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Theoretically, retaliating against whistleblowers is seriously illegal stuff. But in practice these regulations are seldom enforced. And even if your (former) employer does not retaliate openly, there might still be "invisible" retaliation, or the risk of other large employers just blacklisting you by default.
They should but Bash escaping/encoding is nasty and most terminals have a hard time using the mouse to reliably edit a cURL command, especially if the last command didn't do a final "\n" output. And it gets oh so tiring when the "copy cURL" command includes about 1000 bytes worth of Cookie headers full of analytics garbage.
That's why Postman became a thing in the first place.
Yeah and the issues from these vibecoded one-off programs will be felt for generations.
I got out of IT partially because I could see the writing on the wall. The "load bearing Excel sheet" is one thing, manageable if you could catch the person who wrote it in time before they depart or die and know your way around Excel - there's only so many ways to achieve a desired goal (unless the author used VBA, at which point all bets are off, and I member encountering a spreadsheet that macro-called in a DLL shipped together with the sheet).
But vibe coded AI bullshit? That is supposed to be hosted by someone and kept secure (i.e. isn't hackable in a few seconds by anyone who manages to compromise some dingus's laptop? Oh hell no. I'm outta there, I'm too old for this crap.
... what the fuck. Certainly explains things
> I still don't know how they're valued at $5B+ when I don't know a single developer who actually uses it anymore
Yep, one of them. I loved Postman but gone back to plain cURL and the dogshit that is IntelliJ's built-in HTTP request tool.
As for the question... easy. Markets can stay irrational for a very long time...
The idea was that time came from GPS and you had a SD card with the update files for the maps and the current tzdata information. Timezones worldwide change ridiculously often and tying that together with the regular map updates makes sense.
Remember these things are from an era where smartphones were barely a thing and so was mobile phone connectivity in cars.
I had to laugh at this really, really hard. Thanks!
> For loops, there is a risk of infinite loops hanging the GPU.
My understanding of GPU shaders is limited, but isn't it kind of their point to be (incredibly) fast, small and, most importantly, finite, otherwise the performance tanks too hard?
Agreed, but my point still stands - they are the ones who sent America off to its probably most consequential bad luck streak in centuries.
> it was a failure of democracy: not enough people showed up to vote and many who voted were poorly informed.
Oh hell no. They chose to fall for the anti-trans and anti-immigrant rhetoric. They voted for Trump because Trump promised to make "the others" suffer. The entire operating principle of the GOP and especially its Evangelical wing has been "the suffering is the point" for decades.
You are decidedly not on a lucky streak.
Your Dear Leader just threw the US into yet another incompetently waged war on the other side of the world, he tore apart bridges with virtually all allies the US had, including Canada of all places, his reckless usage of his powers to influence corporate decisions (i.e. the ICC sanctions and DoD/Musk throttling Starlink/Starshield for Ukraine) made everyone realize they need their own alternatives not beholden to the US for literally anything, the AI bubble growing uncontrollably while the QE money injections never got taken out of the system is setting you up for a financial disaster that will make 2007 look tame...
Because a lot of Americans lacks financial literacy (i.e. everyone buying a brand new ICE vehicle).
Even before that godforsaken war it made no financial sense at all to buy an ICE vehicle for most purposes. Now with that war and its effects wrecking the fossil fuel markets, it's even worse.
Maybe, since Electron has evolved as a somewhat common standard... the major OS providers should get together and revive this idea. The OS provides, similar to say Java JRE, a base runtime of a browser and a JS interpreter with a specified set of helper APIs to use local functionality such as filesystem access, raw networking, notifications, yadda yadda, and apps just call that runtime.
This is why I left IT and went for an EE degree program. I actually enjoy helping people to grow, I always did. (I've had a colorful career involving a lot of different industries, so chances are high I might have picked up a few things here and there)
But when there are no juniors any more, only clankers, what the fuck is even my purpose other than making money for some American slave drivers uhhh shareholders.
Oh hell yes I do. Dog slow but at least it worked decently well, something I can't say about Bluetooth.
Depends on the fault. Without dedicated measurement in place it's still a lot of (literal) legwork to install current and voltage loggers.
> Some of these measurements can have surprisingly high frequency sampling, even though the grid itself feels "slow".
Sure. But especially in a world dominated by more and more solar and wind, where something like a cloud passing by can easily shed hundreds of kilowatts in a matter of seconds, the grid needs much, much more data across the board and everywhere - and much, much more battery storage, both centralized at substations and decentralized in people's basements.
Because the grid as a whole is dumb as fuck. Sure, you got measurement stations doing very fine frequency analysis, to the point you can use grid hum to timestamp audio recordings [1].
But you rarely have realtime insight at individual busbar level for each substation or heaven forbid consumers. Best chance you get is 15-minute consumption pings and voltage/frequency metering at large plants.
That means if you want to track down bad actors like the batteries here or the Kosovo/Serbia bullshit [2] that dragged down the frequency on the entire ENTSO-E grid (which is quite the challenge!), it takes months if not years.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency_a...
[2] https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2018/04/03/frequency-deviations-c...
However, even that is not foolproof. Here in Germany, we have had close calls (Rahmede bridge) as well as actual catastrophic failures (Carola bridge in Dresden).
They aren't just not immune - often enough, particularly when it comes to anti-LGBT hate, religious speeches of all kinds are fueling the fire. And that's before we get into the serious Evangelical backing of the Trump administration, Hegseth being almost a crusader [1] or the worst of the worst who believe that there needs to be a holy war in Israel to incite Armageddon [2].
This kind of shit gets a lot of people killed.
[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/06/pete-hegse...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/us-evangelical...
The end of democracy, that's what all of this is about and why we've seen so many of the super rich build private bunkers or buy entire private islands, talking about shock collars for their staff to keep them from rising up. They're preparing.
You shall own nothing and rent everything, and the easiest way to achieve that is to wipe out everyone's retirement savings.
> Chip producers (Tiawan SK) will also get burned.
They'll be fine. They already got paid, and if the AI bubble crashes, there's years of pent up consumer demand just waiting for affordable slots at the chip fabs.
> Basically the USA will be looking at a great depression.
The US is looking at a return to medieval times. Rich elites lording over the poor masses.
Alternatively, we'll see World War 3. It's notable enough that most countries have slowly risen the temperature on disaster preparedness, even those not in direct line of fire of Russia.
Obligatory fuck u/spez.
Aviation is used to paying through the nose for stuff. For developers, employers want to pay as little money as possible.
weird. Mine looks identical to yours and yet each Chrome update I get asked the permission for local network devices and notifications again.
Get your practical skills in residential and commercial electricity up to speed and join the trades. The world is going for solar, heat pumps and electric vehicles no matter what corrupt politicians want (yay free market for once, lol), and that means there will be demand for people actually pulling wires and installing cabinets for decades to come. Start out as a side gig and when you find the clankers get too close to home turf, expand.
Yeah. Quitting before this shit eats me alive. I'm in an EE degree program now. Better three years of study while everyone else gets to deal with the bananaware and the bullshit, and let's see then once the seas have calmed.
Until then, I actively try to avoid engaging with Slop Generator regurgitations and call it out whenever I see someone not disclosing they used a Slop Generator.
I've recently published my first extension (I'll make a show hn in a few weeks when it's more polished)... and despite it not being advertised anywhere, it took less than 24 hours for the first "pitches" to drop in my mailbox. Some wanted to sell consultancy services, others wanted to buy the extension outright... it's pure madness.
(I think both POVs are valid, but the actual solution should be for a proper OS-level interface to provide mDNS discovery...)
I think the point they're trying to make is that "normal" hosting providers like AWS, Azure or Google won't accept AO3 as a customer in the first place or yeet them the day the first DMCA email arrives or some Evangelicals yap about furries and they realize what their customer is doing. "Nazi" hosters (aka wherever Gab, Truth Social et al are hosted) or your average cybercrime "bulletproof hoster" are being used to deal with a lot of bullshit, or they just pipe any complaints straight to /dev/null - and they are used to dealing with cyberattacks of all kinds as well because they are a very, very juicy target for anyone from antifascist activists over cybercriminals wanting to cash in on Trump's Truth Social privileges to other nations' secret services that might want to sow chaos by manipulating Trump's Truth Social feed.
So... AO3 is nowhere near Nazi crap in terms of content, but a very, very similar threat model (exhaustion of customer support goodwill).
OH DEAR GOD that explains so much other cursed behavior, including the "do you want to allow google chrome helper to show notifications" always reappearing. or teams. or anything that does autoupdates.
> Nothing on a typical Mac needs this permission except a printer or scanner utility, a media server, or a LAN-discovery tool, and those you answer once and they're done.
This is wrong. Browsers and media players need it because that is how multicast discovery for stuff like Chromecast works. Spotify, same thing. And Steam plus virtually all games with LAN multiplay for the same reason. Did I note already that Steam also has an autoupdater and so does Spotify and... argh.
Apple really needs to fix the very first point, preferably in a way that doesn't force app developers to ship a "helper" binary.
(Side note: it might even be the case that opening the file picker may be enough, if you got network-discoverable paths in your Finder Locations sidebar, but i'm too tired to test that one out...)
They say they have a second site, the chance of hardware failure taking out both sites at the exact same time is near zero.
There aren't that many scenarios which make a restoration time of weeks inevitable, even after taking into account the AO3 people are volunteers - given the large intersection between nerds and fanfiction or a loooot of furries working in IT, I'd assume you'll find the most competent people working on it, so I doubt the cause is incompetence.
They say the data is safe, which implies an offsite backup with a different architecture (or a managed provider). They said in the past they had a secondary site which they could switch over to if needed, which implies that the issue is not related to hardware or datacenter problems (e.g. your usual backhoe related issue or a physical destruction of the datacenter).
And that leaves only two options: a) a former staff member went fully rogue and everything needs to be rebuilt because everything might be backdoored, but there is no indication of that, or b) they got compromised really hard by one of the multitude of the vulnerabilities that cropped up the last days and chose to rebuild from scratch for a similar reason.
(And as far as I know AO3, like FFN, is limited to text and stuff like cover art, so the dataset should be small and easy enough to restore from a backup)