So in theory you could have War and Peace somewhere.

Each folder represents the file content so far. So how to find a specific file without knowing its contents - by its title for example?

plain .txt files don't have titles, so these files don't have titles, either. unless it's in the text of the file.

you get to any file by following the filesystem path whose bytes match the content you are looking for. There's no searching for the content you want.

if you're crawling the filesystem it will probably take you until the heat death of the universe to complete that crawl.

So you get a file. Any file. Not necessarily the file you want, unless you already know its contents and how to traverse the folder hierarchy to get to that specific point.

Yes. Have you read The Library of Babel? This is sort of the whole point.

Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.

As a New Zealander, I'd like to hope he 'did nothing' to get that citizenship, but I'm afraid it probably wasn't nothing.

many countries offer the Investment Visa option. Canada does, as do places like NZ:

> New Zealand offers the Active Investor Plus Visa, which requires a minimum investment of NZD $5 million for the Growth category or NZD $10 million for the Balanced category. This visa allows investors to live, work, and study in New Zealand, with pathways to permanent residency after maintaining the investment for the required period.

After 5 years of investment, the visa holders can apply for Permanent Resident status, and after 5 years of PR, citizenship.

Thiel buys 3 Hungry Jack's and creates an IT consultancy company + some land deals, then rides em to citizenship.

Yeah, but Peter Thiel skipped the line for his NZ citizenship:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/334094/us-billionaire-sp...

I joined AdSense in 2003. At peak it was generating US$15k a month.

Nowadays it will be a miracle if it passes of US$800 a month.

I think the shift to a more localised audience (NZ), diversion of ad spend to large social networks are responsible. Our traffic is similar in volume but nowhere near as "valuable" apparently.

All ad networks are cancer, in my humble opinion. Adblocking is a security requirement, so I have no compassion for anybody who bases their economic success on any ad network.

My employer is more scared of browser plugin-based malware than they are of ad-based malware. So that's fun.

I have a similar story -- we peaked at around $20k USD per month for quite a while. However, when ad-rates started declining, we changed our business model, and are now earning much more without any ads at all. I have to say, I'm glad to be rid of Google Ads, as they're full of many, many scammy advertisers.

How do you earn money now? You started charging your users?

We created products they want.

For many people with decent traffic I believe it makes sense to sell their own local ads instead of depending on a network like Adsense.

Another thing that annoys me on Android is the setup experience itself. All my recent device presentcthe same behaviour: login with a Google account, transfer data, setup voice assistant and some other defaults,done.

Then after the first app updates is done, a notification comes with "let's finish setting up your phone" and again asks to setup voice assistant, check defaults and whatever else is in the flow.

Has no one noticed that the setup flow seems to run twice?

And it's not one specific device. I do it with eight to ten devices a year, from different OEM, writing reviews and testing. They all have the same behaviour.

Another annoying thing: very few apps are copied from old device to new devices and bring their settings and most importantly login. Of about 80 apps on my device, only five or so are ready to use after a migration.

Going through dozens of apps, doing logins, 2FAcand changing settings is a PITA.

Devs do a poor job on that front.

Developers basically need to opt out not to use that feature. 2FA apps do that for understandable reasons (including on iOS).

In my experience just about everything but WhatsApp and maybe Signal work out of the box for apps downloaded through GPlay.

I noticed that as well, I thought it was just a bug or a conflict because I used Smart Switch instead of a "built-in" Android tool.

Isn't that just Google trying to dark-pattern you into finally clicking that checkboxes you unchecked during setup?

Subscribers can share the link as a gift, so readers can see the original, not the proxied version.

I cannot trust that a gift link does not tie to my IRL identity I subscribe under. I can trust that archive links do not. The NY Times gets my money either way. It's an opsec concern. Trust no one.

If someone wants to post gift links in every thread, just let me know who to pay to enable that, I am happy to.

Their consitution says elections can't be hold in times of war.

"Portal team includes former DOGE member Coristine"

"...user activity on the site will not be tracked."

Ok, stopped reading right there.

And the original is gone.

For redundancy in case archive.is is down:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260105115129/https://devblogs....

The superior link; no Google captcha.

Some lawyer at Microsoft probably had a big scare browsing HN today.

The rates are so low that they don't need to measure anymore. That's what they were told, probably.

But this government was just collecting the worst of the worst from the streets.

Or were they lying all along?

(Narrator's voice: they have been lying all along).