standard "profits through pure investment" strategy. No competitor was ever involved here, and there was never a "shutting down", let alone a shutting down to stifle competition.

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