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> The court ordered Levison to be fined $5,000 a day beginning 6 August until he handed over electronic copies of the keys. Two days later Levison handed over the keys hours after he shuttered Lavabit.

finally the coverage is actually increasing ~53% now, +12pp (270k users) during 2025

https://www.berlin.de/sen/web/presse/pressemitteilungen/2026...


Ukraine also seems to have solved this pretty well. NFC in the plastic card, selfie video confirmation, etc.

Hungary is also rolling out a "digital citizenship" app. (Also can be bootstrapped via newer plastic cards, so no need to visit the government office.)


Brits also voted to leave the EU where they had the absurdly privileged position of picking (almost freely) which rules applies to them, while benefiting from others applying them fully.

...

Democracy is only as good as the people doing the voting, who are about as good (as the rules they don't protest againsts) and the content they consume, which is about as good as certain groups make it to be.


B-b-but the bananas, and the bureaucrats!!

What's particularly amazing about Brexit is that many of its chief architects have not been shamed or exiled from society for spinning a yarn that fell apart when confronted with the smallest slither of reality. No, instead, the primary advocate may very well be our next prime minister.


A slither of reality sounds snaky... and I ended up googling it and Google AI convincingly says both that it exists and also that it is confused with "sliver of reality", and its examples of "slither of reality" point to pages that use "sliver" instead.

What a time to be alive.


Oh lol. Good catch. Wrote that with my morning coffee in hand where it appears my brain was still asleep

what is old Outlook? for me that's Outlook Express 6 :D

yes, so situational awareness is even more fundamental than communication

especially because people hired by people hired by people (....) hired by founders (or delegated by some board that's voted by successful business people) did not get there by being engineering minded.

and this is inconceivable for most engineering minded people!

they don't care because their world, their life, their problems and their solutions are completely devoid of that mindset.

some very convincing founder types try to imitate it, some dropouts who spent a few years around people who have this mindset can also imitate it for a while, but their for them it's just a thing like the government, history, or geography, it's just there, if there's a hill they just go around, they don't want to understand why it's there, what's there, what's under it, what geological processes formed it, why, how, how long it will be there ...



matters less than we would like it to

after all startups/scaleups/bigtech companies that make a lot of money can run on Python for ages, or make infinite money with Perl scripts (coughaws)

and it matters even less in non-tech companies, because their competition is also 3 incompetent idiots on top of each other in a business suite!

sure, if you are starting a new project fight for good technical fundamentals


and what's with the parents? for running containers?

what's CAS?

oops I meant create react app, no idea how I typed cas.

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