Eve online has tons of APIs, and the entire game is very data driven with an open market, industry and more.

Its kind of a developers wet dream if you like that kind of stuff. :)

Wow. What a mess!

Super interesting read though! :)

200 self driving trucks on the roads of sweden in just two years time?

I seriously doubt that. Maybe the technology could be here but I doubt the legislature will be.

And that is why gold is a horrible day-to-day currency.

One benefit of gold is that you can make more of it every day by placing your coins in a bag and shaking. The energy you put into the bag causes more gold to be produced in the form of dust within the bag. Helps work against inflation!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_coin_debasement

Big deal, you can do the same with milk: https://youtu.be/ToZ4Z9qlb4k?t=29

This app does NOT like phones. It's like its furious at me for even trying. :)

Its directed by spotifys ability to negotiate with rights holders.

I always considered most of these decisions to come from accounting/taxes/different currency.

Getting to play the "well what about digital rights" seems like a cop-out for the previously mentioned reasons. It would anyways in my accounting department.

Not sure if the unavailability of Spotify in Botswana is due to right holders. Think it's just not high on their priority list.

Are there any better (modern) alternatives?

matrix.org , hopefully

twist app, maybe

I've heard/seen good things.

What usecase do you have for installing telnet on a production server? Just curious.

No particular reason. Just thinking of anything you may install an image.

Maybe for you but i dont think that is true for a majority of the population.

The site doesnt really explain what they did....

It's just the blog. If you go directly to josephine.com, it's much better about introducing itself.

Kinda stupid not to have a very prominent link (or any link as far as I can tell) from the blog to the main site, though.

I believe they allowed people to cook and sell meals in their neighborhood.

...with an huge amount of touchy-feely "empowerment" messaging larded on top of the whole thing.

Well yeah, I don't expect every business to be 'Very Good Building & Development Co.'. Why would you even start the business if you didn't buy into all the touchy-feely stuff? It's not like there aren't better paying super serious dev jobs out there.