That would be great!

Good to hear! There is a form to collect feedback, feel free to add comments in there! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0senRYfIo_034Ukno...

I was expecting something related to Seasteading before clicking the link. Anyone else?

I was imagining something more like concept-city based around an extensive quasi-Venetian canal network, where "swimmable" (like "walkable") defined a possible mode of regular transport.

Also swim-up bars.

Me too. I like to think that, if humans survive to reach some kind of utopian, post-scarcity state, people will experiment with building places like this, just because they can.

I just spent some time in Basel, so I thought they'd mention about how the locals go for a dip after work with their wickelfisch and float downstream back home

Or to work if your home is upstream.

I was expecting planning for climate change and the rising sea levels.

Is there a good resource on the management methods of Steve Jobs as indicated by the essay?

The thing about Jobs is that he's become whoever you want him to be. If you believe yourself a visionary, he's the one to emulate. But, conversely, you can't visit Linkedin for a second without seeing the Jobs quote about hiring smart people and getting out of their way. (Ironically, considering the point of this essay.)

Heavily used within energy industry systems and standards we have to work with in Germany to integrate with. A couple of examples:

- Electronic delivery receipts for metering hardware (from standard body)

- API spec for smart meter interfacing software (from vendor, feels legacy-like)

- API to interact with official sub-CAs (from government authority)

- Definitions for EDIFACT files (from standard body)

Cool, congrats on launching! Could this replace Jobrunr?

From a quick glance at what JobRunr does (especially running asynchronous/delayed background tasks), it seems that Restate would be a very good fit for it as well. Restate will also handle persistence for you w/o having to deploy & operate a separate RDBMS or NoSQL store. Note that I am not a JobRunr expert, though.

Thanks! I'm not familiar with Jobrunr, but we can definitely help with orchestrating async tasks (as well as sync rpc calls), especially if its important that they run to completion

I am personally involved in procurring HSMs for regulatory reasons. I would be more than happy to deploy an alternative solution that's demonstrably better suited for threats in todays typical cloud environments and fight it out with the regulator. The author sadly doesn't answer that question. Anyone having an idea?

How about confidential computing, e.g. AWS Nitro enclaves, Intel TDX etc?

HSMs make most sense when they’re performing high-level operations (“Is this credit card CVC valid?”); when used as signature or decryption oracles (“Hi, I’m a trusted application server, now sign this email!”) their security gain rapidly diminishes.

Sometimes they get used for key storage alone (“Hi, I’m an application server booting up, give me the RSA signing key for account x!” or even worse “Hi, I’m an application server booting up, give me the key wrapping all the user keys in our database!”), with obvious implications.

Getting an HSM vendor to implement your use case can get very expensive; confidential computing lets you do it yourself, i.e. draw a much larger “trusted” box in your architectural diagram than otherwise feasible.

What's the reg you're up against that says your need an HSM?

E.g. this: https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Themen/Unternehmen-und-Organisati...

I am aware of industry talks of lobbying on behalf of HSM manufacturers that led to these requirements and that's just sad.

Pretty sure ETSI demands it for trusted service providers https://portal.etsi.org/TB-SiteMap/ESI/Trust-Service-Provide...

Also CAB Forum has started to require private keys in HSM only for code signing certs.

Yes, but you can outsource that part to Digicert et al, so that you don’t need to buy the HSM yourself.

Does anyone have a tip for "some kind of modern, flexible HyperCard"?

Personal experience?

Finally, congrats on launching!

I don't think they're trying to solve this issue directly. This is intended to be used as PKM (personal knowledge management) system.

You are correct in any case that this is a hard problem and I would love to get some perspective from the author on implementing such a system org-wide.

Not sure I agree with your PKM point. It feels like it fits well for company/project structure. Reading his forum and a bit into the article it seems to advocate a "librarian" that keeps the system correctly categorized. I think he mentioned somewhere that this system doesn't fully fit PKM. I remeber some example of categorizing photos according after vacations, but running out of numbers. But I must admit I don't fully remeber the arguments.