Reminds me of the story about trains. We really need these things to get hacked, and also someone who customers of businesses that employ shady software practices, not unlike disabling trains that enter competitors' repair shop, to have a way to see through the practices and maybe pursue legal claims.
Even a failed project generates high profile jobs for the duration. Which still could be years. As I understand it, the government isn't lacking profit, just opportunities for people.
The problem is there are no good long term prospects.
For example, you might get a job at a research institute or at government funded startup and gain experience working with cutting edge technologies. The pay is mid, but you don't care because you are gaining experience. Then your contract ends. The private sector cannot make use of your experience. So you have to pivot to programming CRUD webapps or you emigrate, or you get another public sector contract with the corresponding public sector salary.
Even most morally inclined people tend to overestimate the value of immediate benefits, and underestimate the eventual (especially delayed, unknown) harms.
Can you hit it now?
So I can look at my logs from today. It deletes logs from 2 days ago.
I am guessing you are in Poland and it sends "pl" somehow as a language code but I am not sure why it looks in the config under that path. With logs, I can see a stack trace!
The competitors might have had better profit margin and therefore more ad spending, and more opportunity to expand area. Still, it's better to be akin Slice than to succumb to inevitable enshittification.
P2P app could display (orders taken ever), (orders successfully delivered) for every courier. That would be good enough for 90% of costumers, but wouldn't cover the cost of actual fraud for the client.
Is there something stopping a malicious peer client from lying about those numbers?
Genuinely curious; I've been wondering about how to make a zero-knowledge P2P protocol for turn-based imperfect knowledge games and this sounds directly applicable to that.
I would imagine that would be tracked by a crypto ledger, externally. Customer payment confirmation hashed with timestamp, driver's info, restaurant info, order info and of course the previous ledger block. Who would hash it (compute)? The same devices that run the app I imagine.
I disagree with that—I don’t think it would be good enough for 90% of customers. I think it would be about the reverse. Maybe it would be good enough for 10% of customers.
Because it's endlessly profitable and very low risk to run a utility, the company's board is... unlikely to ever decide to do a stunt. For what payoff?
Allowing a privileged force to simply take someone's valuables with no recourse or trial, potentially taking their food/gas money while far away from a safe place... Saying that it's the valuables that are suspect. Makes sense... as a punishment
Anecdotally, people cite high abv alcohol consumption for having a preserving effect on living body. I imagine it being like a variety of chemotherapy. By that I mean specifically not drinking a mixed drinks, but drinking nothing but straight vodka and water for a whole day or multiple, while maybe eating some pickles. It shifts body metabolism from sugars and fats to mostly alcohol and protein. It's not as tough as it sounds, given that, again anecdotally, many Slavic and Finnish people do so casually.