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I'm pretty sure it's literally impossible? I suspect RCS, just like SMS needs some special telecom interaction.

Legit interesting question.

Bless you.

Which is even more surprising on 'hacker' news. Maybe the average (US-centric) 'hacker' nowadays is just a corporate worker dreaming.

I recently joined a megacorp after decades of small companies and I'm having quite enough fun on the project side and everything. Corporate bureaucracy is nothing after you dealt with actual international bureaucracy. Only downside is that pay is /too low/.

Don't take this the wrong way but corporate are such prima donnas!

I got flashbacks from my tiny startup days when corporate went to procurement companies which wanted specific terms and mode of payment. And after all the infrastructure was in place... they basically spent no money!

The SBOM idea exists in various forms. Few need it and few use it.

If somebody wants to pay money, they will figure out a way. If they want to invent an excuse they will find one.

You backup the disk to more disks. Isn't that how it's done?

Why would one even bother with that when you have like... a cable at hand and disk space.

Though recently simple things as copying files have been a challenge.

> a soft brick, where the device is still working, but fails to boot to a usable state.

Interesting. This means that if I ruin my grub I soft bricked the PC. As long as it's recoverable easily, I wouldn't consider that 'bricking'.

> Could you clarify what you mean by this not sounding like you have root access?

I just meant that if the device is no longer usable, you don't control it (as root). But you clarified that soft-brick is like a boot problem which, if easily fixable, isn't a problem.

> Yes, I know about the warning, I wrote it.

Heh, small world.

I didn't know there's different kinds of bricking. It does NOT sound like having root access.

This big warning is on the front page:

> Warning: Toltec does not support OS builds newer than 2.15.1.1189. You will soft-brick your device if you install before support is released. See remarkable2-recovery for information on how to recover your device if you have done this.

The relatively well off can't even keep a server online.

Silly article. It's basically claiming that since even the relatively well off are not doing so great nowadays due to inflation, etc. they may appreciate some wealth redistribution (to those even poorer) because they now understand inequality. (The article authors also imply inequality will lead to a revolt, aka. the stick).

Yeah, sure! You can bet the relatively well off which are feeling the economic heat will just love to pay more taxes and plunge even more rapidly on the economic ladder.

My garden is full of birds. The neighbour forgot to trim his huge tree one year and it was full of bird nests.

Birds are left with no place to live near / in cities if there's so little gardens and trees.

But put some water, grass and trees and birds show up.

Having a water source is also huge. Saw migratory birds too, multiple years.

I don't think it's on purpose or not but our small towns and back yards are just not welcoming for nature. If there's a little room, animals do come.

But real estate is all about room! People need to keep storing stuff. My neighbors on basically all sides keep building sheds and extending their homes. Pretty soon they will have no grass to speak of. But plenty of room for storage.

True, the open source world never before had a repository and build systems in constant motion. Homebrew is the innovation we needed to make things in software.

Well aren't you a sunshine.

It's just lovely that even command line tools ping home telemetry. There's no place for non-spyware.

> Decently dense.

Is densely living a virtue in itself? Seems so odd.

I mean, if you like to live near a ton of people you should be allowed to do so. But if you do not, you should also be allowed.

ZFS will also let you mix drives of different sizes. And the pool would grow as soon as you remove the smallest one.

For me, looking back, the best funnel was publishing articles and doing work in the open in a mid-sized niche. People noticed me and offered contracts.

I'm not entirely certain this will work so well, since it seems everybody is an expert at personal branding with GitHub contributions and all that nowadays.

A "hyper connector" I knew also provided some leads but smaller in scope and pay.

HN job announcements were pretty bad as an experience. With the one exception.

I'm in corporate now, but I'm also wondering how to find the next leads. Curious what your experience is?

I'm an independent contractor and I tried for a few years to apply to the announcements on HN.

It was generally a bad experience (no reply or bad interview process).

BUT... a few years ago I randomly applied for a very niche job I would have liked and spent 1 year doing some pretty amazing stuff. The company got a nice exit too (alas, I had no stock).

So, I don't think HN ads are pointless, but they are pretty random just like any other recruiting platform, etc.

Oddly, I found the next job on LinkedIn at a big corporation! Lower pay, of course, but interesting (to me) domain.

The world is decoupling from China because US sees China as a main global challenger and has asked / forced the hand of everybody else to decouple.

China is actually quite predictable and with a stable (forever) leader it's even more predictable.

US poking China creates instability.

It is depressing and I think I'm starting to see it around me. Many (bad and good) devs I know are ditching software development per se and moving into related areas (management, startups, compliance, etc) where experience and business know how matters more.

Because... while there is such a thing as software development experience, it's not that relevant for the majority of projects. Somebody sharp with less experience will more or less compete head-on.

Heh, I think the author I was thinking about was Hasui. I love his snow woodblocks.

> I want to work with more people who LOVE software and find the development of machines and the code that runs on them as fascinating as I do. Unfortunately, its less and less these days.

While I like software I'm beginning to see it as a rather bad career. While you make more money early in the career, you stop doing so rather fast and other jobs catch up quite quickly and surpass you.

I guess there's always the exception company, etc. but as a non-US career, it can get taxing to see de-growth.

https://whoisnnamdi.com/never-enough-developers/ was a neat read along the same lines.

> can't encourage the current residents

Can't or won't?

What are companies doing: training people or just hiring externally and expecting those new hires to hit the ground running? The same strategy is applied everywhere.

Too much Great Wave. Especially on HN. Just recently there was an Apple II black and white version of front page.

Look up Hiroshige. Very nice prints.

There was another nice Ukiyo-e artist but I forgot the name...

I postulate that given HNs political guidelines, this whole submission has a high chance of being flagged for some reason.

Most people have no need to auto-delete something that was recorded by a 3rd party already.

> What about your thoughts?

This is the endgame. The perfect citizen will not be capable of thinking the undesired thoughts.

Who says AI alignment / brain washing is impossible?! We are doing a pretty good jobs with humans.