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Stop sprinting is good but also : stop following Google. You are not Google. You do not have the needs of Google. Just stop it.
Pick the simplest tech stack you can find. This gives 100x more time to your developers to work on company solutions and not fighting technical complexity.
Next level for you: look at society and realize it works the same.
Our tech overlords are the equivalent of Kings now, above the law. And their attitude to humanity stinks.
You can change entire elections this way, by controlling what propaganda is ok and what isn't. But make no mistake, its actually all propaganda.
I think it works the best when it's completely open to anything at all.
I've been running Firefox since version 3, every day, searching for all kinds of stuff online daily (I work as a devops and programmer guy). Never had anything happen whatsoever.
Firefox has alerted me that my email has been part of hacks of random sites however, but since I use a password manager with different passwords for each site, I don't even worry about that. Chrome doesn't even inform you about those hacks as far as I know.
I personally think running latest is the best thing to do. And if something fails, you downgrade it temporarily until the latest work again. It's pretty much opposite to what is recommended, and it's just the best solution in my opinion.
It's the same with locking python pip packages to specific versions. Nobody ever looks at it again and you run code that is 5 years old in production. People only look at it when it breaks.
About 10000 Russian casualties so far in this invasion. They have no training, no air support, no fuel, nothing. Putin is sending all these people to their deaths believing a lie that the Ukraine people are nazis, while he is playing bunker bitch at home, afraid to even sit next to people in his own staff.
If you are on chrome, I'm not sure if there is something like that but it should exist some plugin...
If you can't find it on Google, maybe you need to use Duckduckgo or even better, sign up for Kagi search beta. :)
I stil remember the "horse dewormer" propaganda about ivermectin.
GCP is easier to start with for me, but becomes annoying because it's missing things that I can do in aws.
For example, cloud run can't run docker containers that doesn't listen to a port. Just run it once and shut down like Fargate does in AWS.
They want people to use kubernetes which is more complex and has features a lot of people don't need ever. Fargate is simple and just works.
So I prefer AWS for reasons like that but I think GCP is easier to understand.
The open office is the absolute worst possible environment for being productive. I could probably be more productive in the middle of a highway.
Since I'm on Linux, I use a lot of software from people outside the big tech camp, such as the awesome kitty terminal.
There was a bug in it which unreported and when the developer fixed it in less than 24 hours, I signed up to give him 10 dollars per month. About 800 other people were already signed up and giving donations (possibly smaller).
People just like to give back, so make it easy to do and they will. But you need to make a product they use every day.
No decision yet if Sweden will or not.