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frugalmail··on Japan's most famous tuna buyer says he turned Somali pirates into fishermen
That's why they pirated so many Chinese ships right?
frugalmail··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
If your "household name" company is more susceptible to scrutiny, they may not have as much of a pay gap and strictly rely on a the possibility of getting the employee sent back home if they don't contribute enough being the motivating factor. But odds are there are many sub-contractors that are through agencies that are significantly underpaying and you may have not been privy to the contracts through these parasite vendors.
frugalmail··on The Netherlands Built a Nix-Basd Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC
Nix is particularly excellent for governance, reliability, and quick recovery.

It was really a great choice on their part if they have highly skilled staff. Deterministic Systems isn't quite where Red Hat is, but hopefully they or other vendors get there.

frugalmail··on Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country
Nothing like government run housing, markets, price fixing, rent control, pushing industry out, eliminating unfovorable resource use, selective government benefits, like the opposing side
frugalmail··on Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country
PACs are evil, but at least going to Republicans is better than the alternative right now.
frugalmail··on I resigned from Anthropic today
I dropped my subscription already and avoid using their models.
frugalmail··on UC Berkeley indefinitely suspends international student work authorizations
Calc isn't required to get into a humanities programs in UC schools
frugalmail··on How to Write an Email
IMO direct messages, using people's names in messages, or @them is a disruption and should be reserved for needing one. I hate being deep in work, and then being disrupted for something that could have easily been put in a channel that I could look at later.

Turning off notifications would mean muting people that are more respectful and might have a legitimate reason to disrupt you.

frugalmail··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
You're right, it's interesting that this device isn't the most technically superior in hardware or software, and isn't the most casual user friendly. It seems to be targeting a segment I can't bucket other than loyalists. Maybe good hardware & software for the cost?
frugalmail··on AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
The biggest problem is that if you want to run large (continuous memory) models, gaming graphics cards aren't sufficient, and if you manage to get graphics cards that you can chain it becomes a lot more expensive (and better performance) than these machines and GB10 machines.
frugalmail··on AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
I'm looking at Amazon and I see $4k GB10 devices right now (not an affiliate link) https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Supercomputer-Superchip-Supports...
frugalmail··on AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
When this was half the price of the DGX Spark, it made sense. But same price is a ridiculous premium for inferior performance but the ability to run Windows.
frugalmail··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
This is something that is the parent's responsibility.

We all know what this is really about. It's not okay to arm the government against it's own Citizens to prevent any sort of criticism, I don't care what side of the isle you're on.

frugalmail··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
Thats good to know, but I'm talking about that person that's trying to start a business, without incurring massive liability, doing small run 3d print jobs, some early run smart home device, some small one person SaaS, crochet niche hobby things, etc...

The type of thing that might go from side gig to actual long running business that could end up employing a bunch of people.

frugalmail··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
So the person that wants to sell that ultra-unique item that isn't produced by mega-corp, and the person that wants to buy that ultra-unique item despite unfavorable return policies never gets their needs met.
frugalmail··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
This is the result of the US embracing capitalism more than Germany. The market has set minimum expectations, but outliers with other benefits can have an opportunity to thrive until they have an opportunity to meet those minimum expectations.

Although, this is rapidly changing. Places like California are putting in similar regulatory barriers and excessive minimum taxation.

frugalmail··on The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy
You think their competitors, even without malice, wouldn't have put them in the same predicament if they were quiet?

The companies willing to collaborate would have brought light to the issues.

frugalmail··on Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
Bummer, they are the least friendly to open source, and the most incompatible with free use of your subscription via your own tools/custom harnesses.
frugalmail··on The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
I was under the impression the ping back to china security issues are what prompted this, until they were evaluated. I don't think Netgear would have a problem passing the audit.
frugalmail··on Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December
It's one thing to not know and make a mistake, it's whole other thing to hear a claim from somebody, not even bother looking it up before you dispute it, and doubling down on ignorant.
frugalmail··on DIY Soft Drinks
I was completely expecting a self-carbonation solution. It's not disappointing, just got a different cool thing :)
frugalmail··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
Any closed source, centralized system is going to be higher risk than an open source distributed system that can be independently verified and audited by multiple parties.

You just have to be willing to put in the investment to verify/review with parties that meet your needs.

frugalmail··on Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December
It was historically called "Department of War" then renamed to "Department of Defense" and of course, recently reverted to the original name.
frugalmail··on Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December
- The US has had record breaking recruitment in the last 1.5 years. - This policy is a readiness, not an activation. It's not related to current recruitment.

Traditionally the US believes arming the people (2nd Amendment) means we're a stronger nation. Having bases globally makes us a stronger nation. Having everybody registered to the draft makes us a stronger nation.

frugalmail··on Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December
I'm for this, but what happened to equal rights? What about women?
frugalmail··on Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
Sounds like Trump needs to add a $200k/yr premium to each H1B
frugalmail··on LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer
For widget style services: If you need the functionality of an extension to operate, then you can check if it's already installed so you don't ask to install it again.

This is better than forcing the extension to announce it's presences on every web site.

frugalmail··on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars
Hmmm... "Mayor of Paris drastically reduces productivity of city by removing parking spaces"
frugalmail··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
Don't use 4chan, but great job standing up to the continued attack on Free Speech. I hope more people contact their representatives/senators and get them to stop the non-stop attack happening here in the states too.
frugalmail··on What Is a Tort?
> distributing the costs of accidents to those who can best bear them

wtf? I thought it was the entity/entities responsible for the accident?

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