Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

It’s been a week since I turned off Copilot. Unsurprisingly, I am thinking a bit more as I write (prose and code) and seem to be achieving more. This is totally subjective and probably not trustworthy.

Surprisingly, I am enjoying programming much more. I hadn’t realised quite how much joy having a whiny little idiot trying to be ‘helpful’ in my editor sapped from the process.

A small check: would you or somebody you know be interested in a #clojure based #programing course and #mentorship? I’m thinking about pivoting into #teaching more, and would like to understand if there is demand.

Please boost 🙏

FTC announces 'click to cancel' rules after 16 000 public comments. It will "require sellers to make it as easy for consumers to cancel their enrollment as it was to sign up."

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring

#FTC

Pretty much all versions of bcrypt are vulnerable to second preimage attacks because they truncate the input to the first 72 bytes, meaning the hashes for messages longer than that will collide.

This resulted in a login bypass against Okta.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/1/24285874/okta-52-character-login-password-authentication-bypass

No, that's not how that works

Just got an email from #LinkedIn, personally I think that LinkedIn has become a cesspool, but it’s still useful to connect with recruiters when job searching. Anyway, heads up, unless you’re in Europe, they’re using your data to train their #AI.

#TOS #DataProtection #DataPrivacy #Tech

There’s nothing quite like tight kerning to make a design look dean and modem.

💫DID YOU KNOW💫
that if you move a mouse cursor fast enough, you can get persistence of vision and, say...
*run a game of Pong inside your mouse's firmware*
🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️

Demo from Fish Disk 501 showing an example of a painter's algorithm code to render a fractal terrain on the Amiga 4000.

@slothrop I love the fact that he starts with "the first ad on the internet had a click through of 44%" and didn't mention

1) it was not a personalised ad
2) it didn't track individual users
3) it was relevant to the content of the page
4) it wasn't misinformation
5) it wasn't malware
6) it didn't download a shitton of JavaScript
7) it didn't link to content-farm garbage

I wouldn't be running an ad blocker if those things were still true.

I wonder: Does anyone want to write their own browser engine? In your choice of language/framework?

Because I'm happy to mentor! I've found some tricks in my own attempts.

Since I see plenty of thirst for more options...