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Get a cheap open source media box and attach it to the TV.
what surprises me is that flock has not started a commercial service, where you can have the system surveillance anybody for a daily fee and have it compile a need report for you.
Use cases: stalk woman, collect evidence against your enemies, collect dirt for blackmail, etc. Maybe flock is already offering this, but only for the Enterprise customers and 0.1% ....
This Mom had multiple chances to avoid this escalation: "Yes, thank you for bringing it to my attention. No, will not do it again." - Instead she decided to go full Karen(TM) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang)) and went insane on the security, police, and child protection service.
You can argue that she had every right to be an idiot; but play stupid games, win stupid prices.
The UI is sometimes laggy, buggy and simply sucks.
Fresh installation of Windows 11 on a 2026 high-end machine: you open a File Explorer for local SSD and there is a delay in the UI. Oh, and of course, the UI is more ad invested then a cheap p0rn page from russia. WTF Microsoft?
3 Reasons: - a significant investment from the Schwarz Group - not just a marketing stunt, but a company with a long term vision to compete with big US tech - clearly targeted at B2B with strong ties into EU politics
Why can´t Apple allow for a setting to 100% disable this bad idea of an UI/UX experience? How much drugs do you need to consume, in order to assume that people who use a computer for professional work want this interface?
What was the user requirement for it? "lets waste as much UI as possible and make it very, very hard to work on Mac OS!"
Who approves this kind of bad UI/UX?
I have many friends who already left the US or prepared to leave at a moments notice. None of them are actually political, but they are aware that 1984 is already fully implemented and at any point in time it could get very, very ugly very quickly.
This is textbook russian propaganda.
People don´t care, never did.
Example: after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, people still suck up to MbS. Money rules the world.
After what we learned about Guantanamo Bay, nobody should be allowed to call the US a democratic country. But we all decided to ignore the facts, as watching Netflix is way to nice.
There is so much weird hate for the government in the comments, but please provide a single sane scenario where you need to send cash instead of a bank transfer that is not about avoiding laws/taxes.
There are NONE. You send the cash because you did something against the law.
So by all means, the police should keep the money until you simple prove the non-existing totally legit reason why you could not use a bank transfer. I understand the problem with this, but you don´t prove that you are innocent; but large amounts of cash are usually connected to crime and it is your job to explain why not.
Have a law, define a target weight + speed and then make it REALLY expensive to insure or kill people with your car.
Also in the law: if you drive around without insurance, the car is instantly taken away from you, as it is a weapon to conduct a crime :-)
Still people will drive big cars around, but the market will limit the number of people who can pay for it. And of course: new cars only and when ownership is transferred. No additional tax for existing owners.
The market would solve this problem VERY VERY quickly.
NOT every company should give stock options to its employees, because ... it only makes sense if long term success of the company can be significant influenced by its employees. Also, those stock options can be a barrier to growth and become a liability if needed adjustments are blocked in order to protect "stockholder"
NOT all employees should get stock options, specially not the ones who contribute very little to the value generated.
NOT all employees want stock options, as people just want to take the actual money and be free to switch companies. The stock options are a way to control employees.
employee stock options are interesting when the allow to vote on the board. THIS is amazing - and almost nobody does it, because it would actually shift power to the employees.
In most companies, giving stock options is almost a scam; you save actual money for salaries, pretend to share revenues (you don´t) and lock-in high value employees. Also you spread your stocks so you are more protected against hostile takeovers.
Stock options are a great way for the actual owners to save money and actually become more powerful.
All data shared by politicians, public servants and all of their family members within the EU has to be shared, analysed for corruption + stored forever.
If we are all considered pedophiles, then all politicians are criminals.
Yes, a few people will be wrongly accused and we all loose our freedom.
HOWEVER, with every election we will get a small chance that the previous administration will get audited and corruption and other crimes will get uncovered.
Seems to be worth it.
If you want to copy Apple & Co on this, please remember to also bring the tech specs.
Like: Operation System, Ram, Storage, Battery Life, Format Factor, Weight, I/O.
My assumption: you have a less crappy display with a outdated compute unit, made from leftover Shenzhen parts.
Sorry, but every year hundreds of startups fail with a "big promise bad product" strategy.
It is nothing against this product, i just have trust issues if a company cannot even create a basic webpage that delivers relevant information.
In case you want to have unlimited fun yourself, ask yourself: "What is the purpose of X?" and then "how can you measure/assess the fit-for-purpose of it?"
Possible Side-effects: #1 you might get disgusted and even angry with the self-declared "experts" who have not even understood the basic concepts.
#2 you might learn how little you understand yourself and how deep the rabbit hole goles.
Example in Software Development: Understand the quality dimensions for a "definition of ready" and what impact a good/used DoR has compared to a bad/not used DoR for the efficiency and effectiveness of a software development process.
Hypothesis: Android UX is more inconsistent compared to IOS and some inexperienced users get anxiety because of that.
Hypothesis: on Android and Windows it is much simply to get maleware etc. then on Apple, because Apple can be closed down completly (and this is great!)
Hypothesis: on Android and Windows you can damage the account/system very easily with a non-admin User, on Apple this is much less likely
Hypothesis: on Android and Windows the amount of admin work needed to keep the device alive is much higher then on Apple
With systems hundred times more complex and build by a NASA that is a fraction of what it was 50 years ago, i guess a modern day Voyager will not even make it to the edge, let alone continue to function.
It is a business with the purpose of generating value.
Firing activists who are delusional enough to challenge senior management in public is a good move. Ensure to fire anybody even remotely involved with this activists. Make sure that people understand that their job is not to have political opinions during working hours and even of the clock that they cannot opposite the official position of the company without running a risk of getting fired.
If you belief that google is "fascist" or "undemocratic" are are delusional; google cannot be "fascist" or "democratic" because it is a company. You do not elect the CEO of google and you are not a citizen of google. It is a company, nothing more, nothing less.
If you belief that a company should be democratic: you are free to create your own company, take your own money or find investors who share your beliefs. Put your money where your beliefs are. Activism is incredible cheap and it is long overdue that companies like google stop pretending to be a "family" or "democratic".
Anyhow, it would be extremely simple for all of Europe to role out OpenSource: just ban the transfer of critical user data to the US. Microsoft Windows is technically a gigantic NSA backdoor, therefore installing it on a government PC should be considered treason. So, maybe we should start to put politicians on trial for treason and see how quickly MS gets kicked out of Europe...
Anyhow, doing the same with a high traffic application would be a very very different animal, specially when the app has 100k+ active daily users and is doing actual stuff. The advice is not bad, but it sounds so silly. From experience every time a commercial web application was build as a monolith it became very hard or even unmaintainable in a few years, specially when 15+ Teams are constantly contribution. So pick the right hammer for the problem you have, but pretending a simple marketing webpage + payment/subscription is a good example for architecture is just a bit much.
1. research the cost of producing a production-ready physical product. You need millions of up-front investment and a couple of years of funding.
2. research how a toaster is sold. Spoiler: you need attention and access to a target audience. What would be your customer acquisition cost to sell 100K units?
3. what is the customer lifetime value of a person who bought your toaster? Spoiler: your competition might be a 10 USD made-in-china piece of crap, so people a willing to spend 25 USD on something that is not dead-on-arrival. How much do you need to charge for a made-in-USA toaster? 99 USD? 299 USD?
4. how much do you need to spend on branding and marketing to get the value of "made-in-USA" attached to the toaster? 10M? 50M?
5. how will your life look like, when you manage to pull this off to sell 10K toasters? My assumption: it will be a constant nightmare/living hell, as you now have a mountain of dept, high running costs and many people asking you to sell the next 100k toasters...
In 2022 + 2023 i conducted about > 220 insight interviews with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Product Owners for a product i am currently developing.
There was a VERY VERY clear pattern:
1. almost all teams where using Scrum or Kanban or some mixture of it 2. less then 1% of teams actually had a product vision, product goals or a sprint goals 3. nobody was actually doing "inspect&adapt"
My assumption #1: it is not the framework or the people, the failure is within the system.
My assumption #2: every company is different, a company is a complex system and many many factors contribute to the outcomes, nothing is clearly black or white. Any framework needs to be adopted with the core concepts in place; with Scrum the core concepts are usually not implemented and therefore Scrum fails.
() Site note: training standards of people seems to be very low; a lot of Sscrum Masters and even "Agile Coaches" cannot explain even the basic concepts of Scrum and Kanban.
Example: What is the purpose of Daily Standup? How can you assess the quality of Standup? How can you improve the Standup?
So what is wrong with the system? - company does not have a product strategy, only tasks like "develop feature X" - company does not have strategy management processes in place - there is NO collection of meaningful data regarding process health and performance and specially Scrum Master work against creating transparency (out of fear)
What is the solution? Implementation of a framework without robust performance monitoring is pointless and failure is certain.
The issue? It seems that Scrum Masters push the most against performance monitoring out of fear to become transparent. Also, being transparent in an company with low (psychological) safety might be professional suicide.
People forget that Scrum was developed by observing successful (senior) teams, but if they don´t understand how value and waste it generated it is meaningless to follow any framework.
Example: Having a lot of meetings does not generate the waste, it is only the symptom. The root causes of many meetings are inefficient management and communication structures. In order to avoid the waste you don´t need to remove the meetings, but first resolve the underlaying issue(s) and then the need for the meetings disappear. Removing the wasteful meetings might actually create more waste/harm, as the company might perform even more badly afterwards.
So yes, individual developers might get more working hours but generate less value over time. The purpose is not to maximize the working hours of developers, but to maximize the value generated by the team. The assumption that "more development hours = more value generated" assumes that alignment with product goals, teamwork and cross-functional collaboration is in place.
We all have ideas how to fix it - very simply could be to go with Authors life and when the art is sold it goes down to 10-25 years. Thats it. Simple.
What seems to be unsolved is HOW we actually get to this point. It seems to be impossible to get enough money to outspend the evil cooperations in buying politicians, so what do you suggest?
#1 a lot of teams are understaffed, overworked an not aligned, improving search is simply not a priority (at the same times, a lot of people are bored out of their mind, because of inefficient allocation of capacities). And of course, usable analytics data on search does not exist as it is hard to collect...
#2 search might be actually ok, but the quality of the catalog data is a nightmare - and the catalog is maintenance by a tiny team that overworked and underpaid. To add injury to insult, there is also no clear accountability established and 5 departments and a couple of vendors play the "not my problem" game. Sometimes 10-30% of the catalog is renewed every year and people gave up a long time ago to report problems.
How much content is posted every day on meta? How many content removal decisions are taken every day by meta?
Hint: Over 1 billion Stories are posted every day.
So even if 1049 content removals would happen on a single day - but this "evidence" is collected over a much longer time period.
You have to read about HRW and its campaign against Israel to maybe understand why HRW continue to post this type of propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Watc...
The guardian did a very bad job at picking up this biased content.
A very very oldschool sys admin helped out by opened up the poor machine, opened the HDD and then powered up the machine, given the disk a good spin at the right moment. The disk came back to life and so did the server, and we agreed to replace the machine with a new, proper server ASAP. As i left the organisation 2 years later the machine was still operational, the disk still spinning (ZERO defects!) and the disk was still open inside the case - running non-stop-no-problemo for 2+ years!
I also miss Lotus Notes - it was an amazing concept in many regards that got murdered by IBM.
And in case you ask: the machine was running Windows NT 4 Server.
Maybe you should talk to https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper to get some inspiration?
People are paying for convenience.
as for the technology itself: the B2B market is super-super early and i understand everybody is in goldrush mode, however 98% of all startups will not survive the next 3-5 years.
From the demand site: Companies are still sleeping, you can see very very very few proof of concept implementation, but basically nothing goes to production.
The rate of innovation is extremely high with LLM, making it a bad investment for a company.
My idea: OSS everything, become an expert in the field, learn how to sell, survive from consulting services. Don´t build products, do paid projects instead.
Focus all your energy to understand customer needs and building your target audience.
Be ready when the time is right to build a startup around LLM.
Don´t waste time building technology, develop your business instead.
It will be a party for the EU to punish Google with an anti-monopoly lawsuit.
Best case: google gets forced to split up chrome, youtube and search as they obviously abuse their power.
It is weird how much easier it gets for customers to compare offers. Comparing political systems, in the US the gov protects revenues and the EU it protects consumer rights.
You can experience this for yourself: try booking a flight with a old fashioned carrier like lufthansa.de and then go to a "we will rip you off for sure" travel-portal from uk to book the exact same flight or a low-cost airline like ryanair. You find the portal by a simple google search, as they are so "cheap" compared to the official price.
The portal shows a price that is 20% less then the carrier price, but somehow you always end up paying at least 30% more, even IF you are really good at the game of "avoid bullshit upsell checkboxes".