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To host email for your personal domain on Google don't you need to sign up for a business workspace plan?

Keep in mind that this article isn't necessarily talking about the folks who are making the models.

There is a ton of much more ordinary software engineering work that goes into building this stuff. The people being talked about in this article could just be frontend or backend engineers who were working on a product listing page this time last year.

> Then, a Slack message popped up. He suddenly had a deadline to deliver a project by 6 a.m. on Monday.

Why don't people feel empowered to say no to this sort of thing? Is the market for engineers so bad that we have to tolerate these things out of fear?

Yeah, but say I am an attacker doing some kind of brute force password hack, and I have a certain number of successes.

Given the funnel there, it might well be worth it for me to put some energy into figuring out who the person at the other end of that account is. Phone numbers aren't secrets.

But isn't it the case that most sites will tell you if you pass a password check before hitting you with a SMS verification?

In that case I could see someone attempting a sim swap attack for accounts where they pass a password check for higher value stuff like primary email or anything that is probably linked to a spending account

Well, for the most part you agreed to your employer's stock plan when you were granted options, and so you are subject to whatever is in there but there isn't a lot you can do about that since you would have already signed it a while back.

I would just refer to an attorney regarding anything would modify your shares or the agreement you already signed, because those things can't be arbitrarily modified without your consent.

Also, the most common way employees get "screwed" is when the company underperforms and has to raise money on bad terms, but there isn't much you can do about that.

I don't think founders typically get liquidation preference like VCs do, but correct me please if I'm wrong.

I read HN almost daily and comment here often, but I don't like the name. I wish they'd chosen to call it something more like "startup news" instead, as that feels like a more accurate representation of the site and its community and standards.

Question for everyone ITT: what would you use as an alternative to Helm for parameterizing kubernetes manifests? Also, how do you handle the secrets that need to go in the yaml?

Previosly I used Terraform for this but am starting a new project and would like to avoid TF for management of actual k8s resources, despite it having some advantages.

I wasn't referring specifically to rolling vs fixed release distros, and more just generally about the state of Nvidia's drivers on Wayland. Most distros still fallback to X11 with Nvidia because the Nvidia+Wayland still feels very much like a WIP.

I love that this is a made with C++/Qt and isn't an electron app.

> I need to stay on the cutting edge for desktop environments, display protocols, and graphics drivers due to issues with NVIDIA and the Linux desktop (especially Wayland). Many developments are happening in real-time to improve them.

Only if you want to personally experience every single bug as it is introduced upstream.

Reading the details, this settlement sounds pretty bad:

> The settlement would lower those fees by at least 0.04 percentage point for a minimum of three years.

> ... the settlement gives merchants the ability to impose surcharges on customers who have Mastercard or Visa cards...

> ... merchants would be able to make deals with banks to get them to use what they consider to be a preferred card.

Yikes. So, Visa/MC reduce their take but now the merchants are getting in on the game.

What is your solution here? Are you using a project-specific flake? Do you still install packages with pip?

My personal UI preferences aside, one place where KDE is ahead of Gnome right now that matters a great deal to me is support for fractional scaling, especially supporting different scaling factors one different displays (laptop vs monitor).

KDE seems to have this working pretty well, whereas Gnome does not and it isn't clear when they will get there.

Has this ever happened? I know that in the US at least we say that "you can sue anyone for anything," but it seems a stretch to think that a company could face legal liability for disclosing internally that someone was let go.

Right. I think they just want to avoid being on the front-page of startup news sites with a headline like "<company> lays off <n>% of workforce," so they don't call it a layoff and try to keep a lid on how many people were let go.

Of course, because they can't say that they have to come up with other narratives which wind up sounding disingenuous at best.

So are landlords making money hand-over-fist or what?

What comes to mind are the Office subscription prompts that come up frequently with updates and the OneDrive, basically, ad that is in the settings app.

I think there are others, but I believe I've figured out how to turn most of it off.

Yeah, I'll probably wind up with Vivaldi or something else I'm not thinking of now. Opera maybe? Brave seems fine as well.

I think that this sort of behavior is really just in Microsoft's DNA.

I do think that happened to me at least once. I was happily using Kagi as my default search engine, and then after a restart suddenly I was using Bing.

What makes Edge a good browser among the several other Chrome-based browsers out there?

I've been trying Edge lately because I wanted to see if its "efficiency mode" would produce any noticeable difference in the battery life I experienced on my laptop.

They've really made it almost impossible to use as a privacy-respecting browser that lets you pick your search engine. There are a very large number of "on by default" settings that I had to change to turn of things like "Microsoft Rewards" and "creator recommendations."

The default search engine selection in buried in the settings under "address bar search." Even after you change that there is still an un-changeable page that comes up on new tabs that searches with Bing / Copilot, and other various ways to trigger a search that use Microsoft's search engine no matter what.

Also, whatever search engine you use, Edge will send your seaches to MS unless you turn off another "on by default" option.

And then, assuming you've managed to set everything up how you want it, MS will hit you with prompts after various updates to do things like return your default search to Bing.

Together, it all really feels egregious.

The author is also selling this: https://www.maxyourmind.xyz/

Secondary phone?

That being said, there are a great many apps with support for kanban-style boards that one could use before resorting to jira. Notion, for example, can do it.

I don't think most kids leave because they are being kicked out. They leave because the want to assert their independence from their parents and enjoy the freedoms that come from living on their own.

I suspect this has a lot more to do with interest rates than anything else, and as painful as everything is right now, I wouldn't make any firm conclusions about the future of our industry until rates have come back down.

I don't really see this as particularly interesting. Doesn't mean they know anything the rest of us don't. They just want to capture as much of the early action as possible in the event that SEC does provide approval. If that doesn't happen, they won't start trading tomorrow.