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JimmaDaRustla··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
If you spent 10 minutes on each platform, you'd immediately realize how tone-deaf and naive your comment is.
JimmaDaRustla··on Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
Sure, they're banning tiktok while letting straight pressure to manipulate news feeds on Facebook is perfectly fine... Because it's the government is the have getting what they want
JimmaDaRustla··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
Biden better cancel some debt forgiveness in order to pay for the lawsuit
JimmaDaRustla··on Speed Test
How would they "over-read" and be so accurate?
JimmaDaRustla··on Speed Test
Local storage is not cookies. This site stores no cookies.

Looks like their map library uses local storage to persist the API key (or something innocuous) as a form of caching.

This is on you for not letting apps cache data.

JimmaDaRustla··on Speed Test
The measured speeds are very inaccurate at times - it will often measure low on download and high on upload. Just used it and it rated my connection 277/48 on a 300/30 connection.
JimmaDaRustla··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
I responded to a question on SO once where I elaborated on the accepted answer - my solution was more functional as it provided assignment operator override.

Some hot shot user with an absurd amount of badges told me, in a condescending tone, that my solution did not answer the question and linked me to some TOS article or something about staying on topic. This was the first time I had ever answered a question on SO.

My takeaway from the situation is that SO is full of accounts that farm badges/rep. To what end, I do not know - perhaps they reference it on their resume or portfolios.

I called the guy out, seems he has since deleted the comment.

JimmaDaRustla··on GPT-4 System Card [pdf]
I think you misinterpreted that statement in a way.

"not because they necessarily outweigh the potential benefits" is quite literally them stating that their choice to focus on safety challenges is NOT because it's best for their business. "we wish to motivate further work in safety ..." is complimenting that sentiment that this isn't about what's best for their bottom line, but rather spearheading the initiative to ensure the technology is not malicious because it's the right thing to do.

They're simply being honest that this isn't about profits or success. Wouldn't you prefer a business to decide what's best for the future of a technology not based on corporate interests?

What you wrote sounds like marketing and PR bull TBH. It's fine, but this is a 60 page documentation paper on the literal implementation of a technology...this isn't about making fluffy feel-good virtue signaling statements.

JimmaDaRustla··on ARM64 Linux Workstation
Check out Hyprland
JimmaDaRustla··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
It's funny that Spotify is regarded as a talented dev shop, but they don't know how to seed their random number generator.
JimmaDaRustla··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
I've been conceptualizing an open and decentralized identity system that would be based on the person's enrolment within organizations. Each organization participating in the identity system would provision something like an OAuth token to its' users for the duration of their memberships. These organizations could be employers, volunteer groups, schools, etc. Third-parties could then leverage a user's collection of tokens as a "strength" of identity and build that into their platform.

I would use Twitter daily if I had an option to control an "identity strength threshold" where I would then only see comments from people who have implemented their organization memberships into an online identity.

Of course this is wildly conceptual and would be an impossible feat to implement, but it's a fun thought exercise.

JimmaDaRustla··on OpenSSH 9.0
Because it was posted after this post.
JimmaDaRustla··on OpenSSH 9.0
That was posted after this post...
JimmaDaRustla··on Reddit’s disrespectful design
some things are just glaringly bad, like the chat box...it has no close button...you have to click the chat icon in the top nav bar to close it
JimmaDaRustla··on SQLite is not a toy database
Weird. They never mentioned the amazing power of inserting text and numbers into a boolean column.
JimmaDaRustla··on Git is too hard
Boy, if you can't handle got, I've got some bad news for you...
JimmaDaRustla··on Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts
Can I get a monospaced version for my IDE?
JimmaDaRustla··on European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case
Does it not sound hypocritical to sue a corporation for pre-installing software (Microsoft installing IE on Windows) and also suing another corporation for not allowing software to be pre-installed?

I also wonder how they come up with the multi-billion dollar values? How does that massive amount of money actually help repair whatever "economical damage" that was inflicted by not having some sort of app pre-installed on a device?

JimmaDaRustla··on It’s COBOL all the way down
I wrote the Apple Pay DPAN provisioning message tokenizer at a major financial institution in COBOL. Messages came through the payment network backend (BASE24) and our systems are all mainframes. COBOL will never go away until our major financial institutes are obsolete.

I met with manager to, what I thought was, to discuss the project and I brought up that tokenized PANs were our opportunity to transition off the mainframe and that we missed the boat. It fell of deaf ears because our meeting was actually to discuss how I was being reprimanded for using an SSH connection which the company couldn't perform a MITM attack on. It was at that point I knew I could not advance my career there.

JimmaDaRustla··on Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fatal Mountain View accident
Agreed - I might test using it, but I would ensure that I have 100% mental focus. Now I'm wondering, if I have to work hard to pay attention that a computer is operating correctly, what advantage am I gaining by using it?

AutoPilot is a human assisted utility. I think many people here, and in general, expect too much of it and are being too critical when there is an incident.

I do think Tesla needs to communicate better what AutoPilot is and isn't because we've now lost lives due to operator negligence, and by negligence, I mean the operator is still responsible for the vehicle despite relinquishing control to a computer.

JimmaDaRustla··on An Update on Last Week’s Accident
> What they are saying is that while he was driving there was an earlier point at which the car did not crash, where the car gave a visual and audible clues. And you have to ask? Why the hell is that relevant? It isn't.

Vehicle notifies the driver it's having difficulty operating the driver elected auto pilot mode based on the conditions. Driver elects to continue using the failing operating mode despite being warned.

I fail to understand how "It isn't" relevant that the driver chose not to take manual control when warned that conditions were not ideal.

JimmaDaRustla··on Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset
The problem isn't COBOL developers, it's the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) of the applications themselves - developers don't know why something was built the way it was, so maintaining and upgrading it is difficult from a logical perspective, not a technical one.

When you provision a credit or debit card to an iPhone, it hits thousands of lines of COBOL for my bank. I wrote the application that delegates requests that come in on the payment network from Apple. Our issue isn't finding developers to maintain it, but if the application sits stagnant for decades, then the problem exists that we don't have product expertise to do the work.

JimmaDaRustla··on The Mac Pro Lives
Whoa. OS X is so lacking and a mess to use that I avoid it at all costs.
JimmaDaRustla··on The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight
Don't forget any audio receiver that accepts a digital signal.
JimmaDaRustla··on iPhone at ten: the revolution continues
I have and Android phone with my bank's app that supports mobile payments. I have my default card set for NFC payments, so it is simple as touching the finger print scanner while I tap and it works...not sure how Apple Pay differs that much.
JimmaDaRustla··on Why I don't like smartcards, HSMs, YubiKeys, etc.
Does this guy realize you can buy PCI HSM devices that fit what he describes?
JimmaDaRustla··on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane
I recently flew to Munich/Prague with Air Canada and Lufthansa - the flight attendants said to both not charge a Samsung Note 7 and that they require them to actually also be turned off.
JimmaDaRustla··on Tell HN: New features and a moderator
Tested upvote, worked.

Tested undo upvote, worked.

Tested downvote, worked.

My testing is complete.

JimmaDaRustla··on I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think
Correction, he stayed in a SHITTY hotel. Not much else to report here.
JimmaDaRustla··on Announcing SQL Server on Linux
Wow. Just two days ago we were wishing SQL was available in Linux so we could move away from Oracle.
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