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Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations requiring absolute domination of the field; Brex, once valued at $12B, shows the downsides of this (Jason Lemkin/SaaStr)
https://www.saastr.com/brex-and-the-pros-and-cons-of-hubristic-fundraising/

Brex and The Pros and Cons of Hubristic Fundraising
Capital One just announced it’s acquiring Brex for $5.15 billion.  An incredible, top 0.1% “exit” in less than 10 years from a category creator that created massive wealth and opportunities. …

@… let’s weigh the porgs and cons

from my link log —
Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07699
saved 2020-08-19 https://dotat.at/:/FHLM3.html

Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox Edge Network
Nowadays, loss-based TCP congestion controls in general and CUBIC specifically became the de facto standard for the Internet. BBR congestion control challenges the loss-based approach by modeling the network based on estimated bandwidth and round-trip time. At Dropbox, we've been using BBRv1 since 2017 and are accustomed to its pros and cons. BBRv2 introduces a set of improvements to network modeling (explicit loss targets and inflight limits) and fairness (differential probing and headroom for…

Does the UK government want to ban Flipper Zero? (I don't know if the Flipper radio capabilities are covered by this.)
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-considers-ban-on-owning-signal-jamming-devices-used-by-car…

UK considers ban on owning signal jamming devices used by car thieves and shoplifters
The UK government is considering tougher measures against criminals exploiting gadgets designed to hack doorbells and vehicle tracking systems.

The Browns' Todd Monken hire makes sense in some ways, but the risks are hard to ignore

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-todd-monken-head-coach-hire-pros-cons/

hahah oh, Onionnnn! #ACAB #FuckThePolice
https://theonion.com/insecure-frustrat

Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement
RALEIGH, NC—Calling it his lifelong dream, local man Brendan Lockhart, an insecure and perpetually frustrated bully who believes he has something to prove to the world, told reporters Thursday that he is seriously considering a career in law enforcement.

Pros and cons of Sean McDermott hiring by the Las Vegas Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/pros-and-cons-of-sean-mcdermott-hiring-by-the-las-vegas-raiders-3609338/

#Software peeps: do you still do box diagrams to work out how your structures will sit in memory?
#Lisp

Heute werden dauerhaft >90% der Last in DE durch Erneuerbare gedeckt. Bis ~19:00 bekommt man (an der Strombörse) Geld, wenn man Strom "verbraucht".
https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/consumption_advice/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE
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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@NMBA/116001829202708206
And people wonder what all these federal bureaucrats do.
It really rankles me when small-goverment cons and supporters go "why do we need all these people inspecting gas pumps or testing cosmetics or inspecti…

Scottish Green Party forecast to overtake Scottish Labour in Holyrood, to be 3rd biggest party after SNP and Reform, according to the Scottish Election Study.
Not mentioned in the article, but the SNP are again predicted to get no seats from the list, due to winning a disproportionately large number of constituency seats.
SNP voters choosing to vote Green on the list could utterly change the balance of Reform and Green seats.

Huge new poll says Greens set to overtake Labour at Scottish election
THE Scottish Greens will overtake Labour at the next Holyrood election, a major new poll has predicted.

He visto esta comparativa de navegadores y me parece sublime https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/30262814

Pros and Cons of the NFL Franchise Tag | Cowboys Storyline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AojPr4CHIHI

Cloaked, which offers security and privacy services such as VPNs, raised a $375M Series B in a mix of equity and growth funding, for enterprise expansion (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/consumer-foc…

Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise | TechCrunch
Cloaked's latest round is a mix of equity and growth funding.

OK, #Zig language people, where's a good place online to ask dumb newbie questions about Zig?
What I'm thinking of trying to build as an experiment is this:
https://git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-s

paged space objects
Paged space objects will be a generalisation of cons space objects. A page — all pages will be of the same size — will comprise a header, followed by an array of objects. All the objects in a given page will be of the same size. The number of objects in a page is simply the number of ...

In the interests of starting a more productive dialogue than yesterday's main character was interested in, let's make a #brainstorm thread about design changes to ActivityPub and/or client UI that could actually help address drive-by (often racist) harassment on the fediverse.
Feel free to discuss pros/cons but don't feel an idea needs to be perfect to suggest it. Also since this is a brainstorm don't worry about complexity/implementation cost. If you have a great-but-hard-to-implement idea someone else may think of a way to simplify it.
Note that the underlying problem *is* a social one, do there won't be a technological fix! But tech changes can make social remedies easier/harder.
I've got some to start:
1. Have a "protected mode" that users can voluntarily turn on. Some servers might turn it on by default. In protected mode, users whose accounts are less than D days old and/or who have fewer than F followers can't reply to or DM you. F and D could have different values for same-sever vs. different-server accounts, and could be customized by each user. Obviously a dedicated harasser can get around this, but it ups the activation energy for block evasion and pile-ons a bit. Would be interesting to review moderation records to estimate how helpful this might or might not be. Could also have a setting to require "follows-from-my-server" although that might be too limiting on private servers. Restriction would be turned off for people you mention within that thread and could be set to unlimit anyone you've ever mentioned. Would this lock new users out of engagement entirely? If everyone had it on via a default, you'd have you post your own stuff until someone followed you (assuming F=1). One could add "R non-moderated replies" and/or "F favorites" options to soften things; those experiencing more harassment could set higher limits. When muting/blocking/reporting someone who replied to your post, protected mode could be suggested with settings that would have filtered the post you're reporting.
2. Enable some form of public moderation info to be displayed when both moderator and local server opt-in. Obviously each server would be able to ignore federated public tags. I'm imagining "banned from X server for R reason (optional link to evidence)" appearing on someone's profile & an icon on their PFP in each post viewed by someone on server Y *if* the mods of server X decide it's appropriate *and* server Y opts in to displaying such tags from server X specifically. Alliances of servers with similar moderation preferences could then have moderation action on one server result in clear warning propagation to others without the other mods needing to decide whether to also take action immediately. In some cases different moderation preferences would mean you wouldn't take action yourself but would keep the notice up for your users to consider. Obviously the "Scarlet Letter" vibe ain't great, but in some cases it's deserved, and when there's disagreement between servers about that, mods on server Y could either disable a specific tag or disable federation of mod tags from that server in general. Even better shared moderation tools are of course possible.
3. Different people/groups have different norms around boosting. Currently we only have a locked/public binary. Without any big protocol changes, adding a "prefers boosts/doesn't" setting which would warn in the UI before a viewer chooses to boost if the preference is "doesn't" could help. This could be set per-post, but could also have defaults and could have different values for same-server or not, or for particular servers. For example, I could say "default to prefer boosts from users on my server but not from users on other servers" or "default to prefer boosting on all servers except mastodon.social." Last option might be harder to implement I guess.
#ActivityPub #Meta #Harassment

Kubiak Explains His First Taste of Being the Raiders' Leader https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-klint-kubiak-explains-his-first-taste-of-being-leader

Sensor Tower: consumers spent $85B on apps globally in 2025, up 21% YoY, and, in a first, more money went on non-game mobile apps than on games, driven by GenAI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/cons…

Consumers spent more on mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption | TechCrunch
Consumers spent more money in mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption.

Tracking NFL head coach changes: Bill fire Sean McDermott, Dolphins hiring Jeff Hafley https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46437226/2025-nfl-coaching-changes-latest-news-rumors-firings-hires

Falcons make veteran line coach Bill Callahan the first offensive assistant on Stefanski's staff https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/falcons-make-veteran-line-coach-bill-callahan-the-first-offensive-assis…

Browns hiring Falcons defensive pass game coordinator Mike Rutenberg as defensive coordinator https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-hiring-falcons-defensive-pass-game-coordinator-mike-rutenberg-as-defensive-coordinator

Falcons interview former Raiders coach Antonio Pierce for head coaching job https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/falcons-interview-former-raiders-coach-antonio-pierce-for-head-coaching-job