> For my oldest daughter, it was finding laughter and community with the Vlogbrothers. And for my oldest son, recommendations brought about a better understanding of linear algebra through animated explainers by 3Blue1Brown—with breaks to watch KSI videos.
My first thought reading this was about reinforcing a stereotype as the son learning hard sciences and the daughter watching fun shows about people things.
This seems on par with the general GitLab-style. Is anybody else getting a bit frustrated with them?
They keep on having high-severity security bugs being fixed every month (e.g. auth checks not being done everywhere). Then there's all these odd edge case bugs everywhere.
As an outsider, it just seems to me that GitLab isn't being engineered in a principled way: on sound abstractions and with separation of concerns (e.g. auth should be some universal middleware, not ad-hoc per call). Just really basic stuff.
Álvaro: what is your rationale for doing this? If you just want to strengthen the postgres community, just be a part of it then use your company and foundation to promote it. Why the need to own trademarks?
It seems like you have some other reasons to do this? Have you had trouble using the postgres trademarks in something you've been trying to do? Have you had trouble with the existing governance structure?
In your posts you bring up a lot of hypotheticals, about how postgres claims to be something but is allegedly not that (through its legal structure). Why is there a need to change that? Other than theory.
> I mean, there are consultancies whose entire premise is expertise on AWS billing, so the chance of AWS newbie-me running up many thousands because I forgot to switch off service A or had the wrong setting for service B is non-zero.
That line of reasoning is wrong. I'm sure there are consultancies that specialize in office stationery procurement; doesn't mean anything for your small use case of buying a few pens for your home office.
> I always felt that some of the writing on this blog had a tendency to make mountains out of mole hills. I can't say for sure about the rest of it, but this is definitely a mole hill.
The thing is that the "fast path" or "happy path" of things is always nice and streamlined. It's when things start going wrong that it matters. If you marry yourself too heavily to a company you start losing your leverage. Depending on where you are and who you work with, things can get real dirty, and if your stuff is all intertwined with their stuff, that can add up to a lot of pain and suffering.
Apple implemented a backdoor that scans your photos on your device, then alerts Apple and the authorities if there is a match against an un-auditable list of reference photos.
Currently it's been activated for CSAM only and only scans photos backed up to iCloud.
That's the framing I prefer and which much better explains the issue with it.
My first thought reading this was about reinforcing a stereotype as the son learning hard sciences and the daughter watching fun shows about people things.
Did anyone else notice or think about that that?