FWIW I’m tentatively bullish on AI (for specific use cases) but I have never once… ever… ever… had a useful interaction with a customer service chatbot.
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Having seen unnecessarily unhelpful behaviour like this before, it is infuriating and deserves to be called out.
I will say that the OP seems to have a possibly unrealistic expectation on who is responsible for security. It is very rarely quite as binary as it seems to be being described. I could be wrong, not knowing all the details…
Regardless, it still sounds like Hostinger have done very little to help.
Those were the days. Nothing like that delicious smell of crude oil vapour as the fractionation column warms up…
The lack of reproducible builds for Signal’s apps has been a topic of discussion for quite some time:
Just a note for anyone looking for alternative password managers - 1Password is Canadian!
This quote probably makes it a little bit clearer though if any doubt remains:
> “We're angry. We're really, really fucking angry.”
It could at least show a “designed for desktop use only” message or something.
It turns out the figures are rounded in that graphic because the source article [0] (posted by another commenter) has it at 0.6% (which is likely rounded too).
Interesting when you consider how much certain topics seem to dominate current political discourse.
[0] https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-m...
(I can appreciate this redesign concept though)
A ceasefire of just 30 days seems like a good starting point, does not require any major concessions from either side and puts the ball in Russia’s court.
Given the US backing of this proposal, if Russia declines, it sends a pretty clear message about the “reasonableness” of their position (which obviously hasn’t ever been anything close to “reasonable”) and I think makes it that much harder for the Donald to side with them (though who can really predict what he’ll do).
If they agree, then hopefully this gives Ukraine just a bit of respite and starts a change of trajectory of this war. It also seems to be a small enough step to help Ukraine and the US realign - as far as that is possible - without looking like a major walk-back of the US position or looking like Ukraine has been strong-armed into something they didn’t really want to agree to (aka minerals deal without guarantees - though that may come next).
Still so many challenges ahead but I really hope this ceasefire happens.
Reminds me of Alan Ford trying to get a washing machine to “work as desired” - a very early form of prompt engineering:
You’ll reach your goal either way, but you probably won’t regret it even if it takes a year or two longer - if you’re working on something more fulfilling during that time!
At least reconsider what options you have right now. You probably have more than you realise.
I don’t ever want to stop learning and building interesting things with technology, and helping people use that technology for productive and useful outcomes.
The thing I definitely don’t want to be doing when I’m 50, or even next year, is work for a large morally corrupt organisation or a tyrannical boss who’s values are not in alignment with mine. And I guess that also means not working for a company where the work implicitly takes priority over living a balanced life (as described in the article with the 2am working to a deadline fuelled by Starbucks).
I don’t mind working until 2am on my own projects - where I have the autonomy to decide to do that - but not “under duress” for someone else, not like that anyway. And not in a team where the culture promotes that, such that I might get absorbed in that way of working and fool myself into thinking that I have chosen to live and work that way (a mistake I’ve made in the past).
I think self-employment therefore is the way for me. I’m there now, not making as much as my previous employment, but not compromising my values as much either - and right now at least the latter feels more important than the former. I just get to build cool things with people I choose to work with. I think that’s sustainable.
Just be transparent. If anything it might provoke further interest and discussion too.
There are always some features that I wish it had, but ultimately it does a really good job.
It’s easy to take for granted the hard work that goes into creating and maintaining such awesome tools.
And do you use any kind of reference for determining which ranges/countries are wise to block or has this just been something you’ve evolved over time?
To be further pedantic, Visionary accounts are priced at ~30 euro/month. They likely cost Proton significantly less than that.
I would also suggest utilisation of those free accounts would be much lower than your estimates (though I appreciate I’m just countering your subjective opinion with one of my own).
If it’s a single email - then even if it doesn’t get caught in a Spam filter that’s still a short period of time to notice and respond when the stakes are so high.
If that email goes to junk, or you’re unwell and not checking emails as frequently (given - I assume - that many of Hetzner’s customers are individuals) or any other number of reasonable situations, you’ve effectively had no warning before service termination and deletion of data.
I don’t mind cloud providers acting on suspicious usage patterns or abuse reports but there has to be some kind of due process or it just ends up unnecessarily destroying goodwill in a brand/provider.
Having learned many of the same lessons as you I can 100% backup everything you said in your “sum it up” paragraph!
The only caveat I would add is to the “make an MVP with AI”. I think MVPs generated directly out of ChatGPT/Claude are so easy now (or at least it can appear so on the face of it) that many people are just barely going beyond that - but to any experienced eye, that approach is quite transparent and can look very low-value (even if the idea is actually a good one).
Now if that person is a skilled salesperson then that might work.
But, for most people, I think it’s still very important to demonstrate good instincts, taste and strategic/commercial understanding when building such an MVP. And that means editing and shaping the output just enough to meet your vision for the product. So to agree with you - definitely, 100%, use AI as much as possible - but don’t assume that you can put zero work in on top and have that MVP be effective. Because the 10 year old down the street has the exact same tool as you - so if you are just relying verbatim on that tool’s output- it’s going to be hard to stand out.
I’d still definitely agree to spend as little time as physically possible on the MVP - with the above caveat.
Having said all that… a lot of historical wisdom on the topic of MVPs has been turned upside down since gen AI became mainstream, so on the flip side you could argue: create 1000 MVPs in an hour, publish them all, see what generates interest…*
Hmm.. I think I just argued against my own point.
* (I’m not really seriously suggesting anyone do this, but I’m also not entirely discounting this as an approach either…)