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nairb774on Signal Secure Backups

Yep. Local backup generation has been around for at least a few years. You can have signal make a backup for you every day. You just need to get it off the device. This looks to be adding a remote option for this existing feature.

nairb774on Memory safety for web fonts

FTE. Full time equivalent. Mosts costs are denominated in FTE - headcount as well as things like CPU/memory/storage/...

The main economic unit for most engineers is FTE not $.

nairb774on Gumroad CEO is no longer hiring junior/mid-level software engineers due to AI

The quality of a PR is a reflection of the author not the tools the author uses. The last thing an engineer should do before sending out a PR is to review it themselves. A PR is a work product with their name on it, and is a reflection of their ability. This was true before LLM tools, and should be true after.