barefootstache @barefootstache@qoto.org

Posted without further comment 🔻

#meme #absurdist #geometry #blog

@Inginsub
> The problem you're having is only a problem because you haven't tried hard enough.

This is literally one of the core problems with our current culture.

A quality of code I never see being praised anywhere: how _greppable_ it is. When picking names of things, I'm always thinking "how easy will it be to grep all uses of this later without a bunch of false-positives"?

Corollary: Being greppable is the first step to being seddable.

The guy in front of me on Caltrain works at OpenAI and the fact that he’s spent the last ten minutes on Google writing queries with “site:reddit.com” after them tells me everything I want to know about the state of this industry

There you go. A robots.txt that blocks all known AIs. Hopefully it's not ignored... https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/robots.txt

There's a kind of command line carcinization where computer people especially Linux people gradually gravitate to command line workflows because especially on Linux there's just too many times you open the GUI tool, get halfway through the task, and then realize the GUI tool can't actually do what you need and you need to start over with the command line version. When this happens enough times you just go to the command line first rather than potentially waste your time

#Discord told me on HackerOne that this isn't a security #vulnerability, so cool, I'll talk about it publicly.

You can disable 2FA¹ on another person's account if you get access to their phone momentarily.

All you have to do is create a new account and put their phone number in as the login; if you verify the code, it strips it from the other account with no warning, and they can't take it back.

So have fun I guess?

¹ SMS is not #2FA

If tech companies enable some feature, _except_ in the EU, then that's an excellent indication that the feature is bad and should not have been built.

“Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog”

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/

> Thus, one could conceivably create a supply chain attack to put exploding batteries into everyday devices that is undetectable: the main control board is entirely unmodified; only a firmware change is needed to incorporate the trigger. It would pass every visual and electrical inspection.

Yeah. Everything is quite a bit more fragile than we think it is.

Here's a quick reminder that good software design doesn't depend on the tech stack or even the programming paradigm.

Readability, simplicity, separation of concerns etc are achievable in almost any of them.

It's rarely the technology that's stopping you from writing better code.

white americans seriously believe this country would function without immigrants when they literally had to kidnap people from africa to be able to even build it in the first place

Would appreciate if I get a repost. I can fimd the answer in Google, probably, but I really would like to hear some real stories from people.

I grew up at the time when every movie studio was vomiting those End of the World movies. And a fair share of them were tornado themed. So, I have a picture in my head of tornados being those crazy, scary, flattening everything on their way disasters. But in reality, when there are news of disasters (at least the onece I have heard of), they are barely ever tornados.

So, to people who lives in tornado prone areas, could you shine some light on the topic: Are tornadoes really that scay and dangerous? What a normal non-Holywood person does in case of tornado? Could one go through your home and NOT destroy it?

You have more power to make the world better than you think.

Don't waste it all thinking you have none 💚

@da_667 Yep! Great summary/source here: https://gist.github.com/adulau/6cf6f3e9c5bbd9106af8814d0a22f473

This is glorious.The best time to burn a bridge is when you never, ever want to cross it again. #genai (Edit: This is a notice explaining why somebody is shutting down a long-running project to measure word frequencies.) https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md