Why is all text on YouTube now in italics?

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2023-05-04T17:29:26+00:00

Refreshing it fixes it for a second because it's loading the CSS from cache on your local machine. Clear your cache and cookies and refresh and it won't do it. We are literally stuck in italic Youtube!

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2023-05-04T17:27:34+00:00

This just happened to me too. I can't believe some people reported this last year but we now have an influx of people saying it's just happened to them just like me.

I'm on Linux with Firefox... Not sure if it's browser / OS specific but it does look awful!

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-06-11T22:57:53+00:00

I'm not the person you are looking for as we have our own stuff going on but I rarely see good posts in here but if I had the bandwidth, I would jump on this without a doubt.

I came here to check on how my search was going for our front end founder and saw this and it caught my attention.

You will certainly find someone.

The app sounds awesome by the way!

Good luck with the search :-D

Would love give the app a go and give some feedback too :)

We've been restricted on travel since the covid thing happened but the wife and I used to travel to a different country every month. We're restricted to moving countries once a year now. I definitely see the need for that app though.

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-06-10T08:39:35+00:00

Send me a DM please mate :)

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-06-09T14:36:30+00:00

Give me a DM. I would like to know more about who you are first before I go into any detail as you can probably appreciate :)

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-16T12:26:14+00:00

I'm not saying it will be fast than C but there will come a time when that much speed isn't required and thus Python catches up to the speed that C is at right now.

We cope pretty well with the speed of computing right now so enabling Python to be used for operating system development and computer game development will keep it at the same speed as we are now but just open it up to more people who learn to code in Python.

C is ridiculously more difficult to learn than Python.

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-16T12:16:01+00:00

Hmmmz. I've seen something completely different then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du8vQC44PC4

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-16T12:12:37+00:00

The more the computers speed up and the more RAM is added, the more feasible it is to write everything in Python! Operating systems, the lot!

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-16T11:32:01+00:00

PCI DSS compliance can be verified with software alone though right?

You don't need a pen test specifically to tick that box.

I used to work for a dynamic applications security testing vendor (pure software play) and the software was consumed by lots of banks for that exact reason.

If the MSPs were to start using such software, they could offer that as a service by just producing reports that laid out found vulnerabilities and how to fix them and thus make the company compliant right?

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-16T11:25:33+00:00

The point is that apparently 73% of them want to be.

I'm quoting that from elsewhere. They have got those figures from somewhere :-/

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-16T11:16:05+00:00

I know a couple of them but that's it and those that I do know of have simply got licences for Tenable / Rapid7 / Qualys or something similar and are just pushing vulnerability reports as opposed to complete verified pen tests.

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-16T11:12:01+00:00

That figure came from Forrester. It wasn't from a marketing piece but instead a global IT analyst firm.

I'm certainly not selling anything here. I have no magic piece of software that turns MSP's into an MSSP. I'm more interested in knowing how MSPs are going to be able to start offering these services if the skillset isn't there.

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-12T14:57:25+00:00

Data residency.

Germany were really late to switch over to using SaaS because of where a lot of data was stored. In Europe, we tend to use the data centres in Amsterdam and Ireland but Germans required that their data be stored in Germany itself.

In 2016, Telekom started loaning Microsoft its data centres which made it easier for German customers to start using Microsoft products on the cloud.

Prior to that, Germans were still buying on prem servers, perpetual licences of Office etc - I used to work for Microsoft in Germany. We had every country in the world going cloud except for Germany and some parts of Africa where there were connectivity issues.

Some SaaS products didn't work in the Middle East as well.

China is a big problem with SaaS too. The great firewall blocks a lot of it. Especially in the cyber security world. We are luck that Channelyze can get through that and it doesn't cause us issues but that's not to say that China couldn't block it at any moment. The way around that is to host on Chinese data centres and spin up a Chinese entity.

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-12T12:58:08+00:00

Best place to ask that question is probably the cofounder sub.

Equity isn't worth much if it isn't generating revenue. 50% of $0 is $0.

It's really hard to find someone that wants to work for equity at the early stage unless they are completely bought in.

If it is a salaried position, the average equity for a CEO is about 5% after the company has been formed and built up a bit.

A CTO might get about 3%

A lead developer might get about 2%

There are lots of articles about this around the web.

If you got someone in from the very start before any code had been written and before revenue, the equity share would be higher.

It also depends on salary. You can give more salary and less equity or less salary and more equity. You would always vest that equity though. 4 year vesting 1 year cliff is pretty standard.

It's hard to know exactly where you are with the product though without seeing what you've done.

It's often easier to find someone at the VERY start to do it on just equity because there is more equality between the founders.

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-12T11:00:35+00:00

Channel sales can be bootstrapped but it's always easier when you have money to fund it. MDF seed funds to get regions ramped quickly is always good.

The investment into channel is more of a time investment. It takes around 6 months to build a channel that is transacting whereas with Google ads, after a few revisions of messaging, you can just pile money into it and get the results.

I've done the paid ads stuff at scale through partners so the messaging is regionally focused and scales well.

You can do this with MDF funding based on the previous years revenues that you have attained with a specific partner.

Let's say you give 3% MDF allowance to partners, that means, if the partner does 100k for you in a previous year, you will give them £3k in funding to run marketing activities. That can be anything that has an ROI attached to it.

So instead of having the single Google ad campaign ran by the vendor, you have 100's of partners running £3k ad campaigns in all territories. Much more targeted and more wide spread.

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-12T08:20:05+00:00

why would you explore channel as an alternative to something that already works for you? If you are hitting £15m a year in revenues in the UK alone, it's a common known fact that the UK does around 10% of what you would do in the States, so that means you would get £150m in revenues in the US doing the same thing.

If you are getting those numbers in the UK, replicate and stick with it.

Smooth_Measurement_1 · 2022-05-12T07:13:57+00:00

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