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com··on Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git
Can you explain what you need in annotations that doesn’t exist in these wikis?
com··on Hot Take: Don'T provide incident resolution estimates
In fact, if you can get away with it, don’t agree to SLAs and offer on-demand contract termination and immediate data migration to your clients.

You get to get rid of service level managers, one of the biggest threats to service availability in my industry experience, and you begin to hate downtime, not tolerate it, and the same for performance degradation, response jitter etc.

com··on A Local-First Case Study
I think that using a bus decomplicates the connectivity story - having a “cloud peer” removes quite a bit of coding and testing from implementing true peer to peer discovery and communications functionality.

Bonus points: you could potentially rip out the bus and replace it with something that involves peer to peer connectivity without changing client data structures.

com··on A Local-First Case Study
This is great! I was quite excited to see Ink & Switch’s Embark and now this…

Jake makes creating a local-first multiplayer app seem so simple.

com··on First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges
I really, really like the weird { 1 + 2 } * 3 syntax. It's very cool.
com··on SolarWinds security chief calls for tighter cyber laws
An alternative approach: criminal and civil liability with teeth.

Good news on the judge throwing out most of the “basically everything is securities fraud” charges, though.

com··on Ergo: Erlang-inspired event driven actor framework in Go
Much lighter impact on system performance that world-GC. Simpler algorithms as well, so lower risk that you’ll ever get performance regressions - or worse.
com··on Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
Devil’s advocate … why shouldn’t this be true? That’s how HyperCard worked, right?
com··on The Minneapolis Street Grid: Explained
Some of my family were stock farmers in Australia and talked about 10, 5, 3 and 2 chain roads a bit too when talking about driving routes between places in rural and forested regions. You’d know the (maybe abandoned or ruined versus still existing small settlement) destination - by the description of the width of the roads getting there.

I’m not sure how much of this was connected to what seemed to be a multi-generational familial problem recalling proper nouns.

As someone who didn’t grow up there it was a bit different to what I was used to - named roads or road numbers, named settlements or geographic identifiers.

com··on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules
I don’t think that rule of law means what you think it does.
com··on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules
No, not generally in federative states like the US or specifically for Union competencies in the particularly weird confederal entity that is today the European Union.

The Union competency in question had been established by treaty - the establishment and protection of the Single Market, and as I understand it, specifically the provisions restricting state aid - where by being members of the Union, countries have delegated regulatory and judicial primacy to organs of the Union.

com··on Beehive lab notebook: Local-first access control
I really like the diagramming style.

The general research program seems very interesting, things like Embark have that special kind of simplicity that comes from long and deep thinking about a problem.

com··on Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker
Open Banking predates Brexit, so lots of that stuff got carried over into the Brave New World.
com··on Railroad Diagram Generator (from EBNF syntax)
The GitHub README is significantly more pleasant to skim than the website. It also has diagrams.

Consider changing the front page of your site to the README.

com··on Sailors Secretly Install Starlink on Their Littoral Combat Ship
Exactly.

Apparently it's not done frequently enough. Or you know, upgradable software defined radio receivers embedded in the facility or ship that turn on at random times to sample the local RF environment for unpleasant surprises.

I mean, even payments service providers must scan for rogue access points in datacenters and office locations, surely, surely this is SOP for the US Navy?

Who is actually running anything of any use in the US Navy? Things like cointel? Nuclear safety? Goodness knows how bad things are.

com··on PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting
I like the revenue sharing option for open source developers. 20% is less than the Apple tax but it’s better than a star on GitHub I suspect.
com··on Sailors Secretly Install Starlink on Their Littoral Combat Ship
I'm astonished that the US Navy doesn't run regular radiation sweeps of their ships and bases to identify accidental or intentional devices that could act like beacons or exfil channels.
com··on The Netherlands' Rent Control Disaster
Meh, we'll see what happens. For context: I'm a rental owner in NL, so this is a potentially biased take.

The situation has gotten quite out of control in terms of the shortage of availability of housing given the abject failure of government to permit and encourage building where people actually want or need to live as well as current demographic trends (much smaller households is a much bigger driver over the last generation than even net immigration IMO).

It's not just making it so, so hard to build (very slow processes for planning approval, incorrect balancing act on nitrogen dioxide emissions between home building and intensive - and gross - animal factories who have captured the political narrative recently and are using more trad farmers to push their narrative) but also the almost terminal failure of the semi-state woningcorporaties who are chartered to build and manage affordable housing stocks in exchange for insanely cheap capital and other benefits - instead not building, selling off their stock to private landlords and providing luxe BMWs with chauffeurs to their directors and VPs.

What building seems to happen is aimed at the top 5% in (sale price) value of the market in the big cities. It's interesting to rich Syrians and Chinese and Americans, but doesn't solve the urgent housing availability problem.

Private landlords have then behaved rationally, but badly, with very hefty increases of rental amounts, in a society that expects that renters should be able to establish themselves for long durations - possibly even generations - even in rental accomodation.

The shortage of affordable housing has resulted in politically-unsustainable situation due to the terrible impacts on low and middle income earners, especially young people expecting to be able to have a job and live away from their parents.

Thus, a very correct tightening up of the rules about landlord behaviours and especially pricing to decrease the political pain. But it's a band-aid, and only takes part of the sting of the problem away.

Without a huge campaign of home building infill, brown-field construction and mandating - yes, regulation - income-segment representation on what is built occurs (ie if there are five rough income bands, then the type, size, finish, and price of what is built in a region in a year should match the percentage of folks in those bands), the problem is going to get worse and not better.

Fire the woningcorporatie CEOs every year if they don't hit provincial house-building and tenant growth targets. They and their gravy-train pals won't like it and will lean heavily on local government for permitting improvements.

And really, let's shaft the intensive animal factory owners and build houses instead.

com··on Tech failure nearly caused massive flood in Amsterdam
Glad that this was caught in time.

Perhaps the eagle-eyed Rijkswaterstaat employee should receive an honorarium from the insurance companies and Gemeente Amsterdam.

Also “Operating staff also received extra training.” - just like a standard SaaS major incident wrap up…

com··on Silicon Valley's Hot Talent Pipeline Is an Israeli Army Unit
Everybody, yes everybody from Israeli security vendors that I have met claims membership in 8200. Some I believe, most not.

It’s destroyed the mystique.

com··on Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened to the Company
Are there new hardware options for new adopters of Lyrion?
com··on Show HN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue Component Library for the Gov.uk Design System
I hadn’t noticed this being rolled out yet in the bits of gouv.fr that I interact with.

I especially like the colour palettes.

I wish that the Vue storybook showed the demo component first. I wish ALL storybooks did that actually!

com··on The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite
Such an interesting insight, and I especially liked the ethnographer-styled distance from the subjects in the Valley and in Washington D.C.

I’m off to read the literature on paıdeía and how it might relate to the idea of Bildung.

I think that last sentence means I’ve been mentally colonised by the Valley-men…

com··on Fred: Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States
The y index is very misleading, from people who should know better
com··on When the Mismanagerial Class Destroys Great Companies
He’s got a bee in his bonnet about ESG and DEI, and I think he’s quite wrong about the actual dynamic around these important principles in the continued success or incipient failures of businesses (my take: practically irrelevant to economic failure or success outcomes of businesses, because those economic outcomes are mostly tied to market factors and management capabilities independent of social missions or lack of them).

But I do think his analysis of the mechanisms and processes of management failure is on the money, at least what I’ve observed from close up.

com··on AnandTech Farewell
He seems to have made a significantly good recovery.
com··on I'm blocking connections from AWS to my on-prem services
I use IPv6 magic
com··on I'm blocking connections from AWS to my on-prem services
Wireguard is quite good too, and if you’re up for some complication in your life you can do full mesh quite easily with it if your online infra is a bit distributed.
com··on Notes on Buttondown.com
I'm in at the start of a similar process of evaluation.

I've just stumbled on keila.io - open source, bring your own email provider, nice enough block editor, they can host or self-hosted (still don't understand the business model, but hey ho)

Any other open source newsletter platforms not on 4ar0n's list?

Edit: forgot hosted or self-host

com··on Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US
They can lobby, right? I mean what are those $billions being spent on? Weakening environmental or consumer protections?
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