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I started to develop only inside VMs, with a full Desktop, IDE, browser etc. inside the virtual machine.

There have been to many contaminations of major package repos lately. Only one typo in an import statement up the dependency chain and you’d be compromised.

Good. If you want to pay with your personal data, use gmail. If you want to keep your personal data, then pay the people who run the service with actual money.

You have to pay to receive a service? Good heavens!

And who gets all those interest payments?

You mean the Russian space program? They are still flying their one good ship developed 70 years ago. And the money goes to a handful of corrupt people who are good friends with “the leader”.

Or take ESA. They are currently struggling to finish development of Ariane 6. A rocket with tech already obsolete years before it is even ready to fly for the first time.

You mean ULA and Boing? Costs usually 5 times as much and takes three times as long to develop it, if it works at all in the end.

Why the jealousy about people getting good money for good work?

I am still seeing it too, looked at Musk’s feed while being logged out. I am in Europe.

He didn’t. Look at context.

It is exactly what happened.

WaPo. Probably one of the worst sources for anything relating to Musk.

I guarantee you he isn’t.

Now calculate km per month per dollar.

Sounds more like a case of “use the right tool for the job” thing.

Having a cryptographically signed distributed ledger makes a lot of sense to store financial transaction data that should never be edited later.

It makes no sense to store conversations that may be required by courts to be changed or where the author wants to edit an old comment.

That’s false.

Sounds more like an absence of ideology and the desire that diversity of opinion returns to the virtual town square.

Or publicly stated that it “would depend” on how much the U.S. will help Ukraine. Only a week or so before the Russian invasion.

Reminded me of the statement that “the U.S. wouldn’t intervene if Iraq invaded Kuwait” 30 years ago. Again only weeks before the invasion that then gave the reason for the first invasion of Iraq by the U.S.

Amazing how often these same tactics work and reliably lead to big sales for the military industrial complex.

??? Your post has no content.

What are those motivations you claim he described?

Just like today if you advocated for peace in Ukraine.

Markdown is the HTML what JSON is to XML.

Money is easy. Finding trustworthy people is hard.

Or both companies have accounting departments with experts who figure out the details, eg. what’s the amount in consulting fees that Tw pays to Tesla for this.

Isn’t that obvious?

I disagree. If I was a trustworthy employee at Twitter, I would be glad to finally have all those ideologists be found and removed.

On the contrary, this is the most sensible and efficient approach to solve one of the main problems Twitter has.

Both Obama and Biden (and Bush) delivered a couple of wars to the military industrial complex to make trillions of dollars on. If you don’t deliver wars, the media will punish you. That’s what I learned from the past 20 years of U.S. politics.

Not to interrupt your rant but, Tesla might just also have a distributed backend for their cars to communicate with, that might even be globally distributed. And I would even say that it probably processes more data/sec than the Twitter “product”.

Enforcement: I would imagine that there is a way for hotfixes by a small group of trustworthy employees. That would be the common sense approach.

Communication: yes, this is the obvious cautious first step. There seem to be many ideologically driven people at Twitter and those kind of people can become dangerous very quickly. The big first task will be to find them and remove them from their positions, so that the rest of the employees can continue with their jobs.

Lime deposits?

Not sure what “common European household” you live in, but that is commonly not a problem over here.

Are you really defending politicians staying in power for decades? Wow. What ideology does to people.

The reason democracy has been so successful throughout the world is that it provides a peaceful way to remove people from power after a few years.