“Fuck you you fucking whore. Fuck you”.

A text I received from a colleague I was told was “too valuable to reprimand".

Let that sit for a while, imagining you were on the end of that text.

> In a written response to the ANP news agency, Amsterdam’s Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that the seizure was carried out under the mutual legal assistance treaty between the Netherlands and the U.S. In this case, the prosecutor’s office said there was no ground for refusal.

So, unless this changes, this could happen to any server in any data centre in the Netherlands.

Time to be updating a whole bunch of treaties with the US. Not just the EU, but any country that wants to retain some level of sovereignty.

I'm not sure where you are if you're seeing politicians turning left though.

Find the minimal number of critical things you feel you should be working on, and work on them. Use what resources are practical to use and ignore the rest. I've got a relatively complex problem to figure out over the next week or two, and one of the developers has been asking Claude and posting much of the output to Confluence pages, but even he says it's too much information to process and, as a result of a few things we've learned along the way so far, much of the AI summarized information is now out of date.

I just try to concentrate on doing a good job with the information I am able to process.

AI is doing this with remarkable success by directing itself at the 'business management' weakness of hatred of employees.

Shameful.

I also went through purchasing low power consumption little machines with plenty of RAM (at the time) since memory was much more of a restriction than processing power for what I was running.

Inevitably, it all expands over time, necessitating another review after the electricity bills have noticeably risen again.

With the current RAM shortage / prices and second hand server prices, I'm back to multiple small machines. Either way, there are benefits and drawbacks.

I have two machines that are off by default. One powers on when overnight electricity prices are cheap and turns off again before the end of the window, and another is only switched on when the service is necessary.

I'm lucky enough to have solar and a house battery, so power isn't anywhere near as much of an issue, but what I've learned about myself is that I still like to optimize; I'm still a min-maxer.

Getting fucked over by a nation state, and the US no less, probably wasn't on their risk radar.

The fact they didn't have some kind of fallback was precisely because they're a fairly small, insignificant group, most definitely not worth the time and attention given to them by the glass-jawed and petty Trump regime.

> In a world where allegations are disconnected from reality, we can only expect repression to be increasingly disproportionate.

much more so than anything Trump or his administration has ever said, or will ever say.

I think uniting against Trump is a good thing. Hopefully November proves that's actually happening.

It's also interesting that the Dutch seemingly readily complied. I guess it's a relatively small thing in the grand scheme of potential war with Russia.

If all the advertising funded content had to disappear from the internet until the advertising industry shrunk to a size that it was able to manage without having the appearance and behavior of an apex predator, that could only be a good thing.

Let the tech giants _actually_ solve the hard problems of scaling advertising, within the same bounds of appropriate behavior that every other company has to adhere to.

I hope the some politicians in the, likely distant, future can have the integrity to see something like this through.

https://hackyourmom.com/en/osvita/u-pamyat-pro-kevina-mitnik...

"But not because of "

And this would motivate fundamental change in the industry to be able to track down the bad actors.

KYC exists for various industries in order to track down the person responsible for bad actions. Implement KYC for the advertising chain, or something equivalent, to ensure there's a validly registered sue-able entity at the end of it.

> be mindful and exercise situational awareness

I'm not going to say victim blaming, but a good percentage of the population just aren't capable of this, especially with "the sheer scale" of advertising they're exposed to. It's exhausting to be on guard for the entirety of your life.

Might as well say: don't use the internet. That might actually be the best advice to come from all this.

They 'solved scale' for being able to profit from it though.

I think your answer gives us a clue about what went wrong and where.

The fact that internet advertising is run by the big US tech behemoths, makes them difficult to go after by countries that have previously had sane advertising standards. The lack of US regulation is the winning car in the race to the bottom.