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Glad it’s about user directories!

With a couple of exceptions, my guess is that these migrations are part of the commercial negotiation pack of government procurement agencies.

At a certain point I’d expect that tech sovereignty concerns will tip while governments out of the US-vendor mindset.

I see well-described bugs that have been backlogged for 4 years out into the hopper of a simple harness-based bug fixer - and a tested, ready for review fix pop out USD2.40 later. This is game-changing for us and our customers.

I’m seeing quite decent data analysis work done by otherwise busy people that they’d never otherwise have the time to do, supported by readable python code showing how the stats were generated, and allowing us to run actual experiments and rerun the stats to see if the analysis and suggested actions has a meaningful impact.

I don’t know about whether the trillions and trillions of dollar people are barking up the wrong tree, but this stuff I’m talking about is cheap and easy and we see the results.

There was proven massive illegal funding of advertising for one candidate and the election result was annulled and rerun under the existing statutes and regulations under Romanian law, ordered by professional judges in a public legal process that was procedurally fair and had appropriate evidentiary requirements.

Stop parroting lines from organisations dedicated to delegitimising liberal democracies.

Deliberative and hopefully self-stabilising. Real directional change happens over the span of a decade, not a few months. All arms of government (including non-kingship executive) brought to a rough consensus of choice and consequences.

I may have had an early version of this at home in Indonesia as a kid. Given how close we were to both sea level and the equator, the fact that the water was cool, even when site power failed for days, was bliss!

The Netherlands seems to be more or less similar, although I’ve had a mixed bag with medical knowledge an experience during emergency care: excellent to middling.

When I lived for a while in the UK, my GP strongly suggested close monitoring for a couple of things, and we saw improvements in some measures with lifestyle changes. Others were “we’ll keep an eye on it, if it gets bad, off you go for an inpatient visit to get you an extra 10 good years”.

Back in the Netherlands I have to get pushy and even a bit obnoxious at my GP before they even consider the concern, let alone schedule a blood test.

Surely it’s smart business to encourage and potentially even profit from both sides of the fence?

Can you provide any links that show that every time it’s tried, it fails?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots

Skimming this list, there seems to be one really marked failure, in Finland, but that’s disputed I read also.

Can you list more failures?

New Zealand, Australia, many NZ and US dependencies in the Pacific, South Africa, some Caribbean countries and territories?

We’re now 50 years in on a personal computer revolution, and people on HN and elsewhere haven’t managed to escape industrial-style management thinking.

If we can have billions of people organised - in their time away from formal work - into small working groups (“families”) generating a crazy amount of value for themselves and their communities, with no overarching management structure, what is possible today?

Franchises are often very light on layers of management yet have hundreds of thousands of workers.

The larger the enterprise, the less it has to look like an industrial firm.

Information flow, coordination and oversight don’t require layers and layers of managers, it’s just that those managers prefer it, since they’ve never seen anything else, they get paid more for “their important work” and have status for managing managers.

Change that and we might be in quite a different, probably better world?

Just to add to your “no big fight” observation:

What in some countries is grad studies, is in other places undergrad, and in a personal high point, high school extension studies. In contemporary rich country education systems, it’s not just grade inflation, it’s very low expectations of the student population’s capabilities, in my opinion.

WhatsApp and other over the top messaging and calling apps destroyed “the rivers of gold” that the telcos had in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Net neutrality was triggered by their attempts to block VOIP and messenger apps.

I knew one telco who made €3Bn clear profit a year from 2 Dell servers and a team of five to keep SMS messages flowing. Their billing infrastructure was bigger, much bigger than the SMS servers.

These days even without trying I get more nine than GitHub.

Arguments against self hosting have to change as our SaaS overlords are decaying in front of our very eyes.

Really? Your rhetoric seems to miss a LOT of new global businesses, as well as older ones that are much bigger than ever before.

Spotify, Wise, Adyen, DeepMind just off the top of my head, but there are loads more.

The fact that you don’t know about them is because many tech bros in the USA are pretty parochial and haven’t been exposed to international businesses or indeed tech.

I’m seeing a lot of similar things during code reviews of substantially LLM-produced codebases now. Half-baked bad idea that probably leaked from training sets.

Not quite; for wide-bodies at least RR pips GE for fuel-efficiency, but there’s not much in it for the latest generation of power plants.

You know, this is also true for a lot of non-AI shops. It’s just that they’re not really delivering at all.

I suspect that you mean the opposite of “dearth” (figuratively “scarcity; a lack or short supply”) something like “excess”, maybe?

It’s Le to chime in and say I’m really happy with mine too. It’s less portable than my old MacBook Air, but it is just a dream machine with Debian 13!

You’ll get crickets.

These people don’t want a state of citizens, they want a kingdom of serfs because they think they’ll make it into tiny aristo élite.

It's already looking good:

https://www.mothership.blog/

There were Eurobooks and they were pretty well bought out by Facebook. Hyves and so on. The online CV networks were bought by LinkedIn.

Never heard of that, and I've worked in about 7 EU countries...

It’s not just the Internet. It’s politicians and businesspeople and more generally, shameless citizens.

There’s a lot to dislike about shame as an enforcement mechanism but I’m starting to miss some of the upside it delivered.

Could you expand on the other problems with Europe other than hiring and firing laws?

Me too. I've seen that horror too :-)

This might be the new location:

https://gistdeck.github.io/

Because obscurity works against insider threats and OSint /s

I ran a corporate networking team in the 2000s with two of the five network engineer team members, being two years out of retraining (they were welding specialists in the former local shipbuilding industry). Non-white collar supervisory and work ethic issues, but excellent work in general. Had an issue with the team on-call car getting bullet holes once (suspect some drug dealing on the side, long story!) but excellent colleagues in general.

I've worked with a lot of retrained and second-career people and I can't sing their praises enough.