abeyer

"AI does not understand accountability, trust, culture, unwritten rules, ethical trade-offs or fairness"

...says a representative of a massive PE firm, those models of trust, accountability, ethics, and fairness.

But that means custom per-device firmware builds, that in my experience with every router I tried it on means they lag months/years behind security patches. Is there some way to stay patched without building from source and reflashing every time a patch to something upstream happens? (almost daily, now, I guess that means?)

Pretty sure this is a known offering from Comcast, you just have to talk to the right sales rep... I haven't yet seen any evidence of a TV using it (yet), but hve been told they will sell a company IoT or fleet device access to their wifi endpoints for enough money. I'm not sure it would be cost effective for mass market device surveillance, though.

Also Amazon does this same model with their Sidewalk service, which can run over bluetooth or lora, instead of wifi... and is specifically priced to be usable for large numbers of devices.

Old still exists and gets heavy use a decade or so later exactly because regular reddit just doesn't work at all, even when you're logged in.

But even aside from opinions on their UX, they're aggressively experimenting with the login more... Even on the new UI I now semi-regularly see that I can read the initial post and one or two comments but as soon as I scroll past or try to expand a comment thread get a login prompt.

Hmmm... any other day I'd think that I need archive.today to get past reddit's login wall to read that.

And this is exactly what the article fails to account for... they make several blanket assertions that may well make sense for certain types of posts but may not for others.

My 2c is that rule #0 of writing advice should be to take all writing advice with a grain of salt and an eye towards context and audience.

1. Luma is quite popular with some communities, and has been for a while. 2. Disoverability still kind of sucks on luma, both the platform itself and between events even on the platform, so not really surprising. 3. Online rsvp's almost always exceed actual attendees by a lot if you aren't charging money or otherwise penalizing people for no-showing... it's typical to see 30-50% attendance.

I don't think any of my interactive use machines (server/remote are another story) are less than 3 years old.

Including non-tracked files that land in your local directory even if they're never committed.

A datacenter not owned/run by a major US or Israeli company seems like it might be a good first step.

It sounds like you've worked places that have made a staffing decision and paid the price. It happens, but it's far from universal.

> Doing data engineering work with Salesforce data is an exercise on archeology, psychology and organizational politics.

What business focused systems is this _not_ true for? Doubly so for such systems that encourage non-developer users to customize the database schema?

Not saying that's always a great choice, but they're far from the only ones to have made it, enterprise customers love to buy it, and Salesforce is actually one of the better ones I've seen to deal with from a technical perspective. There is _far, far_ worse out there. Most of this comes down to a business and design problem... your entire first paragraph reads as a broken process that no system is going to fix.

There is a published sticker price, but I don't think anyone outside of tiny installs with just a few users pays that... it's very much the enterprise sales model of "let's schedule a call and talk about it." They also for many years would let previously negotiated prices stand during renewals even when sticker price went up, so older orgs often have the "same" license being charged at many different prices based on when it was first purchased and how the negotiations went at the time.

To be fair, they came in with some requirements that I don't think anyone else had at the time, and even today aren't in any mainstream ones afaik.

I think the biggest difference was around providing security and stability barriers between front-end components on the same page, with the intent of allowing you to compose a page that contains your own components and those of other third party applications you've installed with guarantees about how they can (and can't) interact. Not sure they couldn't have tacked that onto another framework, but it comes with enough trade-offs and compromises that I'm not sure anyone else would have wanted to upstream it, so they would have been forking something anyway.

Aura wasn't much fun to work with, was never really feature complete, and not advocating for it... but it actually kind of made sense if you thought about front end with the context of how salesforce did security and multitenancy in mind.

> So far nobody has started shipping TVs with a mobile connection to exfiltrate data, as far as we know

Yeah, I suspect that it either isn't a big enough segment of the market to make the costs worth it, or they just haven't been caught. Given that it's pretty easy to add amazon sidewalk connectivity to devices with bluetooth radios (which most of these TVs have to support external wireless speakers), I'd be shocked if they hadn't at least experimented and estimated payoff on doing that.