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"but the company founder is some billionaire's daughter. I fear ever having a boss like that just because of the fundamental difference in perspective and life experiences. I'm sur…

The Dutch Innovation Box regime provides a lower effective tax rate (7% as of 2024) on profits derived from qualifying intellectual property, such as patents and software. For comp…

That's one way of saying "Europe is full of nations who provide unethical tax shelters for businesses (while criticizing any nation that doesn't provide their level of social progr…

Brother, wait until you hear about Tailscale... Which is also point to point for the traffic.

Respectfully, these vague states of support between “active” and less active, “first class” and not first class, etc comes off as “we want to say we have that but shrug any time it…

Here are some citations since people seem to be just downvoting because they don't like the message: Go requiring non-ELF standard parameters for initialization of supposedly "C AB…

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Yeah, only supporting glibc behaviors and ignoring the ELF standard at will really qualifies as best managed. /s

Is the new tech lead more likely to get rid of the glibc-isms that Golang won't let go of, like crashing if non-ELF standard parameters like env aren't passed in ELF library initia…

Oh, is it a "crisis"? Sounds like we need a "war on" it then. I think food waste is horrible and I literally donate money monthly(1) to multiple charities to fight hunger, but I'm …

Yeah, the traffic isn't bad enough so let's just shoehorn in multifamily units into single family zoned neighborhoods that aren't remotely close enough to the jobs people work for …

I had a 386SX 16mhz Packard Bell, so I was able to run Windows 3.1 in 386 Enhanced Mode like a boss.

Out of principle, I've wiped my iPhone and moved my primary SIM card to a Pixel 5 running https://calyxos.org This CSAM scanning will do effectively zero to stop children from bein…

I often bring this up in HTTP vs HTTPS conversations. It's not about what CAs you trust, as that's a policy decision you can make on your own devices. It's about knowing (through w…

The US wants to tax companies earning money in the US.

The EU is literally in the process of putting the same kind of taxes on technology companies. And people are cheering for it. The US does the same in reverse, everyone loses their …

How is this not exactly the same as the EU putting targeted taxes on major US technology companies to stop money from leaving their market?

How is this not exactly the same as the EU putting targeted taxes on major US technology companies to stop money from leaving their market? Any time the US does something, the reac…

Yes, in today's age of liberal democracies, we can take lessons from the past, like the value of free speech, innocent until proven guilty, not being deprived freedom without due p…

The British, European, and American atrocities were the only ones you consider "recent"? We only hold those to account who are open to being held accountable? Or only those who kee…

Honestly, I've lost a bit of confidence in the Internet Archive project's judgement and long term stability, given the risk they took in distributing books during Covid-19. I feel …

What other families have benefitted from colonialism and slavery? Is this family the worst example or simply the highest profile? It seems like there are a great number of people a…

The topic is always British, European, or American. That's why it's valid to bring up other similar historical wrongs in this discussion without dismissing it as whataboutism. The …

You're absolutely right. There's a whole subset of people who have declared war on meat. They want to replace meat with a diet desperately low in B12 so you have to supplement to b…

Besides, on the server the real trend I've seen is Alpine. Far less attack surface than CentOS anyway. If your applications work with musl libc, you're in business, and worst case …