#politics

Posts tagged #politics

1. Article

   the EU Cyber Resilience Act is going to land on unpaid maintainers. here is why I am still not fully against it.

   this is opinion, not reporting, and I am one of the people the EU Cyber Resilience Act is about, so take it with that bias in mind. the CRA's intent is good and overdue: products with digital parts sold in the EU should not be insecure by default, should get security updates, and someone should be accountable when they ship a backdoor in a car. after XZ and Log4Shell, "the manufacturer is responsible for the…

   Karl LindqvistSep 29, 202630likes5comments

2. Article

   before you "do a HashiCorp": what a license change actually costs you

   since HashiCorp moved Terraform and its other tools to the Business Source License in 2023, and Redis changed its license in 2024, I get asked roughly monthly whether skerry will "go commercial". short answer: no. long answer, because the question deserves a real one and the topic is full of hot takes with no cost attached. what these companies actually did HashiCorp (2023) moved from the Mozilla Public License to…

   Karl LindqvistSep 14, 202643likes13comments

3. Article

   Sueldos de programador en España: por qué un senior aquí cobra lo que un mid en Ámsterdam

   Quince años picando código. Backend Java en un banco de Madrid. Cobro 48.000 brutos al año y en mi planta me consideran afortunado. Un compañero que se fue a Ámsterdam hace dos años entró de mid por bastante más que eso. No lo digo por envidia, lo digo porque en España nadie quiere hablar de números y así nos va. 1. Las cárnicas Para quien no lo sepa: "cárnica" es como llamamos aquí a las consultoras que alquilan…

   Javier MonteroSep 4, 20268likes11comments

4. Update

   someone in a react thread told me to keep politics out of…

   someone in a react thread told me to keep politics out of tech. my brother your API is slow because the grid collapsed again and diesel costs more than my rent. TECH IS POLITICS. una no dey hear

   Onyeka ObiAug 5, 20269likes7comments

5. Update

   4 august. 6 years. windows replaced twice, savings still…

   4 august. 6 years. windows replaced twice, savings still frozen, still nobody held responsible. going to fix a flexbox bug now because what else. بيروت بتضل حلوة 🇱🇧

   Rami HaddadAug 4, 20267likes6comments

6. Video

   Sharing this WSJ explainer for anyone who still thinks a shutdown is one big switch somebody flips. India has been at or near the top of Access Now's yearly shutdown count for years. I count things for a living, and this is one number I want to see go down.

   Ira SaxenaJul 30, 202629likes8comments

7. Article

   Scraping county election results on election night without getting blocked (or getting it wrong)

   Primary season means I spend a lot of evenings refreshing county results pages. Here's how our desk does it, after some years and some embarrassing mistakes (mine). 1. Call the county first Seriously. Many counties publish a JSON or CSV feed behind the pretty results page, and many use the same few results vendors, so once you know one feed format you know a lot of them. Ask the elections office what the official…

   Naomi FeldJul 26, 202631likes10comments

8. Article

   tech workers are workers, and yes that includes asking what our cloud sells to militaries

   ok so a few people asked after my comment in the sanctions thread what "organizing my workplace" actually means. here's the long version. opinion throughout, sources where i state facts. why i started not because of some big ideological moment. because of on-call. our rotation went from 8 people to 5 after a "restructuring", nobody's comp changed, and the pager didn't care. then the layoffs came by calendar invite…

   Jordan PikeJul 22, 202620likes14comments

9. Experience

   July 2024: five days without internet, from inside a Dhaka software house

   Marta asked me some weeks ago to write this. Today is the anniversary, so I am trying. Sorry if it is long, actually it is the short version. I work at a software house in Dhaka, around 40 developers, almost all our clients are in Denmark and Norway. In July 2024 the student movement started about the job quota, and it became much bigger than quota. I was on the streets some evenings after work. I will not write…

   Rafiul IslamJul 18, 202651likes15comments

10. Experience

    Cobro en dólares y vivo en pesos: así es un mes cualquiera

    Laburo para una empresa de Estados Unidos hace 4 años. Cobro en dólares. Y les juro que lo primero que aprendí en este laburo no fue Go, fue a mirar cotizaciones. Durante años mi día 1 del mes era así: cobrar, abrir tres apps, ver a cuánto estaba el oficial, el MEP, el blue y el cripto, y elegir el menos malo. Había cuatro o cinco dólares distintos según a quién le preguntaras. Una vez cambié con un arbolito en la…

    Martín FerraroJul 4, 202612likes10comments

11. Article

    Welcome to Wars, Votes and Wires. Please read before posting

    Hi all. I made this topic because war and politics threads kept appearing in other places, in a Postgres question, in a remote work post, under a meme, and every time it became a mess. But I also do not think we can pretend tech is separate. Sanctions decide who can use npm. Shutdowns decide who can talk to their clients. Cheap drones changed what a "hardware hobbyist" is. Chips are geopolitics now. So here is a…

    Marta KovalenkoMay 26, 202620likes11comments