You know you can lock modules versions, right? And of course the environment recreation needs to be tested periodically if you have a disaster recovery plan.

Locked modules only works if all of your modules are pulled in through the registry. that isn't an option at some places.

Testing environment recreation is impossible at a certain scale. Try it when you have hundreds of people adding terraform code most of who only know how to copy and paste.

People were really thinking all that money printing during covid would be free?

Its called inflation.

Nice example of the results of socialist politics, the companies will always move to where they will pay less taxes and have less state intervention through regulations

I lost half of my tongue senses on a wisdom tooth extraction, it came back slowly during 3 month (its almost 100% back now) but it was terrifying the first week, I just kept thinking If I could live with that, a feeling of depression hit hard

Telegram?

Proprietary & closed source

Not end-to-end. Telegram servers see (and log, this is in Russia!) plaintext.

1) In the context of a public discussion channel, end-to-end encryption and plaintext logging are features. Their presence means that a person is able to join and see context. This is good.

2) Telegram is not based in Russia. In fact, it's been intermittently blocked in the country.

I am corrected.

I find it very useful, It works like a "backend" for components

Just dont use his products.

It's been reported many times that Facebook creates shadow profiles for everyone who does not use FB, and still tracks them across the web. So avoiding them is harder than "just dont use his products"

But you can at least avoid having your own camera/mic turned on all the time if you're not using the app.

If you don't like what John Wayne Gacy does to kids, don't hire Patches the Clown for your kid's birthday party.

Hyperbolic, but simply boycotting the products isn't enough here.

That moment when left-pad creates a black hole on earth