In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway. The city's local government,
@Stockholmsstad
, spent 1 billion Swedish crowns (100 million dollars) over 7 years to build a massive do-everything school IT platform, which students, teachers and parents are forced to use.
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@FogBugzTeam
sending me an email today that you are auto-upgrading and intend to start charging me tomorrow for a free account I haven't logged into for (checks notes) ... 13 YEARS is a bold move.
Going into startups, no one tells you that fighting is part of the job.
At Replit, the toughest people we have to fight are dark web hackers.
One time we went head-to-head against an underground group doing really bad things on our service -- this is the story: