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I’d argue they both admin that Linux servers are the target for a lot of applications to run on. Not to develop on.

I’m really interested how you got these numbers. Using some of the daycare providers in our most expensive city (Amsterdam) with an obscene collective income (250k) with 5 full days of daycare (which not many parents even want) I get net 1300 per child.

For 3 days with more normal incomes it is closer to 700-800 euros

Windows _is_ garbage for a lot of modern development (except thise targeting Win32). But that does not matter to the ICT department tasked with controlling and securing all endpoints, preferring a single, very well known and controllable OS over freedom and performance.

Google is also pushing Chrome on all their other apps. Google Maps keeps asksing me in what browser to open a link; putting Chrome first: I don’t have Chrome installed.

And that on top of the EEE-steps with all the non-standards they keep implementing.

If you count -all of europe- as a developing country, sure.

In europe we never had free unlimited texts. Internet was cheaper than calling/texting, especially with everyone having wifi at home and work. So a cross-platform messaging app appeared and has replaced text and calling.

Instead you rent, and your landlord agrees that it is fine.

So now you look at a shitty fence. Which you could have done when owning the house too

I think they are saying the signed ID can be copied to another device. Unless such ID needs to have acces to some TPM that can be trusted, which likely requires then specific trusted hardware and software

Whatever clever crypto system you think of: if it needs to work for the general population, it needs to go hand-in-hand with UX.

Say your example: a user generates a pub/priv keypair locally and shares the public one with the government. How does the government know you’re rightfully sending the ID? How does the user know what they are sending? Can the app/website/tool/person at post office they are using to generate+store+send the public key be trusted by the user? How can the government give trust to the user that this tool/person can be trusted?

And there we have attestation again. Or walled app stores, or certification as we have for physical services.

This exact thing happens too often. We try to use fancy technology to solve a non-texhnical problem.

With or without blockchain you end up at court. If you build a decentralized trust system, the builder of the system needs to be trusted. If you want to use decentralized trust to do your taxes or other government communication you still need to trust your government. These are all actual examples i’ve encountered.

You pretty much always end up at the legal system. If there js anything to make big impact on it would be that. But that requires world-wide revolution.

Poor Man's Polaroid 5 months ago

The whole ‘shoot with thinking’ is one of the values to me. On top of, of course, the direct printing.