I currently have hopes / am watching Apostrophy who are building on top of Graphene but at least they acknowledge that people need Google Play and are attempting to support that while not sacrificing the entire device to privacy issues. https://www.apostrophy.ch

Only Android needs Google Play. The thrust of this post is that there's a third alternative which is neither iOS nor Android - and that's a killer feature.

Now it's up to capricious EU leadership whether to support a sovereign OS, including mandating that banks and other institutions open up their requirements to use solely US-controlled devices.

This is great to see. I have played around with Turbo Rascal Syntax Error and will give this a shot. SpeccyNext coming when round 3 ships.

There will be a video from FireShip if its a big one. /s

Ah FireShip, I forgot that channel existed at all. I asked YouTube to not recommend that channel after every vaguely AI-related news was "BIG NEWS!!!", the videos were also thin on actual content, and there were repeated factual errors over multiple videos too. At that point, the only thing it's good for is to make yourself (falsely) feel like you're keeping up.

Fireship consistently makes some of the most entertaining tech content out there

Hey if you enjoy it, go for it. I used to like it a couple of years ago too, but I found that more and more lately, it was neither entertaining nor reliably informative. The jokes/memes were lazy and recycled a lot, the tech content was often poorly researched, and it started feeling like content produced for the sake of having content.

Well its an amphetamine, so there's that.

It is interesting to watch them try to grow so quickly. At some point they'll need to turn more profit to hold all this scale up. We'll see if they can stick to the privacy claims or start to sell out.

They just switched to a non-profit system of governance.

They are already profitable without any VC investments.

10x less is a weird way of saying 90% less, or better yet reduced to 10% from before.

so if ChatGPT hallucinates 10% of the time, their model hallucinates only 1% of the time?

Yes, I was waiting to see a Basecamp alternative written in PHP :D

Unless your project is small and for learning, or won't be around for very long, Yes. You absolutely do or will end up in a technical debt world of hurt. I have worked on systems without them that are 15+ years old and the vast, vast majority of fixes and refactoring were self inflicted wounds like this. We added FK's and indexes where necessary and wound up faster and safer.

In my experince, adding proper constraints will not only ensure code can never write invalid data to disk, it will also help you realize when business rules are lacking or failed to consider edge cases.

Also at Tesla. He got really started at DEC on the Alpha processor, which was also world class and surrounded by industry pioneers.

My pain threshold was crossed this past week when Edge added a Bing search bar to the middle of the Windows desktop. Even though the default search bar 4 inches away already searches Bing, and the Weather applet by the clock now has sensationalist news forced into it.