Viewing profile — PeterStuer

Business has detested IT forever. It is basically considered blue collar work they felt held hostage to as it was 'brain' based instead of 'muscle' based, and it threathened to exp…

Is fastmail not australian?

Five Eyes country are subject to local data disclosure orders and gag clauses, forcing them to hand over user data that may then enter the shared intelligence pool

I had not heard of VIA since the 1990's.

Rocketman the Master Blaster, is that you?

Maybe it is because it is late on a friday, but as someone self-hosting 'hobby scale' sites, i honestly could not make it through the second chapter of this ramble.

Isn't scalping illegal in some countries?

"The choice of Haskell has also led to a high quality and low volume of contributors" I feel this influence of choosing a tech stack and its impact on self selected and auto-reenfo…

Not just exempting themselves, but actively building and deploying end-to-end encrypted chat apps for gov only use with (non)retention and (un)transparancy fully under their own co…

What is the authority of the "repository maintainer" in question? It feels descisions like these far outstrip the pure technical.

I have seen the bar at the top appear with "BMW has a surprise for you" or something, but I always use Android Auto which starts a second later so I have never seen what this was. …

"I want a free Lamborgini in your garage. You're just a NIMBY denying my need"

Maybe I'm old school, but if you can erase someone from your life because you block them on an app, this probably was not 'real-life'?

Once again, you use the passive. Change is active. Someone is doing the changing, and then they are trying to insult the people that refuse to let them have their way.

Hard disagree. Online friends are easy to ditch. Real life friends are around wether you like it or not. That fact alone has huge repercussions.

What about "I bought this property because I like this environment to live here" is difficult to understand?

It is not complicated. People buy a property because they like to live in that location. If you are going to drastically change that environment, you destroy the very reason they l…

I remember first owners of the Apple Laserwriter sending out printed texts with 8 fonts used on every page. Not all blame is on the tech.

CEO does not want their job to be replaced by AI. Everyone else's? That is up for grabs and under good governance would be criminal not to do because cost savings.

No, you will be a 'greeter' at a venue, a cleaner cheaper than the equivalent robot, a yes-mam serv in some corporate's division pfiefdom, or doing some endless sysiphus task for t…

So why not license it for free to those model companies that also share their models with the public? Why would Moonshot not get free access?

Can the proposed consent automation kill the 'legitimate interest' abuse is the most important question. Even getting towards a single click refuse all requirement would eliminate …

For me (non native speaker), compromise and tradeoff or not completely the same, and I would favor the latter for this article. Tradeoff conveys the coupling of the alternatives. D…

Most of the internet unfortunatly ploinks fown a 'free' service and never even looks at what it defaults to. E.g., quite a lott of cloudflare "protected" sites block their rss feed…

Universal tax collector of the internet. A penny for every page access. ADOG will not mind as it cements their incumbent status and pulls up the drawbridge by erecting a huge finan…