My suggestion to friends is figure out what discord features you actually care about and find apps that do those things. Muble for audio, obs to screen share, xmpp or matrix to chat, etc.
Agree with the sentiment, but OBS to screen share? How does one do that?
I love how the Americans point to Andrew losing his titles as being the big story in the UK. He never mattered. We'll happily crucify him. No big deal.
The fall-out from Mandelson is much more impactful. Our PM is currently fighting for his position just because he appointed somebody with links to Epstein. The equivalent is Trump getting kicked out for appointing Lutnick, even after he's fired him and several advisors.
Also, because there's a tiny amount of daylight between the scandal and the sex trafficking, it's bringing focus on the information brokerage aspects of the Epstein and other circles.
MS Office, for example is a product with 30 years of development behind it. How do you replace it?
You could buy a competing commercial implementation. Something like... Ah, hang on .. Google Office or Apple's offerings or ...
You could start up a new EU company to develop an office suite. Five to ten years later you may have something that can compete, but that company needed secure investment so it didn't get acquired over that period. There's also no guarantee it will succeed. Probably a €250M gamble.
Or you can build on open source and accelerate faster. Deploy what exists today and invest in the development to enhance it.
If you want to minimise risk and move quickly, I don't see another option.
Betting advertising is regulated. Not as much as it should be, but it's not a free for all
We've had betting on sports (literally?) forever. When I was growing up it bookies were all about horse racing. There's been a gradual creep into other sports and online, but because it's been slower legislation has been able to keep up better. We've not had the market explosion the US has.
Gambling addiction has long been recognised for what it is. There are some institutional adaptations. For example, my bank account has a voluntary gambling block on it. It would take me two days to switch it off so that I can't do it in-the-moment. (I have it on so if somebody gets my card details they can't bet with it).
That's not to say there aren't problems. The online world definitely needs looking at in a lot more depth.
Are you suggesting I should be setting up "private" streams via Twitch or YouTube when I want to do a pair programming session?
That's not a solution.