vanschelven

Every journey starts with the first step... And those steps are finally being taken now. Don't see why this kind of naysaying would be the top comment here

I read a text from the 60s by my grandfather this week and seeing an emdash made the LLM alarm in my head go off... Had to really stop myself before I went all "and you" on him

Fair enough... though if I were to push my point: one could also say that dumbing down your mechanisms of email sending (i.e. ditching templates, or pulling the templates to your own codebase) would give the same advantage I talked about earlier of vendor-independance

It's funny that you say that because any time I sign in to one of the big cloud providers I wonder how anyone gets any work done there _at all_...

But to answer your question it's the top one from the menu and then you get a page that couldn't be more clear (IMHO as a customer)

But the argument is reversed! The more boring your tech stack, the _easier_ it is to host it anywhere (including Europe). So choosing boring tech is actually an enabler of this (and other) choices down the line.

It's only "a political commitment" as long as it doesn't affect you yet; and from the European perspective I'd say "the affecting has begun".

Happy to see Bugsink mentioned here as a solution for Error Tracking _and_ to not see it show up as one of the "harder parts" :-)

Just as a FYI: if self-hosting ever turns out to be too much work, it's also available Hosted.

Europe managed the first ~60 years of computing without the cloud just fine, and (as per greybeard HN-style comment) one can in fact wonder how much of the past 15 years of innovation has actually brought us for "your average org".

Also: there may be _a_ chance that the situation will improve, but as the Dutch say "Trust Arrives on Foot, but Leaves on Horseback" and your even given your "even if" the trust thrown away in the past year will take literal decades to repair.

Did you mistakenly post this? It's simply a link to the Sentry.io "About" page rather than any exploration of alternatives.

I wonder if the author is aware of Neil Postman's work, especially "Amusing ourselves to death". It seems very relevant to this article.

It's financially beneficial for them in exactly the same way as setting yourself on fire makes you warmer

Earlier discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43725815

I'm personally on the fence how much of it is intentional... from the_mitsuhiko's side it probably isn't, but "the purpose of a system is what it does" and all.

"Will be sunset on Dec 10"... commit date: Dec 10.

That seems like rather short notice.

I've never felt right about the framing of "destroying wealth" when stock prices go to some new number. If anything, the word "reflecting" seems more applicable?

The "one way" / "batteries included" aspect of Django may also make it easier for LLMs

Whatever you think Jimmc414's _concerns_ are (they merely state a possibility) Simon enumerates a number of concerns in the linked article, and then addresses those. So I'm not sure why you think this is so.

I think the riposte is against the word "always" and it worked precisely because one could blindly pick a counter example from the physical space of the discussion.

I.e. it worked because it smashed the broad statement and forced a discussion about particulars. Now who was right about those, I have no idea, since I wasn't even present.

When a colleague told my father that "duplication is always bad" he grabbed a random memo from that colleague's desk and said "I bet there's at least 3 copies of this piece of paper in this building". That drove the point home alright.

Reminds me of this:

"""On the first day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students into two groups.

Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, would be in the “quantity” group. They would be graded solely on the amount of work they produced. On the final day of class, he would tally the number of photos submitted by each student. One hundred photos would rate an A, ninety photos a B, eighty photos a C, and so on.

Meanwhile, everyone on the right side of the room would be in the “quality” group. They would be graded only on the excellence of their work. They would only need to produce one photo during the semester, but to get an A, it had to be a nearly perfect image.

At the end of the term, he was surprised to find that all the best photos were produced by the quantity group. During the semester, these students were busy taking photos, experimenting with composition and lighting, testing out various methods in the darkroom, and learning from their mistakes. In the process of creating hundreds of photos, they honed their skills. Meanwhile, the quality group sat around speculating about perfection. In the end, they had little to show for their efforts other than unverified theories and one mediocre photo."""

from https://www.thehuntingphotographer.com/blog/qualityvsquantit...

Is there a good overview of recent Open Source Rugpulls in the vein of killedbygoogle.com somewhere?

There's a certain cinematic quality to this story... perhaps so much so that if it were to be included in an actual movie it would be seen as "too over the top" (i.e. CSI-like)

Journey and destination go hand in hand.

Radio amateurs used to be a thing. Because playing with radios is fun, but also because this provided a way to hear things that otherwise could not be heard.

The earlier “we’re joining LaunchDarkly” post said things like:

> Nothing is changing right now. Your account will remain active and you'll continue to receive the same product experience.

but I suppose the writing was on the wall

I think that's what Posthog might be trying but as per the above there may be a fine line between funny and annoying and/or between useful and useless.

or maybe I just missed your sarcasm

I don't have a cookie banner on _my_ website for exactly this reason, but I have to admit some people have asked my if it isn't suspicious that I don't. Perhaps that's what they're trying to avoid here? (that would be the positive reading)

more so in case you actually do the "secrets on github with the right to do meaningful things"

more like choosing an assault rifle as your logo if your movement is to ban nuclear weapons.

Crazy... 15 years after nginx solving the c10k problem...

Although I very much agree with the sentiment "here's the hard truth" is LinkedIn speak/ LLM-tell to me

User: wants to see no ads

Ftfy

It's a pretty big part of their public image not to be but the fear is real