Joe

They have a fetishist concept that anyone with a business empire is someone to be admired. They probably think they have a chance, the fools.

https://archive.is/aHnvH

DMOZ forever!

Is this the right room for an argument?

https://archive.is/0cRhz

It sounds like one should be building deliberate AI workflows with extra checks (automated or human in the loop) that make careful and cost efficient incremental progress toward a measurable goal.

Sounds like hard work… when we could just build 1,000,000 MCP servers instead. (raises pinkie to corner of mouth)

https://archive.is/b0S4D

There are so many time-saving things that can be done with a little bit of scripting. It’s one reason why excel is so abused. Now that the bar to real scripting is dropping significantly, and we’ll see more and more people solving their own small problems rather than relying on others or suffering through repetitive work. Good stuff.

It doesn’t mean that they are ready to design, build and maintain reliable software or services…

We’ll see more APIs and libraries being used directly by end users, though.

AI agents are a counter-force to this, letting LLMs interact directly with APIs, meaning users don’t have to even touch code.

It sounds like a wilful lack of investigation & enforcement, in that case. The US gets what it votes for, I guess.

Some countries do it simply: You can hire from abroad if (a) you can demonstrate problems hiring in the local market for that position, and (b) the position is at/above market rates.

There’s still room to game the system, but it’s no longer a ridiculously low bar. And there is scope for investigations and legal action, which most companies try to avoid.

(Don’t get me started on social insurances… the US super majority seems irrecoverably brainwashed, and would probably cheer on non-contributions by gainfully employed foreigners)

Just wait until they release the list … it’ll have a few holes.

Unfortunately, it’s very hard to trust any such list. If he had any sense, he would have also added a few extra names over the years of people who he just didn’t like, or those he wanted to manipulate. Scumbags be scumbaggy, whether rich or poor.

That said, all implications and accusations should be thoroughly investigated, and if corroborated by victims and/or witnesses, and then be brought to public trial or just made public if the reasonably accused is dead.

I don’t think you need separate laptops, but a separate router may be useful.

If you use Linux, you can have apps isolated to their own lightweight network namespaces (like containers), using different VPNs. Otherwise VMs can serve a similar purpose on Windows and Macs.

Iptables can also be used to block traffic, and force it through proxies (which can be whitelisted by uid/gid) or VPNs.

If you want a more secure VPN setup, I’d even recommend having the VPN(s) running on the router (eg. portable OpenWRT setup) so your laptop never gets offered a public IP / connects directly to network. Put a proxy on it for special (eg. DNS based) routing exceptions, like banking from real IP, reddit via the US, etc.

Disable IPv6 on your router or primary interface, and enable it on your VPN. If anything can discover an Internet IP on your PC, the link can be formed. Worst case, you are not using the VPN for IPv6 at all.

In the EU, there are typically three levels of VAT, with members having some leeway to choose which applies to what.

Health services, public transport, rentals/housing and education are often exempt, while most groceries and medications are at a reduced rate. eg. Germany has 7% and 19% as the reduced and normal rates.

Income taxes are additional and (in most EU countries progressive). Social insurances are often separate, and similarly progressive.

This works alongside the basic welfare nets, which ensures that people have just enough to survive if they fell through the cracks. Without this net, even the reduced rates on groceries would seem punitive.

Not every EU country is equal, but there is a goal to provide these societal safety nets alongside fair taxation, which is invested back in society.

It sounds like another benefit of the free plan is safe experimentation without getting a huge bill when doing something stupid like making IAM credentials public (then going cap in hand to AWS to ask for forgiveness).

Watch who rages publicly now, and you’ll know where they get their (slightly profitable) clicks and kicks.

It’s a sad state where an entire alt-news circle-jerk industry develops because influencers can be bought with streams of bot & fake outrage clicks.

You can typically upgrade versions with the discount too. I won’t give them another dime, though. Tried SPTarkov? It’s great for PvE, and adds value even to the base edition.

Great tax breaks, when you structure your company right too!

And a developer with admin rights will never admit that they’ll quit on short notice in a few months, leaving hard to support snowflakes, each based on the latest cool fad at the time of writing.

Both k8s and aws native services can be chaotic and snowflaky… An organization should be working to standardize the tech stack and deployment tooling across teams as much as possible.

K8S is an opportunity to standardize, but the potential is often not realised. Platform Engineering is now the latest kid on the block, trying to address the next layer of challenges. We’ll see how this looks in a few years…

What do you have against the project and the people behind it? It sounds personal.

There are plenty of non-commercial Linux distributions. Some managed better than others. Some generic, some with niches. OpenWRT is a favourite of mine.