But also super far into cogdev because the largest investors in those efforts by far are the established tech giants that have been around for years, so they are directly supporting the biggest players getting bigger

That’s a closure

Sure thing, thanks for sharing!

https://xcancel.com/jtannady/status/1359602554448080900

Here’s the original that gives credit to funny joke maker and doesn’t burn your eyes with the reddit gas

True, I’m lucky to work for a company that was half founded by engineers who know the cost of compounding technical debt, which is almost never the case.

Sure, though having gone through an entire monorepo refactoring of like half a million lines to basically destroy the codebase and switch from vue 2 to vue 3 among other things, it’s also possible to build the new, better designed wall right behind the old one, test like hell against that wall, and then shift that wall in when it’s ready in a planned release, ready for the issues that come because that wall isn’t quite like the old wall

In hypercapitalism, a perfect private water utility is one that provides no water, is purely a registered corporation without any physical assets, pays no taxes, and charges people their entire monthly income for a water bill. And government protection of the monopoly is a big plus, the shareholders love that

Depends on how you use your computer. Plenty of people would tell you that using a GUI file manager and cutting/moving files is inefficient on any platform as opposed to just using a terminal.

There are times where it’s nice to drag a file or group of files and have Finder show me the content of the destination folder before I decide to drop the files. But sure I could do that with 3 mouse clicks and 4 keyboard taps.

I think that terminal only or primarily terminal is valuable, a combination of mouse and keyboard with shortcuts is valuable, and also the ability to just use your mouse (especially helpful for accessibility) is also valuable, and they all should be supported.

https://techpp.com/2021/08/17/mac-spring-loaded-folders-guide/

I don’t think even a raspberry 2 would go down over a web scrap

Absolutely depends on what software the server is running, if there’s proper caching involved. If running some PoW is involved to scrape 1 page it shouldn’t be too much of an issue, as opposed to just blindly following and ingesting every link.

Additionally, you can choose “good bots” like the internet archive, and they’re currently working on a list of “good bots”

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/docs/docs/admin/policies.mdx

AI companies ingesting data nonstop to train their models doesn’t make for a open and free internet, and will likely lead to the opposite, where users no longer even browse the web but trust in AI responses that maybe be hallucinated.

Free software

users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Open source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition

6. No discrimination against fields of endeavor, like commercial use

You are removing the terms software and source. The code is freely available and to be open source should be usable for whatever purpose.

As an aside, it’s used by smaller sites frequently to prevent overwhelming scraping that could take down the site, which has become far more rampant recently due to AI bots

Lol yeah working in enterprise software for a long time, it’s more like:

1. Import what you think you need, let the CI do a security audit, and your senior engineers to berate you if you import a huge unnecessary library where you only need one thing
2. Tree shake everything during the CI build so really the only code that gets built for production is what is being used
3. Consistently audit imports for security flaws and address them immediately (again, a CI tool)
4. CI

Basically just have a really good set of teams working on CI in addition to the backend/frontend/ux/security/infrastructure/ whatever else teams you have

Yeah the principal engineer at my company is just smashing his keyboard every day to implement MCP services and shit and in the meantime is fucking up our repo and I’m trying to clean up the mess but all upper management cares about is “when AI?”

He’s not vibe coding it, but as with all the MCP specs, it’s ignoring many things about type safety and the like pointed out in this article

I remember when sublime’s 40oz to freedom was about alcoholism and buying a malt liquor drink, but turns out, there’s a possible different interpretation

https://www.infosecinstitute.com/resources/security-awareness/human-error-responsible-data-breaches/

You’re right. It’s 74%.

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/clorox-380-million-suit-cognizant-cyberattack/753837/

It’s way easier to convince someone that you are just a lost user who needs access than it is to try to probe an organization’s IT security from the outside.

This is only going to get worse with the ability to replicate other’s voices and images. People already consistently fall for text message and email social engineering. Now someone just needs to build a model off a CSO doing interviews for a few hours and then call their phone explaining there has been a breach. Sure, 80% of good tech professionals won’t fall for it, but the other 20% that just got hired out of their league and are fearing for their jobs will immediately do what they are told, especially if the breach is elaborate enough to convince them it’s an internal security thing.

Even if it was just a standard Android phone though, this is a work device locked down by MDM lol. It’s like someone being frustrated with the windows group policy on their work computer and someone responding “well maybe you should switch to Linux” like it’s under their control

Also to convince gullible idiots to put in more hours and make more sacrifices because “that’s what it takes to make it to the top” not realizing that sacrificing your time and energy for a multi-billion dollar corporation won’t make you a billionaire. Rich people love the “hustle and grind” culture because it convinces people that if they just keep producing for the machine, the trickle down will finally come

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/