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I see Google still has not realized that they should list the devices it supports in the announcement...

Exactly the opposite. Companies would be lining up buying licenses for a competent and supported browser blocking ads for Suzi from accounting to use without needing to tinker around with a uBlock Origin and pihole and a good VPN.

uBlock Origin author specifically states he does not want donations or to sell licenses because he does not want to support the product at all - he wants to do what he wants and not what the "customers" or "donors" might want.

OpenSSL is not a product.

Quite literally every single company with aspirations would immediately subscribe to it because absolutely no one wants their company information being leaked out to Google or Facebook or anyone else if they do not absolutely have to. Right now there is no such option.

It has a product that people pay for. It finds the market for its product and features for its product not based on "we are Chrome alternative don't pay attention to us sending all the stuff to Google and others who would give us money" but on what its paying customers want to see.

> why would anyone pay for a browser when all the rest of them are free?

The browser that does not track you, does not report to Google or facebook, etc? That's why.

Rubbish. Mozilla would have zero issues getting 10 million users who would pay $100/year for it. Of course it would mean that it will have to become a product company rather than another bored housewives club masquerading as a software company with some software engineers working for it.

Why are you running sexy protocols when non-sexy protocols do the job?

Incorrect. The tax code makes this kind of an offer an exception rather than a rule. There's a reason why Amazon just now upped the top $ into 300k range. That's also a reason why most of astronomical cash salaries are done as B2B via pass through entities.

The vast majority of people talking about those salaries just heard of a few people that make that money and extrapolated to the rest.

The problem is pretty much never the bandwidth. It is nearly always the boneheaded way nearly static content is generated.

If you don't bake your pages into static files, just throw Varnsh in front of your site and make dynamically generated static content static.

Look at the bright side - they still have ability to take classes from their favorite instructors for a year! Isn't that an amazing perk for being fired?

P.S. I cannot wait to hear about what actually happened to the employee stock options.

Nah, Apple would never pull out of a country. If it does that in Netherlands, the next country is going to do the same..

Netherlands should respond with passing a law that any platform company that does that is subject to a 97% tax on the revenue generated via platform stores, payable 5 years in advance with the overpayments refunded at the end of the tax year.

When a company goes to war with the government, the company always loses. It is time for Cook to learn it. He is under a delusion that he is god.

> Does it really make a difference being somewhere else (for eg. Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK etc.) and being in the states?

Yes. If you are any good you would make at least 2x in the US. Probably 3x to 4x.

> That was an extremely high risk change on GCP's part, reminds me of the App Engine days when you'd wake up to find a totally healthy program spamming 500s because they'd make a breaking change without any announcement. It's shocking they're still pulling stuff like this in 2022 reply

Lay with the dogs, wake up with the fleas.

Google is a shitty company producing shitty products. When you select to do business with Google you select to do business with a shitty company producing shitty products and treating its customers like shit. Hence I fail to understand the Surprised Pikachu face when something like this happens.

Open two more accounts at your bank. Code the first accounts as "deposit only", automatically reject any withdrawal requests against that account. Code this account for sweep to the second account every night. Activate positive pay[0] on the second account. Do not ever give anyone access to the second account. Code the 3rd account for positive pay. That's the only account you are going to withdraw the money from.

Stop using debit cards. Only use credit cards. Pay them via positive pay from the 3rd account.

Stop using pull. Only use push. Only target the 3rd account with positive pay as the source of funds.

You should look at family office setups anyway. It used to be something that was done at 100M level but these days the services became cheap enough that it makes sense at 10M level.

[0] Switch to a bank that supports positive pay for all electronic transactions.

There's a single pxeboot server that bootstraps everything. It sends back a single image common among all baremetal servers regardless of what asks for it. The actual configuration is done via a git repo that contains a mapping between mac address of a server and puppet classes.

> I run Lineage, and use a number of scripts.

There are people who dig trenches with spoons. It is not efficient and no one sane would be accounting for them.

> Stop ignoring standards. They exist for important reasons.

No.

> Invent your existentialism in some other realm.

I do. My target is Linux servers. Look at the topic : Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration" not "Finding another inefficient way to administer a phone"

When you raise money, you become responsible for the execution/growth to people who gave you money. If you don't like that, you should not raise the money.

> Android doesn't allow GPL code in userland, and the installed base is massive.

You aren't administering Android devices.

Stop obsessing about writing portable scripts. Write scripts for the targets that you are going to run them on.

I'm not following, sorry.

This is cattle:

* PXE boot server(s)

* Image contains masterless puppet bootstrap.

* Server(s) asks git - "give me the bootstrap for my mac address"

* Server(s) gets a list of classes to apply.

* Server(s) applies classes.

Done.

> That advice can cause substantial headache on Ubuntu/Debian, where the Almquist shell is /bin/sh.

#!/bin/bash

There, I fixed your "what shell is /bin/sh" problem.

> Blame the folks demonizing/shaming having "pet" servers and pushing immutable infrastructure. Linux server administration is quite enjoyable, and with how well apps these days can scale vertically, it really takes a special kind of workload to need (and actually saturate) fleets of servers.

You don't need pet servers. Puppet or Ansible make your baremetal cattle.

There's zero reason for policykit to be installed on multiuser systems or servers. This is just a part of bizarre obsession with "new tools" bullshit coming from RedHat and the inept software developers it accumulates.

The following should be the output of "find / -type f -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000" on a VM. If it is a container, you might need an "su" and/or "sudo" and maybe, if for some reason you are using a cron internal to the container (but why?!), crontab.

/usr/bin/chfn

/usr/bin/chage

/usr/bin/chsh

/usr/bin/sudo

/usr/bin/crontab

/usr/bin/su

/usr/bin/ssh-agent

/usr/bin/newgrp

/usr/bin/passwd

Novell was trying not to be the expensive kid on the block. We know how well it worked out for them.

The money is in the head, not in the tail. If you cannot afford $200 on a distributed application, go rent a server at hetzner

Eric Schmidt disagrees. You might have heard about the company that adopted that as the approach. It is called Google.

Unless they are a hobby company, they should increase the prices. The money is in the head, not in the tail. If someone is balking at spending $200/mo on the lowest level, they are simply not a customer.

Their hardware is excellent. The stock S21 Ultra and A32, A42 and A52 software is garbage.

My neighbor has a Galaxy S21 Ultra. It had ads last week.

Out of all sucky Android devices and due to my work I probably touched at least 3/4 of models sold via non-grey market channel in the US the only phones that are functional are Pixels, which sucks.

My wife has an iPhone 12. Pixel 6 today is either in the same class or beats it. Of course it is highly unlikely that it will beat it in 2024 given Google track record of refusing to reiterate.