HtmlProgrammer

113 karma · joined July 26, 2023

Configuration over Convention

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HtmlProgrammer··on React use C

Based repo

HtmlProgrammer··on iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices

Yes

HtmlProgrammer··on iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices

Nope you’ve got it in one

HtmlProgrammer··on 'Failure to act' on suicide website linked to 50 UK deaths

Those are the spooky internet hacker colours

HtmlProgrammer··on 1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account

Now, will 1Password pull a Lastpass and slowly and silently keep updating their blogpost, each time growing from “a lil bit compromised” to “oopsie we lost all your data through negligence but we care about your privacy we swear”

HtmlProgrammer··on Population.io

Genius data collection plot for mapping device IDs to age and nationality

HtmlProgrammer··on LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams

Couldn’t come up with enough new things to add to user profiles to justify 700 engineers

HtmlProgrammer··on Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability

Poor fella was embarrassed and looking to throw anything back at them

HtmlProgrammer··on Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?

This used to happen to me regularly and I couldn’t figure out why and then it turned out that I have bipolar disorder so that was fun

HtmlProgrammer··on I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency

I do this as a remote 9 to 5 dev, you just need to be delivering and not tell people how much free time you have

HtmlProgrammer··on IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

The general public won’t care until it impacts them personally.

Time to buy that country estate surrounded by trees so the surveillance state can’t see the finer details of your eyes with their AI cameras

HtmlProgrammer··on IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

$(£?)70 mil contract with IBM with a government agency will get you some serious consultancy fees

Source: father works for government and sees budgets for how much is wasted on IBM doing fuck all for the money

HtmlProgrammer··on ChatGPT Enterprise

Because the price is so big they don’t want to scare you off with sticker shock, then they offer you a 85% discount to get you over the line

HtmlProgrammer··on Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (2020)

Is this not just the general approach to system design? When I’m writing software, my first thought is list everything that could go wrong?

Or am I just a hopelessly anxious person lol

HtmlProgrammer··on OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp's license change

How does this new license work in terms of either a bug is found in terraform post support date or a new feature is added to the Hashicorp version.

Can the patch / new code be copied to this version without violating anything or does it have to be some sort of “clean room” patch where you only read the bug report and not the actual fix

HtmlProgrammer··on PayPal Launches U.S. Dollar Stablecoin

> As the only stablecoin supported within the PayPal network

Will it eventually be the case that these platforms start throwing anti competitive lawsuits at each other for not supporting THEIR stable coin?

It’s a smart move by PayPal anyway, people funnel their dollars to them, they collect a nice little interest payment via bonds.

HtmlProgrammer··on UK version of “Online Harms Bill” wants to prefilter content without due process

Make your money and get out my friend. As off the grid as possible in the country is where it’s at

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