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acdha

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Software developer at a big library

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acdha, to fantasy
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The Library of Congress is hosting a book night on May 16th:

https://www.loc.gov/item/event-412384/live-at-the-library-fantasy-book-night/2024-05-16/

Authors include Seanan McGuire, Travis Baldree, Roshani Chokshi, Lauren Blackwood, and Olivia Blake.

acdha, to random
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A sad open source plea: “I am dying and unable to continue work on any projects here. I am seeking folks to take them over.”
https://github.com/alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption

raganwald, to random
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Some people are discussing software engineering in the library. The more experienced of the two is explaining that "The goal of Agile is to develop something very, very fast, and thus Agile produces more bugs than Waterfall."

If it was just this person, I'd say nothing. But I know that the belief they just espoused is not an outlier.

acdha,
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@williampietri @raganwald remember some consultant excreta with some pseudo-scientific matrix to “help” you choose based on things like the number of other systems you interacted with. It only made sense when you realized they made money selling project management training and consulting services so they had a direct conflict of interest against you becoming self-sufficient.

arstechnica, to random
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Apple announces M4 with more CPU cores and AI focus, just months after M3

Aggressive update schedule is a major departure for Apple Silicon.

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/05/apple-announces-m4-with-more-cpu-cores-and-ai-focus-just-months-after-m3/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

acdha,
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@maxoakland @arstechnica Apple's already using a ton of AI tools, they just wait until they're actually better. If you're on a Mac copying text out of images, getting search hits on your videos, selecting objects out of pictures, transcribing text, having your AirPods filter out noise without leaving you vulnerable to being hit by a car, a deaf person having their iPhone alert them when there's a siren or screaming baby, etc. you're using a feature these chips will do faster or with less power.

acdha,
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@morgant @maxoakland @arstechnica it’s really interesting seeing how different companies have marketed the same feature. Google did a big PR push when they added that to photos but it required uploading everything to their servers and had reliability issues (my dog was labeled a cat for years). Apple didn’t publicize it as much and didn’t make it as aggressive at labeling things but it just quietly became something most people rely on.

mttaggart, to random

If I understand this "TunnelVision" thing correctly, a few things are important to note:

  1. We're already inside a Rogue DHCP, so anything else after that feels like details.

  2. Option 121 used as described would make a honkin' large DHCPOFFER, which would be a solid network detection.

  3. TLS-encrypted traffic is still TLS-encrypted traffic. You'd need an additional AiTM attack to decrypt it, even without the VPN encapsulation.

acdha,
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@mttaggart yeah, the scenarios I’d worry about would be information disclosure: you’re gay man in Dubai, trans kid in Florida public schools, etc. and are relying on a VPN to keep your ISP from knowing what you’re accessing, especially before ECH is pervasive.

Those are already high risk scenarios so I think it’d be reasonable to debate how much it’s really increased risk versus losing the illusion of protection.

acdha, to random
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“Unlike Trump, I’ve belonged to the GOP my entire life. This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass.”
https://www.ajc.com/opinion/geoff-duncan-why-im-voting-for-biden-and-other-republicans-should-too/LFLE5YWCBBA6VDGJAJKMNPCDKQ/

vicgrinberg, to random
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I am trying to re-create an old talk from ~4 years ago I found in my archives and I simultaneously love past-me (she did such a great job developing a talk structure, much better than the one I had in mind when asked to give a talk on this topic a month ago!) and hate her (she somehow managed to deleted the keynote of the talk so that I am now stuck with a PDF and trying to find all figures & re-type the text ...).

acdha,
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@markmccaughrean @vicgrinberg @knud I generally agree. The one exception I had was WWDC where Apple requires the presentations IIRC a week in advance but that’s because their designers adjusted everything consistent with their corporate style guide, which was both expected given the company and something where they were doing real work & I could sympathize with the designers having to go through a thousand presentations.

acdha,
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@markmccaughrean @vicgrinberg @knud yeah, it was a bit much but also completely in character, and since we were talking about open source software used to manage Macs it didn’t really feel like a conflict.

drunkenmadman, to random
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Corporate Australia fucking loves a PDF.

Link on intranet: "Get IT Support"

Links to a PDF which explains at length how to log a ticket.

Because linking straight to ServiceNow would be, I guess... illogical?

acdha,
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@bastardsheep @drunkenmadman it is often hard to think of what would be different if the goal actually was to improve metrics by frustrating people out of opening tickets.

acdha, to random
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“It is unfathomable to me to have a scientist of that calibre sleeping outside his lab.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01293-0

acdha, to random
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This is why the VPN should only be a small part of your security plan:
https://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/tunnelvision

Cdespinosa, to random
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— “Our junior programmers don’t know how to escape and normalize metacharacters in database queries of our GIS”
— “I’ve got it: why don’t we just change all the street signs?”

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

acdha,
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@Cdespinosa I just can’t help but imagine this inspired some ransomeware gangs to take a closer look at their sites

drunkenmadman, to random
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"These characters have specific meanings in computer systems" is a fucking weaksauce excuse.

If you can't deal with an apostrophe, you shouldn't be allowed within 10km of a computer system, mate.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/05/north-yorkshires-dropped-apostrophe-for-street-signs-upsets-residents

acdha,
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@drunkenmadman I’ve been wondering how much scrutiny their systems are getting from the ransomware types since they basically just put up a big sign saying they have no grownups in charge.

spaf, to random
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Did you get yours?

It was announced today at RSAC that "Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions" has been added to the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame.

1/2

The announcement noted

acdha,
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@spaf congratulations!

shac, to random
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Assertion: it is more difficult to review and fix LLM-generated code than it is to write the code correctly yourself. Using AI to generate code is transferring the intelligence of coding from writing to reviewing.

acdha,
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@shac I think this also explains why there’s a wide range in reported benefits: an experienced developer who’s used to handing a lot of implementation over has already internalized many of the skills needed to write a better spec & good approaches for testing.

toor, to tmobile
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USA sends mobile phone usage data to , which T-Mobile acquired in 2019.
T-Mobile assigns a unique ad ID to your cellphone and gathers app usage data.
To opt out and remove all data of you, there's an app - "magenta advertisements platform".

For me it's horrible that they do so without telling and that the app is somewhere hidden - no one would come up with that name!

For (I don't know whether they do it on iOS, too):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pushspring.preferences

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acdha,
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@toor @glynmoody that’s super sleazy the way https://optout.magentamarketing.com/ keeps trying to get you to install their app before begrudgingly mentioning that you can just paste it into a form, or that iOS 14 blocks it by default so their instructions to re-enable it will leave you more exposed.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Which major change would a time traveler from 1974 notice most about cities today?

acdha, (edited )
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@evan everyone is driving huge vehicles which look like they’re going on a 2 month safari even if they’re just going a mile for coffee

acdha, to random
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“Perhaps more than any other part of the tech industry, crypto relies on storytelling. This is because the underlying technology, as it exists today, doesn’t have much to offer the average person in their day-to-day life. Instead, entrepreneurs conjure visions of what the tech might look like tomorrow”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-02/crypto-is-anything-but-strong-right-now

acdha, to random
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“Those aged 65 in 2010 may receive $333 billion more in benefits than they pay in taxes (see chart), an obligation 17 times larger than that likely to be left by those aged 25.”

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2012/09/29/sponging-boomers

afeinman, to UX
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I cannot communicate how much I hate the "long press--to do things" interface pattern.

What does it do? No idea; every control is different.

Is it discoverable? Only in the way the corner of a coffee table is discoverable by your shin.

Is it accessible to folks with motor control issues, or who use screen readers? Also no.

Gah.

acdha,
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@afeinman @danielbowen they’re especially bad due to other UI trends like removing control styling. Right-clicks were similar: we used to have widespread standards for indicating controls & people would try right-clicks more, keyboards had dedicated buttons, etc. but now a lot of people never got in the habit of trying because it usually does nothing. I just don’t see the minimalist UI folks admitting that they went toro far, but maybe something like Apple’s de-Ives-ing could happen.

ebooksyearn, to random
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Trying dinner from a new spot in our neighborhood

acdha,
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@ebooksyearn I was just about to ask!

acdha, to random
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They should be required to make it equally easy to quit Prime:
https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/05/02/legal-challenge-to-amazon-uks-new-one-click-to-quit-the-union-tool/

acdha,
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@nikkid I had forgotten about that “Iliad flow”!

ErikJonker, to ai
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Ofcourse results needs to be verified and confirmed in practice but after reading the
MedGemini paper from Google there is no doubt in my mind AI will change the world of medicines. Not replacing people but augmenting them during diagnosis, operations and treatment of patients.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18416

acdha,
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@kellogh @ErikJonker Doctors and lawyers are paid better than average but there seems to be a generational gap growing – younger doctors are increasingly employees of huge businesses with far less autonomy:

https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/private-practices/generational-trends-underlie-doctors-move-private-practice

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