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What are you quoting, because I can't find that text in the article!?

The two weeks reference was in the reddit post the blog post linked to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/nmodyl/dru...

> He fire me? I'll just pick up a new job in 2 weeks.

And... yeah... the reddit post is from 5 years ago when the job market was very, very different.


It was about getting fired (your manager stuff) and then moving to another job very shortly afterwards (the two weeks is correct)

FTA:

> What’s the [worst] that can happen? He fire me? I’ll just pick up a new job in 2 weeks.


I also worked with japanese, including on site in Tokyo and quickly learned that asking "did you understand it?" is useless. I always had to keep in mind to ask "what did you understand?".


I haven't seen any ads on the site - I guess AdNauseum works well :)


Cool project, but seems to be abandoned. At one point I was a subscriber to their premium version, but then started getting spam to the (unique) email address I used for the subscription. I emailed them to warn that their account database might be compromised but never heard back from them (this was back in '22).

Also, back then, their map tiles loading had a very high failure rate when loading, so I wrote a custom caching proxy to make it tolerable (which had built-in retry and also cached any successful response for a very long time).


What is it supposed to do? When I click on a country, I get a pop up with a flag and a link to Wikipedia?


No, he was an old man who cared for his wife with dementia until his death, an experience which changed him. And thus he has chosen to go on his own accord.


That's were most of the eyeballs are.


Spectre was shown to be exploitable from Javascipt: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-this-spectre-proof-of-c... - making the bet that this won't be shown the same is not a safe wager I would say :) (especially that Javascript also includes stuff like WebAssembly).


> $1.8m for a multi-day conference that supports 3,000+ attendees is pretty standard for North America.

Can you please elaborate (as was also asked in a sibling comment) about how comes that the costs are not covered by tickets / sponsors?


To clarify: the PSF did not lose $1.8m on PyCon. It spent $1.8m and made most of that money back in revenue from the event.

Most years the cost is fully covered by tickets and sponsors and the event makes a profit.

When PyCon runs at a loss it’s generally a sponsorship problem. The tech industry has seen a lot of layoffs recently, and companies that sponsor large conferences are often doing so for recruiting. If a company is laying people off they are likely to drop their sponsorship budget.



Another reason for NOT self hosting: I want the passwords for my family to be available in the event something happens to me. The probability of Bitwarden being more resilient (at least mid-term) is much higher than any self hosting solution I would come up with.


The passwords are still stored client side, they won't disappear.

Your family won't be able to add new passwords, but they can export them at their leisure.


>The passwords are still stored client side, they won't disappear.

Offline access in Bitwarden client only works for 30 days. : https://bitwarden.com/blog/configuring-bitwarden-clients-for....

This was one of the main reasons why I switched from self-hosted Vaultwarden to KeePass.


It's often not possible to open a vault until internet access is restored


If you've opened it once on a device and haven't logged out, the encrypted vault is still available on that device and can be unlocked and read. You just can't modify it. There were bugs in the browser extension that made it log out without the user asking it to, but those should be fixed.


I had the Firefox extension log me out yesterday while I had no internet connection.

I'd say if it is a problem being fixed, it is not across the board yet.


In which client? There's no technical requirement for that to be so.

I do find the Firefox browser extension sometimes logs me out (this is separate to the vault lock timer which just asks for a password, the extension basically resets to asking for a user ID)


I've never had that issue in multiple years with spotty internet. What I have is clients that stay out of date and don't always immediately sync. Even when the Internet is fine. Sometimes even a restart wont force a sync.


This is genuinely an underrated problem. This extends to a bunch of tech things in my life… if our Plex server were to fail everyone would be able to survive but we have a whole smart home setup with Home Assistant and if that fails the lights are going to stop turning on correctly.

I’ve made a pact with a similarly techy friend of mine that should something happen to either of us the other will step in and maintain in the short term, transition to something more hands off in the long term. But I still pay for Bitwarden for that extra level of reassurance.


Periodically print out the passwords that are important and put them somewhere? Won't you have this issue with any slightly sophisticated tool?


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