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Piracy is not theft.

The answer is simple, do not use the apps. It's not about comparing competitors. Simply abstain entirely. The gig economy is an exploitation engine.

Tin foil hat time, Google regularly complies with LEO. It's often joked they are an unofficial intelligence agency; peers being CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. Wiz is a foreign-owned company w…

Ever use it? Ever use competitor offerings? In my 20yrs of experience, Wiz is one of the best "off the shelf" cloud security tools you can buy and possibly the best ever made. I do…

The screenshots make this feel entirely fabricated or entirely marketing motivated. If it's somehow real, omitting the hudsonrock message would be good sense. I have mentally black…

I worked in an AWS + GCP environment. There was a clique of people infatuated by Google. They would exert every effort to cargo cult Google and fail consistently. Their leadership …

He means people not born into significant privilege

https://docs.opal.ac/ Universally, people I've met and worked with (20-30) hate writing rego (OPA). I'm always skeptical of Styra's analysis; they are literally selling you somethi…

Google the item, like so: itemName ~review reddit If you're looking at something whose company name is nonsense, e.g. FILBOZE, it's an alibaba reseller/drop-shipper and >50% chance…

The limitations of HCL are actually a good thing! I have never seen Pulumi or CDKTF stuff work well. At some point are you simply writing a script and abandoning the advantages of …

Golly gee wilikers, ya don't say?

Use a single use burner privacy.com card?

Humanity is little more than the sex organ necessary to birth the next stage of evolution into the world. The machines are the children of humanity. This excites me because they ar…

Remote work allowed me to afford a house. Since 2020 I have turned that house into a Home. I am 60-90mins away from "The Jobs" now. In order for me to RTO, a company must accept th…

Remote work allowed me to afford a house. Since 2020 I have turned that house into a Home. I am 60-90mins away from "The Jobs" now. In order for me to RTO, a company must accept th…

Bro, did we read the same comment? The encryption is handled client side; the cyphertext is the only thing the server sees.

Personally, I don't care what the dude thinks or does. I care about the usefulness of the browser.

Bad stuff? Like what?

What service do you trust and why?

An app that scrapes an API is no measure of the complexity under the hood.

Have you ever done a systems design interview? There's a lot of complexity in seemingly simple systems. This is humorously demonstrated in this skit on MicroServices, https://youtu…

Well said. The constraints of Terraform (HCL2) are a blessing.

This ^

Can confirm. Did this myself in mid 2020. So much better.

Came here to say this. Good friend at Reddit shared the details. Many teams grew really fast; his did 4x in 2 years. As such, there is tension between the macro economics and teams…