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Left out matrix as an alternative?

Matrix is even more overwhelming than slack in the same sense that email is more overwhelming than lotus notes. Maybe overwhelming is fine if the use for the tech isn't siloed to solving communication in only one part of their life.

Whenever you file a DMCA appeal with GitHub/etc you would have the option to file a takedown on the jack ass. Some projects doing it occasionally would trigger the right conservative fears at corporations to reduce the market.

The CC licenses should probably be adjusted to make a DMCA attempt a permanent revocation of license. That way DMCAs can flow in the opposite direction and people can learn things.

Ah, you are too optimistic about the desktop in general. Landlines and desktops failed in the developing world first. It is contracting back to workstation users of old (STEM academia, IT, graphics) and maybe Adobe will do their hold out again like refusing to properly support windows when Mac was in the hole but they should get pretty desperate as the gateway platforms to their products become unwanted by the general population.

This isn't really a coherent statement. The DoD's rules do prevent this; the NSA refuses to follow DoD rules.

Reading the article of December 2nd it seems accurate to me. Ubiquiti was wrong about the scope, that the incident was external. It says the suspect was pretending to be a whistleblower. It sounds to me like the suspect wasn't a liar when whistleblowing so what would Krebs retract?

There are two main hurdles in consulting:

1. Sales time is free. Even with established clients they are likely to work project by project and expect detailed quotes/estimates and initial discussions that take a lot of time, then there's billing and general business handling..

2. There is a forever war between large generalist consultants and niche consultants. Working ~alone you will probably have to be an expert in a niche and there is always business pressure to use a large consultant for everything even if their work is sub-par. (Accounts payable, etc, don't care about quality of consultants but about number of tasks.)

Planning for these factors is important, and combined with having no one to bill for more general maintenance hours and attempts of various orgs to get their "standard discount" for volume, being a startup, or being an NGO it is important to make sure you ask for a high enough rate. With contracting, seeking 1.5-2x is a minimum in most tax systems, with consulting at least 3x your intended income from an equivalent full time job.

Making OSes or browsers you are in a market share competition whether you like it or not because that dictates a lot about changes to how the environment deals with you in the future. One can ignore the least engaged/satisfied/likely-to-contribute users and their perceptions at one's peril.

Cool, it is a lot to start researching but you sound like you use a very similar style to things I am used to in other languages.

On guice/gwizard/maven, if I understand correctly I would be defining new guice DI for something like a message broker (and gwizard's solutions for similar modules might serve as a template) while probably just using direct dependencies in maven for something that doesn't need to be mocked in unit tests or replaceable in production?

What's the use of being a shill for civilisation ending environmental policy? I think Dr. Strangelove himself demonstrates the character profile..

If the world is going to stick to a sanctions plan it needs to destroy all those pipelines now and sanction Russian Oil, shutting down only the parts of Russia's economy that don't reinforce Putin's power is only going to work if it has been done early enough and it has been over 2 decades, so probably it is not.

I wonder if this will reawaken Vatican banker death investigations.

s/pro-Russian/pro-Putin? IMO pro Russian trolls are very cool but usually get imprisoned by Putin.

I'm not really seeing that difference in requirements. Most of the forums were trivial to find in all sorts of Google searches, allowing thousands of people to create a new unique account, and then get banned for violating the pinned rules about asking a question by one of the <100 users that could be recognized as being a repeated chat mate on the one forum. Many of those obsessives on one forum would never be findable somewhere else where they might not have been an expert.

I find it a bit sad that thousands of people are on FB using their real names and turning person who says stupid things about several different hobbies into a permanent part of their own fairly permanent identity and I don't actually see how it helps anything. But maybe people who don't find it creepy see something I don't.

I guess, I kind of view this, and most modern developments, as the same tack-on that always happened with online games. You can no longer play according to the original/actual mechanics because even the avatars become treated as real by the socially invested, but you can't treat it as real because the game mechanics and lack of enforced security mean its "laws" are a social farce atop simple game mechanics.

I kind of suspect he was doing it all to build his personal profile as a potential CEO or management "influencer". If it wound down quietly with no contracts as an explanation for no hires, perhaps he would have already been on to a hefty salary somewhere chaotic but real leaving his fake partner winding things down.

Yeah, but there's no reason to think some weren't stacking up on his desk and managing an agency successfully working average contracts wasn't what he was after.

Flying cars were delivered and one flew until 1977:

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

The FAA rejected the dream of normal drivers instead of trained pilots having flying cars, and IMO rightly so.

It's problematic to be pedantic about something that isn't true. A vaccine causes an immunity response. A therapeutic cancer vaccine is a vaccine because it relies on an immunity response, not because it prevents the spread of cancer. Vaccinations are often the best method of preventing a infectious disease but not all vaccines prevent contagion.

I think you are using dichotomies inappropriately to invoke the standard biases that have trapped the Mozilla community.

Something that competes with electron is not electron. Non-native includes RLBox which is now going to secure Firefox according to Mozilla. Mozilla is on record regretting thunderbird's poor Integration with the Firefox stack as a trial for thunderbird devs and a tax slowing Firefox engineering.

This holding pattern has gone on and on because no one wants to establish the correct API layer to maintain as an inherent tax for Firefox engineering that enables all F/OSS to reuse the NS* stack correctly with good documentation.

In the long term this means chromium has an ecosystem and Mozilla's stable ecosystem consists of just one browser. However flawed chromium is, it has no competition for most developers and competition with WebKit for a handful.

Thunderbird has always been their opportunity to demonstrate their stack is a general ecosystem, but it's headaches show that their stack isn't a good ecosystem for anything that isn't Firefox.

They shouldn't be trying to build thunderbird for its own sake, they should be demonstrating their equivalent for electron and feel pressured to make it no worse for users than the current Thunderbird, but attractive/stable enough for outside developers to choose over electron/etc.

Can't I just replay the steps you save with a later starting point and sell a new work that was also incrementally made with a lot of "effort"?

I think this quote is actually about a different point. The President, Secretary and Treasurer don't need any actual credentials for their role like a council needs a JD, but they have specific responsibility/liability in corporate legal structures.

This looks pretty close to the process I use for a new "blank" system:

https://www.adaltas.com/en/2022/02/08/nixos-installation/

Once you have setup one system and tuned a configuration.nix to your liking it's portable to each nixos system you setup.

I think Richard Simmons already brought us this disruption, and you can pay what you want at the closest yard sale!

The slide deck is comical in its defensiveness of the company itself, how does one compare video remote classes with boutique classes that had better have 8- students to explain $300/month?! Or is this people in LA assuming their local phenomenons are normal?

This isn't a "show HN" so most likely the author is not the poster. HN is also probably more color blind than average, so the poster should have checked multiple browsers and then the palettes before finding it interesting enough to post?

I get the idea that it would be nice if the web were different, but I think that is a personal responsibility to choose for yourself or try to address yourself by submitting a PR that makes the repo better.

10%? All the statistics I've seen recently put firefox bellow 5% and often well bellow like 3-4%. Given that is less common than colorblindness, colorblindness is not all that well handled on the web, and not handling a disability is an actual legal liability..

Starting with books with an intention to go into all e-commerce seems like a good plan to expand into a large domain from a hard problems side, then he could do it again with AWS. By that point size alone was advantage.

Manufacturing a fitness product with streamed classes seemed to be tackling the hardest part of what domain? Sure they could try random things now, but where are they ahead of a media, robotics, car or e-commerce firm? Investors are quoted as thinking he doesn't know what he is doing so probably he shouldn't have built up staff with no new market to enter with an advantage.

Reminds me of Eliot Spitzer.

An executive can't use corruption of process under them as a shield or all corrupt executives would rely on damage to due process to be unaccountable.

No, only one violates the generally accepted freedoms of the press:

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

You expect bugs, I expect bugs, they expect bugs.. This explains why they lead with a discussion of defenses they were taking like certificate pinning or encrypting this tracking that caused them to discount risks of putting this service in a new system and letting it run on startup and contact a 3rd party? Except that isn't what they lead with, they have done nothing to reiterate a position that's appropriate for a browser maker.