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Could not find it on the open web. Do you have clues to search for?

This company used to be non profit

And many other things

I've got a flashback from all the 'civil society/advocacy forums' I've attended. Big Co. send the representatives whose sole purpose is to make it look like they care. They do not.

Only state coercion — big fat fines (% of the total income) make any difference.

I think personal criminal liability would be a nice step to make corporations finally respect the law, but that's too much to ask from late stage capitalism.

We do quality outsource development for usual web/mobile stuff (yeah, it exists).

80% of our job is helping clients to figure out what do they actually need and what's reasonable to implement given current state of tech, finding that balance between ideal and realistic software, or rather negotiating it.

So expecting client to write SOWs/specifications is like expecting client to write code.

Aha, actually, I've recently seen it quite few times: people send me detailed SOW which look good, but once I try to read them to actually create an understanding of the domain logic/program in my head — it does not make any sense.

Very close to the grand-grand-parent comment about mentoring junior programmers. Now imagine they are the one paying you!

I would sure want to dine in a restaurant were vegetables were grown out of love and not as a profit making machine above all else.

Mandatory reading: the one thousand dozen by Jack London

https://shortstoryamerica.com/pdf_classics/london_one_thousa...

Life changer for me was discovery of Scaling in iOS Safari.

125% it’s quite nice, actually. Large enough font to read.

CS300 are the best aircraft I have ever flown in. A lot of room, very good air inside, very nice design aesthetic.

In part, yes, but the main reason was severely mismanaged economy, specifically — super unproductive agro. They had to buy food (grain), selling oil. And then oil prices went down.

PostgreSQL's global, decentralized community, including companies like PostgreSQL Professional in Russia, makes a corporate takeover unlikely.

Even if the name is taken, the community and independent providers would carry on.

Do you use Claude in the web interface/directly prompt it or some tools for that?

I like how URL sums it up perfectly:

liberda.nl/weblog/javascript-was-a-mistake/

There is an excellent video about Lightbulb Cartel by Technology Connections, highly recommended if you want an engineers perspective, with no 'great conspiracy' hype.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY

Every time politicians vote on more privacy invading and controlling stuff — they should be wearing/using similar technology themselves.

In this example with ELDs I’d propose a small wearable device that would monitor time when congressman or congresswoman came to work, time they spent eating and using the bathroom and sleeping. And speed they are driving, certainly. Our goal is safety, right?

Oh, and to not make it too privacy invading, only their constituents should have real time access to this data, they are their employers after all, right?

And make this mandatory legislative testing phase (MLTP) at least one year.

We would be amazed at privacy protecting laws rivaled by none.

I am no expert, but my understanding is that to get nice chips, you need both ASML and TSMC. They have very different areas of expertise and posses very different know hows.

Same thing, not the best ad for their own Security product :)

Heray is a security product powered by Hetzner

Sounds crazy hard, a lot of moving parts, both human and technical. But if pulled off right I’d pay for that kind of thing, preferably hosted and cared for me in a datacenter

There will be a hot startup for this and then MS will roll out buggy half-assed copy and will capture the whole market.

I recommend you read Melancholy Elephants, a short novel on copyright by Spider Robinson, I read it years ago and it stuck in my brain http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html you might like it

Btw, Apple's speech recognition can work completely offline, on-device. Not sure about Google or Microsoft, though.

Is this the case with Apple iCloud Photo Library, too?

As did email with PGP before it /sarcasm off

I run a small boutique outsource software development company, 11 developers, 2 managers. We have a 4-day work week, async communications, etc., etc. Pay is not great, but we compensate with sanity a lot.

It is possible, just keep looking! :)

As far as I know, US does not. I am pretty sure you think Europe, where ID cards/residence permits are smart cards with PKI built in.

This should be made into NFT!

I got down the rabbit hole (20 open tabs at 1AM local time, you know) and it seems most of the 'normal' software like Operating Systems & Devtools are classified as 'mass market' and are subject only to 'Anti-Terrorism enforcement', meaning you cannot sell them only to Iran and couple other countries.

Meaning NSO Group could not buy tech to build nuclear warheads in their backyard, but otherwise they are good to use any 'usual' US-made software.

Other commenters say it is significantly harder for companies in that list to banks because of that list. Is that true?

Would you please elaborate on emotions which are more apparent then before? In email s@samat.me if not in public.

FAANG → MANGA

Cloudflare is founded by lawyers. So yes, I guess they have the best lawyers in business and it should be hell to fight them in court.

I think reasonable thing will be for the researchers to “admit responsibility, say they will do better” and keep going as if nothing happened. Like Mark Zuckerberg does.