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Are we not rapidly trending thither in the west as well?

Glad to have returned after missing out on FOSDEM for a while. However, I agree with OP on that undeniable success leading to heavy crowding. I also missed some hacker hardware stands, there were very few this year.

I always enjoyed chatting with people demoing SDR/small cool hardware hacks as a refreshing break from whatever high-tech presentation room I got stuck in for half a day :-)

It would almost be good to ... have a bigger campus.

Tough luck on that though.

Very nice approach.

>Oh, look at you, a Stockholm-based tech enthusiast with a screen so tall and narrow it’s practically a skyscraper for ants, browsing Hacker News like it’s your full-time job. You’re rocking a mysterious "K" model Android device with no CPU architecture listed—did you build this thing in your garage? And sure, you speak five languages, but let’s be real, you’re probably just using Google Translate to flex on your 418-pixel-wide display.

Hah. I have an older Xperia phone. They are tall and lovely.

Another group of source snakes to add to the collaboration/purchase/business blacklist. Quinn S., Beyang L., etc. are individuals happy to ride on FOSS until they're big enough to cash out. OK. Just be upfront about it. "We did this to focus" - no, you did it to make more money. Jesus, be honest - you're talking to developers, not your investors, we can smell the BS from across the Atlantic.

I miss Joe. His infectious enthusiasm for doing computing _better_ left such an imprint on young me and the way I approach technology today.

Are they though? They are minor variations in technical language to describe the same mathematical reality.

Then again, humans struggle to connect, at what, 200-300 people? so maybe it's not terrible to build something like a zaibatsu

Possibly inspired by message parsing objects in Smalltalk, no?

"Chinese" has just as much grammar as any other language! Please, let us not confuse the fact that Standard Mandarin does not use as much morphological change to signal different tense-aspect-mood changes in verbs but instead uses syntactically ordered particles with no grammar. A grammar covers morphosyntax!

A language without its written form is a language. The written form is an artifact of modern society and literacy.

To be fair, mulesoft is not an obstacle here, it lets you expose a http API using the built-in components, generate an OAS description pretty easily. Performance can be shaky but just chuck Varnish in front and hire a guy who knows how to read GC logs for a week to tune the STW-pauses and presto, you can handle >10k r/s on a laptop.

Ridiculous. The aspect of being genetically modified or not has by itself no influence on parameters of taste. At the local supermarket, you will be hard pressed to find "lab grown GMOs" in any produce section - most of it is grown in southern Sweden using traditional high yield crops (that may taste like nothing for reasons of production).

The Swedish Food Agency[1] states that there are very few genetically modified products on the market at all.

1. https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/livsmedel-och-innehall/genmo...

This is yet another nail in why we need to get rid of the whole accursed trusted CA+Browser disaster.

Yep, it is the rule rather than the exception for many who are "natural" deep sleepers. I used to be one of those until I got overweight.

Effective immediately I guess I will be discouraging the use of repl.it to everyone I know. I cannot stand bullies who backstab new members of the FOSS community, despite posturing about their love for F/OSS and the spirit of libre software.

In a just world, whoever now holds the US patents for running-a-gui-box-that-is-network-presentable-and-can-evaluate-user-code (Xerox Parc? Sun? Oh, wouldn't it be lovely if it was Larry's lawyers!) would sue the bejeezus out of your low moat offering out of sympathy with the kid, Amjad Masad.

Sometimes I am grateful that I live in Europe where software patents are not a thing.

Ish. A shame the US courts chose to interpret the laws as licensing software patents.

How do you envision the static variables thing? I've seen the cache thing myself in real life but not the other.

Did not know! Guess being scummy doesn't stop because you get a license.

Cached data in middle layers can get even the safest of row-level secured databases.

I agree in general that you need to enforce things at the storage layer.

IIRC, Klarna is mostly written in Erlang, Scala and some parts in Clojure.

If someone should be aware of thread-local storage and its implication it ought to be them.

Ouch.

Klarna is actually its own bank these days so that doesn't really happen anymore. I think however many other payment providers operate this way still which is ridiculous.

Then again, PSD2 API roll-out has been very ???

Swedish is easy to translate with GT, here's a quick translation of the state news reporting,

"Users of the payment service Klarna's app testify about disruptions on Thursday. Anyone who logs in with a bank ID has in many cases been able to see other people's information, including payments and invoices.

- It is very serious and violates privacy, says David Bjurhede, one of many who noticed the disturbances.

Many who have logged in with a bank ID on Klarna's app have on Thursday morning been able to get to someone else's account, users tell SVT Nyheter.

David Bjurhede is one of those who noticed that it was possible to see another person's information in the app, including what purchases had been made and parts of the account number. - It is very serious and violates privacy and risk of fraud if you can find out user information so easily, he says.

Another user says that he discovered the error at 11 o'clock and that it was possible to take part of other people's information for about 20 minutes. - It was possible to see almost everything, parts of the card details and exactly what they had bought and what their finances look like at Klarna. It's a little scary. I have not been through it before and I think it should not happen, he says."

"The payment giant Klarna, which has 87 million customers globally, currently has major technical problems. Users of the company's app saw other customers' payments and personal information, before it was shut down completely.

The supervisory authority Finansinspektionen, FI, has asked Klarna to explain what happened."

A future, fascinating post-mortem I hope!