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bastardoperator··on Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
What if I told you most enterprise customers don't even use the cloud offering and aren't impacted by any of this? Companies like Apple use GHES, and honestly thats where most of their revenue comes from, not the free offering.
bastardoperator··on Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
So you want to be a hero?
bastardoperator··on Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS
No mitigation can stop Aisuru. Let's hope it's not that because the only end in sight is them getting bored and moving on to the next victim.
bastardoperator··on AI uses less water than the public thinks
My understanding is that data centers (at least in LA) are using mostly grey/industrial water, not water you can consume or use for agriculture. It feels like we're measuring water as one entity when not all water is equally useful to a human.
bastardoperator··on GitHub Actions is the weakest link
No thanks, Jenkins has three DSL languages and none of it is good. You dont have to inline code in yaml, you can call a script and call it day, write that script in any language you want.
bastardoperator··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
Was Microsoft the winner based on their 50B investment in OpenAI?
bastardoperator··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
You think the company that just gave 40B to Anthropic is the winner? Interesting.
bastardoperator··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
I suspect someone dumped their pet. Considering its from Mexico I also suspect it prefers a warmer water/climate?
bastardoperator··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
Just call it what it is, greed. The idiots at John Deer thought strangling their customers to death was a good business model.
bastardoperator··on GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
You have three features, A, B, and C. They are core features. Two of the features break. How do you prioritize which feature gets fixed first? With telemetry its obvious, without it, you're guessing.

Also, gh cli is not about git, its about the github api. In theory the app has its own user agent and of course their LB is tracking all http requests, so not anonymous ever.

bastardoperator··on jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
It's not, you can literally do everything this tool does with Git, and 80% of the features could be replaced with commands in your shell rc file also using vanilla git.

This tool was described perfectly the other day. JJ is the Dvorak of Git. Most people could careless about Dvorak layout, 99.8% of people use qwerty just fine. Those 0.02% though, they're loud, and they want everyone to know how great the reinvention of bread is.

bastardoperator··on Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them
Nearly every package manager does this. You would never get work done if you had to inspect every package. Services like renovate and dependabot do this lifting at no cost to the js developer, and probably do it better.
bastardoperator··on Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
I've been watching a series on YT that is specifically about rural towns in Texas that are being abandoned or on the brink of total collapse. Much of it has to do with highways and routing around these communities decades ago. I don't know if a datacenter is the answer, but it has to be better then what looks like a post apocalyptic America.
bastardoperator··on We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2
That can't be your measurement when you're loading 3 huge js libraries which are a lot more code then say svelte, which also excels at SSG.
bastardoperator··on We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2
Sounds more difficult then modern web frameworks. We've all done this for little projects, but anything with users or development teams, your method is DOA.
bastardoperator··on Git commands I run before reading any code
Looks like the Perl of Git too. Those commands are wild compared to vanilla git.
bastardoperator··on Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
If a shop tells me they use Atlassian/Jira I see that as a big negative.
bastardoperator··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Consumers dont care about OSS, most people dont feel enslaved, and the only market share they'll dent is Android/Google. If we're getting more android slop, I'll pass.
bastardoperator··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
If they were cooked then they're cooked now. "Trump succeeded" remains unsupported by the same logic. Good shot on the googling and 12 year old article though.
bastardoperator··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
I think they just want steer users/developers to CF products, maybe not? It is interesting to see the two platforms. I've moved to svelte, never been a frontend person either but kind of enjoying it actually.
bastardoperator··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
This President isn't doing a good job on really any level. Its not that I want anyone to fail, it's that the President today is currently in a state of failure, and those failures like enriching himself can have long term devastating effects on our society.
bastardoperator··on Gentoo on Codeberg
Crazy... https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty
bastardoperator··on Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'
The pricing is so bad I had to remove my CC details. One mistake and you wake up with a 50K bill for your personal project that was just you exploring.
bastardoperator··on I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
I'm yet to see perfect code from a human or ai. Most of the people I work with that want everything to be in a perfect state typically get way less done. To your point, sometimes we are just mechanics and that's okay.
bastardoperator··on AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports
I worked at Verizon almost 10 years ago, they hired a group come to come in and assess. Within 3-4 hours they pwned the entire place (including offices outside of the office we were in) through an unsecured windows jenkins machine/script console.
bastardoperator··on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
Let me fix this, "I now assume that all ads are scams"
bastardoperator··on It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
I don't disagree, but I think big enterprises expect support, roadmaps, and the ability to ask for deliverables depending on the sale or context of the service.
bastardoperator··on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
Of the top 10 games on steam, 8 of them are multiplayer. Until they have top multiplayer games, they have nothing. The reality is most of these studios aren't going to enable Linux because they're already on record stating it would make the cheating worse.
bastardoperator··on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
Until it fully supports multiplayer which doesn't seem to be a thing for any major game or studio, it's a nothingburger for the majority of people.
bastardoperator··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
How do you figure out Arch but not OOBE?
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