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Except for politicians and VCs (that each have their very own agenda), airtaxi enthusiasts give me the same vibe as "crypto enthusiasts" (not: the overly sales-y type) - I get and agree that the general, naive value proposition is "great", but it's just not feasible and there's so many lower hanging fruit that could be adressed in the meantime.

And no one seems to address the often brought-up hard questions:

- Look at the (often) questionable security theater at airports and tell me how you'd scale it down to airtaxis?

- The people that for the foreseeable future will be able to afford airtaxis? Celebrities and enterprise C-level persons, not _you_

- Even if "free sky cars that run on zero energy" popped up from nowhere? The average person has a hard time navigating in 2D and can barely leave their hands off their cellphone

- "AI will fix it"? Sure, dream on.

`It does not allow hosting.` as in "you are not allowed to provide others with oCIS instances and ask them to pay for it"?

IIRC I've payed it via Paypal (you need an account with the official national railway provider though, which kinda makes sense for a subscription service) and it was available instantly as a QR code

While I'm also unhappy it's not being offered as a physical ticket, I can say from roughly 10 trips between 200 and 500km and a lot of local metro/bus riding that the frequency with which your ticket is actually checked shouldn't be enough to provide enough data for sophisticated tracking (esp. in comparison to "the normal amount" of GPS/tracking/movement data that smartphones already produce throughout the various apps we all have installed and that are being used on during trainrides)

Interesting for everyone looking for a self-hosted file synch&share / productivity suite. The new generation brings the benefit of better resource management and a single binary deployment story.

Disclaimer: Former ownCloud employee here

Boy you'll love e.g. "My Uncle Oswald" - I've only consciously discovered Dahl while looking for dark humored books in my teens and then was surprised to find out he was the author behind a lot of very well known childrens books also!

For anyone wanting to dig deeper, I think the term "flat file CMS" has been coined quite a while ago (and is what the author is aiming at with the Git-based flow). I'd agree that "lack of options for (accessible) visual editing UIs" is true, while flat-file-, database- or API-powered (which in the end is a wrapper over a DB, usually) CMS seem to exist for any reasonably popular programming language - with different levels of maintenance/recent development happening, granted.

I've reported them to [email protected] hoping that - given enough complaints - some action is taken from their side. From my understanding I can't delete myself from their sendgrid campaign/list since they only allow to unsubscribe from all their types of newsletters, meaning my mail address (which is public in my GH commit history anyways, but that's missing the point) will stay

I'd be interested if anyone here can shed some light on whether this counts as a GDPR breach for European citizens (as myself)?

Chosen by the (female) initiators and developers of the project, aiming for an open and playful approach to the topic (I guess).

Seconded that in another comment in this thread. Lots of "fullstack JS saves you money since you can hire the same devs for web, backend & mobile" in Berlin, with varying success