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I work as a consultant, but for the same reasons: I choose to work only a few days a week, take the salary loss, and spend more time with my young kids. A time will come where I'll start working more, which will also unlock more meaningful work – but for now that's a choice I'm happy to make.
The problem is that the CNAF deliberately targets small unintentional errors rather than large-scale intentional fraud.
Why that? Because fraud is harder to detect and to prove (you have to provide evidence it was intentional).
So smaller and poorer families are disproportionately affected by the controls, because the algorithm was designed to do so. No computational adjustment can fix that: it is the initial intent that is broken.
Source: https://www-laquadrature-net.translate.goog/2023/11/27/notat... (auto-translated in english)
He was often assigned the most challenging programming tasks. His coding style is so specific that it even shows in disassembled or decompiled code ("Ha, this file is classic Morita").
I did wonders to foster a community of contributors, and get more patches coming. The CI ensures nothing breaks, and there never was any trust incident.
If you're interested in projects taking advantage of this knowledge, the Daid's LADX Randomizer [0] is awesome. It includes a ton of assembly tweaks that makes the engine more flexible, and add many options to the game.
And Link’s Awakening Redux [1] is a good example of life-improvement game tweaks made using the disassembly.
[0] LADXR: https://daid.github.io/LADXR/ [1] Link’s Awakening Redux: https://github.com/ShadowOne333/Links-Awakening-Redux
It seems to me that finding someone on a federation is as easy as on centralized systems. Do you have a use case in mind where centralization makes it easier to find someone?
But I'm also delighted to see your username pop up :) I used quite a few of your wallpapers back in 2002, when I was making desktop customization packs for Windows XP, and I have fond memories of them.
But even without executing the Makefile, simply reading it can tell new developers which language-specific command needs to be run to build the project (and then the command can be copy-pasted and run manually).
With some collegues we wrote an article about the benefits of this approach a few years ago: https://blog.capitaines.fr/2016/09/30/standardizing-interfac...
It was expected to cost 3.3B€, but in the end will probably cost around 19B€.
Do you have any resources about how efficient TrackerControl is at preventing Google to collect data from the phone various system services?
I still don’t like Electron, but Discord is doing a good job with it. Even their React-Native mobile apps feel decently snappy (where usually large React-Native apps are buggy and slow as fuck).
There are even recordings of people speaking latin and Esperanto in 1912. Fascinating stuff!
It tries to have feature-parity to WhatsApp; looks the same, works the same. All this while researching innovations on cryptography that doesn't compromise user experience too much.
In my experience, doing exactly what WhatsApp does (but safer) makes it an easy sell to people around me.
I was wondering why Firefox felt speedier than usual ; turns out the combination of the new Warp JS optimiser and Webrender does wonders on my MacBook.
Kudos for his work, and for making Rust compilation faster for all of us.
(Not specifically the visual design, but the ease of use and the matching of user needs).
I've seen projects advertising decentralization as the main selling point. Mobilizon seems to also push strong on the user experience, and I'm glad they do.
> In contrast, BeWelcome, a similar but much less popular platform, covered their finances with less than $10,000.
The costs of running such a platform are not high. And Couchsurfing operated for free for at least a decade: they relied on donations and volunteer work.
In the end, some of the founding volunteers decided to sell out the Couchsurfing code and community to investors. These investors want their money back. Of course Couchsurfing now has paid staff, but it's not required for operating the website: it's required for userbase growth. And neither the new user fee is about the operating costs: it's about investors getting their money back.
Though, after digging in the doc, turns out there may be a way to create temporary free ids to try out Urbit: https://urbit.org/using/operations/creating-a-comet/
Oh, and renewables are also faster to deploy than nuclear plants (which take years to build).
Imagine how much the maintainer must has been burned, in order to take the decision to shut down their entire love-work – in hope that the toxic situation will stop.
From our point of view, this may not be the best decision. A desperate one, maybe. But to imagine how the person must be feeling to think this is the best way out.
One-click install of many apps and services – but more impressively one-click upgrades as well. Nice, user-friendly, very little maintenance required. Self-hosting for people who don’t want to do system administration.
I’ve been running a Yunohost server for the past three years, adding and removing various services on the fly. Love to use it, and the great work of people behind this.
This should give pretty noticeable speed and battery improvements on Retina Macbooks.
[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/#new
I'm from Europe, for the record :)
That said, you're right, of course there are no laws regulating the potential misuse or evil use of research results.
However I feel we, as societies, tend to feel that researchers have some kind of moral responsibility in the use of their discoveries. That somehow, the researchers working on nuclear bombs are not entirely unrelated to its use – and, on the other side, that Alexander Fleming deserves some moral credits for the uses of penicillin.
My point is that in software engineering we are usually held responsible neither by law or by this shared understanding.
IMHO, politics is much more than partisan politics. In the broad sense, it is reflecting and deciding on how live together. And parties and candidates are only a part (maybe the most divisive) of it.
But software engineering seem to have a pass on how the things we build is actually used.
Dark patterns, facial recognition, mass surveillance? Just some code, a nice puzzle. It's like the profession as a whole feels only distantly connected to what they actually do.
I welcome the trend of developers taking more moral responsibility for their work. I want more ethics courses, more difficult questions, more uneasiness about what we do with our code, and what we enable. Not to be sure we build the right thing, but at least to be less wrong–and, sometimes, to know when we clearly build the wrong thing. I want us to be accountable; like other technical professions in the world.
And if in the workplace, the place where the majority of software in the world is usually produced, we can't have these discussions, what use will it be?