Dit kan alleen maar de bedoeling zijn van de BBB. Ze zijn tegen het concept van veestapelvermindering, dus door zo veel mogelijk onzekerheid en spanning te creëren rond de plannen die we al hadden, wordt het bestaande werk van politici die wel iets nuttigs willen doen langzaam ongedaan gemaakt. Met een beetje geluk worden de boeren er boos van, kunnen ze weer lekker wegen blokkeren, dat heeft de BBB eerder ook al aan de macht geholpen!
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Two possible reasons here:
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Discord is blocking Nord from password reset links on a network level (probably because VPN servers are second only to Tor when it comes to malicious traffic). Frankly, I would've expected a CAPTCHA page instead, but it's technically possible for an error to show up that way. You can try bypassing it by manually editing the address to make sure it starts with https.
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Your VPN is actively trying to sslstrip you. Aside from the whole "that's literally a crime people go to prison for" thing, that means you cannot ever trust that VPN again. Just because Discord bothered to secure their website doesn't mean other apps do. You may already have been hacked if that is the case.
I'd be extremely cautious with VPN software because you're essentially trusting them to be your ISP. If they're doing permanent 40% off deals or (god forbid) sponsoring YouTubers, you should never trust them. It's both funny and depressing how companies like PIA and Nord somehow convinced everyone that VPNs make your internet more secure while also not getting people to think for even a second about how much they trust these shady ass Caiman Island tax dodge scheme companies.
De wetenschap zit vol met internationale samenwerkingen tussen wetenschappers. Projecten kunnen (deels) door Amerika betaald worden zonder dat wetenschappers direct in dienst zijn. Aangezien de Amerikanen de afgelopen honderd jaar nogal hebben geïnvesteerd in dingen als hun geologische dienst en hun maritieme onderzoek, zijn veel landen van samenwerking afhankelijk om productieve wetenschap te bedrijven.
Onderzoeken die vele jaren lopen, kunnen abrupt stop worden gezet als data en eventueel geld door de Amerikanen wordt afgesneden. Met de huidige politieke mix verwacht ik ook niet dat de Nederlandse overheid het potentiële geldtekort voor gaat schieten. Ik vrees dat dit voor een heel stel Nederlandse wetenschappers gaat betekenen "meewerken of je onderzoek stopzetten".
MLS is designed to support that use case, but the spec to actually intercommunicate between services is still being developed by the MIMI group. MIMI is the logical but entirely optional extension of MLS.
I don't think carriers will want random chat apps to send messages for free to their infrastructure for spam prevention alone. Companies like Element and Wire are probably going all in on this, but Signal doesn't even want you to use clients they didn't compile, let alone federate between services.
I believe WhatsApp has chosen to license its API in a documented fashion rather than implement a cross platform messaging protocol after they were forced to open up by the DMA. That said, there are a bunch of Facebook emails in the MIMI protocol discussions, so at least one of their messengers may still end up implementing MIMI when it's finally finished.
H1-B is a great boon for the American economy and it'd be absolutely idiotic to get rid of it, but the current American government runs on a platform of xenophobia, racism, and plain lies. They're stupid enough to kick out all the illegal residents that harvest the crops and take care of trades, so I don't see why they wouldn't be stupid enough to end the programs that essentially bring in cheap, highly-educated labour into the country.
I know Elon is profiting massively of H-1B, but that doesn't mean there won't be some kind of special exception for Elon's companies. The current government is also getting rid of electric chargers along federal roads, while at the same time peddling Teslas at the white house.
As for a source rather than a generic feeling: Project 2025's handbook, basically a step-by-step guide of what the current American leadership is working on, page 150, mentions H-1B reform as a goal:
H-1B reform. Transform the program into an elite mechanism exclusively to bring in the “best and brightest” at the highest wages while simultaneously ensuring that U.S. workers are not being disadvantaged by the program. H-1B is a means only to supplement the U.S. economy and to keep companies competitive, not to depress U.S. labor markets artificially in certain industries.
Read to me like they're trying to restrict H-1B to what it was originally intended to be: supplementing highly-educated labour where necessary, rather than allowing tech companies to cheaply import labour from poorer countries. Thing is, the US doesn't need that much extra highly-educated labour in fields like computer science. When I see these people write down "reform", I interpret that as "completely tearing down and replacing whatever was there with a new system".
If you're in the US, you're probably right. After the cancerous growth VC companies dumped the unused software people they hired for no reason other than paper growth, the market showed it's not as desaturated as statistics would make it seem.
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H1-B is a political tool, and I doubt that visa still exists by the end of the year. Plus, the people coming in on H1-B visas are still software developers. They're just from another country.
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The software already built is good enough
I have worked at several companies whose terrible, buggy software sold like hot cakes because the competitors were even worse. General consumer software and apps may be pretty saturated, but B2B is an unending race to the bottom, racing for "better than before without being much more expensive".
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Destruction of the public sector
Helps not to be American. Or if you are, look for software jobs in defence.
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AI is going to change the industry for sure. Lots of dumb framework copy/pasting jobs are going to disappear, but among the mess people with actual knowledge are going to be incredibly valuable.
I do expect programmer careers to start paying out significantly less over the coming times, but mostly if you're used to the ridiculously high wages software development pays in the US.
I've found a new software dev job within biking distance in less than three weeks, after submitting my CV a total of three times. The B2B sector is still growing.
It's not really that strange. Pick any country and there's a good chance half the population remembers the time there was a literal monopoly on things like telecoms and television (either exclusively privatised or state-run). Even in countries where the phone system was almost completely privatised, there was a good chance that hooking up a phone that wasn't made by the phone company was a criminal offence (or at the very least would provide reason to permanently disconnect your house).
Telephone cables are (well, should be) public utilities. The electromagnetic spectrum is shared as well. From the fiber optic lines underground to the antennae on large poles, all levels of government are involved in any kind of telecommunication system. If the government doesn't want any of that (like when the Soviets aborted plans for a pseudo-internet out of fear of information spread), then it's pretty much disallowed by default.
The current situation most countries find themselves in when it comes to telecoms, where governments allow just about every citizen to freely communicate over a variety of communication providers, is something extremely recent. Factor in encrypted communications that weren't backdoored by the government, and we've got about 10-20 years of history.