Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710883 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
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A developer has started publishing a public log of their DevOps and cloud engineering studies on DEV Community. So far they have experimented with Python and FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins, building a small employee API and CI pipelines. Their next phase covers Linux and networking, AWS, Terraform, monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, and incident response practices. They plan to use the Floci local AWS sandbox to practise without incurring cloud costs, and will post weekly updates that include their errors and fixes.
A developer describes how they built a small appointment bot for barbershops and salons that avoids double bookings without external services, relying only on SQLite. Rather than maintaining a table of slot availability that can go stale, the design stores only bookings and computes free slots on request based on working hours and service duration. An overlap check ensures a slot is free only if it does not conflict with any existing booking, and a final re-check inside a single transaction guards against races when the booking is written. Reminders are prevented from repeating through per-reminder flags, and the booking logic takes the current time as a parameter so it can be tested against an in-memory database. The author also mentions selling a complete bot template for $19 as a commercial offering.
A discussion among freelancers, agency owners and designers asks who should buy the paid software that websites depend on, such as premium plugins, page builder licences and per-seat editor access. One approach has clients buy every licence in their own name, which keeps costs visible and makes leaving an agency simple. Another has agencies hold multi-site licences and bundle the cost into care plans, which is simpler for clients and often cheaper overall. A third camp favours free or open-source tools, or platforms without per-person editing fees, to avoid recurring licence management. Each model carries trade-offs, including renewal risks when agency relationships end and the added setup or maintenance effort that free tools can require.
A blog post by Jakub Jankiewicz argues that code produced by AI systems should be released as open source. The piece was shared on Hacker News, where it gathered 43 points and 14 comments. The available material offers little detail beyond the core proposition and the community discussion it sparked. The argument centers on transparency and public access to machine-generated software.
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