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> If they gave people API keys then no-one buys their ludicrously priced API product
The main driver for those subscriptions is that their monthly cost with Opus 3.7 and up pays itself back in couple hours of basic CC use, relative to API prices.
What an impressive project.
> Next up was maneuvering from our LEO drop-off altitude down to VLEO, where it would be safe to eject the telescope contamination cover
Why would it be unsafe to do this earlier?
> We had been tracking intermittent memory issues in our TT&C radio throughout the mission, working around them as they appeared. Our best theory is that one of these issues escalated in a way that corrupted onboard memory and is preventing reboots. We've tried several recovery approaches. So far, none have worked, and the likelihood of recovery looks low at this point.
Seems to be a pretty big problem as well, I wonder what their ideas are to diagnose the root cause here.
It all sounds a bit overoptimistic, but that may just be my interpretation.
What OpenCode primitive did you use to implement this? I'd quite like a "senior" Opus agent that lays out a plan, a "junior" Sonnet that does the work, and a senior Opus reviewer to check that it agrees with the plan.
The popular Playwright MCP uses the Chrome accessibility tree to help agents navigate websites: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/ed176022a63add8...
Because you have other benefits, so we'd really like to switch over to you, but we can't unless you support this dealbreaker feature that your competitor we're currently using has.
Is there even a regulated meaning to "made in X"?
The way I see it, "made in Europe" may be dubious, but "made in EU" should be just as okay to write as "made in USA". And if it's not a thing, well, nothing is a thing until people make it a thing.
EDIT: also we're talking about a software product here, where most things written on the product is legally meaningless - otherwise we'd have special customs regimes for those major software exporter places like "love" and "♡".
One should expect substantial flux of data available under the current administration.
HN Search: data.gov - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=data.gov
A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974533 - February 2025 (18 comments)
Announcing the data.gov archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970039 - February 2025 (132 comments)
Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367 - January 2025 (238 comments)
The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876055 - January 2025 (58 comments)
1k teachers in Arizona have quit in the last six months because of this.
Over 1,000 Arizona teachers resigning plays a part in shortage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728151 - January 2026
>You're not talking to an AI coder anymore. You're talking to a team lead. The lead doesn't write code - it plans, delegates, and synthesizes.
They couldn't even be bothered to write the Tweet themselves...
> The most confusing part of terraform for me is that terraform's view of the infrastructure is a singleton config file that is often stored in that very infrastructure.
These folks also have an article about that: https://newsletter.masterpoint.io/p/how-to-bootstrap-your-st...
Not a single mention of planning poker and story points?
They're not perfect (nothing is), but they're actually pretty good. Every task has to be completable within a sprint. If it's not, you break it down until you have a part that you expect is. Everyone has to unanimously agree on how many points a particular story (task) is worth. The process of coming to unanimous agreement is the difficult part, and where the real value lies. Someone says "3 points", and someone points out they haven't thought about how it will require X, Y, and Z. Someone else says "40 points" and they're asked to explain and it turns out they misunderstood the feature entirely. After somewhere from 2 to 20 minutes, everyone has tried to think about all the gotchas and all the ways it might be done more easily, and you come up with an estimate. History tells you how many points you usually deliver per sprint, and after a few months the team usually gets pretty accurate to within +/- 10% or so, since underestimation on one story gets balanced by overestimation on another.
It's not magic. It prevents you from estimating things longer than a sprint, because it assumes that's impossible. But it does ensure that you're constantly delivering value at a steady pace, and that you revisit the cost/benefit tradeoff of each new piece of work at every sprint, so you're not blindsided by everything being 10x or 20x slower than expected after 3 or 6 months.
Bought off your recommendation for my kids to replace their Yotos [1], thank you!
Note that vaccines are optional in Sweden, and not required for attendance in public schools: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency...
So you’re correct that, for vaccine proponents, framing this issue properly is key. If you frame it in terms of mandates and dismiss optionality out of hand, it’s a lay-up for right-wing Tik Tok to come back with “they’re more left wing than Sweden.” (Disclosure: Despite being a right winger, I would be fine with holding people down and vaccinating them.)
Of course there’s relevant differences. Swedes are culturally orderly and most Americans aren’t. Sweden has a 97% vaccination rate even with voluntary programs. But you have to confront that issue head on and deal with it.
Create a new Amazon account just redeem them? TLDR Sacrificial account.
I still remember when it used to be all the rage before Unity and Unreal took off, especially in Android indie games.
> But in school, and especially with non-fiction, we're so often told to "just re-word it to make it your own" which is actually the most insidious form of plagiarism.
I think you might be confused, or had unclear teachers.
You're told to re-word it but still cite it. There are different combinations here:
1. Copy verbatim, no quotes, cite. Plagiarism, because you're copying the wording without quoting (even though you're citing).
2. Copy verbatim, quote, cite. Correct.
3. Paraphrase, no quotes, cite. Correct.
4. Paraphrase, no quotes, don't cite. Plagiarism if not "common knowledge".
Teachers should be telling you to do 3 rather than 1. You are maybe confusing 3 with 4, thinking they were telling you to do 4? (Or your teachers were just wrong?)
But the difference between 3 and 4 can actually get legitimately confusing in certain cases, even for academics, because there are a lot of ideas that are just "in the air" and it's not always clear if something is "common knowledge" or if there's some original citation for it somewhere.
I asked to discuss, not because I didn’t know the answer. Please attempt to be more polite in the future.
Any plans for Bluesky and X fountain automation? And ability to serve from Cloudflare Workers perhaps? That’d allow piping routes to the fountain when Cloudflare is fronting a site. Let me know if there’s a tip jar to support!
Great resource for secular non traditional homeschooling child education.
(previously subscribed to Modulo, no other affiliation)
Retribution. There are millions of undocumented immigrants in Texas and Florida, but notice aggressive ICE activities primarily in blue states.
It is an attempt to demonstrate unchecked force against their political opponents under the guise of immigration enforcement. Self defense (when warranted) is the only remaining option, because a bully will only escalate to see how far they can go. Restraint by aggressors will not be forthcoming.
Every generation throughout time didn't have to compete with massive instant access to everything ever written to facilitate plagiarism, or with AI generated slop...
And everything wasn't "content", nor did they have massive numbers of influencers and public content creators, nor was there was a push even for laymen to churn heaps of text every day or to project an image to the whole world.
And until recently if you got caught plagiarizing you were shamed or even fired from journalism. Now it's just business as usual...
Ah, this is why I've been receiving a bunch of very obvious spam/scam mails in my inbox.
You know uBlock Origin Lite works great with v3 and is significantly faster than v2. I actually prefer it.
> be the change you want to see
> remember that you could be wrong
(from your profile, as of this comment)
You can click hide in posts you want to ignore while a country burns down, that’s easier than commenting about it. Commenting rather than hiding it and ignoring it is signal.
(you posted two days ago about Trump, Cook, and the unlawful attempts to unseat a Fed official https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715592 ; unlawful street executions are relevant to those on US soil at risk)
It's not the cost of protecting one transaction from another transaction so much as the cost of flushing a transaction to storage to survive a crash.
In the bad old days you had to wait for a lever to move and for the disk to rotate at least once!
Thanks to US, Huawei now is fully independent of US technology and they have all relevant apps for the Chinese market, using one of those microkernels that apparently are useless.
I share the feeling, but too many hobbies already. :)
Isn't SQLite a de facto standard? Seems like it to me. If I want an embedded SQL engine, it is the "nobody got fired for selecting" choice. A competitor needs to offer something very compelling to unseat it.
A similar question is what happens if you get up to go to the bathroom, some software on your machine updates and requires you to accept the new ToS, and your cat jumps up on the keyboard and selects "accept". Are you still bound by those terms? Of course. If licenses are valid in any way (the argument is they get you out of the copyright infringement caused by copying the software from disk to memory) then it's your job to go find the license to software you use and make sure you agree to it; the little popup is just a nice way to make your aware of the terms.
So what is the solution? Is the author demanding that people work for them for free to do the sustainability for them? Because that sure sounds like the only way to "resolve" the complaint.
"start treating it as what it often is: a refusal to do the harder social work in #FOSS"
Your ending is missing something... "a refusal to do the harder social work that I want you to do in #FOSS".
But I didn't promise that. Nobody promised that. FOSS is an unparalleled gift of free work and not a single line of it has formed an obligation on my part to help anyone who wants to come along and make it do something different. You are welcome to do that, but I have no obligation on any level to come along and help you "sustain" your own work. No legal obligation, no moral obligation, no community obligation no reciprocal obligation, no Kantian imperative obligation, no obligation whatsoever. If anything, you owe them, not the other way around; any other read of the ethical situation is utterly absurd.
You want "more social work" done, you feel free to do it. Don't be shocked when I'm not interested in helping.
This is just a demand for more free work from people who have already handed you the result of more free work than any other collection of work in human history. It is deeply ungrateful to demand yet more.
Circa '99 a high fraction (50%-ish) of HTML in the field was invalid, so if you were making a new web browser it had to parse invalid HTML the same way as Netscape which was one more reason we didn't get competitive web browsers.
HTML 5 specified exactly how "invalid" HTML is parsed so now there is no such thing as invalid HTML. XHTML was one of those things that never quite worked:
That's why full disk encryption was always a no-go for approximately all computer users, and recommending it to someone not highly versed in technology was borderline malicious.
"Tough luck, should have made a backup" is higher responsibility than securing anything in meatspace, including your passport or government ID. In the real world, there is always a recovery path. Security aficionados pushing non-recoverable traps on people are plain disconnected from reality.
Microsoft has the right approach here with Bitlocker defaults. It's not merely about UX - it's about not setting up traps and footguns that could easily cause harm to people.
Yes, it's saying that the string concatenation and other outside-of-SQL business logic took 22ms, running in their custom TH1 scripting language. In 2016.
Update: Actually it looks like I was wrong about TH1: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/tip/www/th1.md
The timeline appears to be constructed by C code instead: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/file?name=src/timeline.c&ci=...
Update 2: Here's the timeline code from September 2016: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/file?name=src/timeline.c&ci=...
Back then it had some kind of special syntax for outputting HTML:
sqlite3_snprintf(sizeof(zNm),zNm,"b%d",i);
zBr = P(zNm);
if( zBr && zBr[0] ){
@ <p style='border:1px solid;background-color:%s(hash_color(zBr));'>
@ %h(zBr) - %s(hash_color(zBr)) -
@ Omnes nos quasi oves erravimus unusquisque in viam
@ suam declinavit.</p>
cnt++;
}
}
The Apple that offers gold statues to authoritarian regimes would certainly behave differently.
People also forget how they kind of always played ball in similar governments.
Aren't we all tired by this anti-AI stuff? Use it if you want to, don't use it if you don't want to, I just don't really want to hear about your personal opinion on it any more.
The 3081 processor took 23kw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_308X
Which is like 100 amps at 230V so you would need several sockets to get that much power. Just getting the machine into the room looos like a challenge.
Besides the sibling comments, it is how Finder used to work in Mac OS Classic.
Love how all these "modern" TUIs are basically replicating Turbo Vision, Clipper and curses.
It sounds like his phone lines were already cat5, which is not surprisingly capable of 1Gbps.
However, I wonder why it seems G.hn is only available in the form of adapters, and not as e.g. a PCIe NIC.
Unfortunately I didn't manage to figure out how to make their hardware to work without a HA installation. I'd really love to do that, if anyone has any info on how their protocol works, please do tell.
I looked at their Wyoming docs online but couldn't really see how to even let it find the server, and the ESPhome firmware it runs offered similarly few hints.
Well, LLMs are an engineering breakthrough of the degree somewhere between the Internet and electricity, in terms of how general-purpose and broadly-applicable they are. Much like them, LLMs have the potential to be useful in just about everything people do, so it's no surprise they've dominated the conversation - just like electricity and the Internet did, back in their heyday.
(And similar to the two, I expect many of the initial ideas for LLM application to be bad, perhaps obviously stupid in hindsight. But enough of them will work to make LLMs become a lasting thing in every aspect of people's lives - again, just like electricity and the Internet did).
> I wonder how many of these (or the Google style guide rules) would make sense for a project starting today from a blank .cpp file. Probably not many of them.
That also depends on how standalone the project is. Self-contained projects may be better off with depending on standard library and popular third-party libraries, but if a project integrates with other internal components, it's better to stick to internal libraries, as they likely have workarounds and special functionality specific to the company and its development workflow.
Yet another one spreading Java FUD.
Oracle cannot be blamed people are unable to understand the difference between OpenJDK and Oracle Java installers.
OpenJDK also happens to be developed mainly by Oracle employees, circa 80% of contributions.
There is the whole fit into the same UNIX compiler toolchain as C, without additional changes to the linker, include files, object and archive files.
It gives a lot of power to users to work around enshittification in the software services they use. Dark patterns and user funnels and upsells and other bullshit suddenly stops working when users can ask ChatGPT to operate a service for them.
Having to support legacy code is a bummer. /s
Zig remains to be seen how market relevant it turns out to be.
Even simpler, you can do something like this to have length-delimited AND null-terminated strings (written from memory, no guarantees of correctness etc.):
char *lenstrdup(char *s) {
int n = strlen(s);
char *p = malloc(n + sizeof(int) + 1);
if(p) {
strcpy(p + sizeof(int), s);
*(int*)p = n;
p += sizeof(int);
}
return p;
}
void lenstrfree(char *s) {
free(s-sizeof(int));
}No discussion of these instructions on the 386 would be complete without mentioning that early revisions had a bug in the 32-bit multiply: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17803/int...
I wonder if anyone outside of Intel has discovered the actual bug in the circuitry yet.
Note the systems language, JOVIAL, there was a another world before UNIX was even a thought.
Where do you think the first generations from C++ programmers come from?
There is this urban myth C is simple, from folks that never read either ISO C manual, can't read legalese, never spent much time browsing the compiler reference manual.
Mostly learnt K&R C, assume the world is simple, until the code gets ported into another platform or compiler.
Yet in such a simple language, I keep waiting to meet the magical developer that never wrote memory corruption errors with pointer arithmetic, string and memory library functions.
> What's the equivalent of thinking users are this stupid?
What's the equivalent of thinking security aficionados are clueless?
Security advice is dumb and detached from life, and puts ubdue burden on people that's not like anything else in life.
Sharing passwords is a feature, or rather a workaround because this industry doesn't recognize the concept of temporary delegation of authority, even though it's the basics of everyday life and work. That's what you do when you e.g. send your kid on a grocery run with your credit card.
Asking users to keep their 2FA recovery keys or disk encryption keys safe on their own - that's beyond ridiculous. Nothing else in life works that way. Not your government ID, not your bank account, not your password, not even the nuclear launch codes. Everything people are used to is fixable; there's always a recovery path for losing access to accounts or data. It may take time and might involve paying a notary or a court case, but there is always a way. But not so with encryption keys to your shitposts and vacation pictures in the cloud.
Why would you expect people to follow security advice correctly? It's detached from reality, dumb, and as Bitcoin showed, even having millions of dollars on the line doesn't make regular people capable of being responsible with encryption keys.
I know about that something like that specifically in Japan (also Buddhist), but don't know if it is related to tukdam in Tibetan Buddhism:
Not that poster but I can also tell the difference in sound between filesystems, likely due to how they store their metadata and the resulting seek patterns. This is my subjective experience:
Linux ext* series - mostly silent, but even periods of high disk usage tend to be on the quieter side - probably due to lots of caching
MacOS - continuous, low-pitched "gritty" sound
Windows FAT - periods of silence punctuated by occasional intermittent groans
Windows NTFS - low rhythmic grunting, more continuous than FAT
Windows 9x - rather quiet, although periods of heavy activity can produce quite high-pitched seeking sounds
Rounding that to 1 error per 30 days per 256M, for 16G of RAM that would translate to 1 error roughly every half a day. I do not believe that at all, having done memory testing runs for much longer on much larger amounts of RAM. I've seen the error counters on servers with ECC RAM, which remain at 0 for many months; and when they start increasing, it's because something is failing and needs replaced. In my experience RAM failures are much rarer than for HDDs and SSDs.
> were the agents working on it able to build it, or were they blindly writing code?
The project was able to build the whole time, and the agents were constantly compiling it using the Rust compiler and fixing any compile errors as they occurred.
The GitHub CI builds were failing, and when they first opened the repo people incorrectly assumed that meant the code didn't compile at all.
The biggest problem with the repo when they first released it was that there were no build instructions for end-users, so it was hard to try out. They fixed that within 24 hours of the initial release.
> What I don't know, and seemingly nobody else knows, is how functional the rest of the codebase is.
It's functional enough to render web pages - you can build it and run it yourself to see that, I have some screenshots from trying it out here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a...
That said, it's very much intended as a research project into running parallel coding agents as opposed to a serious browser project that's intended for end users. At the end of my post I compare it to "hello world" - I think "build a browser" may be the "hello world" of massively parallel coding agent systems, which I find quite amusing.
The first paragraph of the article -
> Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mentioned in the article was FastRender, a web browser they built from scratch using their agent swarms. I wanted to learn more so I asked Wilson Lin, the engineer behind FastRender, if we could record a conversation about the project. That 47 minute video is now available on YouTube. I’ve included some of the highlights below.
Could you be any more patronizing? Maybe there's a few people you haven't alienated yet.
I don't like or use Tiktok, but clearly it provides some value to the people who do. Telling people to stop using it without even attempting to address what benefit (perceived or actual) it provides is self-defeating advice.
This is more like an internal marketing study. Nothing wrong with that, but it's being hyped as more than that.
> I’ve long been employing the length+data string struct. If there was one thing I could go back and time to change about the C language, it would be removal of the null-terminated string.
It's not necessary to go back in time. I proposed a way to do it in modern C - no existing code would break:
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html
It's simple, and easy to implement.
Can't really fault them when this exists:
The design looks good. The quote is so kitch it could be on a self-help book.
"YC turns builders into formidable founders" - and then a bs faux-definition of formidable.
It's like issues in that it helps me record why I had the agent solve problems in a particular way.
It's also great for improving my prompting skills over time - I can go back and see what worked.
Maybe it's just you. To me it shows totally different stuff, equally stupid, by default (e.g. if I go with a new account), but easily changeable with very little targeted watching (it picks your interests quite fast)
Matt Levine (Dec 2025), https://archive.is/S3MPq
> Your business model might end up being sort of a … startup incubator or private equity firm; you’d spend your time starting or acquiring companies on which the robot could work its magic. Your business model would be “general business, but with AI”.. Either it will sell AI at high margins to lots of businesses, or it will sell AI at lower margins to lucrative businesses that it owns.
> My 5 year old Subaru has been able to lane keep and auto follow to the point that a 2h drive on the freeway is me tapping the wheel every ten seconds
I have a '22 Outback. My Dad has a Tesla of similar vintage. I have to pay about as much attention for FSD as I do with the Subaru, the difference being the Subaru is more predictable.
Can't wait for Waymo to start chopping into the top end of the market.
Looking at my own purchases from 2025...
This is like a "haul" video, without the video.
I think sandboxes are having their moment because it's become undeniable that coding agents are useful, and that they're more useful if you run them in YOLO mode rather than having to approve everything they want to do.
Coding agents are still a relatively new category to most people. Claude Code dates back to February last year, and it took a while for the general engineering public to understand why that format - coding LLMs that can execute and iterate on the code they are writing - was such a big deal.
As a result the demand for good sandboxing options is skyrocketing.
It also takes a while for new solutions to spin up - if someone realized sandboxes were a good commercial idea back in September last year the products they built may only just be ready for people to start trying out today.
Modules are banned - they should have just copied D modules.
Does anyone know if I can run this in Docker? I can't find anything either in the instructions or the internet at large, but also I don't know why it wouldn't run in Docker?
That's like what, one major incident per month now, Nov 18, Dec 5, and now this one?
I'll bet JGC can write his own ticket by now, but unretiring would be really bad optics. He's on the board though and still keeping a watchful eye. But a couple more of these and CFs reputation will be in the gutter.
They were an early funder. Seems p. reasonable for a VC firm to point that out.
Are you in a contractual relationship with the federal government that involves handling federal data?
Alternatively, do you deal with HIPAA PHI (FIPS is—unless an update since the last time I checked has changed this—part of the HITECH Act guidance specification of whether PHI is secured or unsecured, and so is a factor in whether, legally, a breach has occurred.)
"AI can't grow corn."
"Hey AI, draft an email asking someone to grow corn. See, AI can grow corn!"
This project is neat in itself, sure, but I feel the author is wayyy missing the point of the original thought.
One of the most dangerous ideologies is "all good things come to those who wait" or that waiting is a virtue. Applied by people working at all the levels of a system for years and years it leads to steps that could be 30ms taking 30s.
> It is way slower and less reliable than a train but can go more places
I‘m not able to follow. So AI is a horse in this metaphor, what is a train then? Still a train?
> If we aren't going to do a national registry that services can query to get back only a "yes or no" on whether a user is of age or not
And note that if we are, the records of the request to that database are an even bigger privacy timebomb than those of any given provider, just waiting for malicious actors with access to government records.
They're Microsoft and it's Windows. They always have the ability to fetch the key.
The question is do they ever fetch and transmit it if you opt out?
The expected answer would be no. Has anyone shown otherwise? Because hypotheticals that they could are not useful.
This is the key point but the article somewhat misapprehends it:
> With the Federal Reserve, however, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have applied a different view: that the Fed’s monetary policy — the setting of short-term interest rates and management of the money supply — historically hasn’t been overseen by the executive branch
More precisely, setting interest rates isn’t an “executive power.” Article II says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” So the question is whether the Fed is exercising the executive power.
The Fed doesn’t set interest rates as a government agency ordering private actors to do what the government says. Instead, it acts as a private market participant to influence the behavior of the private banks that transact with it: https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/the-fed-implemen...
In this core rate-setting function, the Fed doesn’t have to be a government agency at all. This core rate setting function doesn’t involve prosecuting people, creating regulations with the force of law, or otherwise using the coercive power of government to control private conduct. The fed does some of these things through banking regulations, but they’re ancillary to this rate setting function. You could spin those functions off into a government agency subject to presidential control without affecting the independence of the core rate setting function.
Hardly anyone uses Irish in daily life or for official purposes, notwithstanding its official status. 99% of the Irish you hear outside a classroom is performative.
Jan 6th worked, and they didn't even successfully take and hold the Capitol.
Except it's not. And the footnote that might be expected to clarify turns out to be a joke footnote.
There might be some extra manufacturing capacity to be brought online to match the demand, but, in their place, I'd also be very happy to fulfil those orders at the new price point.
OTOH, in a few months, as the AI buildouts taper, I'd assume prices will drop.
I knew my PC was booting normally by the sound of the floppy drives.
I'm Commander Shephard and this is my new favorite comment on the Citadel^WHacker News.
I‘ve been using it as a general bookmark manager (think Pinboard or Raindrop) for a while now. It‘s a bit quirky, but very powerful with all the management and annotation possibilities.
You might say it was just another excuse to curate my thousands of bookmarks and recreate a new tagging structure yet again, but… well, you wouldn‘t be wrong. :-)
There are some sales where it is straightforward, you're talking to the person up front who is empowered to buy.
Then there are those sales where, as you say, understanding politics is the most important thing.
There is no trick that makes that complex sale easy but it sure is helpful to recognize that this is normal and know what you're dealing with.
I've been working with an agent to make a web-based biofeedback "application" which is really a toolbox of components you can slap together to support
- heart rate via Polar H10
- respiration rate via strap-on device
- GSR and EMG via arduino + web serial
- radar-based respiration (SOTA says you can get R-R intervals as good as the H10 if you're not moving)
"Hey, you got a ticket when you borrowed my car. Pay me back or you don't get to borrow it next time."
It's not such a huge step from an optical jukebox to a vinyl one :)
I can totally see it working.
Microsoft shouldn't be uploading keys, but nor should they be turning bitlocker on without proper key backup. Therefore it should be left as an optional feature.
A language is a tool, not a nationality or a border.
Your average educated European speaks at least three, one of which is English because it is a good language to have because it is the language of international commerce. This has been the case since many decades and has nothing to do with using the language internally.
But: many people do use it internally. French tourists abroad are more likely to use English than French. European colleagues usually standardize on English, both for their communications as well as for their documentation needs.
Scientific literature is predominantly in English (at least, for now).
So there are many reasons to use English which have nothing to do with allegiance or dependence.
You can run ELRS on 900 MHz but the bitrate is atrocious.
I have lived for many years on the border of the United States and Canada, have many friends on both sides of that border (probably more in the USA) and I don't watch French or British TV news.
Your 'socialized healthcare' is a very weak version of it, there is no other country where medical issues can spiral out of control financially in the way they do in the United States.
I know the political parties are as corrupt as they get but that is your problem to fix, even so Trump's talking points, that the USA has been financing the rest of the world are plain bullshit.
The other day someone here coined JTPP - "Just the prompt, please", expressing preference for reading the prompt instead of the e-mail/article it produced. The reasons for that are rather obvious, but I think it applies to marketing copy in general.
With that in mind, I wonder what the original idea behind this project was - the "prompt" that someone got in their mind, which got them excited enough to build this. Reading the "original prompt" might make it easier to figure the product out. Marketing copy is "how we can make what we have look more alluring to people". The "original prompt" is directly answering "what we actually aspired to build".
One of the main advantages of microservices does not work with smaller teams: parallel, decoupled development. This is much easier with a service that is broken down into multiple well defined components than it is with larger chunks because the interfaces are much easier to test against.