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FWIW nearly every SaaS or IaaS is making bold claims about supporting data sovereignty, but unless it has been challenged in court I wouldn’t put much stock into it.

The fact that Jira/Confluence are being processed by their LLMs puts them in direct legal conflict with several statutes in the EU, its a matter of time for them to get hit by this and I’m betting that they think the fine will be lower than the revenue they acquire for doing it- and they’re hoping they don’t get hit at all.

This seems to be the common case for a lot of the non-EU tech companies, and it seems to be working.

Oracle is currently the market leader in “sovereign” compute for EU governments for example, as ironic as that is.

The issue is that people form opinions based on what LLMs spit out, they think it's "as good as google", and that google was "as good as encyclopedias" and encyclopaedias were "as good as fact"..

Totally forgetting that the accuracy goes down with each of those evolutions.

I'm also reminded of that "You are not immune to propaganda" mantra, in that, the most likely to be swayed by LLMs are those that believe that they understand that they're inaccurate and sometimes dangerous.

Case in point: myself, today, when claude accidentally ran `rm -fr $variableThatDoesntExist/*` and wiped a server of mine.

The variable was one it had set itself (or had assumed).

At some point as these LLMs get better and better we have to take a step back and remind ourselves that: despite the fact that they can be very persuasive and they can earn trust by being mostly correct: they're still capable of great harm (perhaps much greater harm) because they are dangerously wrong sometimes..

.. and worse, they are controlled by corporate interests.

Fair, but he’s the most prominent person here who’s been on both sides of this so I’d genuinely like his take.

Two concrete questions. Did Fly challenge this request, or just comply? And does he still think server-side trust is a non-issue when the identity in this case was built entirely from provider-side records (signup IP, SSH audit logs, a Stripe fingerprint)?

When I said in 2023 that the infrastructure around E2EE matters, he called it misinformation (rather aggressively).

This case looks a lot like the infrastructure mattering.

> Tech companies used to demand warrants/subpoenas for these kinds of things.

Two things are true

1) Tech has become more financial people and "techbros" than principled nerds.

2) The powers of the USG have become a lot stronger and far reaching- quite literally to the level where talking about complying with an order is itself a crime.

The issue that most people bring up is that it optimises for people with free time who can work on these things out of hours.

The same arguments are made against take-home tests.

Personally I'm not sure we can do anything really except try to make ourselves excellent judges of character when interviewing... because people will optimise for the interview if they know what's coming.

Well, if we consider speed of development rather than speed of the runtime, the analogy holds better.

C++ is the "just here to deliver" language.

It can do everything, it's a nightmare to write correctly and is so full of warts that really only a mother could love it.

Go is "elegant" and properly designed, which leads to fundamental unassailable limitations; like its GUI story or writing a backend for other languages (cgo is so slow and -build-mode=c-shared is a hog).

No operator overloading makes it difficult for numerical/scientific work - Python is stronger here.

"just get stuff done" is your crappy dump truck which is welded together out of spare bits and is barely hanging on, this is how I feel about C++.

Go is a lot more elegant and well designed, but it requires "smooth roads" (An OS and Runtime) and goes fast... it's more like a Dodge Hellcat..

EDIT: if we consider speed a function of development time rather than runtime, of course at runtime C++ can be as fast as it gets.

And that's ok.

I don’t know how to say this softly.

Answering in this way has done nothing to further my understanding of the topic, you haven’t explained the difference or why there is a difference and you haven’t offered a counter-example.

I can only surmise that you’ve answered in order to feel superior, but that doesn’t make sense because while I have examples of behaviour that can be explained by my statements, you haven’t added anything to explain yours.

So, your statement stands alone, undefended and without context or explanation.

What were you trying to achieve? A key that is used to decrypt copyrighted material being /itself/ copyrighted means it cant be distributed which is what we see.

The issue with blu-ray is (and will likely always be) the decryption keys, which are copyrighted and cannot be distributed legally.

Swedes are excellent at speaking English (better than some British people from deprived areas).. and I work in international companies where English is the lingua franca...

My partner actively prevented it also, she was ethnically Russian (Estonian) and wanted me to learn Russian before Swedish.