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Dropping Google Analytics on a page is indeed precisely active sharing of data with Google; it just happens to use your own browser against you rather than sending the data to Goog…

Google Analytics as well as Microsoft, which indeed makes "tech companies". What are you implying here really?

The fact that these "move off US infra" posts now routinely hit #1 on HN is itself pretty telling. Another example is the public outcry here in the Netherlands over selling off the…

Trump may genuinely end up being the best salesman European hosting companies ever had. I run one of the tools mentioned in this post (Bugsink) and I literally had an uptick of Dan…

If you/your company is already inside the EU, you can't really escape the EU's unpredictability, but you can to some extend reduce the blast radius of the American government's whi…

They say > Not everything moved. Cloudflare is a US company, I still use it, and I’m at peace with that. which you admittedly couldn't read when you complained about it.

Indeed both the "..." and "disabling over removing" were in the windows 95 UI manual

Before clicking the link I thought this was going to be about over-usage of the term by LLMs... it's not in my personal "red flag" list but it does seem to have a general applicabi…

The rebuttal is especially interesting because it simply let's the actual usages of the term speak for themselves. It turns out (ha!) that the Cambridge example is the only case th…

How do you actually measure likeness?

Every journey starts with the first step... And those steps are finally being taken now. Don't see why this kind of naysaying would be the top comment here

I read a text from the 60s by my grandfather this week and seeing an emdash made the LLM alarm in my head go off... Had to really stop myself before I went all "and you" on him

Fair enough... though if I were to push my point: one could also say that dumbing down your mechanisms of email sending (i.e. ditching templates, or pulling the templates to your o…

It's funny that you say that because any time I sign in to one of the big cloud providers I wonder how anyone gets any work done there _at all_... But to answer your question it's …

But the argument is reversed! The more boring your tech stack, the _easier_ it is to host it anywhere (including Europe). So choosing boring tech is actually an enabler of this (an…

Happy to see Bugsink mentioned here as a solution for Error Tracking _and_ to not see it show up as one of the "harder parts" :-) Just as a FYI: if self-hosting ever turns out to b…

Europe managed the first ~60 years of computing without the cloud just fine, and (as per greybeard HN-style comment) one can in fact wonder how much of the past 15 years of innovat…

Did you mistakenly post this? It's simply a link to the Sentry.io "About" page rather than any exploration of alternatives.

I wonder if the author is aware of Neil Postman's work, especially "Amusing ourselves to death". It seems very relevant to this article.

It's financially beneficial for them in exactly the same way as setting yourself on fire makes you warmer

Earlier discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43725815 I'm personally on the fence how much of it is intentional... from the_mitsuhiko's side it probably …

"Will be sunset on Dec 10"... commit date: Dec 10. That seems like rather short notice.

I've never felt right about the framing of "destroying wealth" when stock prices go to some new number. If anything, the word "reflecting" seems more applicable?

The "one way" / "batteries included" aspect of Django may also make it easier for LLMs

Whatever you think Jimmc414's _concerns_ are (they merely state a possibility) Simon enumerates a number of concerns in the linked article, and then addresses those. So I'm not sur…