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Yeah. This is very “using a saw to cut a piece of steak” meme. I feel like most obfuscations can already be thwarted anyway. At this point I just see it as some cargo culting thing that nerds do in their hacker news profiles.

Framing this as the West “giving something up” is essentially a dog whistle. I hope that we are all above this.

I am growing completely and utterly tired of this. It’s been…how many months now? Years? And there are still plenty of people in this and other communities getting by high-fiving each other pulling out the same old “LLMs aren’t human, did um, actually know, that LLMs were TRAINED on output from HUMANS?” line.

We all know. Nobody is on the other side of this. Who are you educating? And then we end up digging a little deeper and it turns out that the argument is ACTUALLY that the above is an indication of the technology’s usefulness. Which is only something that’s going to be problem by…how much use people get out of it.

Yeah. This is what always trips engineer-types up when dealing with legal. A contract isn’t code. There is usually, on both sides, a certain degree of BSing that goes on. Put another way, both parties are usually knowingly taking on risk associated with non-compliance. “We meet the security requirements in spirit only” is easily one of the more tame instances of this.

Immediately what I thought when I read it.

The person you’re responding to is being obtuse to the point where it feels like trolling or contrarianism for the sake of contrarianism. Certainly a bad-faith argument.

No true Scotsman! Throw your computer into a lake! Write your new darknet market ecommerce platform on sticky notes!

Why is “security” always a pissing constant with some people. I’d swear that I’d be condemned for locking my house at night instead of simply encasing myself in concrete for all eternity like Chernobyl. After all, it’s more secure!

Come off it. That’s what the severity rating is for. Anyone used to reading these sorts of reports comes to expect these things. And someone saying “all you have to do, is simply…” doesn’t change the fact that there’s suddenly more effort involved.

I was a student when this came out, so I obviously remember it well. Kids with loads of free time, that were tuned to rote memorise crap like regular expressions, ate this crap for breakfast.

I didn’t have the patience :)

I trust that Apple knows significantly more about the efficiency of their chip design process.

Comments from someone that speaks as if they always expect the worst of Apple, telling everyone that they expect the worst of Apple, are a dime a dozen and do nothing to add to the conversation.

Not a chance. Moving from an Intel MacBook Pro to an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro was absolutely revolutionary for me and my very pedestrian ‘interpreted language in Docker web developer’ workloads.

I’d seriously consider not taking a job if they were still on Intel MacBooks. I appreciate that an arch switch isn’t a piece of cake for many many workloads, and it isn’t just a sign of employers cheaping out. But for me it’s just been such a significant improvement.

Different people have different needs. I certainly need a MacBook Pro for my work, but I use next to no storage. I’ve never purchase beyond the minimum storage for an Apple computer. I did however up the processor on my current MacBook Pro.

Minimum 8GB RAM is more universally egregious but I’m not going to sit here and justify my own exception whilst discounting the possibility that 8GB works for others.

We all know what is meant by “low/mid-tier”. This is pointless pedantry. Next someone is going to come by with the throwaway comment complaint about how OpenAI isn’t “open”.

It’s a step in a setup wizard. Whilst it’s explicitly asked, and far from dark pattern territory, it’s designed in such a way that I wouldn’t be surprised by a 95% opt-in rate.

Well, when your P is still quite E, I guess it’s a different equation :).

Hyperbole like this is necessary for people to justify the extreme negative emotions they feel about a computer they’ll never buy having specifications that they disapprove of.

I think you mean, convince politicians to allow for the ridiculous tax-excluded display pricing that’s prolific in the US.

lol. Let’s not throw Latin / Asian culture under the bus when the implicit alternative being posed is American culture. Pot meet kettle.

Remember what old mate says to Ryan Gosling in the Barbie movie? “We’re just better at hiding it.”

These aren’t transactional. An email isn’t transactional just because the sender has a relationship with the recipient.

What do you mean? There’s a huge difference between “Product Spotlight” and “Best Deals” /s

That’s insane. Domains are not owned by the same entity forever.

Come on. Given the context, “certain sports cars” obviously wasn’t what GP was talking about.

I am in Australia and the situation is largely the same.

Yes, but most people aren’t. It also significantly reduces the usefulness of code signing for the vast majority. And your justification for that is that it personally wouldn’t be a big deal to you, someone that has an abnormal understanding of the technologies at play.

Yeah. I’m not some spoiled Silicon Valley tech bro. I don’t even live in the US. I’ve never been given a single RSU in my life. But I was genuinely shocked when I saw GitLab’s compensation.

My workplace is split between Zoom and Teams. Almost department by department. A salesperson books a meeting with you? Teams. Someone in technology? Zoom. It’s just enough to lull me into a false sense of security, and BAM, Teams.

Well let’s just not do anything!

They were working as part of a team? Or they are simply too young.

Yep. Essentially a DevRel post.

If you could put yourself in the shoes any position/s in any organisation/s necessary to implement your grand vision, what would you do? How would you do it?

This just sounds like the sort of absurd proposition that can only be made by people that don’t have a seat at the table.