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Kevcmk··on iTerm2 critical security release
Just a reminder that iTerm is FOSS: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2
Kevcmk··on Python Modern Practices
I agree with most of this article but the "don't use poetry" comment is ridiculous. Pdm could be great with time but suggesting it is premature.
Kevcmk··on ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses
Pro tip, sites don't have the means/motivation to challenge a user's assertion that they're in France (GDPR) or California (CCPA). Just pick a Paris address and demand a GDPR Data Subject Request (DSR) to delete your data.
Kevcmk··on Apertus – Open-Source Camera
With css this bad, I don’t think I’m capable
Kevcmk··on Tesla turns on 10k-node Nvidia H100 Cluster
Nvidia is powering a mega Tesla supercomputer powered by 10,000 H100 GPUs
Kevcmk··on Website hosted on ESP32
You'd be a bad parent
Kevcmk··on Show HN: A map that tells you if a NYC cafe has WiFi, a restroom, and an outlet
Bad take
Kevcmk··on Let ChatGPT visit a website and have your email stolen
I believe that what is being missed in this thread is that, as it stands, user consent can be forged by prompt injection.
Kevcmk··on OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program
The chat muxing issue wasn't great, but it was an understandable software error that any professional software engineer could have made. The AI alignment challenge is much more pertinent and under-attended.
Kevcmk··on We Need To Talk About Vercel
It's 2023 what kind of plebeian is using raw image tags? NextJS's OSS design is exactly what it should be, I want the image tag. I don't want Vercel boxing me into a choice:

  1. Serving images over Node.
  2. Using Vercel.
I also don't want to eject code that is sitting right there in the repo. And I don't want to maintain a fork of a homebrew reimplementation of it.
Kevcmk··on We Need To Talk About Vercel
Which one, the go ahead and "define your own custom loader"? You mean re-implement the image export that is sitting right there in their express server... from scratch? Hah.

NextJS won't let you export their optimized images in a static site export because they want _everything_ running through their Express server.

Why's that great for them? Because they get to charge you for image bandwidth and image optimization. This is called vendor lock in.

Sources:

In vivo (v13.3.0):

  > npx next export
  <...>
  error - Image Optimization using the default loader is not compatible with export.
    Possible solutions:
      - Use `next start` to run a server, which includes the Image Optimization API.
      - Configure `images.unoptimized = true` in `next.config.js` to disable the Image Optimization API.
    Read more: https://nextjs.org/docs/messages/export-image-api
and https://vercel.com/changelog/changes-to-vercel-image-optimiz...
Kevcmk··on We Need To Talk About Vercel
Vercel is deceitful.

The Image/img fiasco really pulled the covers off for vercel for me. I have migrated all my work off of the platform.

NextJS’ lint strategically dissuades you from using the img tag in favor of the NextJS Image component. If you make the mistake of heeding this advice and migrating to it, you can’t use static site generation—which means you are stuck using their hosting.

Here’s one of the most PR-shameful threads I’ve ever read in OSS:

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/19065

Kevcmk··on Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows
I shoot exclusively film and am thrilled to see attempts at this. The medium is far too expensive and need not die in the name of exclusivity
Kevcmk··on Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th – December 30
Agree. This is misdirection.
Kevcmk··on Why read Dostoevsky? A programmer's perspective
Cynicism is both cheap and lazy. You two sound miserable
Kevcmk··on Floating Point Math
Agree. But experts/intermediates often gloss over language semantics in pursuit if getting something done. For me, floating point by-default is more often a nuisance
Kevcmk··on GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
Can you imagine how miserable you'd have to be to overreact this hard to an eighteen-year-old sending you a PR
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