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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
> The funniest part of all of it is the "social media" that millennials think they're saving their children from doesn't even exist anymore. All the dominant platforms of today are not based on the social graph. Nobod
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
> Our CEOs are happily, gleefully, boasting about how we're replaceable. This exactly, and especially in the tech industry there's so much "If you're not doing this right now you're going to be unemployed in 5
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
I do this sort of stuff too, but more because I have a fundamental mistrust of closed source anything. I don't like opaque binary firmware blobs, and I certainly don't like opaque answer machines, however smart they may be. The on
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
This really depends on where you are. In the Bay Area it may be 2019 levels, in other parts of the country it is way worse than 2019.
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
Did you miss this paragraph? They do talk about the subsidies from the national and prefectural governments. > Carefully designed public subsidies also play a useful role. Although Japanese railways do not receive subsidies for day-to-
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
Yeah, I'm sorry for coming off as a Google apologist. That wasn't my intention. I'm merely saying that I'm skeptical that calling them out for breaking a promise is a useful path to go down. The alternate path (often pro
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
My opinion doesn't match the article. I do think the user has a legitimate grievance; I am merely suggesting a different avenue for fixing it. > Expecting a company to hold its own promise (of notifying the user before it happens)
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
Honestly, I think the author is expecting too much from companies that are under jurisdiction of the US Government, especially in the situation as of 2026. It is telling that when they say "federal government" in the article, they
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
In the Mahābhārata, what's going on with the dynasty tree of the Kurus? That's a view you get in every single book, and it looks really weird here. I feel like it's important to get this really basic stuff right before doing
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
Looks like they already tried to appeal the block, and lost: https://x.com/jaumepons/status/1904906677335245294
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by quadrifoliate 6mo ago
Here's a good English-language article about it, with a timeline: https://daniel.es/blog/cloudflare-vs-la-liga/ Looks like same old regulatory capture.
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by quadrifoliate 7mo ago
> it’s hurting the reputations of these SaaS providers It's not hurting them enough. Hence the regulation is needed.
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by quadrifoliate 7mo ago
> We really need to just fix the laws. This. There are something like 150 million Americans with a Google account, and these days it is more important than a phone number to have a working email. Email is a utility. Email companies shoul
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by quadrifoliate 7mo ago
> Point is, this type of shit happens and you should have a contingency. Let's work through what the contingency could have been. Always make sure you buy international roaming everywhere you go? Always be able to switch your MX rec
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by quadrifoliate 7mo ago
> He deleted his sole token (Google makes it trivial to add many) in the most fraud signally way possible. Are we reading the same blog post? He had his password, 2FA authenticator set up, and backup codes -- everything Google asks you t
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by quadrifoliate 7mo ago
How many people use that simple pip repo daily? If the number is not in the high hundreds, or a few thousands; maybe nothing. But once you get up there, any kind of better coordination layer is useful enough to pay money to a third party fo
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by quadrifoliate 7mo ago
Why are we assuming that there were lots of volunteers in the first place? If this is such a high-trust position, it should be called something other than "roadie". I thought it was common knowledge that the term "roadie&quot
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by quadrifoliate 8mo ago
If you want to be able to understand them, you should probably stop thinking of them as a monolithic groupd of "Indians". Individual states in India are comparable in size and greater in population than Spain or Italy; and some ci
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by quadrifoliate 8mo ago
This seems like some pretty lazy analysis to be honest. Following the first comment you quoted... > I love it. We need to see more of this. ...shows that the author talks about using a “Chase card abroad” in a previous comment [1], which
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by quadrifoliate 8mo ago
I don't know if you're demonstrating reductio ad absurdum, but maybe that's because they are genuine? As people in the thread have pointed out, the author as well as their company is pretty well-known in software circles. The
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by quadrifoliate 8mo ago
Based on reading this, I don't see anything that would prevent keeping track of a repo tracked by this database with Git (and therefore GitHub) in addition to the database. I think the "compatible" bit means more that you h
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by quadrifoliate 8mo ago
Seriously, I hope that none of the posters upthread arguing about SHOULD v/s MUST in some standards body document are in charge of real world money making software. Google and Microsoft's email practices define a pseudo-RFC in pra
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by quadrifoliate 8mo ago
Yes, it doesn't control anything about who can submit PRs (as far as I know), just who can approve/merge them from predefined groups/users.
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by quadrifoliate 9mo ago
> I think it's going to be a long time until we've convinced people that taking ownership of and participating in their digital life, being tinkerers, owners, netizens is vital. It will be way more than 50 years unless EU natio
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by quadrifoliate 9mo ago
From a less masochistic and more self-interested perspective, it's not a good long-term thing for American corporations to thrive purely due to corruption and throwing around political weight. We as consumers (and for that matter, aspi
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by quadrifoliate 9mo ago
Sure, but at least you have homegrown car companies. They make cutting edge cars that are mainstream, and even popular abroad. You have no equivalents for software. That's why all of your consumer and most of your official stuff runs o
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by quadrifoliate 9mo ago
Gotta give them props for all the English. I know that can't have been easy. Now they just need to change the name so it's not so obviously French, and invite collaboration from the other large EU countries. I wonder how many Dutc
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by quadrifoliate 9mo ago
I have nothing to add other than that you put my argument perfectly, much better than I could. Policy and regulation are the failures.
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by quadrifoliate 9mo ago
> If Europe wants software sovereignty we don't need "significant large software companies" we need a hundred medium sized ones that reflect the diversity of the dozens of nations on the continent...Europe needs in fact to
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by quadrifoliate 9mo ago
> This is an extremely naive way to put it. US tech is much more developed because of money infusion even on companies that take 10/20 years to get productive. Not sure if this is aimed at the immediate parent comment or mine, but I

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