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albertom94··on Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants
https://archive.is/TlpYO
albertom94··on Getting Started with GitHub Actions with Python
This tutorial is very well written and I'll be following it for one of my personal projects later today.

That being said, I really hope reusable workflows[1] will be released to Enterprise users this year so that I can actually use GitHub Actions in a professional capacity. My engineering org is microservice-based and management isn't allowing GHA usage until it does, and rightfully so - maintaining a hundred different implementations of the same workflow would be suboptimal at the very least.

albertom94··on Xiaomi’s blacklist of phrases sounds scary, but it may not be what it seems
>On analysis of the file, I found that the vast majority of the records are actually related to sex, porn, and other smartphone brands. There are mentions of Tibet, Hong Kong, and other religious groups, however, mentions of the CCP and “China” are also included, too (albeit there are a lot fewer mentions of China and Chinese politicians comparatively). One would think that if this were a list that exists to censor content that may go against the Chinese Communist Party, all mentions of “China” would not be censored online.

It appears more likely that the phone is tracking sentiment and mentions of items on the list, as opposed to applying it as a strict list of censored phrases, and that's far more dangerous to users (obviously censorship would still be bad regardless).

albertom94··on Cryptically Carnivorous Plant Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight, Waiting for Flesh
Thanks, I totally missed that - good to know.
albertom94··on Cryptically Carnivorous Plant Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight, Waiting for Flesh
Does it count as a dupe if the original post is too old to reply to? (Genuinely curious)
albertom94··on GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling
FWIW my team jumped the gun and encountered that issue on our GHE instance as well (v3.1).