So he'd have a better idea of what the govt would want to do?
Keep in mind that a govt that feels (admittedly reasonably) that it has been backstabbed and has its head assassinated would not hesitate to call bluffs instead of acting cool. You've ever seen how a cornered wild animal behaves?
I have had a long career working for F50 companies across a few decades. I can tell you, my time as a senior manager at Microsoft in mid 00’s has been the most pleasant experience I have had working in the private sector. A lot has changed in the past 20 years, but I am in touch with many colleagues still working there, and we still recommend Microsoft over the rest.
I like matrix as much as anyone else around here, and I would like to see it survive and prosper. That being said, if over 60% of the annual “expenses” of your nonprofit goes to “management” covering the salaries of four people who have other full time jobs, you really need to do a better job at managing finances.
Despite having been fairly critical of the Foundation elsewhere in this thread, I have to point out that this comment is wrong.
Josh is full-time employed by the Foundation, without another job.
It does seem pretty odd that they presented their expenses being just two million short of the PSF's expenses as useful for "putting things in perspective," given how much larger in scope the PSF is, especially after the cuts the Foundation made last year, however.
Thanks for your enthusiasm for Matrix! We're at a critical point in its evolution, but there's a lot of reason to be hopeful and excited about the future – and we'll be digging deeper into that in each of the following blog posts in the series.
I think the others have covered it pretty well, but just so you hear it from the source:
> if over 60% of the annual “expenses” of your nonprofit goes to “management” covering the salaries of four people who have other full time jobs,
That is an incorrect reading of the situation. The four full-timers who work for the Foundation do not have other jobs, so we are covering 100% of their salary. And that line item on the budget _also_ covers a bunch of part-timers, such as the SREs who keep the Matrix.org homeserver running.
If you have any other questions or concerns, I'm more than happy to speak to them :)
as the sibling says, this comment is just plain wrong. the four people funded by the foundation (MD, T&S, standards & advocacy) have no other source of salary than foundation donations.
She might be an underperforming employee who made a bad decision in posting the recording to the web, but that does not take away from the fact that how the employer handled the call was truly disastrous and unprofessional.
I want abandonware in my car. Don't include alpha-grade software in a mid-five-figure product. If you can't get it right don't ship it.
The navigation/infotainment space is a thoroughly solved domain. We don't need biweekly OTA updates to add the latest trendy thing. I don't want controls moving around or menus changing based on a perverted engagement metric.
BMW "pathced" several mechanical features of my car. This is called a "recall". Auto manufacturers try to avoid them.
I've got abandonware in my Ford. It's got a bug in the Bluetooth stack which makes it unusable with my new phone. It's never going to be updated, so out of 2 users of that car, one can't play media and the other needs to deal with occasional infosystem crashes that require a full reset and re-pairing. You may be lucky today, but as years go by, you'll find some bugs too.
As Bluetooth standards evolve, you'll want non-recall updates in your car.
Well the car is a 2010 model year and still works as well as the day it was new. The Bluetooth might stop working at some point but 14 years seems pretty good. The infotainment system might not even have been new that year and could go back as far as 2007.
You mean a dongle to aux jack, because that's a new phone. I can also not use a cable and turn the volume up to max. Either way, that's a workaround for something that's actually broken and could be fixed with a software update.
> You mean a dongle to aux jack, because that's a new phone.
Yes, that's the way most phones have gone.
> I can also not use a cable and turn the volume up to max.
My experience with 1/8" connections is that you have two means to change the volume, the one on the source and the one on the destination. There can be some issues with driving both hot (or one hot and one weak), but you set the destination in the modest middle and it works just fine.
> Either way, that's a workaround for something that's actually broken and could be fixed with a software update.
"Workaround" is the wrong way to refer to a "just works" physical standard that functioned reliably and adequately for decades without any need for continued attention / updates.
Especially when comparing it to a sand-castle software stack.
Wireless audio protocols have a few nice situational advantages, but they have not yet really reached a point where they're suitable outright replacements, and short of attaining wireless power combined with an utterly boring level of commodified stability, it's possible they won't get there.
The disadvantage to the aux jack is I can only control volume while driving. With the built-in hard drive I can change songs as well. That is loaded from simple USB drives. 2010 was still the era of technology serving us.
I would like an update to the navigation when a road is changed though. Its things like that that have caused me to install and Android Auto head unit into my 2008 car as the built in navigation is way out of date.
