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"including some plugins" being the relevant bit.

Comment · 6 months ago

* Andreessen Horowitz - scammers.

* Y Combinator - vibe coders.

Are there any respectable VC tech companies out there in 2026?

Comment · 6 months ago

> I still hope that one of these days people in general will realize that executable signing and SecureBoot are specifically designed for controlling what a normal person can run, rather than for anything resembling real security

For home/business users I'd agree. But in Embedded / money-handling then it's a life-saver and a really important technology.

Comment · 8 months ago

Nota bene: these aren't "tech" jobs, these are "laptop job" over-hired email people. Not real people.

Comment · 8 months ago

I really tried my best to open a Facebook account, so I could open a developer account. All correct and real info. Instaban immediately after account creation, immediate "go away forever" email after clicking the "appeal" button.

The fact that you have to open a personal account first, in order to start a developer account seems mad to me. I have no interest at all in having a personal Facebook account.

Comment · 8 months ago

Love the fact that you use USA date format, not rest-of-world.

Love the fact that your AI customer service bot takes a question and then asks for an email address for a reply.

Love your incoherently bolded statements: "The Docs app is a note taking and knowledge management software.

Love how the vast amount of emojis really clarify things and help the reader.

s/love/hate/g

Comment · 11 months ago

> The US government is not free to use frivolous sanctions to indirectly make payment processors stop serving a foreigner.

You may regard them as such, but they are not in any sense frivolous. It is the law that if-x-then-y, it's not a discretionary item that one interprets. And to be clear, these are not "indirectly" making payment processors stop serving the person, it is very clearly direct and you do not, as a company, have a choice in the matter.

Comment · 11 months ago

> And how far out is that?

These guys have a 100% market share https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems at the 'extreme' end and, obviously, everyone else is trying but haven't really shown much promise.

Here's a good background article on the topic: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/12/...

Comment · 11 months ago

> For example, accounts with non-US banks have also been partially closed. Transactions in US dollars or via dollar conversions are forbidden to him.

So people don't think this is a new thing; when I worked in retail banking in the (very) early '90s it was made clear to us that any transaction in US dollars is subject to US regulation. The hypothetical scenario was that an Ethiopian arms dealer buys Russian product from a German dealer in Switzerland if they do it in USD it is the purview of the US to prosecute that crime.

My memory is hazy, but I don't think that when I was being taught it that it was a new thing.