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Comment · 2 months ago
>What can be done to mitigate this?

Buy hardware used by government computers that are rivals to your country.

So if American, buy Chinese CPUs and install Chinese Linux or HarmoneyOS Assuming there is nothing you are doing of interest to them, as that will also have back doors

After Snowden, one can only imagine the worst and think everything has a backdoor.

But unless you are a high level terrorist or other person of interest, no state organization is going to target you at this level

P.s. you say no one can trust closed source, but a lot of open source is maintained by one or two people or a small group, just takes infiltration by one or two trusted contributors to push malicious code in and unless someone looks and finds that code amongst millions of lines of code, may never be discovered (more so as mainstream media won't publish any thing)

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Comment · 2 months ago
A lot of negative comments, but I read it and said the usual social. media response of "damn they got the reciepts".
Comment · 2 months ago
>Typing the code myself forces me to slow down, which means I'm more likely to detect hallucinations or bad design choices the LLM might have made.

I think this depends on your level of expertise with the task.

If I'm writing a language I am extremely familiar with and so second nature to me, for example SQL then I can instantly read llm code.

But if a new language or a new piece of software then llm generating huge amounts of code can make it difficult to improve yourself and also manage the quality.

Comment · 2 months ago
>There are similar services to this one, but they are either convoluted with ads, or require sign-up, or expect you to fill out a survey or something.

So you just want to offer it free?

What about ongoing responsibilities if you get DMCA and take down for copyright/child porn/fake nudes and so on

Comment · 2 months ago
>Make offers so low...

Yes, all the company execs at Airtable and the VCs and their lawyers and finance guys and advisors are stupid and were incapable of fielding rival offers...

Businesses tend to sell for their market value at that point in time.

Comment · 2 months ago
Having read their IPO prospectus, my reading - They buy a company which they feel has a sticky product for its loyal userbase and then integrate as many of its common services into its in-house platform e.g. data

They then fire nearly all of the existing new companies staff and think of all the ways they can maximally monetise the existing userbase. Growing the product via investing in it isn't a priority, revenue stream is.

They get a lot of stick, but in fairness they are up front about their business model; they don't hide the fact that they are going to fire most people, unlike traditional private equity firms who make false promises.

Comment · 2 months ago
It's used by non technical people so not sure AI is the competition.

Perhaps Notion and all the project planning apps like Linear, ClickUp, Asana?

Comment · 2 months ago
>Bending Spoons said Airtable's current net cash position implies an equity value of about $2.25 billion.

Bending Spoons must have amazing negotiaters to strike such a bargain.

We should send them to Iran to negotiate the peace deal.

Comment · 4 months ago
I'm assuming there is a lot of local competition to Cameo in other countries?

As it has a large potential market if it did dominate globally.

Comment · 4 months ago
>By May 2026, 332 of the 1,900 unicorns in a database maintained by Ilya Strebulaev of Stanford University had raised money at a valuation at or below their peak (see chart). Of those, 212 were valued at under $1bn. As many as 383 had disclosed no new funding in the previous three years; 41 of these had lost unicorn status

332 out of 1900 isn't that bad?

Even the further 338 if confirmed would still be less a minority of the overall 1900

Comment · 4 months ago
Three main providers

(Apple login is in nearly every iOS app and most websites)

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Comment · 4 months ago
Awareness and for those who don't yet have a console?

Every shop selling it will be advertising it in their shop windows and on the shop floor. That's free marketing!

Also I imagine there will be bundle deals with consoles and other accessories.

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