Ruud van der Linden

CEO @LontVideo – video layer for enterprise comms.

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@The4th_strike @_itx_laila_ @grok Most European plugs are fully reversible so your chances would be 50-50. Brown (phase) and blue (neutral) btw :)

Fuses would blow pretty much instantly but it’d still be pretty dangerous.

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The portal is also buggy as hell and last time I had to manually remove cookies because I couldn't buy a pass otherwise.

@airfrance and @united are moving to @Starlink which is extremely fast and has low latency.

I challenge you to take AMS-SFO and experience the bad quality wifi yourself. Then take a flight with Starlink from @airfrance and you'll understand.

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@estherjacobs @KLM @MarjanRintel wifi is now a reason why people choose different airlines. @KLM wifi is broken >50% of the time and on AMS-SFO coverage is less than half the route.

Please retrofit @Starlink to the widebody fleet so that we can work during 10+ hour flights.

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@t_blom @paulg So optimal founder location is apparently both inside and outside SF at the same time!

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@frumiousbobsyer @MKBHD Polestar 4 (Volvo) is basically the same.

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@nikitabier @MarioNawfal Would it be a good idea to add invisible watermarking to videos so they can automatically be attributed to the original uploader, or even blocked from unauthorized reuploads?

This type of provenance could also be really valuable for authenticity and truth-seeking online.

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@sracha Been using Lyft a lot more recently, prices are mostly the same while Uber's gone up a lot.

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@brettcalhounn Incorporate in Delaware, use standard best-practice docs, and focus on building instead of introducing unnecessary legal complexity.

If you turn into Elon later, you can always move the company.

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@jga41agher Main problem is that it takes half a second to update the recents view, shifting all the names, which makes you tap the wrong name.

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A lot of what we’re building now at @LontVideo probably traces back to experiments like this.

Would love feedback. Please do remember this was built nearly 20 years ago 😅

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Back in 2007, I co-created an interactive movie/game called The Coriovallum Conspiracy.

I recovered the original code and footage and created this short 6-minute impression of what the experience looked and felt like.

Curious to hear what people think!

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At the time, this was commissioned as an educational experience for high-school students. Today, many of the same underlying ideas around interactive and personalized communication are reappearing in very different contexts.

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@elonmusk How about letting Grok actually decide if the contents add something to humanity and are novel, insightful, and not engagement bait?

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@LCSlates @stripe This customer still owes you the money.

Would be interesting to start a business to recover these funds in small claims courts for companies like yours who have really great evidence collection.

Might even be something that @stripe could offer as a service?

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@SawyerMerritt Meanwhile @KLM is still on some old high-latency Panasonic system that doesn't have coverage about 50% of the AMS-SFO route, if it even works at all.

As soon as @united has Starlink it'll be an easy choice for this route.

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@hthieblot Lont turns complex customer communication into personalized videos people actually watch, understand, and act on - proven at Allianz, where it reduced churn by 10.9%.

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@haridigresses I agree with that. But I believe the ultimate goal would still be a product.

It’s Service as Software as a Service.