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Re:GraphQL Security Best Practices on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @12:32PM (#30687368)
tl;dr Facebook didn't think their tech through. Who knew! It's almost like they want to move fast and break things. Steer clear from GraphQL and use battle tested systems no trendy hipster shit just because.
Re:A Mathematician’s Lament [pdf] on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @12:30PM (#30687345)
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that could someone provide a tl;dr?
Is it as UX-friendly as Google Sketchup was/is?
Re:Strype, a Python frame-based editor on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @12:25PM (#30687272)
Interesting. Haven't tried it myself but looks neat.

And here my 2 cents: I would be seriously surprised if Strype didn't have any intention of integrating some visual based machine learning algorithm to help automate coding. Actually I'm quite surprised I haven't seen any project doing that. Github copilot comes close but is text-based only. So no end-to-end software design. For that you need GUIs and thus more visual-based networks. Strype could be helping with that.

Re:Secrets to Great API Design (2019) on Monday March 14, 2022 @07:28AM (#30671087)
You should never add something coming from Facebook without quite some hesitation. Their mantra "move fast and break things" broke more things than they could have imagined. GraphQL isn't great, it isn't even average. It's actually pretty terrible. It's just another query language and actually you don't need it. Steer clear from it.
That FAQ is pretty laughable. "We care about privacy" but then implement their own privacy protection poorly and expose all their users to unwanted snooping. Privacy that isn't on by default, isn't privacy, it's privacy theater.
Re:SecureDrop on Saturday March 12, 2022 @09:05AM (#30651454)
SecureDrop is a great tool and surely it deserves to be more well known.
Re:Cryptocurrencies and the War in Ukraine on Saturday March 12, 2022 @08:20AM (#30651142)
The question is: what CAN they do? How would they triage transactions? Everything Russian? That's laughable. There are many Russians who oppose Putin's war.

Furthermore AFAIK it's pretty easy to simply use another exchange so how would it work? Even besides ideological ideas as described in the article. How would the technically decide what and what not to allow?

Classical finance has similar problems I guess. But not the additional technical layer since they use highly centralized systems.

Re:Zero trust Kubernetes network architecture on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:29AM (#30614728)
Zero trust anything, insta like.
Re:20MB is all you need for speech recognition on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:29AM (#30614723)
That's pretty insane. Regular android/IOS apps exceed 20MB quickly nowadays with all the software bloat they include. 20MB is stunning. Starred right away on GH and will try that out soon!
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Re:S.e.p.i.a. – Digital voice assistant on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @08:27AM (#30614162)
Would be cool to have somewhere to try it out indeed. :-)