Hasnain says:

“"Greed has been fucking this whole thing up for so long, since I started," Vincke said, while collecting the GDCA Best Narrative award for Baldur's Gate 3. "I've been fighting publishers my entire life and I keep on seeing the same, same, same mistakes over, and over.

"It's always the quarterly profits," he continued, "the only thing that matters are the numbers, and then you fire everybody and then next year you say 'shit I'm out of developers' and then you start hiring people again, and then you do acquisitions, and then you put them in the same loop again, and it's just broken...”

"You don't have to," Vincke went on. "You can make reserves. Just slow down a bit. Slow down on the greed. Be resilient, take care of the people, don't lose the institutional knowledge that's been built up in the people you lose every single time, so you have to go through the same cycle over and over and over. It really pisses me off."

Hasnain says:

Bookmarking so I can try this later.

"Do you know how to read @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ syntax? Difftastic shows the actual line numbers from your files, both before and after."

Hasnain says:

“The lawsuit, filed to a federal court in New Jersey, alleges that Apple used "a series of shapeshifting rules" in a bid to "thwart innovation" and "throttle" competitors.

In a statement, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the company "undermines apps, products and services that would otherwise make users less reliant on the iPhone... and lower costs for consumers and developers".”

Hasnain says:

Late stage capitalism.

“But a customer service representative said that wouldn’t be possible because Shepherd’s subscription to the satellite service had expired, according to a new lawsuit. The employee said he couldn’t help until a $150 payment was made, the complaint said.”

Hasnain says:

“Castro quickly and successfully moved to repeal the ZEDEs law in the face of intense bipartisan U.S. pressure to maintain them. The American response has been to repudiate the very idea of Honduran democracy and sovereignty, with investors using the World Bank’s ICSID to force the new Honduran government to respect the policies carried out by the former president now sitting behind federal bars.”

Hasnain says:

Why are finances even a question here?

““Lately, Boeing appoints C.E.O.s that seem more focused on stock price and dividends than on flight safety and production quality,” said Dennis Tajer, a captain at American Airlines and a spokesman for the union that represents the airline’s pilots.
Boeing declined to comment.

How Boeing navigates its latest crisis in the coming weeks and months could have broad implications for its credibility with regulators, airlines and travelers, as well as its long-term financial performance.”

Hasnain says:

Amazing.

“Meta was apparently tipped off to this alleged betrayal when Khurana used his Meta email and network access to complete a writing assignment for Omniva as part of his hiring process. For this writing assignment, Khurana "disclosed non-public information about Meta’s relationship with certain suppliers that it uses for its data centers" when asked to "explain how he would help his potential new employer develop the supply chain for a company building data centers using specific technologies."

In a seeming attempt to cover up the alleged theft of Meta documents, Khurana apparently "attempted to scrub" one document "of its references to Meta," as well as removing a label marking it "CONFIDENTIAL—FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY.” But when replacing "Meta" with "X," Khurana allegedly missed the term "Meta" in "at least five locations."”

Hasnain says:

“In the end, product security is a red herring; it’s enterprise security that urgently needs a paradigm shift. I know that we’ll end up with more regulation for software development: the narratives of “market failures” are unfalsifiable and it’s the nature of all bureaucracies to amass influence and expand. But I think we’re barking up the wrong tree.”

Hasnain says:

From 2021 but still super relevant.

“But whether this or another approach is the best solution is not the key question. What matters is that housing shortages may be the biggest problem facing our era, and solving it needs to become everyone’s highest priority. And as important as it is, we should be wary of letting it become politically tribalised: the disastrous politicisation of Covid vaccines in the United States highlights the danger of that. Some kind of creative, below-the-radar solution that turns this zero-sum game into a positive-sum one is likely to have a better chance. In a tug of war, it’s often surprising how far you can go if you tug the rope sideways.

If we’re right about this, it means that fixing this one problem could make everyone’s lives much better than almost anyone realises – not just by making houses cheaper, but giving people better jobs, a better quality of life, more cohesive communities, bigger families and healthier lives. It could even give renewed reasons to be optimistic about the future of the West.”

Hasnain says:

“The situation has sparked immense alarm and outrage among professional humanitarian groups, many of whom blasted Biden’s recent new proposals for Gaza.

“Oxfam does not support U.S. airdrops to Gaza, which would mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior U.S. officials,” Scott Paul of Oxfam America recently wrote on X.”