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decent amount of start up funding in the form of a grant

This is fascinating? What was it in absolute terms, or relative to your base salary?

Did you have to have a viable startup idea and it was paid to the incorporated company? Or was it just extra cash in your personal bank account?

Did you do that, or did you just get another job?

Say you're a small or solopreneur company, and you don't have any enterprise customers yet.

What do you put on a features/pricing page to help you start finding out what your enterprise customers might actually want? (Not the generic stuff like SSO and audits, but specific to your product/market).

Just a generic "Don't see the features you need? Email us!"?

as a kid it meant going back to school, the sound still makes me sad and melancholy and reflective about whether I achieved what I wanted

When I was a kid Star Trek Voyager broadcast on a Sunday night, and it was the last thing on a weekend before bed. So I had exactly the same issue with the end credits music, just more frequent!

The old public key’s certificate revealed it was issued on April 5th, 2016, and expired on April 4th, 2021, and its thumbprint matched the thumbprint of the key Microsoft listed in their latest blog post, named “Thumbprint of acquired signing key”

Am I reading this right? The key was expired? And still in use??

+1 on the Yubikey. I'm pretty good at moving my savings around and getting the best interest rate possible - the side effect is a ton of accounts, which means I'm drowning in 'secure memorable passcode key PINs' and my SMS inbox is full of SMS 2FA codes, and I'm wondering what it would take to get a bank to offer Webauthn/FIDO.

How about a website where we pledged to open an account and deposit £X into savings, or switch current account, if they offered Webauthn/FIDO?

Reminds me of this point by Matt Levine:

If you have a pot of money that is immune to bank runs, over time, modern finance will find a way to make it vulnerable to bank runs. That is an emergent property of modern finance. No one sits down and says “let’s make pension funds vulnerable to bank runs!” Finance, as an abstract entity, just sort of does that on its own.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-29/uk-pen...