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I think you hit the nail on the head. Elected officials unfortunately don't have that much incentive to hire the "cheapest" company as the debt will be incurred over the next 100 y…

if it is an instance on the cloud, GCP and AWS let you define ServiceAccounts that get populated on the Instance at boot time. you should only let the instance access the secret it…

It makes sense at scale. If you are a company of two there are probably better solutions. At scale, you can very granularly define policies for each secret. When a secret is access…

If you use Vault, you should use it as an RBAC system as well. That means that each application got a ServiceAccount (SA) and each user got a username/password. Based on your ident…

My issue with serverless though is that you need to refactor your code to make it work specifically for it. If you don't start to think serverless on day one it gets more and more …

I'm using Kubernetes extensively in my day to day work and once you get it up and running and learn the different abstraction, it becomes a single API to manage your containers, st…

It feels like this became the life-cycle of Internet. The same thing happened with decentralized websites and blogs.then everyone got attracted by the managed platforms and now the…

you make the right point. A lot of people see this as youtube censorship, but the podcast was also available in its purest form: through a RSS decentralized feed. Now it moves to a…

I said this in another post about Grubhub but similarly to this article I really don't get it. Those apps are all 25%+ expensive than ordering take out directly with the restaurant…

I don't get those delivery companies (Doordash, Grubhub, etc). Even with a first-timer promotion, a meal would end up being close to 25% more expensive than ordering directly with …

This must be one of the most misunderstood pieces of popular science. The Coriolis effect is WAY too weak to affect the direction the water is flowing. Typically the way the water …

If you are an engineer those type of stories should make you rethink your usage of Google Chrome. Chrome having so many users empower them to implement those type of nonsensical po…

Is there a list somewhere of all the apps importing the spyware Facebook SDK?

you are assuming that the Spotify app is not simply handing that data over. I would not be surprised if there is a financial agreement in place.

or would it rather be: Airbnb is a huge VC backed company. They need to grow 10x at all cost in order to justify their valuation?

I would also think so mainly on privacy ground and on the fact that Facebook is one of the companies that I trust the least. But I'm not keeping my hopes high when I see how people…

Belgium would be a good candidate.

I'm in the same situation. That whole process makes me feel like a mindless cog about to enter a well oiled machine without the possibility to question some of those nonsensical st…

This is one of the saddest thing I read today and a good reminder that life is always finite.

I will take Europe over the US where my private data is being sold by Facebook and Google to the highest bidder without any single law protecting me. Sure some of those laws are a …

> #2 Gig-style businesses tend to vastly underpay employees. Yes and as said below, that's by design. Uber/Lyft for example would not survived if they priced their service to allow…

Linux user here. I have tried them all and Zoom is not perfect but is multiple levels above any of the competitors. Don't even get me started with WebEx.