Ultimately? Turtles

> When someone makes a naked blanket assertion about the law, it’s usually a sign that that person doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

There’s more posts that get to the front page complaining about Apple’s frosted glass than the surveillance state being built by every other tech company

Other? No other company makes you register with the company before you can install apps on your own phone. No other company makes you send your location to it if you want to access GPS on your own phone.

If anything, I see a decrease in the quality bar. Code is sloppier, there are more bugs, more outages, more security issues. Whatever alpha AI provides is being spent on feature velocity and AI integrations at the cost of those other things.

> How do you get from that to an arrest or conviction?

You do an investigation

> Do you know it hasn't already been followed up on?

Yes because that would be a part of these files. It’s not disputed that at minimum any leads, including victim testimonies, were not followed up.

>It’s not disputed that at minimum any leads, including victim testimonies, were not followed up.

I would love a source that discusses this.

There's an great photo of Pam Bondi avoiding looking at all the Epstein victims when they raise their hands to indicate that they have not been contacted by the Justice Department to follow up their complaints, it is only a day or two old.

Watch the Pam Bondi video this week where she is getting grilled about the Epstein files, and her rebuttal is that we should thank Trump for the Dow Jones being over 50,000. Watch the interaction with the Epstein survivors in the room.

So is the issue that, the files were released and we now have 100000 people to lock up.

Or is the issue that, now we have some transparency, we can see the FBI is misallocating resources?

Because I keep hearing the former, but if the issue is that theres a bunch of crimes that have been reported that werent investigated, thats more of a process issue.

hell hath no fury

Isn't Jmail a static site? How could the bill be $47k?

There's a searchbar, and the amount of content you search through is far more than you could do with clientside search.

Definitely not just static content.

It's Vercel, it's their business model. They have all the minnows eating for free, and then once you pass a threshold, you're a whale with a whale–sized bill.

That's a good question. As someone bootstraping a few projects on Vercel this post has me looking over at the pricing sheet more closely.

Bandwith costs

It would be $0 if they spent 10 minutes just throwing Cloudflare CDN in front. They don't even need to move off Vercel.

Tech bros and VCs need to eat, that's how.

There is still a helluva lot of data to transfer to the client, I'm sure it's being stored somewhere.

And with the entire world perusing this archive, I'm sure the costs will be very high, regardless of provider.

Claude, make me an SCM provider

Sure!

Do you allow me to run the following command?

    cd project; find -type f | while read f; do mv "$f" /dev/null; done

Don't do this It will break your /dev/null

yeah, maybe do a backup before:

    mv /dev/null{,.bak}

So you can restore it if your kernel nuked your null device.

I think this is an indicator of a broader trend where tech companies put less value on quality and stability and more value on shipping new features. It’s basically the enshittification of tech

Yes that's why most of the excited folks are VCs and software engineers who made their wealth already

What's more interesting is how the big names in our industry, the ones who already made their money as you say, have turned quickly since the end of 2025. I think even the most old school names can see that the writing is on the wall now.

What do you mean turned quickly?

Changed their opinion/public stance completely sometimes only months apart. For example "I love programming" to "if you aren't with AI you are behind" within maybe only 6 months time. Its almost like anyone with any public opinion in software is being paid to say it now and boost the AI hype.

Yeah, I'm surprised by this. The pragmatic engineer publication is full of them.

It may be that most of these people only see the benefits, or don't think they'll be adversely affected by this.