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Glad you like them! :)

I've been living in terminals lately. Normally I'll have terminals running Claude Code, OpenCode, nvim spread across 10 virtual desktops as I work on various tasks, but I've found …

FastHTML has a NotStr(X) component that renders X as HTML. I just copied a big HTML Tailwind component to a NotStr() and it worked fine. I then split it in two, before and after, s…

Most people don't know what their home is worth, and if you get two appraisers or realtors to give you an estimate they'll likely be quite different. Similarly, if you think a hous…

I think Opendoor still does poorly in new markets, but then it improves as they work out the quirks of the local market and start asking the right questions and collecting the righ…

Zoom claimed they had to remove Chinese participants from the US-hosted meeting but didn't have the functionality to do that so (wrongly) banned the US hosts. They said it was wron…

I think their concern is paedophile rings using large group E2EE for live child abuse with completely anonymous accounts.

What makes you think they're abusing the term? Did you read their whitepaper? https://github.com/zoom/zoom-e2e-whitepaper

Zoom has said that employees can enter a meeting, but there's no way to do that without being seen on the participant list and there is no way to record a meeting secretly. They've…

They bought Keybase to bring on a strong security team as they try to build end-to-end encryption into 1,000 person meetings which is currently not possible with any solution.[1] T…

You're absolutely right that past decisions focused on ease-of-use over security. For evidence that they've changed their focus you can see their April 1 blog post[1] and the weekl…

Why not look at their recent actions instead? On April 1 the CEO basically said they messed up and would pause all feature development and focus exclusively on security & privacy f…

They do have a large R&D presence in China. As of January 2020, they had 2,532 full-time employees. Of those, 1,396 were in the US and 1,136 were in international locations. Within…

China did block Zoom for 2 months last year. https://status.zoom.us/incidents/xbmxyfpnv4jq

It was one of the fastest-growing SAAS companies before coronavirus hit despite all the free competition. The reason? "It just works." It's clear their singular focus on making it …

Webex also has a large engineering team in China too. The senior people are all in the US though.