ransom_rs

Looks like a tailscale alternative from Cloudflare

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If the system is implemented correctly then Kagi cryptographically can't link a particular search to a particular user.

A problem with "zero knowledge" proofs is that Kagi needs to verify that the user has paid for the service, which requires the server to have some knowledge about the client at some point.

You have to generate the tokens while signed in, but once you have the tokens, you can use them without your searches being associated with your account (cryptographically provable).

In case anyone else does this and is new to Rust - you can use `cargo check` to type check/borrow check/everything else without doing any codegen

Isn't Google Takeout pretty easy?

Granted, after centuries of written works, we still don't have "the way" to take hand written notes. Everyones brain works different, and people have total different ways to take notes.

I don't think this is 100% of the reason computers don't have a universal note taking system, but it is definitely a part of it.

I feel like this is different because Amazon does tell you what happens, and they can technically argue that you are responsible for understanding what you are buying (the ethics of hiding this information is very questionable). On the other hand, the EULA is specific language that is legally bounded.

This uses [lalrpop](https://github.com/lalrpop/lalrpop) under the hood I believe, which is a pretty awesome parser generator library for Rust.

This is what I'm talking about. How do you KNOW that $other_headphones sound better? The Apple model isn't even available yet.

I feel this part of the discussion is missing. A lot of people seem to love the HomePod for it's great audio quality at the price, and I have heard similar things for the HomePod Mini. Apple seems to be getting decent at making high quality audio equipment(per $), I feel like the quality of these headphones could be similar to the competition.

Apple for sure has a history of overcharging for certain products (remember, you can get a monitor stand for $1k), but the M1 Macbook Air is probably the best $1,000 computer by a long shot.

NeXT was like graduate school, bringing together a high concentration of some of the brightest and most innovative technical minds

This line really interests me. As someone graduating pretty soon - are there tech companies out there that that still have this culture? Everything seems marketing / product focused today. Besides going to graduate school, does anyone here feel like they are at a company like this?