Earlier quoted context omitted.
Paid is desirable. Overpaid, not so much.
$150k is overpaid for a senior engineer?
Depends on what "senior" means. Every company has its own definition.
Session is shutting down in 90 days
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Re: Session is shutting down in 90 days
#112I feel like a crazy person for having to write this, but: if you are starting a business (yes, non-profits are businesses), then you need to have a business plan. If you launch a business and you have not done the work to have a business plan, then in 99.999% of situations, your business will fail. A business plan includes market & competitive research, a revenue plan based on that research that includes realistic pr…
Slack (originally an MMO), Nintendo (card games), Nokia (rubber shoes) and Netflix (DVDs over snail mail) would disagree. "We'll gather a bunch of talented people together, figure out what this industry needs and then do that, let's hope we can do that before the money runs out" can be a viable business plan. There's no guarantee it's going to work, there's never a guarantee a plan is going to work, but it can work s…
I believe NetFlix actually had a plan to stream movies from the start (hence the name) and just did the DVD shipping as a way to get started.
Re: Session is shutting down in 90 days
#113That’s not really a big deal since the session encryption was insecure anyway. It feels almost like a honeypot after they've removed forward secrecy. If you’re looking for a decentralized alternative SimpleX Chat is a more secure option.
Or the mature and robust XMPP + OMEMO.
Re: Session is shutting down in 90 days
#114> 65000 USD in donations
> enough for infrastructure for the next 90 days
20k per month in infrastructure. Excuse me, what?
Re: Session is shutting down in 90 days
#115Session was Australian based which means they would have to do all sorts of horrible things when asked by the government, such as even letting police impersonate users... I just checked and they claim to have moved their infra to Switzerland. There are many other issues, some I've forgotten about since I would never trust it in the first place. They also require a phone number even! Seeing them go, I feel neutral. It…
No legal mechanism with such breadth exists in Australia. There was a great deal of overblown media reporting but the law [0] makes it explicitly clear that any request that requires a "systemic weakness", "systemic vulnerability" or anything of the like is null and void. Those terms are defined [1]. Note that it doesn't say the government can't request such a thing, it says that such a request "has no effect". It's simply dead on arrival.
My understanding is that the government could compel Facebook to publish a version of WhatsApp with a special mode that sends all messages to the police if the user ID is 1234567. This introduces a vulnerability but it is limited to one specific person. If your user ID is not 1234567, you're completely unaffected.
However my understanding is that the government cannot compel Facebook to compel a version of WhatsApp that, when it receives a special message, silently starts sending plaintext copies of every other message it receives to the police. Such a mechanism would be a systematic weakness that affects people other than those for which a warrant has been issued, so the notice would "have no effect".
The government could also not compel a source-available app with verifiable builds to stop distributing them so that it can add a secret user ID branch like the one I mentioned above for WhatsApp.
[0]: https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ta199...
[1]: https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ta199...
Re: Session is shutting down in 90 days
#116I feel like a crazy person for having to write this, but: if you are starting a business (yes, non-profits are businesses), then you need to have a business plan. If you launch a business and you have not done the work to have a business plan, then in 99.999% of situations, your business will fail. A business plan includes market & competitive research, a revenue plan based on that research that includes realistic pr…
Slack (originally an MMO), Nintendo (card games), Nokia (rubber shoes) and Netflix (DVDs over snail mail) would disagree. "We'll gather a bunch of talented people together, figure out what this industry needs and then do that, let's hope we can do that before the money runs out" can be a viable business plan. There's no guarantee it's going to work, there's never a guarantee a plan is going to work, but it can work s…
Plans are useless, but planning is essential. IIRC Nintendo had been operating for decades before they shifted to videogames. And Glitch (the MMO that gave birth to Slack) was also very much a product with a plan. Plan failed, or execution failed, or the industry shifted, or something else, or all or the above. But for sure it was not just "a bunch of talented people."
Re: Session is shutting down in 90 days
#117If it were actually decentralised, it wouldn't really have huge costs to worry about...
Re: Session is shutting down in 90 days
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Privacy enthusiasts tend to align with anarchists - people who intrinsically distrust institutions. Maybe this also correlates with qualities like blind optimism, or disbelief in institutions like capitalism?
What do anti privacy enthusiasts align with?
Statists, I suppose.
Re: Session is shutting down in 90 days
#119Never heard of Session until today.
Re: Session is shutting down in 90 days
#120> 65000 USD in donations > enough for infrastructure for the next 90 days 20k per month in infrastructure. Excuse me, what?
They're taking about paying for full time developers.