dodslaser

@dodslaser@feddit.nu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you really be proficient in a language you didn’t invent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programming Languages as Essays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  rust: “You just translated someone else’s essay”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data | It's the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly this will probably not change unless attacks become so frequent that paying the ransom is more expensive than hiring competent people and teaching them proper opsec.

  It’s bound to happen at some point, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data | It's the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think “user” in this case means “employee”. Phishing is by far the most common point of entry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This. I still lurk reddit for information, but I will never contribute. Advertisers these days only care about interaction anyway, so I doubt lurking significantly impacts the profitability one way or the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Really, ….. it's my fault they built a terrible system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Uphill in the snow both ways, and so on…