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Very curious about this as well. I've seen articles[1] that suggest that you canis engage in passive work, which includes activities such as:

- Conducting market research and customer discovery

- Discussing planned investments and purchases with prospective co-founders

- Attending and participating in business meetings

- Developing business relationships, such as meeting with investors and clients

- Negotiating contracts

- Incorporating a US company, applying for an EIN, establishing a mailing address, and applying for a business license

- Act as a passive shareholder or investor

However, my attempt to find the specific regulations or uscis policy memorandums that state these failed so I'm unsure.

[1] https://www.deel.com/blog/starting-your-own-business-h1b-vis...


Been looking at these tools and honestly, my big issue is backup - specifically, I want a dead simple way to continuously back up my links to something like S3. Not really interested in relying on the Internet Archive or having to set up and babysit yet another backup system. is it like completely antithetical to the average self-hoster ethos to use the cloud where it makes sense?

I really like hoarder, but kind of surprised how many tools either totally skip over backup functionality or treat it as an afterthought (like this Hoarder issue here: https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder/issues/75). Feels like this should be a no-brainer feature, right?


If you're hosting it yourself, I would expect that you also make backups of your whole server and/or database if one is involved. A custom backup feature built into the app seems redundant.


Just rclone the docker volume/mount to s3 or what have you. Or you can get fancy and directly do docker volumes in s3 using a storage driver.


i recently read an article about running k8s on the oracle free tier and was looking to try it. i'm curious, are there any specific pain points that are making you think of switching?


Nope, just Oracle being a corp with a nasty reputation. Honesty it was easy to set up and has been super stable, and if you go ARM the amount of resources you get for free is crazy. I actually do recommend it for personal projects on the like. I'd just be hesitant about building a business based on any Oracle offering.


Got it, thanks for the clarification! I’ll be using it for a personal project so that sounds great.


I've got a couple of free arm machines setup as a cluster for learning k8 + a few LB in front of it. I use k3s, with pg rather than etcd. Been a great learning experience.


anybody know how the hell they're combating / gonna combat captcha's, cloudflare blocking, etc. I remember playing in this space on a toy project and being utterly frustrated by anti-scraping. Maybe one good thing that will come out of this AI boom is that companies will become nicer to scrapers? Or maybe, they'll just cut sweetheart deals?


According to this (1), they are using the 4o model. And looks like you'll be able to pick your model(2) in the starting with version 1.94 released this September.

1.https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_92#_github-copilot

2.https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_94#_switch-language...


I've always found their resources particularly valuable when I really want to go deep on a subject in a way that video courses (my other preferred way to learn) don't seem to always do.

And I think they strike the right balance between academic theory and practice. For example, I'm currently going through their Cyber Security Base https://cybersecuritybase.mooc.fi/descriptions/ and it seems very thorough (i'm not a security or devsecops expert so happy to hear thoughts from those who are)


There's earthly.dev but like previous commenters, I went with dagger because i prefer its Apache 2.0 license over earthly's BSL.


Earthly is MPL 2.0 now. I work for earthly and people didn't like BSL so we listened and changed.


Earthly is legitimately one of the coolest projects I wish I could use. But entrenched velocity in existing systems makes it a difficult pitch


Hey, Dagger employee here. This exactly is one of the the main design decisions of Dagger. We're not expecting companies and/or projects to perform a full migration to it, that's why we generally recommend starting by wrapping different parts of your pipeline and move on from there. Unlike other solutions, Dagger allows you to keep using your existing tooling and reuse Dockerfiles (https://docs.dagger.io/quickstart/429462/build-dockerfile/#r...) while slowly transition your pipelines to code.


That's great to here!

Sometimes people find just starting with a messy part of the build process, or starting to replace dockerfiles here and there can add value, without having to change the world.


Thanks for sharing, will definitely check this out!


I'm currently on an H1-B and I'm considering exploring a startup idea. My research suggests that I could do a concurrent H1-B but what I'm not so sure about is the prevailing wage. Is it possible to get a concurrent H1-B for say 5 hours a week so that I can actually afford to pay myself as the govt. requires?


Yes, a concurrent part-time H-1B can be for as little as 5 hours per week. But there's the issue of getting it, since founder H-1Bs can be challenging.


hey, this sounds silly but I can't seem to find a link of all the languages covered in the 200 hundred languages. I've looked at the website and the blogpost and neither have a readily available link. Seems like a major oversight. There is of course a drop down in both but the languages there are a lot less than 200. I'm particularly interested in a list of the 55 African languages for example.


We have a full list here (copy pastable): https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/tree/main/flores2... and Table 1 of our paper (https://research.facebook.com/publications/no-language-left-...) has a complete list as well.


Nice to see Esperanto made the cut — the only artificial language to do so, AFAICT.


I was happy to see that as well!


ha yes, that's correct. If you have thoughts on specific constructed languages where having translation would really help people, let us know!


thank you!


I'm very curious at to what happened next. How did the conversation go with the dev and did they get to keep their job?


I didn't tell his boss. I did tell my boss, in an e-mail with evidence. We both had a little chat with the dev where we made it clear that if this happened under slightly different circumstances (if he was trying to access data/systems he wasn't supposed to, if it was one of the HIPAA accounts, etc) he'd not only be shitcanned, he'd be facing serious legal consequences. We were satisfied by his reaction and didn't push it further.

I was actually fired early in my career as a contractor when an over-zealous security big-wig decided to go over my boss's boss's head. I had punched a hole in the firewall to look at Reddit, and because I also had a lot of access, this meant I wasn't trustworthy and had to go. People (like me) make stupid mistakes; we should give them a second chance.


Thanks for sharing, i think how you handled it was quite compassionate. if i ever run into this situation, i have a playbook.


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