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I'm not sure what you mean by a memory protocol, what is that?

As far as I am aware. I was not given the individual's name for "privacy reasons". I was explicitly told it was someone under me, but that could be anyone of 20-some odd people.

Thank you all for the recommendations, definitely leaning towards IceCat mobile. I'll be playing around with it tonight.

I've updated my mobile Firefox and they still don't work. It kills me this has not been a priority for Mozilla, it shouldn't be this hard to browse the web.

Mozilla has been on the downward spiral over the last several years. They took something (i.e. Firefox) that wasn't broken and "fixed" it until it was, first by killing off XPCOM and then suffering through the misadventures of such bastard products as Firefox OS. The folks at Mozilla should really stick to what their good at and focus on an all around open source browser that people will actually WANT to use.

Just curious, do you think enough subject matter experts (e.g. Data Scientists, AI researches) would volunteer in the event of a national emergency or is patriotism not a viable motivator as the authors suggest?

Actual doogiePIM user here: I've been using this app for the the last four months and it really does do everything Chris promises it does - its amazingly stable and adaptable for being developed by one talented individual. Hardly a day goes by I don't discover a new feature which has helped me migrate certain workflows into one, local platform allowing me to replace Word, Google Calendar, and Mint to name just a few (I keep everything on my Surface with occasional backups off site).

While doogiePIM is billed as a personal information manager (PIM) I actually use it more as a Personal Knowledge Manager (PKM), which is especially conducive due to the built in Chromium browser, so I don't have to keep switching between multiple apps like Chrome (which I no longer trust), Notion, or some other Productivity program. Talking with the OP he is extremely responsive and open to suggestions that would make doogiePIM more functional and customizable.

As a longtime HN lurker I've noticed that for years individuals have longed for a centrally managed information program and I feel strongly that this is the only one that fits that bill:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806950

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8270759

It was actually this topic that exposed me to HN in the first place.

I am not in any way affiliated with the OP but I am a believer in that the program delivers. That and the fact that it's a local app gives me peace of mind.

I can deal with bad management/leadership, which I'm sure all of us have experienced at one time or another. The law of averages dictates we will work for someone who sucks at some point in our careers.

Even worse than bad/toxic management to me is No management or leadership. The worse job I ever had involved managers who couldn't make even the simplest of decisions or provide even minute guidance. I worked as a high level project manager who executed on different projects across the organization. I would bring back facts and figures to support the objectives of the organization and usually have three to five recommendations for consideration just to be told "they would get back to me". Weeks would pass with no direction and my team would then be subject to abuse from other stakeholders on why we weren't doing our jobs.

If I tried to take initiative to keep the org moving I'd be hanged by our senior management, so it was a Catch 22 situation. Ultimately I made the decision that the best thing I could do was protect the members of the team by siloing our operations as much as possible while they struggled to do their jobs with as little outside interference as possible.

Bad managers can be mitigated by sometimes playing their game to you and your team's advantage, keeping certain actors at arms length, or "feeding the beast" to simply be left alone. No leadership is the worst because it's the equivalent of not just being on a rudderless ship lost at sea but with everyone on said ship sick and expected to build the rest of the ship after it's already left the dock.

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Not my creation but I'm a believer and an active user. Been seeking such a product since this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806950) a few years back.

Proud 1st time home buyer in Houston :). I could barely afford my rent in NY. And that was with a room mate!

Amen to that. I'm a card carrying liberal who left New York State for many of the same reasons.

Shameless plug for relocating to Texas: I really love looking at my pay stubs every two weeks and seeing "0" for money paid in state taxes. It really does make you Wonder why they even bother leaving the field on it.

Once, while interviewing for a Program Manager position, I was asked what the airspeed velocity of a swallow was. Being a child of the 90s I was familiar with Monty Pythin and quickly responded with "do you mean an African or a European swallow?"

The interviewers chuckled and proceeded onto a more relevant, and technical, question. I often wonder if that one answer is what landed me the position.