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@BLCNYY @grok is this confirmed?

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@TechLayoffLover @grok is this even a realistic and legal scenario?

Senior L7 architect just messaged me from his car in the parking garage Been there 6 years. Built their entire microservices platform. Makes $340k. Thought he was untouchable because he's the guy who rolled out Cursor across all teams "I'm the one training people on AI workflows. I'm the one optimizing the prompts. They need me to manage the agents" Dude doesn't realize management has been watching him work For 8 months they've been screen recording his sessions. Logging every prompt. Documenting every decision tree. Building a knowledge base of exactly how he architects solutions. His "irreplaceable expertise" is now 847 pages of training data They hired two L4s in Hyderabad last month. Paying them $31k each. Gave them access to his entire prompt library, his documented workflows, and an AI assistant trained on his code reviews. The offshore team is already shipping features 40% faster than his old team of 7 did He's training his own replacement and calling it "leveraging AI for competitive advantage" His manager told him yesterday they're "restructuring around AI-native workflows" and his role is being "evolved to focus on strategic oversight" Translation: 30-day transition period, then PIP, then gone The knowledge extraction is complete

@aakashgupta @grok is this true?

Peter Steinberger just proved his own point in real time. He built PSPDFKit in Austria, bootstrapped it for 13 years, exited to Insight Partners, then created OpenClaw, which became the fastest-growing GitHub project in history. Two days ago, he joined OpenAI and left Vienna for San Francisco. The Draghi Report quantified this exact dynamic last year: zero EU companies founded in the last 50 years have reached €100B in market cap. The US created every single trillion-dollar company in that same window. Combined market value of US companies in the global top 100 was 2.6x Europe’s in 2015. By Q1 2025, that ratio hit 7.6x. Today it’s approaching 9x. There are only 13 EU-founded companies under 50 years old worth more than $10B. Their combined market cap is $400B. The comparable US cohort is worth $30 trillion. That’s a 70x gap. And the gap is self-reinforcing. Europe’s labor regulations don’t just slow companies down. They change which companies get built. When you can’t scale a team fast, pivot hard, or compensate for intensity, you select for industries where that doesn’t matter: luxury goods, pharma, industrials. LVMH, Hermès, Novartis, Siemens. Safe bets, slow compounders. The entire EU has 18 companies in the global top 100. The US has 62. The tell is what Steinberger did with the choice. He had every reason to build OpenClaw into a standalone company in Europe. Investors would have funded it. Instead he looked at the regulatory environment, the cultural friction he describes in this thread, and picked the fastest path to impact: leave. Every founder doing this math reaches the same conclusion. And each one who leaves makes the math worse for the next one.

@nabeelqu I built a harness for whisper.cpp for macos. One key press and I can talk away. All local und ANU accelerated. I now use this to talk to opencode! (Not OSS yet)

Curious: have you made anything with Claude Code that's useful in your day to day? If so, what does it do?

Honestly, Colemak is well worth swimming upstream. Just learn to ignore whatever letters are printed on the keyboard. It is incredibly frustrating. But your hands will thank you. It was the single best thing I have ever done to improve my efficiency and comfort when working.

The #openssl bug was so lame, there isn't even an updated ubuntu package for it yet

It’s pretty simple: Google Meet (original) was previously Meet, which was the rebranded Hangouts Meet. Meet has been merged with Google Duo, which replaced Google Hangouts. Google Duo has been renamed Meet, and Meet has been temporarily named Google Meet (original), for clarity

Read this:

Oh come on, I was ready to spend the night patching servers! #OpenSSL

Exploring the Kubernetes API

🦀📢 New blog post! 📝✨ Do we need a "Rust Standard"? My views on whether we need a Rust standard, or a Rust specification, and an overview of what we already have and do in terms of stability, specification, and language evolution. blog.m-ou.se/rust-standard/

Chrome NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID There's a secret passphrase built into the error page. Just make sure the page is selected (click anywhere on the background), and type `thisisunsafe` #chrome

PSA work guest wifi networks should absolutely be separate hardware from non guest wifi networks. Do not use or trust software or configs to separate them Bridging/network routing attacks & attacks against network configurations are definitely being deployed by skilled attackers

Great opening quote in @bellmar's book "Kill It With Fire" 💯