It definitely doesn't relate, the time horizon is wrong. The software needs much longer to change, and that change needs much longer to appear in the job market. Compared to the timeframe in the article DRAM prices have only just spiked up now.
Projecting into the future, hardware expenses have always been dwarfed by salaries. I don't expect that will change enough for it to be noticeable.
We're lucky these things didn't exist before the introduction of the iPad, otherwise parenting would have been completely impossible and there wouldn't be any humans
The leaves are actually a big deal because they get crushed into a slippery film that stops the wheels making good friction with the rails. Occasionally you will see specialised debris-removal vehicles moving along the tracks and spraying them
Because of the substandard, cost-cutting line-side vegetation mismanagement coupled with the NIMBYs and save-the-planet warriors getting up-in-arms. Plus high wages making proactive vegetation management not cost-effective due to the extent. Network Rail is well aware of the issue but due to budget cuts, can't do much.
Behind every excuse on the railway, if you peel back just a tiny bit of the layer, you'll see the real reasons. In the UK it's usually "we need to spend that money on the NHS and welfare" and "ROSCO profits are not put back into the railway"
You can just turn off the AI feature in Brave search so it’s sort of extra pointless.
It’s possibly worth pointing out that the about page doesn’t offer any indicator that this is an actual nonprofit entity from a legal standpoint, so at this point I have to assume it’s just a sole proprietorship that is pinky promising to become a non-profit.
In that sense I’m quite happy “donating” to Kagi to provide a stable and supported product from a company with employees.
That's fair enough. For the record I do intend to apply for a non-profit official entity. I would say it still has a role as opposed to Brave considering the lack of advertising though.
> "This application requires passkey with PRF extension support for secure encryption key storage. Your browser or device doesn't support these advanced features"
Is this really necessary for a product's webpage? I would understand for the application itself.
It uses confidential computing primitives like Intel TDX and NVIDIA CC, available on the latest generations of GPUs. Secure hardware like this is a building block to enable verifiably private computation without having to trust the operator. While Confer hasn’t released the technical details yet, you can see in the web inspector that they use TDX in the backend by examining the attestation logs. This is a similar architecture to what we’ve been developing at Tinfoil (https://tinfoil.sh) if you’re curious to learn more!
There's a more-recent post on the same blog that gets into the details of how they're using the WebAuthn PRF extension to store key material, but for platforms and browsers that don't yet support the extension, you'll need a password manager that does. There's a table midway down the post with details: https://confer.to/blog/2025/12/passkey-encryption/
This kind of insistence that their way is "better" and thus justifying removing agency from the user is the exact same thing that's kept me away from signal, too. Even their own blog post acknowledges a perfectly good current method for supporting what they want to do without any of this, yet they reject even allowing it as an option because they don't like the ux.
This arguably is more interesting than yet another closed messaging platform, but still not gonna use it with this requirement in place.
Interesting. I recommend picking up a new domain name, they're cheap and the AI thing might confuse people or make them skeptical (it has for at least one person)
Thanks for this comment, you've said exactly what I've been thinking.
I'm definitely in the sect of people who have "detach from big centralised tech, be self hostable & interoperable" as the main priority, with E2EE being a nice extra. So it's always interesting when I read articles from the other side who see privacy, maximal E2EE & zero metadata as their #1 priority. They entirely dismiss protocols as junk for reasons I would never think or care about. But these things do matter to them, and they are just as important as me.
It strikes me as a near impossible balancing act for a project like Matrix to please everyone. They are clearly trying.
I will also note that there's a volume difference in the messaging being sent out. The privacy/security people are often very loud & critical, with good reason from their perspective. For example this article. That makes the discourse seem more negative than the overall sentiment probably is.
They're bedazzled by a little bit of marketing flair.
Generally I find production-ready images have more synergy and tend to be web-scale. Often they're built from the ground up for AI & are blazing fast, at scale, and empower your team whilst unlocking new possibilities. As my sibling comment suggests, being cloud-native is a crucial factor too.
Projecting into the future, hardware expenses have always been dwarfed by salaries. I don't expect that will change enough for it to be noticeable.
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