It's a self-cleaning corporate rolodex.

It solved the long running problems of: a) keeping tabs on people across company moves b) a public, standardized CV

Its moat is the scale of its network. Very, very hard to replicate, massive cold start problem. It killed business cards!

Maybe some AI generated thingy can attack it, akin to Grokipedia vs Wikipedia, but man is that unproven. Zero incentive for users to switch.

It will probably get displaced but it will take another 20 years of enshittification and a new generation thinking differently.

But it is more sticky than say a social network like FB. Why? You cant split by age. Make a hip Linkedin but the older people you want to impress, work for or sell to wont be there.

Good - Calibri is not open, badly supported on Linux et al.

HN should rejoice in the US gov using a font that is open and truly cross platform.

Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, Calibri, Cambria… all of these fonts are proprietary.

But there are open-source metrically-compatible alternatives to all of them, commonly included in Linux distributions and/or office suites like LibreOffice.

Probably the most popular set is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts, with Tinos, Arimo, Cousine, and in the extended set Carlito and Caladea. The former most popular set is probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts, with Liberation {Serif, Sans, Mono}.

But a given system is definitely less likely to have a Calibri alternative than a Times New Roman alternative.

The Croscore fonts ARE the Liberation fonts, just renamed.

I keep both for naming compatibility and also because the 1.0 Liberation versions had truetype hinting (2.0 and up did not).

Times New Roman is proprietary as well

I think there's clones of it that aren't.

Calibri works just fine on my machine. Just download the font using one of the many font packages available in your distro (i.e. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-ms-win11)

I don't think it's included by default but the font itself will just work once you install it.

As for open fonts (can fonts even be truly closed in the first place?), Times New Roman is just as closed and proprietary as Calibri is.

Yeah, we got it, you hate accessibility and dyslexic people.

Everyone in Detroit hates EVs.

Which in turn were named after the original Jacobins.

...and man, did Haiti turn out to be a perfect example of Third-Worldism. Ethnocide, ecological disaster, full on regression into a post-civilizational nightmare.

There is a whole avalanche of AI "artists" hitting streaming.

A really cool one is "Camelogia Music Lab" on YT (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCukhXIInQsJrnQwwciw-zuQ), which posts full albums of "bands" that never existed in various eclectic styles like Algerian 70s funk jazz.

The future of music is WILD.

I like how it officially does not support extensions.

But you click on your profile icon, top right, and voila - extensions!

Can't live without adblock.

Millions would also love to live in Europe. Does that make them better than the US?

So now that Kimmel is coming back, it is clear that it was a ABC decision and the government has no say in this - will anything in this thread change?

Of course not.

The walls of our echo chamber are made out of titanium.

This is incredibly funny considering AI generated content is currently endemic thrash on YouTube. AI generated fake trailers, universally hated zombodubbing, weird "touches" on shorts…

Which to be clear isn't a contradiction to your comment at all. It'll take work and time though, at minimum.

Why the AI-wielding creators would choose to use a new, different service, and not an existing service with a colossal audience?

In a theoretical future The Algorithm would include content generation so that the platform can generate content for you instead of just suggesting it. Could apply to TikTok, Spotify, etc. if the generated content is good enough.

Hundreds of people are probably building those at the moment. The more relevant question is why would anyone watch it?

The Nova line of models, the AWS LLMs, are horrible. So yeah, figures.