I don't see how this would significantly increase snail mail volume. If I need the physical address of somebody today, I can just send them an email to ask. So the volume would basically stay the same.

Which basically means that the federal government is using these contracts to restrict free speech. This is wrong regardless of who is president.

Iâ(TM)m in Europe, those stories you hear about Europe limiting free speech are mostly fairy tales.

OTOH I hear stories about the US government harassing universities and museums to comply with its view on how the US should be. Wonder how this aligns with free speech?

To be fair: a six figures salary per year is pennies for Google.

Any decent password manager comes with browser integration nowadays.

The original Apple Silicon developer kit used an iPhone CPU, so itâs safe to say that that macOS does run on these CPUs (which is no surprise). And while we only know for sure when/if that new MBA is released, I doubt that Apple would lock down a Macboon.

Making less profit is not a loss (unless one assumes that Apple is entitled to a certain amount of profit), the title is highly misleading.

That's actually not true. You can easily order alcoholic beverages in Switzerland online today.

https://www.acityonmars.com/ lists a lot of challenges related to even getting to Mars and back safely, not to mention landing people or even settling. Musk has some work to do for sure â¦

Canât wait to see all the petrol stations popping up on Mars. With gas taken from the Mars dinosaurs!

So, after pushing the âzAI will take over the worldâoe narrativ for several years, Gartner extends the same to software engineers? Need to keep the hype up, guys.

I assume you never worked in a bigger company not managed by engineers? Tech debt reduction always takes lower priority than next quarter’s sales targets/functional features, you often need to wait for a big “event” to get the green light for tech renovation. Sure, you can hide some work behind functional changes, but this mainly helps with local/component-level tech debt, not with bigger issues.

Ignoring for a moment that yet another abstraction layer“ is most likely not what the world needs: It‘s rather hard to build an abstraction layer based on your knowledge of one cloud provider only. And building one which will still work with the new kid on the block popping up in 5 years is obviously impossible.

archive.is is your friend in such cases.

But to quote directly from the article:

Not a lot details, could also just be technical experiments.

We already have vote-by-postal mail in Switzerland for quite some years. While there is always the risk that some voters are forced to vote by a gunman sitting at their home, this kind of attack is considered hard to scale.And having a few forced votes probably would be within the margin of error of the whole process anyway.