A small company this level of cooked and immature leadership may not have the resources to recover long term from the damage. Even if the bubble pops on them in a year.
I’d start looking for alternatives now, before it becomes urgent.
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38·2 days agoAccording to mousetrap manufacturers, putting your tongue on a mousetrap causes you to become 33% sexier, taller and win the lottery twice a week.
While some experts have argued caution that it may cause painful swelling, bleeding, injury, and distress, and that the benefits are yet to be unproven, affiliated marketers all over the world paint a different, sexier picture.
However, it is not working out for everyone. Gregory here put his tongue in the mousetrap the wrong way and suffered painful swelling, bleeding, injury and distress while not getting taller or sexier.
Gregory considers this a learning experience, and hopes this will serve as a cautionary tale for other people putting their tongue on mousetraps: From now on he will use the newest extra-strength mousetrap and take precautions like Hope Really Hard that it works when putting his tongue in the mousetrap.
We don’t need cautionary tales about how drinking bleach caused intestinal damage.
The people needing the caution got it in spades and went off anyway.
Or maybe the cautionary tale is to take caution dealing with the developers in question, as they are dangerously inept.
I mean… Deloitte is mercenary, and hired by the company wanting a passed audit.
They get paid to check pre-agreed spots A, B, and C and keep their eyes closed outside those areas.
A RAM-only server can still send metrics, metadata, “anonymized” metadata…
As a long time Firefox user, I believe Firefox sees orders of magnitude more RAM issues than other apps because it is using orders of magnitude more RAM than other apps.
Software dev here. I am good at it, and people pay me unreasonably high rates to come in and do things faster and better than they can.
It AI coding tools were useful, I’d use them.
AI slows me down twice:
- 60% productivity loss whenever I try to use it for anything else than a code search engine.
- When I have to follow up the -1x engineers who are using AI to become -10x engineers.
I have yet to see an AI adopter who actually gets shit done in a way that is meaningful to anyone exept their own psychotic selves.
“With Claude I managed to do this in one hour!” Bro, what you did was generate 120 lines of Javascript that badly reimplements what could be a single line of CSS. You could have used that hour to learn some CSS.
“Without AI coding tools, our team would have taken at least a month to make this barely-working standalone image upload page.” My brother in Christ you are proudly yelling at me that you are fucking incompetent! A webdev worth their salary can shit out something better than that in their lunchtime bathroom break!
Zero-knowledge proofs are a good concept. They’ve been possible for a long, long time, and allow age check without surveillance.
So why are they not being used? Because age check is just a cover. These people want to do surveillance, not protect kids.
So it’s a good counter. Want age check? Do it like this. Oh, you don’t want it that way? Why not, pray?
Whether it works (it has, previously) or not (as with the current bullshit from the US), it does bring to the public debate that this is unnecessary surveillance.
Proton works great. I now play all my windows-“only” games on Linux.
Not out of principle. I’m just lazy. My coding laptop is always within reach and Proton works. The Windows laptop is, like, way over on the other side of the living room and I don’t feel like spending the evening disabling more ad shit or ai shit or whatever they did to Windows since I used it last.
Set yourself up with a spreadsheet, and spend some time filling it in with the following exercise: What in the flying fuck would this cost, and is it worth it?
How many people would you have to involve? What would be their salaries? What is the risk of someone leaking multiplied by the number of people? How much time would they need each day or week to keep it up? Who would organize it? From where? How much communication would you everyone involved need to keep up constantly to coordinate? For how long?
Logistics. Do people need drivers? Prosthetics suppliers? Costume researchers? Logopedists? Psychologists? Enforcers? Medical experts? Medicall staff?
Default randomly assigned name in old DOS game Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
Not to mention that one time he saved all those trapped kids with his custom-built submarine.
I hope there’s more to it than presented here, because this can be summarized as “64 bytes is too weak, so we make it bigger. Solved. The big is too big so we reduce it to 64 bytes. Solved.”
The strong certificate is not part of the end check, but proven via merkle tree reference. At the end of the day the end user check is only verifying 64 bytes of proof.
So it is kinda pointless? Can I attack the merkle tree reference to claim the strong certificate is used when it is not?
What am I missing?
8·10 days agoNo, Jeremy. This is the chart that Ann sneezed on with a mouthful of cheerios.
The actual distribution plot is still in the printer. Go get it.
Brb, I have decided to dunk my laptop in gasoline, and then throw it into the fireplace as hard as I can. This will make it run super fast and make me effective.
…
Hey guys. Guys! Listen up. I have something important to tell you all.
Ok. So…
This. Damaged. My. Laptop. Turns out the gasoline damaged its internals and the fire deformed it into a solid lump of badly-smelling plastic. The toxic fumes from the battery gave me permanent lung damage.
I know I KNOW it is easy to judge me in hindsight, but literally there was no way to know and I hope this warning helps you avoid doing the same understandable whoopsie I did.
Now, I have learned my lesson. For my next laptop I will use diesel instead.
What is it with AI users that make them comfortable outing themselves as utterly incompetent?
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It’s buried deep in the article, but they seem to recommend:
They link to https://namiga.org/resources/about-mental-illness/leap-assist-someone-accept-help/ which unhelpfully tells me my IP is blocked by CloudFlare because accessing that link is considered an “attack”