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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:54PM (#49924889)
Trustworthy Technology | Earth | Part Time | REMOTE | Anything

Hi, we are a small group trying to bring the "trustworthy" feature back to tech. Curating and building a FOSS+ toolset, storefront, and eventually online service—all to support freedom, privacy, and informed consent—on device and on the net.

We've written our thoughts and research down at: https://trustworthy.technology/ and we have a few geeks starting projects at: https://codeberg.org/aol

First off, you'll notice that you've probably not heard about this project before. Next, the message is a bit scattered, and the "programmer art," while arguably not horrible isn't winning any awards either, haha.

That's where you come in.

You are one of the few folks who really cares about this stuff, and also a graphic/product designer, or perhaps a digital marketer, communicator or "people whisperer." (Being in the EU would be helpful as well, to work from the digital sovereignty angle, though not required.) Geeks are welcome too.

Some of us are unemployed and currently donating our time. Maybe you are too, or retired/cashed-out and bored. Consider this another FOSS-like project. We hope the store/service will make money, but we're not there yet.

Interested? Let's chat at: https://trustytech.zulipchat.com/join/ivui3uglp2at3tyltau7jj...

BTW, if/when you join please say hi and let us know what kind of projects you're interested in.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @06:11PM (#49528935)
Trustworthy Technology | Earth | Part Time | REMOTE | Vision, Marketing, and/or Design

Hi, we are a small group trying to bring the "trustworthy" feature back to tech. Curating and building a FOSS+ toolset, storefront, and eventually online service—all to support freedom, privacy, and informed consent—on device and on the net.

We've written our thoughts and research down at: https://trustworthy.technology/ and we have a few geeks starting projects at: https://codeberg.org/aol

First off, you'll notice that you've not heard about this project before. Next, the message is a bit scattered, and the "programmer art," while arguably not horrible isn't winning any awards either, haha.

That's where you come in.

You are one of the few folks who really cares about this stuff, and also a graphic/product designer, or perhaps a digital marketer, communicator or "people whisperer." (Being in the EU would be helpful as well, to work from the digital sovereignty angle, though not required.)

Some of us are unemployed and currently donating our time. Maybe you are too, or retired/cashed-out and bored. Consider this another FOSS-like project. We hope the store/service will make money, but we're not there yet.

Interested? Let's chat at: https://trustytech.zulipchat.com/join/h5usqnt2bet7exz747cbf3...

BTW, when you join please say hi let us know what kind of projects you're interested in.

Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:03PM (#49176928)
So they do have access after all—just have to ask nicely.

That process is fine, the best we have.

The problem is having roving surveillance vehicles driving around everywhere. I see a couple of them every day on my walk in a mostly residential area.

The addition of facial recognition is trivial if not already implemented. Can be done after the fact. The tradeoff is catching an occasional criminal while enabling all sorts of abuse from the powers that be.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @01:17AM (#49164584)
Trustworthy Technology | Earth | Part Time | REMOTE | Vision, Marketing, and Design

Hi, we are a small group trying to bring the "trustworthy" feature back to tech. Curating and building a FOSS+ toolset, storefront, and eventually online service—all to support freedom, privacy, and informed consent—on device and on the net.

We've written our thoughts and research down at: https://trustworthy.technology/ and we have a few geeks starting projects at: https://codeberg.org/aol

First off, you'll notice that you've not heard about this project before. Next, the message is a bit scattered, and the "programmer art," while arguably not horrible isn't winning any awards either, haha.

That's where you come in.

You are one of the few folks who really cares about this stuff, and also a graphic/product designer, or perhaps a digital marketer, communicator or "people whisperer." (Being in the EU would be helpful as well, to work from the digital sovereignty angle, though not required.)

Some of us are unemployed, don't have any money of note, and currently donating our time. Maybe you are too, or retired/cashed-out and bored. Consider this another FOSS-like project. We hope the store/service will make money, but we're not there yet.

Interested? Let's chat at: https://trustytech.zulipchat.com/join/ipafmtlcq5iwrlmk2v7pu4...

If you weren’t constantly farming karma, it wouldn’t bother you.

Why not critique the content instead?

This is great, been waiting so long for a good Linux tablet. I love my Starlite. I put fedora and phosh on it and watch movies all the time with it.
Re:Tired of being manipulated by BigTech? on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @04:11PM (#45892920)
Thanks, guess codeberg doesn't have much bandwidth. On the other hand it's mostly static text and a css include, should be easy to serve.
Re:Tired of being manipulated by BigTech? on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @01:20PM (#45890888)
Anyone have additional feedback? Seems to have a decent number of votes, but I didn't see it on the front page, even on the second to fifth.
Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed on Thursday November 06, 2025 @05:00PM (#45841006)
Accounts can most often be closed or deleted permanently when one wants to stop or move. Some can change your address.
It's not hard at all, just a pip install away. Perhaps a rare uninstall later.

It sounds like you haven't read the full thread. It's common for younger developers to be slaves to "best practice" even in exceptions where it doesn't apply.

Appeal to authority is not a compelling argument either.

Re:Customize Nano Text Editor on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @03:38PM (#45827637)
Promising but very barebones. Hard to do without syntax highlighting these days, for example. But I think it would be useful on a tiny machine with openwrt, as micro is huge there. ;-)
Re:Customize Nano Text Editor on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:41AM (#45812217)
Before I used micro & ne I used nano, and configured the keybindings to work in the CUA style. I still have the dot files, didn't delete them, but they rarely get used anymore.

I think they recently added Ctrl+S to save by default, even if unconfigured, woohoo.

I get a new machine most years from the business.

I suggest a systems administration course if you're having so much trouble with Python libs. It can help, knowing your way around the filesystem and how to use PATHs, etc.

Never happened.
I only ever had it a problem with large, poorly maintained projects from work. You know the kind that have two web frameworks required in the same project, and two orms, etc. ;-) That one I definitely put into a venv. But my stuff, no.
He did and was told to shut up. And how did it work out for the folks who pressed on?
And not only conversations. Employes have been caught sharing revealing videos.
Re:uBlock Origin 1.50.0 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:54PM (#36234805)
Live drives are still a thing.

However the optimal solution is to keep work and personal completely separate.

Re:Astrud Gilberto: The Girl from Ipanema singer dies at 83 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:45PM (#36234707)
Nope, the singer is watching her walk down the sidewalk.
These people don't understand IT or are lying. Backend replication service as root solves all these "mysteries" neatly.
What you just described is not possible. So still not a case.
The documents were obtaied thru a news/search service built by him as IT. The explanation is documented, plausible, likely, and verifiable to some degree.

Contrast that with your message from a vested interest that it's "a lie." You'll need a lot more than that to be convincing.

Have a link? Couldn't find anything easily.

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