I'd notice one thing: I use LLMs to spellcheck and when I do, here is your barrage of em-dashes.

I mean, you do have a point, and I'll quite agree with it. The only way of monetizing your writing is to use Substack or Medium, or whatever.

Yet your approach is appallingly low on the other side of the spectrum. I've been in IT for the past 25 years. I have yet to see a non-IT person who knows what dedicated IP is. If you are not publishing it on the internet, then what's the point?

I've seen plenty of companies where the owner just had a read-only shared drive, where people can rummage thru a pack of PDFs. This' was all fine with that.

You have to understand, manage and work with the complexities of the tools, and offer tools quite enough for the task. It's alright to offer what you do to an engineer who has a spare Pi and a couple of days to kill. But it's quite useless for anyone else to adopt.

Ah, this gives me 2002 vibes where coolest websites started to produce native clients for their websites so their users could read and comment offline.

This is sooo good.

WHAT? The client size is 2 megabytes? It can fit onto two floppy drives! Man, this is something. It's even more 2002 vibes! And I haven't installed it yet.

Bravo!

It's interesting, that's good enough for me.

I don’t understand how this article is not at the top of all times

This is cool. Yet, there are levels of insanity and those depend on your inability to estimate things.

When I'm launching a project it's easier for me to rent $250 worth of compute from AWS. When the project consumes $30k a month, it's easier for me to rent a colocation.

My point is that a good engineer should know how to calculate all the ups and downs here to propose a sound plan to the management. That's the winning thing.

It goes further than this first order, though. If you're trying to build a business that attracts the types of talent who wants to know the stack up and down, starting with an AWS instance might give you a better shot at funding (and thus a better overall shot), but it's not clear that it gives you a shot a building the business you're aiming for. For the things that "don't make your beer better", sure, but we're talking about training ML models at an ML shop. Here it makes sense for this reason.

That last part is exactly it and I while I know the intro sentence nails it I don’t think compute resonates with people (everyone uses compute). If you are 24/7 running work at scale it absolutely makes sense past the initial first couple years to build out your own DC like this.

We’re past the point in history where most engineers get to make even a recommendation about which platform to use to management.

In 99.999999% of cases management has already decided and is just informing you, because they know better.

I work in a multi-billions dollars company and do not face what you describe

Perhaps an exception (yet so far, I've never encounter the situation you describe)

Every time I see such an app and read their privacy notice... https://www.luffu.com/privacy-notice

It kinda scares me. Obviously right now their privacy notice is kinda empty due to just "wanting to join a wait-list", but even not it talks about saving the data. So it's another black-hole for ads, personal data collections and purposeless AI-agent integrations.

What does it solve that a group chat cannot solve? Do I actually want to share my personal information with my entire family? Am I unable to look at my dog and spot the fact that he is too fat or too slim?

And, for gawd's sake, I can't make my grandma to make a photo on a phone. Just a word VPN drives her into a panic mode. Why would anyone offer me to make her to log her medication in a group-chat app?

Just like an idea of using an oil-powered carriage instead of a good'ol horsie was in 1910.

Listen, I totally agree, the tech makes absolutely no sense. It does not. But the fact that someone is willing to spend money on figuring this out is pretty good. The worst thing is going to happen, we'll have a cheaper space travel. And let the guys to have the first hit at it, wasting money on an enormous amount of research needed.

Ain't my money being spent.

As long as we don't have to use Russian rockets to send the US payload to the orbit, I'm cool with it.

It is your money being spent. ~40B so far. Though half of that is for services.

But more abstractly, it's our resources that are being allocated. The planet as a unit is deciding where to put it's effort. Apparently we're not very good at this

I can’t take any of it seriously.

I mean, the idea kinda makes sense.

But, first of all, do you really HAVE to make your admins to set this up? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/rooms/third... It requires Exchange re-configuring, URL re-writes and client setups.

But both teams and meet can be launched from a browser. And truth to be said I'm very happy about it. I don't want Teams client hanging around on my PC. So what is the exact problem that is being solved here?

I'm actually asking. Probably there will be some use for highly restrictive networks where all of the computers are managed and software lists are approved by admins. That kinda makes sense.

> So what is the exact problem that is being solved here?

I haven't actually tried it out, but I believe mostly intra- and inter-company trust based on existing SSO.

So what's next? People will re-flash their printers with an open-source firmware that won't do the checks? Who's liable in this case?

> People will re-flash their printers with an open-source firmware that won't do the checks?

The text of the bill suggests that it would make printers capable of being reflashed with an open source firmware illegal to sell, as the legal requirements for the blocking would include preventing it from being circumvented. The law would also make having a printer sold mail-order into the state illegal entirely. It’s not clear how parts-built machines like Vorons would be handled.

It appears to only cover sales, however. Possession of files for firearm components would be made illegal, but seemingly not a printer without the restrictions.

There is close to zero chance the current Supreme Court would find a law that criminalizes possession of a file describing the making a gun to be constitutional.

I wonder if you can sell the printer shell without the main PCB and just open source the main board design. Manufacture and sale of that board as a distinct entity seems tough to stop. Especially because the board can have non-3D printer use cases which it advertises as the main ones.

Also, if I wanted to print a gun, there are thousands upon thousands of older Creality and Prusa printers that I could buy used. My CR-10 isn't connected to the internet, it's running a FOSS Marlin release.

It will be very strange and funny if there is a registry of 3D printers before there's a registry of guns, and for that matter, it will be very funny if it becomes easier to buy a gun than a 3D printer, with the reasoning being that 3D printers can print guns.

There would be a presumption of intent. Probably an "aggravated" add-on to whatever charges you might be facing.

I highly doubt we would send goon squads door to door to check your firmware. Then again, given today's situation in MN, I wouldn't rule it out either.

That proves only one thing. We just have nothing to do in our lives. The tenacity of government that invents useless laws directly proportional to nothingness to do that it provides to its citizens

That would likely fall under some DMCA like protection against circumvention. RMS is going to be pissed and I can totally see the FSF, EFF, and potentially the SFC having issues with this

So pretty much the same as jailbreaking your phone or something, which millions of people do without worry.