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- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
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Moreover, the claim that they can harm the software is unwarranted because it is OPEN and many eyes are on it.
The xz attack was an intentional backdoor put into a project that was “OPEN and many eyes are on it.” Also, it was discovered due to the way it was executing and not because someone found it in the source. The original assumption has been proven wrong.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Half the earth was actually created in 1969. The other half was finished 12 hours later =]
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
xz attack was an open source attack and it would be silly to assume that it was unique.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
This opinion is a breath of fresh air compared to the rest of tech journalism screaming “AI software engineer” after each new model release.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
A related problem I see on YouTube is talking heads pruning their comments to create mini echo chambers. This is a real problem.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
Get it in the schools. It’s a bad habit from many people’s childhood that they need to break. Make that original habit not suck.
- Comment on TeamViewer got hacked 4 months ago:
You want to see a picture of me when I was younger?
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 months ago:
Thought “libs” was an American specific term. My apologies.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 months ago:
I guess you’re part of the American right? You see… the right in the US has been fed a steady stream of Russian propaganda through their talking heads for a while now. So the right has become indistinguishable from Russian bots. Sorry for the confusion!
- Comment on Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. 4 months ago:
Already vulnerabilities. schneier.com/…/security-vulnerability-of-switzerl…
I’m in the US, and I can assure you the amount of effort that would go into breaking that system would be 1000+ fold.
Here’s the thing… your computer/phone, just to run programs, is sitting on somewhere around 40-50 million lines of code in the operating system. It’s got another 20-30 million for all the supporting user space libraries. People want to vote from any device, and operating systems have become walled gardens. Now we need to interact with browsers. That’s another 30 million lines. You know how many bugs I need to find to compromise a system? 1. It’s not necessarily a skill issue. It’s an attack surface issue.
And this is assuming the bug was an accident. There are much more insidious vulnerabilities out there (see the recent exploit found in xz). Along that same vein, there could be exploit generators in the compilers (that’s 15 million lines) that build all these systems.
We won’t have online voting until we fundamentally change how we compute. I don’t see that happening any time in the near future. None of these corporations are going to be breaking down their walls anytime soon.
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 4 months ago:
I’m not sure what metric you’re using to determine this. The bottom line is, if you’re trying to get the CPU to really fly, using memory efficiently is just as important (if not more) than the actual instructions you send to it. The reason for this is the high latency required to go out to external memory. This is performance 101.
- Comment on Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. 4 months ago:
That would be nice in the future. Unfortunately, the modern Web is not even in the ballpark of being secure enough for something like that (and it’s trending worse, not better).
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 4 months ago:
Just wanted to point out that the number 1 performance blocker in the CPU is memory. In the general case, if you’re wasting memory, you’re wasting CPU.
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 4 months ago:
Guy from '95: “I bet it’s lightning fast though…”
No dude. It peaks pretty soon. In my time, Microsoft is touring a chat program that starts in under 10 seconds. And they’re genuinely proud of it.
- Comment on Car dealerships in North America revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider 4 months ago:
Then, they look confused when I tell them I don’t want the thing connected to the Internet.
- Comment on Winner's Luck 5 months ago:
Your point is that he sounds like an asshole? Because you badgered him for an explanation to a joke you obviously understood and he didn’t give it to you nice enough?
Preemptively deciding you won’t agree doesn’t make him right. He preemptively decided you wouldn’t be happy with his answer … and he was correct.
By the way, I thought it was funny. I sent it to my wife and she thought it was funny and sent it to her mom. (No one asked for an explanation).
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm 5 months ago:
Facebook is almost more effective on adults. So whether or not you’re right here is so ridiculously beyond the point anymore. They’ve lost all credibility and should be indefensible.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
New Zealand is just happy to be on the map.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 7 months ago:
Good. Now, you want to make a bigger impact? Do the schools.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 7 months ago:
Oh wow. Nasal demons in the wild.
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 9 months ago:
Embrace Extreme Extinguish
- Comment on Doing the important work 9 months ago:
Wouldn’t have got the peppers if I knew they wouldn’t fit
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 9 months ago:
I used to write tons of automation in my previous data role. While time saved matters, the other important takeaway is reproducibility. Other people on the team were writing giant SQL scripts and highlight running each one and then manual checking to see if it worked… I’m talking about tables anywhere from 1-100 millions records. You aren’t checking shit by skimming a top 1000. And what a ridiculously error prone process that is. Take the human out of that equation!
If the data came out wrong, it would be because the data came in different/corrupted, not because I missed a query. Speaking of different causing problems… one time a company sent us data that was fixed width by character instead of fixed width by byte. Smh…
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
You can still write plain html websites, and they would be super fast! But that’s not how we do things damnit! I need to implement feature x. Do I spend all day rolling my own lean version? Fuck no. I download a 5-ton JavaScript library that already has that feature, and I fuck off the rest of the day.
You are correct on one thing. The math does not add up at all.
The root cause is the current meta of software development. It’s bloat. Software is so ungodly bloated today because we’ve been taught since as long as I can remember that hardware is so fast nowadays that we don’t need to care about performance. Because of this mindset, many of the best practices that we were taught work directly against performance (OOP was a mistake. Fight me).
There might be overhead on the ad tracking bullshit… Sure. But, if developers cared about performance, that ad tracking can be fast, too ;]
How long should it really take to render a webpage? That should be near instant. If modern games can render a full 3D landscape over 100 times a second, surely a wall of text and some images can be done in under 1 second, right?
This is a problem in all software. For a simple example, I remember Microsoft word from 20 years ago being quite snappy on the desktops of the time. And by comparison, we are running supercomputers today. A cheap android phone would blow that desktop out of the water. Yet, somehow, word is a dog now…
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
What’s in your wallet?
- Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 1 year ago:
Because they’re objectively worse in all measures other than
funcontrol. - Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 1 year ago:
We did?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
Yeah, that makes sense. It used to not be a partisan thing to be an NRA member either. But I suppose I can say that about any bullshit culture war issue nowadays. This whole politics as a team sport thing is cancer.
Owning a gun just seems like another way to show support for your team. I’ve just got a sneaking suspicion that if it were somehow illegal to tell people that you own a gun, firearm sales would plummet. Otherwise, how would anyone know how cool they are?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
Total speculation from my own experience… so maybe just me.
It seems like there is just a completely different culture surrounding guns that didn’t exist before (or just want so damn loud). I’m talking about the whole I need guns for “protection” because crime is out of control, the 2nd amendment SHALL NOT be infringed, “don’t tread on me,” I have guns and I’d like to see the government “try” and take them, etc. It’s like this delusional, childish owning a gun so you can tell people you own a gun… thing? Anyone else notice you can always tell who owns a gun by how dumb their bumper stickers are?
I talked to an older dude who went to my high school 20 years before me and he told me how him and a buddy always brought their rifles to school. It was never a “thing.” They might have gone hunting before school or something. But the whole attitude he had about it was the polar opposite of what it has become.
No one is coming for your guns guys. On that note, no one fucking cares either.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 1 year ago:
Hi, I down voted you.