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The first amendment only applies to the oligarchs and their friends in the 3 branches of the United States. TikTok is only the first to be blocked, there will be more, and they wil…

Here's the lesson: We need our social media platforms to be distributed and out of the hands of any government to promote sharing knowledge and creating peace. When the mass Tiktok…

I've visited the areas outside of the major metro areas (Athens, Thessaloniki) and found the vast majority of Greeks to be very friendly and family oriented. It really is a break f…

You could add just about any University to the list. At least in California, many UC IT people left due to poor pay and long hours, however the UTPE CWA 9119 union has grown in num…

It's not the bike lane. The price of going out has gone up and the amount paychecks that have gone up doesn't match it. Each wave of tech layoffs wipes out more customers that can …

Excellent news. I’ve been worried that Sam moving to Microsoft would stall out possible future engineering efforts like GPT-5 in IP court. As an example of how much faster GPT-4 ha…

A built-in cell modem in Macbooks also means additional partnerships with telcos like with the iPhone, iPad, and Watch. Right now there's a clear line between a telco and an Apple …

I think $5-$10 is a good price point for just the privacy aspect. As far as search, it's about 90% kagi and 10% Google if I don't like the kagi results. Maps could use some work an…

Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes, PST but flexible. On-site/hybrid in SF Bay only. Willing to relocate: Relocation outside of the US negotiable. Prefer Portugal. Technologie…

I use a Dell R220 with dual ssds and a sata boot key. If you need 10gig, there an expansion slot.

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Burying is a good idea and I'm a fan of it for sure. The issues I've seen on my block is the transformer out on the pole fails about every 7 years. As an aside, it's an interesting…

It's pretty easy to get to $700/mo. There's a lot of old housing stock without good insulation, leaky windows, etc. Leaving a typical server on is like $70. I can see a 3bd 2ba apa…

SFBay doesn't have big freezes like Texas, but I have to wonder the wisdom of eliminating gas heaters entirely. The blower fan on a typical gas heater uses 120v and doesn't consume…

I'm still around from wearing a helmet biking in San Francisco. I got my wheel stuck in the old street car tracks on Castro and Market while going 15 mph and went over the handles.…

This whole thing is SGI syndrome. The tight knit teams that were either let go or quit Twitter will go and found the next equivalent Nvidia or Adobe. Elon is making the classic Val…

I bought a PinePhone hoping to have some sort of freedom from iOS and at the time the threat of scanning all iCloud uploads. I played with the PinePhone for a few days, but it real…

The phrase over the years is more like “buy now or be priced out forever.” Recessions are good times to take risks since people are afraid and while capital isn’t cheap this time a…

With how slowly these proposals roll out, 100/20 won't be enough. As others said, there is a lack of both competition and pricing to worry about too. In a major tech hub like San F…

BART goes plenty of nice places! If you get out at 16th or 24th, Valencia St one block over has lots of nice shops and bars. Head over to Folsom and 24th for lots of cheap shopping…

I agree, the western side is hardly a hellscape. I guess don't let the tourists know! San Francisco is really 2 different cities rather than 11 counties. West side (where I live) h…

This is great! I have a garage full of old gear that I don’t want to put in the landfill but it is still worth a few dollars. Wish I had heard of this earlier this week to make it.…

When I worked at Okta, they used EC2 without containers for their primary monolith workload. Scaling would be manual via ElB. The latest hack shows they are using NLB now, but I su…

Okta uses nearly all the us regions, with older (and larger) customers in us-east-1. I used to work there and know the internals well. These aws outages must be causing massive cha…

I think as other people said, you'll want to decide what "IT" is. If you want to fix end user PCs and run ethernet cables, that stuff doesn't pay well and you should stick to ME. I…