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by erikb 8y ago
Yeah that's unfortunate. Luckily on HN are also many people who live in more developed countries. ;-) And on a more serious note: Even in your situation a self-hosted solution might be more free. Then don't host it at home, but di
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by erikb 8y ago
There are some open source router OS projects. I bet they could be convinced to consider such a suggestion with some pull requests, emails and/or a few sponsoring $$$.
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by erikb 8y ago
The painpoint is, they will do it anyways. Maybe not Google leadershipt but someone elses management. Google and Facebook have shown that we can execute power over datasizes that are too big for any group of humans to understand themselves,
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by erikb 8y ago
> truly distributed means of hosting is everyone hosting their own websites That means "self-hosted". Distributed hosting means you can't host it in one place. I agree though, that one might consider it as a form of decent
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by erikb 8y ago
If you can't recognize that this game will be mediocre at best, I'm already sorry for the amount of disappointment you will have on release date.
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by erikb 8y ago
> You don't leave the command line An advantage of gitless on one side, a statement about how to live life on the other side.
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by erikb 8y ago
Wondering why again SAP isn't even mentioned...
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by erikb 8y ago
This is such a common phenomenon that you can expect people sharing links to non-blocked websites after a short time. Next time just be patient and read the comments.
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by erikb 8y ago
This sounds a lot like cum-cum and cum-ex dealings. It might not be illegal per-se. But the moment too many people do it, governments will churn in and send some to jail.
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by erikb 8y ago
Let's not ignore the part where the creditor is actually willing to let go of the debt for amount X but not offering X to the debtor. This is at least as immoral if not more than buying your own debt back through indirect channels.
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by erikb 8y ago
lol, why does anybody need to say so? This is free market 101. Also I really believe that's how the future looks like, thanks to AI and automation: fewer and fewer jobs with higher and higher requirements but also higher and higher pay
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by erikb 8y ago
Today is the first day I hear about this company. What are they doing? Do they have noteworthy customers?
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by erikb 8y ago
The premise itself is also quite funny, imo. I think very few people on this planet would think "I need a database so I build one myself". They might do this with the application layer, but most people consider databases black box
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by erikb 8y ago
On the other hand most people who write the software don't have assistants and are also expected to do all their arrangements themselves. It is even culture in software development circles that one should be self sufficient. For instan
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by erikb 8y ago
You must really suffer from imposter syndrome if you can't find a company that is worse than you at software development.
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by erikb 8y ago
Well, I can see why such inspections have respect from a lot of people. But also keep in mind that a multi-billion dollar company, which might be stronger than any single government organ, will be treated differently than the burger shop ar
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by erikb 8y ago
Yep, especially when they are not general purpose like "PC" but from a very specific knowledge area. In this case it's even an old one. New engineers won't be educated to do ETL anymore.
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by erikb 8y ago
Please mark sarcasm at least with a ";)" otherwise many people might think you mean what you say becaise they don't know that it's a ridiculous idea that a big corp will come and protect each users privacy.
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by erikb 8y ago
> What gives? Is this just part of the growing "corporatization" of Linux I would argue that this is the case, and if it's not the case then mostly because it's not becoming more corporized but because it always was.
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by erikb 8y ago
If one thinks about it, a properly used social network also doesn't need proof-of-work, because it has social proof. If three people you trust have spent 2 years regularly liking posts from a fourth account you can be quite sure that f
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by erikb 8y ago
I was quite surprised after studying your main page that movim looks much more like a chat app than a social network. How comes you advertise it as social network? And assuming it is in fact a social network, what brought you to use the XMP
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by erikb 8y ago
Have you also checked other distributed/decentralized social networks? Curious about your experiences.
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by erikb 8y ago
Bittorrent is decentralized in theory, but I think nowadays it's not worth much without trackers. Trackers again enable centralized groups with self-serving interests to centralize the activities and track user activity. Check out what
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by erikb 8y ago
Scuttlebutt, Gnu/Social and Mastodon are also worth checking out. Comparison of many distributed (and some even decentralized) social networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_pro...
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by erikb 8y ago
Yes, but it's wrong. Kings kill(-ed) kings all the time. For instance check out what the Saudis are doing these months. That makes it a big question, why it's not happening more often then they can reproduce. And it's not lik
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by erikb 8y ago
I also heard, that the American continent is more and more Blue Hat focussed and Suse is more a European thing.
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by erikb 8y ago
Not just them. Almost everybody does that. Just a few weeks ago saw a documentary that explained that the same happens in dating apps/websites, for instance. It's also logical. I mean, what can you do when you are the market leade
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by erikb 8y ago
Is anybody still using Suse besides some big three letter corps?
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by erikb 8y ago
I think when you figure out why Amazon is currently losing to Microsoft you will also understand why Red Hat, just like Docker, was completely crushed by Google, and why IBM, despite trying super hard, wasn't even a player until now.
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by erikb 8y ago
> Where do you work and how do I get a job there? Western Europe country. I wouldn't suggest my company though. Where I currently work is Slack-off Fest 9000, but it's also a big corp. Maybe you should check out meetups, hack f

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