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TinyPilot: Month 11
How do I increase TinyPilot’s profit margins?
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Passport
Announcing Passport, the new infrastructure supporting Stratechery.
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Apple-Developer Relations
For Apple to continue to deny these is dishonest, factually wrong, and extremely insulting — not only to our efforts, but to the intelligence of all Apple developers and customers.
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Google Joins Apple to Opt-out of Mobile Advertising IDs
Android 12 makes interest-based advertising obsolete to set off an irreversible collapse in Facebook’s ad ecosystem
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Want a killer product? Become more opinionated
I laugh at this tweet every time I remember it:
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PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter
Larry Brandt, a long-time supporter of internet freedom, used his nearly 20-year-old PayPal account to put his money where his mouth is. His primary use of the payment system was to fund servers to run Tor nodes, routing internet traffic in order to safeguard privacy and avoid country-level...
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Kinda a Big Announcement
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before he was born, everyone knew that COM was already so deeply obsolete tha…
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Can Apple change ads?
20 years ago Apple seized music, and turned it into a lever for its broader business. It failed to do the same to TV, and lost control of music, but won massively in games, where it now makes more money than the entire global digital music industry. Now, perhaps, it’s looking at advertising.
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Manufacturing the Librem 5 USA Phone in the US
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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University of Oregon will monitor students' social media statements
We have been discussing the expanding monitoring and sanctioning of teachers for their political commentary on social media. We have also discussed such actions taken against college, high school …
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Apple, FedEx and the cookie apocalypse
As cookie-based ads go away, does the targeting move from the cloud to the client, or from the reader to the content? Does this make the strong stronger? Or does the money go to Fedex instead?
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Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed
<p>I’ve been self-employed for 2 years now. I love it and want to encourage others to go for it, but first, I need to answer a question as f...
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Cloudera taken private for $5.3B, acquires Datacoral and Cazena
Cloudera Blog is your source for expert guidance on the latest data and AI trends, technology innovation, best practices, success stories, and more.
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Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1
Raspberry Pi RP2040 chips are now on sale, allowing you to build your own projects and products on Raspberry Silicon
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Donating my time to grow a VC-funded company: why I quit mentoring at Plato
tl;dr Nonprofit/pro bono organizations I suggest for offering mentoring/seeking mentorship: Mentoring Club [https://www.mentoring-club.com/the-mentors/category/software-engineering] (experienced mentors, EU focus), Coding Coach [https://codingcoach.io/] (aimed at software engineers), Mentors in Tech…
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Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
Android 12’s privacy-focused permission deepens the woes of Facebook by vowing to end invasive location-targeted marketing
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The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen
The Internet King on why the Internet is a force for good, on media conformity, the inevitable triumph of the WEIRD, Crypto, Retards, etc.
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Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
A new antitrust case shows that Prime inflates prices across the board, using the false promise of 'free shipping' that is anything but free.
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Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained
Existing instances will remain online indefinitely, but customers should expect very limited support after August 31, 2021.
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Apple has a decade-long lead in wearables
Last week, Apple quietly unveiled one of the more remarkable pieces of technology that has been developed in the past few years. AssistiveTouch allows one to control an Apple Watch without actually touching the device. Instead, a series of hand and finger gestures can be used to control everything f
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The media's lab leak fiasco
A huge fuckup, with perhaps not-so-huge policy stakes
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The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.
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You can't have too many angels
Conventional wisdom is: Don’t raise money from a ton of angel investors because it’ll clutter the cap table and be a pain in the butt. I strongly disagree.
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Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
Learn how Valisure’s work in pharmaceutical quality and transparency was recognized in the U.S. Senate Aging Committee report, highlighting their collaboration with the Department of Defense and commitment to innovation.
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How Our Slack App Got to 200K Users with No Marketing Whatsoever
We created a free Slack message scheduler called Message Them Later and didn't market it. Yet, somehow, we have 200k users and counting. What does that tell us?
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Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat
I've worked on many projects throughout my career as a software engineer. However, Helix - Uber's Rider app rewrite in 2016 introducing Swift and RIBs - stands as the craziest project by a margin. This is my story and some of my journal entries from the time. Prologue It's
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What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use
Matthew Collin uses account data leaked from an Isle of Man bank to investigate the characteristics of individuals and firms that store their money in tax havens.