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evacide, 5 days ago to random

Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

kerfuffle, 5 days ago to ai

The majority of my time as a developer is spent on understanding problems and existing solutions, before deciding on a fitting course of action and implementing it, which is then fun to do.

All the ai code assist hype would be less insufferable if the promotors and managers eager to buy into it showed an inkling of understanding that it takes away little of the hard and tedious work, and mostly replaces the fun work with more hard and tedious work.

#dev #code #ai

kerfuffle, 5 days ago to technology

Let me save you the trouble of having to read 50% of the takes on any new #technology or #methodology, now and ever:

It resembles something that came before.

It can do Hello World quicker than whatever you're using to build a multimillion enterprise software suite.

It's not a silver bullet.

It can and will be used in the wrong way.

It's a departure from what you've been doing so even if it's easier, it may be harder at first.

There's a next better thing around the corner.

#dev

kerfuffle, 6 days ago to microsoft

I'm waiting for the first #microsoft employees to come out and share how, after hearing from management that they should always prioritize #security, they were met with apathy or resistance when they actually did try to escalate what kind of a privacy and security debacle #recall was turning out to be.

kerfuffle, 7 days ago to random

I don't think #Scrum is the answer to everything.

But for the people in the back who keep bashing Scrum for the wrong reasons:

1. There is no mention of user stories in the Scrum guide.
2. There is no mention of story points in the Scrum guide.
3. There is no mention of velocity in the Scrum guide.
4. Developers, not the PO, create the Sprint Backlog;
5. Developers can change the Sprint Backlog during the sprint.
6. Nothing in Scrum says you can't deploy to production multiple times a day.

verge, 9 days ago to random

Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’ https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170305/microsoft-windows-recall-ai-screenshots-security-privacy-issues

adamconover, 10 days ago to random

Google’s monopoly ruined what search engines could’ve been, and now AI is making it worse.

video/mp4

retrovulcano, 10 days ago to retrogaming

The MSX classic The Maze of Galious was actually Knightmare 2.
An interesting feature of the game depended on what was inserted into the MSX's second cartridge slot.
If the first Knightmare was in, you could resurrect your companion 99 times. If there was Q-bert, you started the game with bonuses like extra gold and a full health bar...☺️👍🕹️

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #msx #videogames #videogames

kerfuffle, 10 days ago to webdev

I'm only just finding my way in the land of #htmx, but it feels like "trigger a request from any #HTML element" is a trap. I want progressive enhancement, which still requires a functional non-Javascript page before adding the nice things htmx offers. I didn't realise how rusty I am with regard to designing a presentation layer for all this in the backend.

kerfuffle, 12 days ago to ddd

#dddeurope2024 musings

• Tyranny of the majority. Rule out unacceptable solutions for all before voting on an agreeable one.
• a11y is a source of innovation
• Adverse effects of home computers being marketed to boys in the 80s? Added Gender Knot to my reading list
• A system will mimic society but, once in place, will resist change and constrain society (interesting considering the previous point)
• Prompt engineering is about bounded contexts
• I disagree with Postel
• ReBAC and OpenFGA

#DDD

kerfuffle, 13 days ago to Kotlin

In 45 minutes I made a #kotlin #javalin application from scratch, which uses #webjars to include #htmx from a #maven pom file. It uses static #HTML files for the first load, and then renders HTML from #jte templates for #SSR of the parts of the pages that need that kind of interaction. There's no #springboot (or any #spring at all) and no #SPA like #angular or #react.

Now because simply setting up a project says close to nothing about its real world viability, next step is an actual usecase ( :

bestiaexmachina, 17 days ago to random

Why do translucent yellow dice always come with white numbers? Who hurt you? :thisisfine:

emilybache, 17 days ago to random

"TDD is actually easier than writing the tests afterwards, so why is it so hard to learn?"

I was chatting to somebody at MyConf last week and they came up with that statement. I'm kicking myself now for not asking them to elaborate. I have some ideas but I'm interested in what everyone else thinks.

In what ways is TDD easier than test after? And why is it hard to learn?

kerfuffle, 18 days ago to ddd

I recently gave a 2-session training on #DDD fundamentals for #JDriven / #JCore and I'm excited to visit #dddeurope2024 to get all the latest insights and practices!

#dddeurope

kerfuffle, 20 days ago to SVMetaSearch

I found #Kagi too expensive, but seeing how every alternative has just proven to just be #Bing is making me reconsider. #Startpage and #Peekr / #SVMetaSearch are also down. #search

kerfuffle, 21 days ago to Kotlin

#Kotlin 2.0 is out!

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew20.html

jon, 23 days ago to microsoft

Microsoft Recall:

"As you use your PC, Recall takes snapshots of your screen. Snapshots are taken every five seconds while content on the screen is different from the previous snapshot. "

Part of Copilot. Big brother is watching.

#surveillance #Microsoft #Linux

kerfuffle, 23 days ago to Java

Sometimes, when I talk to frontend developers about how #HTMX requires you to have more presentation awareness in the projection side of your server application as you generate content in HTML, which in the #Java world is pretty much what we did with #JSP, Freemarker and Thymeleaf, I'm met with amazement.

No dis, but be aware: There's a generation of capable professional frontend developers who don't know backend servers can serve HTML just fine, and not just Json over HTTP.

kerfuffle, 25 days ago to random

Story Points:

• Doubt between 3 and 5 does not average out to a 4.
• 3 stories of 5 does not equal 15.
• 5 stories of 1 does not equal 1 story of 5.
• As you progress and improve your understanding and ability to deliver, will you deliver more points, lower your estimations, or divide work better?

A velocity, measured in expected estimated unspecified effort, to measure a size in multiple unspecified dimensions, expressed via incomparable numbers, is meaningless.

#scrum

EUCommission, 26 days ago to random

Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

kerfuffle, 27 days ago to random Dutch

Hoe gaat de rijksoverheid om met ons belastinggeld? De @rekenkamer maakt het inzichtelijk.

https://onsgeldontcijferd.rekenkamer.nl/

#belasting #geld #overheid #rekenkamer

kerfuffle, 27 days ago to architecture

Too often, what people call technical debt is simply an encounter with the limits of functional anticipation. If you think a system will never need to do X given the foreseeable usecases and then one day it does need to do X, you don't have technical debt.

Technical debt arises when you then try to shoehorn the needed functionality in, instead of asking/making/taking the time and effort to redesign it.

#dev #technicaldebt #refactor #architecture