That’s what I meant.
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Day to day I interact with it like any other VPN client except I auth via the Google workspace account they gave me.
It’s Tailscale, or hosted OpenVPN and cross your fingers they’re not snooping, or DIY Wireguard or OpenVPN and all the usual ups and downs of DIY.
Software based infra is out of the unknown unknowns era these days and years of rising usability expectations means Oracle level nightmares to deal with do not gain enough momentum to survive anymore. Tailscale is plenty easy to deal with. The only consideration is do you believe your traffic is really secure? Otherwise “it just works” like anything else these days.
That said, my project for them is deprecating the infra accessed via Tailscale (24/7 EC2 running web dashboards). The already Dockerized dashboards will run locally now and use an API to retrieve the data. Real people directly in your infra is probably best avoided.
Can’t be here until you observed back there, because here does not exist without having moved from back there to here.
Qualifying it as failure is subjective and crap poetry coupled to contemporary productivity culture. It’s a success in that you learned. It’s only a failure because it didn’t unicorn.
Relativity. You have spent years hearing views that are contrary to Tucker.
Of course they seem insincere and worth scoffing at. Making the entire premise unfalsifiable and hewing to hand me down gossip from the past, as if it has a monopoly on “greater good”.
Meat based tape recorders rambling inanity of the dead.
You should look into squatters rights. Tuckers view is alive and well in some forms in our society. It’s hardly resulted in physics inverting.
Vain people defending hand me down story regarding private property on the other hand tends to result in a whole lot of atrocity.
You can find books, popular newspaper articles, etc that predicted the housing crash and some that even predicted the 07-08 timeline.
2022 video about changing world order: https://youtu.be/xguam0TKMw8
1997 article about leveraging worker insecurity to keep people in jobs: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...
Accurate predictions are all over because human society is intentional, and physical reality has constraints. I predict you will die of dehydration if you stop drinking fluids.
Many things are certain despite all the uncertainty we feel.
Real trade can happen without the speculation game. Some people may not get to build rocket engines in such a system but the species doesn’t owe a minority of first world engineers everything they want anymore than it owes an even smaller minority of billionaires.
The propaganda has worked really well; you seem to actually believe human agency is coupled only to the money making endeavors before us today.
Past technology is a joke relative to ours and so will these fancy things we make today seem to the future. Fleeing Earth on rockets is not the only path. It’s the only path we are allowed to speak to. Alternatives would cause the wrong people to lose privilege and power.
Thanks, I guess, for suggesting I keep a perspective I already had in mind (as evidenced by the constrained choice of words).
Billions locked up in deference to a handful of CEOs means less liquidity in the open market. Which is intentional, I understand; if dollar value collapses these guys might have to work to survive, and of course humans could no longer do the necessary trade of real things to stay alive and prosper if an arbitrary financier cannot claim an arbitrary % of economic activity thousands of miles away.
Human agency is coupled to wishful thinking still. Which is understandable; we only just crossed the threshold of <50% of adults believing in higher powers. Was still 80% around 2000.
Some like to complain about projects using Slack or Discord because they’re not open and can’t be archived publicly but really who is pulling value from old IRC logs today? Nostalgic lizard brain is all that is.
Network directly with engineers where they spend time online. Not recruiters in purpose built HR portals.
Their ad and marketing budgets are basically to woo public opinion into belief billionaires should exist, however.
Look at the Coinbase story; employee and investor wealth gone. CEO wealth intact. And society gains little to nothing net new from enriching that fraud.
Just defense of Marc. Talk about missing the forest for a tree. There was nothing but extreme growth to be had when exporting to the world the items needed to re-establish their manufacturing base.
But naaah; the world was rebuilt due to the brilliance of a handful of computer nerds in one nation.
The only quote that explains it for me is: “You took too much, man. You took too much, too much.”
Seeing Gen X tech leaders as great thinkers when they’re riding the wave of the world rebuilding after WW2 is so bizarre to me; none of Marc’s work is fundamental to anything these days. Thousands of others understand these systems at the same level.
It’s a LARP, it’s propaganda. It’s taking intentional advantage of quirks in lizard brain biology. He’s smart but he’s not owed fawning deference. I just can’t under people with deferential behavior towards people like him anymore.
Not that you putting it out there like that. Just saying; to keep it’s all a rise and fall of biology. The spiraling rambling they put on is a show for people who don’t know better.
No one seems to care about the huge effects this has on private citizens.
All the concern is with the ephemeral belief these businesses are the future.
Anyone remember Nortel? 80% of last generations Fortune 500 is gone.
The future has no obligation to drag along, and will probably mock how primitive it is, our bleeding.
These guys are traditional confidence men promising prosperity for the ages while routinely pumping and dumping all over the public, that despite what memes media and politics try to peddle, does not owe deference to history and self aggrandizing story.