Do you people seriously think that planning such a large scale operation can take 3 days?

> "Most of AdGuard's staff relocated in 2022"

So a lot of your staff remain in Russia?

If you've still got most of your devs working in Russia, and it looks like that from your github projects, I'm not sure what part of the comment you responded to is not correct or misinformation.

Most of the employees relocated including senior staff, devs and people with access. We still have some contractors working from there, mostly in support service, content and qa. Not "most" or "a lot", but nevertheless.

We encourage people to move closer to the head office, but as long as it's not required by law, we’re not going to force people to move out, as I know very well how hard it is.

> and it looks like that from your github projects

You do realize that a russian name != working in Russia, right?

> I'm not sure what part of the comment you responded to is not correct or misinformation

The parts where:

1. It's implied that the company is just "registered".

2. It's implied that the company is not European.

3. It's said that devs reside in Russia.

All three are factually incorrect.

AdGuard has been around for 16+ years, and throughout this time I've seen similar accusations many times. I am generally fine with them — that's life — but today I just wasn't in the mood, sorry for that. Anyways, this is one more reason to have more code published to open source, a win-win for all.

The only downside I experienced with using Apple Lockdown Mode is that my apple watch wont vibrate or notify me of incoming phone-calls on my iPhone.

sounds like a feature

The police and famous actors occupy completely different roles in society and should be treated differently.

But how specifically should they be treated differently?

For ex, I don’t think police should ever have the right to privacy while on duty. Turning off body or security cameras should be a crime for them, and anything that happens after should be assumed to have been done with criminal intent.

But I don’t think they should have their faces used in ads without their permission. That seems like a weird difference to apply to them.

3. SVB’s assets. They actually have enough assets to pay, but it will take time for those bonds to mature.

Having to wait for the bonds to mature is arguably a haircut. Otherwise you can for example, justify a 10% haircut by saying that you can take that 10%, buy some 5 year treasuries with it, and get back your money once those bonds mature.

Not really. If 5 or 6 more regional banks fail next week due to depositors seeking the safety of big banks there won’t be enough money to guarantee deposits for more banks.

If they didn’t guarantee the SVB depositors that outcome would have been almost guaranteed, the train wreck would have impacted de-risked companies too, because the entire regional banking system would implode.

Not acting now to stop contagion because of some idea of fairness is short sighted.

And if it doesn't then what?

Are people going optimistic about the efforts to make Python faster?

Optimistic that we'll see maybe a 2x performance over the next 5 years, yea. Optimistic that python will catch up to any of the 'fast' scripting languages, no.

If by "optimistic" you mean "confident we'll get some free wins that are ultimately pretty small for normal apps" then yes :P

Watching growing startups hire a junior data scientist to analyse their new mountain of data is very entertaining. One of their first findings is their revenue/growth seems to be dropping… “we need someone to focus on growth/revenue ASAP”. They hatch a plan, build a team and magically their growth starts to recover.

The issue was spotted in April/May, the building happens during the summer and is launched In September… I’ve watch this cycle happen so many times, I’ve given up trying to point out that the issue is just seasonality.

I worked with a guy who loudly pointed this out in executive meetings where marketing and analytics were presenting. Then he wouldn't let it go, loudly proclaiming the sham in the hallways and through various emails.

He was laughing at them in their faces, even, and was 100% correct. They excluded him from any further meetings.

Every time they brought up a new stat and set off alarm bells he would bring up their massive fuckup and rub it in their face, and then would dig through the data and question every point.

He was eventually fired for pointing out how incompetent our new owners were after an acquisition, and would have been a lot happier joining everyone in their sham.

Yeah, I haven't seen anyone do this firsthand, but all my social intuition tells me that you can't challenge the social reality being presented. You can yell at one manager, call his team incompetent, so on (all deeply inadvisable), but in my heart, I don't think anything would get you strategically blackballed and removed faster than saying "So... what do we all produce, exactly? Oh? You realize that's absolutely worthless, right?"

2+2=5. VC’s look super active right now because they’re fighting for a small number of solid investments. LP’s have turned off the money taps and fake investment marks no longer pay the bills. They need startups that will actually generate revenue, finding them requires a lot more work and thats what we’re seeing. Soon we’ll start to see broke B & C tier investment funds turn into zombies.

Then you can’t trust the FF code not to send a copy to their own servers also.

Why would you need to trust it? Just block access to their servers on your network.

Anyone _that_ concerned can operate a whitelist-only policy on their network, now nothing goes anywhere they don't want it to.

White-listing what addresses a web browser can reach seems to go against the intended use - you know, to browse the web.

Edit: Also, I don't think this is as much about trust as it is about avoiding being part of the huge target that the centrally hosted Firefox Sync servers must be.

While Firefox developers and Mozilla might be wholly trustworthy, they might become compromised by some configuration error or zero day vulnerability. So someone might steal the sweet sweet treasure that is in the Sync servers. Now, that is encrypted of course, but they might have made a simple error[1] in how encryption is implemented and the encryption may be defeated.

[1]: See for example: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...

> White-listing what addresses a web browser can reach seems to go against the intended use - you know, to browse the web.

Agreed, but that was an extreme example. Blocking FFs known addresses should be sufficient with some additional network monitoring just in case.

I can't response to the rest of your comment, as my point was specifically about not needing to trust FF/MZ if you're running your own sync server. Once the software is within your network, it is entirely up to you, your tools and your skills to determine what does and does not leave it and to where.

If you have something you are that concerned about then you should whitelist everything. Note that the whitelist needs to be one both sides, the server and the users. This along with lots of other security protections, some of which are a lot stronger than a whitelist.

Instead of directly exposing the server to the internet, you could keep it behind a VPN. That way you only need to keep the VPN secure, the VPN serves as a whitelist.