I know it sucks. Fundamentally engineering is about tradeoffs, and one of the things we do to serve a lot of customers is optimize the way subscriptions work to serve as many people as possible with the best model. Third party services are not optimized in this way, so it's
TECHNOLOGY
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Strait of Hormuz Crisis: Oil Routes Blocked, Prices Surge
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I turned on ship tracking in God's Eye View and watched the Strait of Hormuz go dark.
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) 3 avril 2026
Ship crossings went from hundreds a day to a handful. Some days, none. You can see the new route clearly — Iran's tightly run "toll booth."
Built dark vessel detection to track ships going… pic.twitter.com/anYOEmQzpSI turned on ship tracking in God's Eye View and watched the Strait of Hormuz go dark. Ship crossings went from hundreds a day to a handful. Some days, none. You can see the new route clearly — Iran's tightly run "toll booth." Built dark vessel detection to track ships going silent mid-transit. Then I layered in the strikes. Both sides. Vessels getting hit. Oil refineries. Before and after satellite imagery. Synced it all to oil futures — watched Brent crude rip past $100 as the timeline plays out. One chokepoint. A fifth of the world's oil. And almost nothing is getting through.
→ View original post on X — @bilawalsidhu, 2026-04-03 22:44 UTC
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Tesla FSD Autonomous Vehicles Safety Performance Claims
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Tesla cars, especially with FSD, are the safest in the world
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Doug Engelbart’s Legacy: America’s Tech Pioneer Grandpa
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We're still trying to catch up to Doug Engelbart, who is the ultimate grandpa and won America's highest honor for that fact. Everybody will get it someday.
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Overcoming resistance when introducing transformative technologies
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Yeah, you know, I've been through this many times when I discover a magic box and I want everybody to join me in the magic box. Generally, they're like, "I don't want it." It's frustrating, but they'll discover it on their own terms.
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Metaverse Concept Criticized and Abandoned by Tech Community
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That is true. You know, the concept of a metaverse has been stepped on and pissed on more than anything else in my life, to the point where I didn't even use the word in the essay.
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Apple Vision Pro enables shared kitchen experiences through spatial computing
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If you had an Apple Vision Pro, you could join me in my kitchen. I think you're onto something.
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Virtual worlds and reality enhancement through technology innovation
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The idea of a virtual world has been stepped on, pissed on, and further abused than any other concept I've seen in recent history. But the dream still survives. What is the dream? The dream is that we can make reality better. We can add the names of the stars that we see
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Tech tools fragility challenges development workflows
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It's been a very frustrating and unproductive week for me. I tried to do several of my projects the "right" way (as opposed to just hacking them until they work), but I re-discovered how utterly fragile and unreliable most of the tech tools we have are once you try to use them
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OpenCloud Revolution: Software Development and Business Automation
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Wait until you go hang out with some normies; it's even worse if you get off of X. Most people have no fucking idea what's going on. Highly entertaining. But you're right. OpenCloud is a revolution in:
1. How software is made
2. How our businesses are going to be run
3. How our