Basic documentation does not equal open source.
Toaster ovens from 40 years ago did better. They came with a technical diagram.
We need a law that companies provide device owners root access for every end of life device.
I think medical device manufacturers should have to support their products for some definite length of time—maybe 10 years?—or not be allowed to make devices at all
Medical devices are already supported for a very long time. At least the official ones used in hospitals.
I was thinking about implanted devices, e.g. Second Sight https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60416058
It would be one thing for a corporation to misuse the term open source as they’ve been doing lately. It’s pretty bad for one of the biggest and oldest tech news sites to be doing it.
More like ArseTechnica, eh?
They’re never getting those integrations back though, e.g. Spotify. Those are usually implemented in each company’s servers rather than something that can be brokered locally through an API. That needs to change
PDF reference of the API here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025.12.18-SoundTouch-Web-API.pdf
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