michaelanckaert

I fully agree with you. Another argument against this ride sharing that most people conveniently forget are peak times. How many millions of vehicles are standing still during office hours only to power up when everyone needs to go home? How is a robotaxi service going to solve that? The number of cars on the roads at peak times won’t go down much imo.

I’m there right now and it’s a wonderful event. Other conventions are commercial, in your face events but Fosdem is a welcoming, open event. Over 600 talks and some 8000+ people present.

Except that this isn’t a blockchain or distributed database: https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/faqs/

The best way to go about is ask you remote 'employees' to invoice your company. They are independent contractors and are responsible for their own taxes and social security payments.

Don't think that being a contractor is hard, in some countries you can just start invoicing without any company creation or registration as long as you declare the income and pay required taxes.

The downside is that anyone working as an independent contract can up and quit at moments notice. If you try to enforce exclusivity or a full time, fixed 'employment' roster some countries can sue you for fraud. The idea being that you are using contractors for full time employees and thus your company should pay employer taxes in that country.

I don't find the lack multiple U2F keys a big problem. It would be a great feature but considering proper user management it's not a big fail in my opinion.

In my case all AWS accounts have a root user that has MFA enabled and that secret key is stored in a password vault. When a root user login is needed the key is plugged into an OTP application, tasks are performed and then the key is removed from the application.

I do however miss MFA when using the AWS CLI. A lot of my clients require MFA enabled when assuming a role in their account.

Exactly. I recently had a discussion on the costs of an RDS setup on AWS. Yes, renting a dedicated server or buying a server and setting up replicated MySQL is much cheaper than the montly cost of two RDS instances. Until you add the labour cost of setting up, maintaining and monitoring.

I'm just curious how a social media platform should be run. In my opinion none of them do a good job or deliver a likeable experience. If you look at the big ones they all have negative points: FB, Twitter, G+, and so on. Maybe Reddit is the one exception since I can still find what I want and AFAIK they still offer unrestricted API access.

Well then it should have been called Test Tcl.... yeah I'll just leave myself out now :p

The cost is virtually the same.

A db.t2.small instance should compare to a db-pg-g1-small instance. Pricing is around 90$ on AWS vs 93$ on GCP.

I’m an AWS consultant so I could have messed up on the GCP instance type.

And a great talk it was! Jon managed to make Spectre, Meltdown and a signifi part of modern processor design understanda in just 45 minutes.