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Sleaker commented on Why software stocks are getting pummelled economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/petethomas

coliveira · 10 days ago

> getting business aligned with tech (communication) and getting alignment across all the different orgs

This is what a CEO is supposed to do. I wonder if CEOs are the ones OK with their data being used and sent to large corps like MS, Oracle, etc.

Sleaker · 10 days ago

I haven't seen what you're suggesting from a CEO at a large company that's primary business is non-software related. At some point in a businesses life theres an accumulation of so many disparate needs and systems that there can be many many layers of cross org needs for fulfilling business processes. This stuff is messy.

I think I saw it asserted that its easier for a new company, which definitely makes sense as you don't carry along all the baggage.

Sleaker commented on Why software stocks are getting pummelled economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/petethomas

keeda · 10 days ago

Hmm, I wonder if it would be cheaper to hire a couple of software engineers to vibe-code custom SaaS apps on top of the company's existing data layer instead of paying for a hundred different SaaS subscriptions.

Financial considerations aside, one advantage of having in-house engineers is that you can get custom features built on-demand without having to be blocked on the roadmap of a SaaS company juggling feature requests from multiple customers...

Sleaker · 10 days ago

I'm at a large company that is building connections between all of its different financial systems. The primary problem being faced is NOT speed to code things, the primary problem at large companies is getting business aligned with tech (communication) and getting alignment across all the different orgs on data ownership, access, and security. AI currently doesn't solve any of this. Throw in needing to deal with regulation/SOX compliance and all the progress you think AI might make, just doesn't align with the problem domains.

Sleaker commented on Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them github.com/PABannier/WSIS... · Posted by u/el_pa_b

Sleaker · a month ago

Maybe a bit pedantic, but if you're streaming it, then you're still downloading portions of it, yah? Just not persisting the whole thing locally before viewing it.

Edit: Looks like this is a slight discrepancy between the HN title and the GitHub description.

Sleaker commented on French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition torrentfreak.com/french-c... · Posted by u/iamnothere

jdcasale · a month ago

For what it's worth, I have lived in, and currently spend a lot of time in, both places. You're both very obviously wrong.

There is a serious problem in the US. There is also a serious (though different) problem in the UK. The problem in the US is the chilling effect of the vindictiveness and lawlessness of the current regime. I will not elaborate on this because it's too complicated to communicate effectively in a forum post.

The problem in the UK is a set of vaguely and arbitrarily specified-and-enforced laws that enable the criminalization of 'grossly offensive" speech. There is no statutory definition of what constitutes a 'grossly offensive' communication -- all enforcement is arbitrary and thus can be abused. Whether is it actually abused in any widespread fashion is irrelevant.

- Communications Act 2003 (Section 127): Makes it an offense to send messages via public electronic networks (internet, phone, social media) that are "grossly offensive," indecent, obscene, or menacing, or to cause annoyance/anxiety.

- Malicious Communications Act 1988 (Section 1): Applies to sending letters or electronic communications with the purpose of causing distress or anxiety, containing indecent or grossly offensive content.

Sleaker · a month ago

I'm still not quite sure how UK law impacts the US. I was hoping for explicit examples of someone actually being removed from power because they were critical of the president. I think that would be pretty big news and the closest I have heard was one of the ex-military standing congresspeople being threatened with reduced military benefits, or legal action, but not actually anyone being removed from a position.

Sleaker commented on French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition torrentfreak.com/french-c... · Posted by u/iamnothere

GJim · a month ago

> the European approach to free speech (especially as it's handled in the UK) is incredibly alarming and off-putting.

We do have free speech in Blighty thank you very much. Unlike the current situation in the USA, where speaking out to, or disagreeing with, the president will get you removed from positions of authority (and/or confronting armed police).

If you haven't already gathered, such bogus claims of free speech restrictions in other countries are distracting you from the reality of what is happening in your own country.

Sleaker · a month ago

> Unlike the current situation in the USA, where speaking out to, or disagreeing with, the president will get you removed from positions of authority (and/or confronting armed police).

Not quite sure what you're referring to here, you can speak out all you want on political matters in the US. -Especially- in the context of criticizing the president.

Sleaker commented on Start your meetings at 5 minutes past philipotoole.com/start-yo... · Posted by u/otoolep

Sleaker · a month ago

For some larger meetings during the pandemic, managers started scheduling them 5 minutes after to give people time to join, but because people's reminders triggered at the same relative time all it meant was people started joining meetings 5 minutes later negating any perceived benefit.

Sleaker commented on Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) lists.busybox.net/piperma... · Posted by u/csmantle

schmuckonwheels · a month ago

> windows 2000 wasn't widely used as a consumer installed OS

But Windows XP, which came out in 2001, inherited everything from Windows 2000 and more, and was used extensively for gaming.

Sleaker · a month ago

Absolutely and first iterations of steam hardware survey showed mostly XP users, but still 5-7% win 98 install base, which they maintained compatibility with for quite a while, that's just to say that I can see why they might not have used those specific windows APIs at the start.

Sleaker commented on Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) lists.busybox.net/piperma... · Posted by u/csmantle

schmuckonwheels · a month ago

CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA is the API call to get this special folder which has been around since <checks notes> Windows 2000, 26 years ago.

You should never hardcode the path since it can and has moved around, though MS has implemented hard links to legacy paths because most developers are stupid and against persistent better advice do it anyway. I've seen multi-million dollar software packages whose vendor requires it to be writable by "Everyone".

Steam was first released in 2003, three years later.

For 80% of grievances about Windows, there is likely a solution in place that no one knows about because they didn't read the documentation.

Sleaker · a month ago

And steam was originally released to be compatible with Windows 98. windows 2000 wasn't widely used as a consumer installed OS.

Sleaker commented on Iran Protests Enter Third Straight Day as Students Join In wsj.com/world/middle-east... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

Sleaker · a month ago

WSJ wont open for me, but was able to find it via MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-protests-enter-thi...

not sure where to pull that doesn't have tracking, not seeing it on archive yet.

Sleaker commented on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) apalrd.net/posts/2023/net... · Posted by u/mahirsaid

LeoPanthera · 2 months ago

My problem with IPv6 is that my ISP (Xfinity) won't give me a static prefix, so every now and again it changes.

Unlike IPv4, my LAN addresses include the prefix, so every time they change it, all my LAN addresses change.

Combined with the lack of DHCP6 support in many devices, this means reverse DNS lookups from IP to hostname can't be done, making identifying devices by their IP essentially impossible.

Sleaker · 2 months ago

Well.. that's because with ipv6 you're not technically on a lan everything is exposed by default unless you set it all up differently.