kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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We are actively working on exploring other methods of payment. However, the most promising options are either extremely difficult for a worldwide market (credit/debit card) or highly divisive (cryptocurrency). Look at some of the most recent toots on this account for more information.
Part of the vicious cycle of open-source projects is the 80/20 rule unfortunately: 20% effort goes on actually solving challenging problems while 80% goes on GUI, user support, documentation, bug reports, testing, infrastructure and other horribly boring stuff. And when you're an user, FOSS or not, you will always expect at least base level of stability and usage comfort. That's why I stopped using any Matrix clients other than Riot, because they sucked from usability perspective...
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Isn't it funny how within 24h the approach to #Keybase changed from "it's secure and awesomesauce, use it for everything!!1!" to "I just use it to share stuff but warn users not to do sensitive stuff there"?
No, actually it's not funny. Because it keeps happening:
1. a new shiny startup does X in an open source but centralized way
2. a lot of "experts" saying how great it is; some greybeards warn that it's centralized but nobody listens - it's so shiny and cool!
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Do you know anyone who actually used Keybase for something else than PGP key exchange and collection of the XLM airdrop? :) It was an interesting idea in the beginning, but then as you correctly noted it was neither open-source nor actually solving any particular problem that cannot be solved otherwise.
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3. startup makes a horrible business decision or gets bought up by someone onerous; it's inevitable, it's a startup.
4. everybody's shocked, shocked™, but still go with "using it for non-sensitive stuff, too late to move on"
5. rinse, repeat.
Do you know why we don't get a proper, decentralized, easy to use software solutions? This is why. Because we keep letting shitty startups crowd out the good projects.
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Security is hard. Decentralization is hard. Usability is hard.
Being first to market is *easier* if you drop some, or most, of these.
So, shitty startups get to market first, and then crowd out the decent-but-necessarily-slower projects.
Every time you recommend a tool that follows this pattern of abuse, you are enabling it. You, personally, become a part of the problem. You, personally, help a shitty startup crowd out a decent project.
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It doesn't work this way. Look at the things I say about Putin here and on Twitter and then imagine I'm in Russia at least 2-3x per year. It's not a totalitarian state as USSR and nobody cares what some random foreigners have to say about the ruling party :)
By the way, Ukraine is just as cool in terms of vibrant culture, people and food. And it doesn't have Putin :)
What you do for work, you do for work, because it's what other people tell you to do.
What you do for yourself is whatever you want to do and however you want it done.
That's probably one reason I have a farm of like ~10 servers: to configure them in ways none of my clients would 😂
Russia should not be perceived as Putin's property or single-minded country, even though his propaganda tries to create an illusion of "unity". It's a huge country with many worldviews, most people you meet on the ground will disapprove Putin.
Most of the Russian-speaking people here on Mastodon speak in very... unfavourable language of Putin by the way :)
Yeah, but my systemctl list-units shows 329 tasks majority of which serve the purpose of discovery and configuration of devices which might be potentially connected or disconnected - in an embedded devices hardware config is rather static.
Man, in such case Russia is definitely the place where you will feel alive 😉 Not that it's more dangerous but complete change of scenery kicks you out of your internal safety zone very quickly.
Engaging in open-source projects or Wikipedia is quite rewarding in terms of sense of life and self-esteem. It gives you occasional adrenaline rush when fighting idiots, which you inevitably meet on your path. Generally escape into nerdiness works, as it leaves you no time for existential worries :)
You should also follow @dump_stack advice and visit St Petersburg. Or Transsiberian Railway. Travel and change of scene is good too.
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- https://krvtz.net
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- @kravietz:krvtz.net
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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