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romanovcode··on Amazon cuts 16k jobs
- September 2025: US imposes additional 100k USD per visa as a condition to eligibility. (previous was 5k - 20k USD)

- October 2025: Amazon cuts 14k jobs

- December 2025: Amazon announces additional 35b USD investment to India (total 75b USB by 2030); promises to create ~1m jobs there

- December 2025: Random H1B lottery is dismantled, giving preference to higher company salary spending e.g. the more salary H1B applicant would receive, the better the chances

- January 2026: Amazon cuts 16k additional jobs (30k jobs cut in total)

You really don't have to be a detective to figure out that this has nothing to do with AI.

romanovcode··on If you tax them, will they leave?
The book about rules and regulations on this law would be larger than divorce law book.
romanovcode··on ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions
> No, they are equals.

The salary is not equal.

romanovcode··on House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs
> Very shallow, naive approach to child safety.

It's naive of you to think this has anything to do with the child safety.

romanovcode··on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
I will include iCloud in this because their email has nothing to do with ADP and is accessible by any agency that would ask.
romanovcode··on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
The flaw is that they had those keys to begin with. What's the point of encryption if key is available and free to use? Same with iCloud Email.

Privacy cannot come from human-made laws and regulations because they get abused on they change. Privacy comes from mathematics which do not care for laws and regulations.

romanovcode··on Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
You could disable Siri since the very beginning, why would all of a sudden it would not have the toggle to disable.
romanovcode··on Backing up Spotify
`spotdl download "https://open.spotify.com/user/{username}" --user-auth --output '{list-name}/{title} - {artists}.{output-ext}'`

This is literally all you need to back up Spotify.

romanovcode··on GPT-5.2
Yeah, but that is the whole point of Claude. And that's why we are interested in the comparison.
romanovcode··on Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
I gotta say - processing video at 10fps is very impressive.
romanovcode··on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
It's kind of scary that in a way future of gaming is in the hands of one man (who is getting old btw).

When Gabe is gone I cringe thinking MS will do everything in their power to buy Valve and turn it to complete shit couple years later.

romanovcode··on Steam Machine
Intel i7, 1tb ssd, 32gb ram and 3070 can fit in ITX which would be MUCH better performance than the steam box for games.

Only downside is you have to install Windows of course.

romanovcode··on Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
Where is the comparison with Sonnet 4.5? That would be the only thing that matters, really.
romanovcode··on Vite+ – Unified toolchain for the web
> if people want

You mean many developers want. Actual customers, the ones who pay for your work don't even know what Next.js is and are extremely happy with whatever works. The hard part is to sell the idea that - no, next.js is not the best for your SEO heavy website :)

romanovcode··on Vite+ – Unified toolchain for the web
Hmm but that table would be actually what I would write in React most likely. Considering most tables want pagination, filtering and so on it would be dumb to use query-string params and reload the page. So this would actually fit perfectly.

I have this set-up where .NET ViewHelper would do `RenderReactComponent('complexTableComponent', '.complex-table-component')` and it would load bundled react as 1st script and then this component as second script. If page does not need no react components it does not load any. If you have more than one it will still load the react itself only once. It is really amazingly working very, very well.

And yes, if I would to build some kind of dashboard/email client or something I would say use React or Angular and API. But for regular website rendered HTML is king.

romanovcode··on Vite+ – Unified toolchain for the web
Using Java/.NET with server side rendered HTML + webpack/react for dynamic components (which nearly are non-existent with modern CSS).

Works great.

romanovcode··on The React Foundation
> Scary stuff.

Why? When jQuery went away nothing happened. People just learned the new frameworks.

romanovcode··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
Yes, it works great, actually. But you have to have specific hardware, for example AMD gpu instead of Nvidia.

Also, nearly anything with anti-cheat (many online games, esp shooters) won't work.

romanovcode··on Cursor 1.7
Do not underestimate enterprise customers who buy Cursor for all their employees. Cursor will become legacy tech soon, yes. But it will be slow death, not a crash.
romanovcode··on ChatGPT Pulse
LLMs hit diminishing returns this year. There is nothing more they can do and it shows.

Don't get me wrong, the coding assistants are amazing and overall functionality of asking questions is great, not to mention government spying - cia and mossad are probably happy beyond beliefs. But I do not see any more use cases for it.

romanovcode··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
> creators not making enough money leads to creators not making content.

As a consumer this does not concern me in the slightest. The big creators who are focusing on revenue are so sterile they are barely watchable at this point.

romanovcode··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
> Why are they dependent on a separate endpoint for the client to send to?

So they can turn video content-creators against those who use ad-blockers. I do not get how is this not obvious.

romanovcode··on Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node
> Months later, the government arrested him. Their official reason? A minor, non-violent CFAA charge from an old workplace dispute that had nothing to do with Tor.

This is exactly the argument for privacy to people who say "I have nothing to hide". Authoritative governments will always find a reason to dig something up and the less privacy you have the easier it will be.

As a side note it sickening to see USA government doing this arrest straight out of gestapo/kgb playbook.

romanovcode··on “No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too
Close, but not really. 25k a year is the limit. So you could do a deal with $1 and $25k per year.
romanovcode··on “No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too
Because it encourages corruption. Doctors would prefer to work with patients who tip is not something you want to see.

Even worse example would be "Why can't I tip a police officer? ;)"

romanovcode··on ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
Same. What exactly is "developer" about:

> Schedule a 30‑minute meeting tomorrow at 3pm PT with

> alice@example.com and bob@example.com using "Calendar.create_event".

> Do not use any other scheduling tools.

romanovcode··on Majority in EU's biggest states believes bloc 'sold out' in US tariff deal
> EU wanted to secure this anyway

Sure, that's why Germany was building NordStream-2. EU secretly just wants to buy Russian gas because it's cheap and easy.

I guarantee ~5 years after the war is over new deals will be made in place to start pumping gas from the biggest gas station in the world which is right next to EU.

romanovcode··on Claude for Chrome
For someone who does not uses Chrome as a personal browser I am very excited.

I use Chrome only for development it this would probably help with the debugging problems, finding reproduction steps and writing website flows and QA steps much easier.

Obviously I would never use this on the browser with all my private sessions active as it is a huge vulnerability risk as well as not a fan of all my data being sent straight to CIA/Mossad.

romanovcode··on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
> - The trackpad (but other manufacturers now have tolerable alternatives and anyway you can work without it)

It is my understanding that Apple did lock their trackpad tech behind a patent and that is why all the others suck. So it's really not their fault and it is very unfortunate if that's the case.

romanovcode··on Code review can be better
Great idea, if you're fine with development time to take twice as long.
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