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Re:Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @04:14PM (#42871246)
FYI: your preview image from the html header meta tag is broken.
Re:WordPress Is in Trouble on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:56PM (#42690672)
Good many then these stupid bot will leave my server alone always looking for wp-config FML.
Re:Block about 3.9k porn bots on Bluesky in one click on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:10AM (#42680866)
The moment they had a usable API. Their biggest issue is automated user registrations. If they could lock that down then none of this would be an issue.
Re:Block about 3.9k porn bots on Bluesky in one click on Monday January 13, 2025 @01:29AM (#42680647)
I made a bot today, it finds porn bots on bluesky so you can block them.
Re:Stimulation Clicker on Monday January 06, 2025 @05:12PM (#42616572)
setInterval(()=>{$0.click()}, 1); and weeeeeee
Quick everyone we need to call a board meeting about our plummeting profits. Who is to blame for this? Oh the kids. They need to buy more frosted flakes and and watch more you tube shorts. These kids today only want to eat the rich.

If these people really gave a shit they would be going after the systems of these platforms. We have no issue bailing out bankers when they fuck up but ask them to be accountable for the systems that erode society well well well.

Re:WebGL Fluid Simulation on Sunday December 29, 2024 @05:45PM (#42544157)
This is great!
Ok https://github.com/18F this is what I'm talking about! <3
I was really excited to checkout https://codeforamerica.org/ but then it became hard to find any code that was made publicly available same for https://adhoc.team/

I think this highlights the point I'm making, we need real opensource solutions, not just more non profits.

I'm not trying to say they don't do good work, its just that its not accessible to the public. I personally feel they maybe are missing the point of opensource. Where is the source code?

Also thank you for sharing these.

Ask HN: Are there any open source social serice sites built by a Goverment?

I'm from Oregon, we have spent almost $500M over the last 10 years for a handful of extremely unsatisfactory websites that serve our general public from Healthcare to Foodstamps to Unemployment.It makes me wonder if a collective of people could build a system for any varying level of social services for our government if it could be successful compared to the many failed corporate sponsorships...

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Re: on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @07:00PM (#42056306)
Honest question: Why the hell do you all still use that cesspool of a social media platform?
I figured if its worth bookmarking then its worth sharing too. I wonder how many other people do this too on their own personal site?
Re:HTML Form Validation is heavily underused on Monday October 28, 2024 @07:41PM (#41977784)
Even in jsx its not required to add a boolean value. Unless you are passing in a var as a prop in which case sure. But that didn't look like it was the case in these examples.
Re:HTML Form Validation is heavily underused on Monday October 28, 2024 @05:37PM (#41976618)
simply adding required is all you need.Not required=true The omission is equal to required=false. No one really write required=true, they just add the attribute `required` only by its self. This is one of the odd quarks about html attrs

Same is true for things like disabled ect https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Boolean/HT...

> The strings "true" and "false" are invalid values. To set the attribute to false, the attribute should be omitted altogether. Though modern browsers treat any string value as true, you should not rely on that behavior.

in other words required=false may still end up making the field required. FYI.

nothing but respect for these people, it takes courage to say what is right when a government you live in is doing wrong.
Re:Geomagnetic Storm Watch For OCT 10-11 UTC-days on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:20PM (#41802444)
Honest question: do we have any idea of the biological impact of these? If they can jack circuits then I would assume its not super healthy either. 100x MRI scans all at once?
Re:Cloudflare employee records her layoff [video] on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:10PM (#41800321)
It amuses me how you choose to frame this person selectively only pointing out the issues you feel relevant while ignoring the whole picture.

Lets start from the beginning. When most of these people are looking for a job in the first place even if they have a long standing history most of these jobs put them through a typical 8 hour long interview complete with cognitive tests. They put all the responsibility of success on the employee from the start even as early as the interview.

Then when you get the job the on boarding. OH god the on boarding... Most of these places expect that just because you have X or Y on your resume that you know inside and out their snow flake application which of the current staff their lead has typically turned over once a year and is so burned out they are the worst person to even offer help because they are toxic.

Then you get the constant pivoting. Management: We going to start out by doing two week sprints, one week in, we are going to switch to one week sprints. And after that, management wants to try kanbon all the while bugging about your KPIs

Say you manage to make it past that first 6 months. You realize that the next 6 months are going to be exactly as the last but worse because the lead toxic dev has just left and you are now the lead. Mean while they keep pivoting projects and goal posts but simultaneously asking you to do things that they have not even once tried to prepare for.

Finally you been there a year and most everyone who was there before you now is gone. And now you are the jaded burned out lead dev unwanting to go to meetings or be the person to tell the new devs how F'd everything is.

Also I've never once met a "scrum master" I liked. Just saying...

Re:Cloudflare employee records her layoff [video] on Thursday October 10, 2024 @11:50AM (#41800120)
These companies and the people who run them don't care about you or what happens to you. They never did. This is exactly why I will always refuse to go above and beyond for a job, It's like a lottery only a few really get what they want in the end so your odds are better off just giving them only what they pay for.

If you are not your code then you are also not your job.

Re:Internet Archive: Security breach alert on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:50PM (#41793067)
What an asshole, honestly this is a good public service they offer.