To be clear, I'm not suggesting "the future is IDEs/GUI/etc" but that it's some potentially new refinement over TUIs and GUIs where the focus is no longer on editing, tinkering, debugging, but perhaps new tools that make it easier and efficient to work with agent swarms and give them instruction/prompts.

As a parent, here is my perspective: - there is no debate about seat belts in cars. I'm not choosing whether or not my child should or should not wear them - there is no debate about ID checking outside businesses that sell alcohol. No one is debating whether I should get to choose whether my 7 year old has alcohol or not - pornographic content on television is already banned and we have ratings for media content - etc

Why are "privacy" and "freedom" arguments for age-gating of internet content? As a parent, it is impossible for me to gate access or exposure to internet content like 4chan or YouTube conspiracy theorists and what not on my kids' developing brains so some mandated help sounds common sensical. And busy, poor, or uninitiated parents may not have time to invest in something like self-driven internet censoring, and I believe society as a whole benefits when every child is automatically kept safe from unsavory content (by definition a subjective phrase yet a moral choice every society must make).

I can see an argument for mandating that every parent must individually purchase an in home internet age-gating "device" (hardware, software or whatnot) as a compromise so that the gating is still done by the parent (possibly with the help of a third party of their choice) while the mandation is done by the government. But it seems overly heavy handed in the other direction to me to say everything everywhere should be accessible to everybody of every age without gating and left to individuals (often sometimes with poor, underdeveloped, or temporarily ill-advised) judgment.

Looking for someone to change my mind on some of these (or links to studies or articles making the arguments pro-freedom in this context). I'll also virtue-signal for context, that I'm fully aware of and actively mourn the ill effects of corporations like Meta, etc that vacuum up our data and build profiles and sell to data brokers, etc.

In Liam Neeson’s voice: “you can run, but you can’t hide.”

I suppose we can “Google” just about anything at this point.

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Mason (YC W'16) is mobile IaaS that enables businesses to automate deployment of their own Android-based device ecosystems. Think AWS but for devices. We turned profitable in 2018, raised Series A in 2019, and are growing organically. Still an intimate team of 10 engineers in Seattle.

We're looking for a SRE/devops lead to own and evolve the cloud infra for Mason. Cloud stack is Golang/K8S/EKS mixed with Node.js/Ansible/Terraform/EC2, with several new services needing to be architected over the next few years. You have prior experience with building and scaling infrastructure, ideally understand AWS/EKS well, and think about ways to empower your team to ship early and often.

Please contact me at work[at]bymason.com (please reference: "Ravi/via HN"), or apply directly here: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/bymasoncom/view/P_AA...

Our process: Phone screen => Take-home (or share existing body of work) => In-person architecture/design/soft skills => Offer (we adjust/shorten based on the candidate, and have been skipping the take-home step in favor of one in-person coding interview in many cases)

Well after listening to the Darknet diaries podcast regularly, and reading about Stuxnet, I'm pretty convinced nothing is outside the realm of possibility and we doubt these things at our own peril.

The Telegram author may be biased, but learning these facts is still useful. I'm in the same boat re: Signal - want to use it more broadly but can't get others to....

We're building "mobile infrastructure as a service" that enables businesses to automate deployment of their own Android-based device ecosystems. Think AWS but for devices.

We're pretty small at the moment, have revenue, and are poised to grow. We're looking for people to take on the following engg roles:

* Ownership of our backend architecture (currently Node.js on AWS) * Ownership of our devops story (involving both backend services as well as Android build infrastructure among other things) * Own and evolve our Android fork (Mason OS) and help unify it across a variety of devices (a la LineageOS/CyanogenMod) * Build end to end web apps to realize features around large-scale device management, ordering, inventory management, etc.

Our tech spans the gamut from Android OS customization, apps, CLI tools, backend services, devops and web dashboards all the way through to device provisioning automation and optimal sourcing of hardware through our network of manufacturers.

We're looking for engineers that have 2+ years of direct, hands-on experience in the space you're applying for, or in a related area that translates over.

Please include your resume and a cover letter answering (in brief) "Why you?" and "Why Mason?". You can contact us directly at (hiring -at- bymason.com); we'll personally review your application. Please know that we look at all resumes but may take a little time to shortlist as we are a small hands-on team.

Our process: Phone interview => Work on take-home/async problem and/or share your existing body of work => In-person => Offer. We adjust/shorten based on the candidate.