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bastardoperator··on Claude's new constitution
Remember when Google was "Don't be evil"? They would happily shred this constitution and any other one if it meant more money. They don't, but they think we do.
bastardoperator··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Unusual? That's one way of putting it. I think unpredictable, erratic and criminal paint a more a realistic picture. The fact we're threatening Greenland is absolutely insane.

If the goal of this administration is to destroy America, they're doing a fine job.

bastardoperator··on IP Addresses Through 2025
There is no shortage. Go look at IPXO, you can sublease any block size. The RiR's should be reclaiming these unused addresses, but instead the ASN is allowed to sit on them or rent them out, regardless they're not being used. The shortage is caused by hoarding and RiR's not doing their job.
bastardoperator··on Git Rebase for the Terrified
Which is the entire point of it. Why should I look at ten commits when I can look at one and get the same exact data? Why should I pollute my production history for what a is likely a bunch of debugging commits? The branch is a scratchpad, you should feel empowered within your own branch, rebase allows you to be lazy in the development cycle while presenting a nice clean set of changes at the end of it.
bastardoperator··on Vietnam bans unskippable ads
Time is money. Ten minutes of daily YouTube ads adds up to 5 hours a month. Premium costs $14, roughly an hour's work at minimum wage. Trade one hour of labor for four hours of free time. That's 48 hours back each year for $168. It's a no brainer. Even if your wage is half of 14 dollars, you would still gain 24 hours back and it would still be worth it.
bastardoperator··on AI will kill all the lawyers
It has indeed killed several careers at this point, but not because it was better than a human, but because a lazy human used it and didn't check their work.
bastardoperator··on How SQLite is tested
WHO and Gawande emphasize iteration, that the draft is always wrong. They also claim good checklists are really coordination tools disguised as task lists.
bastardoperator··on How SQLite is tested
Over a decade ago, the maintainer of SQLite gave a talk at OSCON about their testing practices. One concept that stood out to me was the power of checklists, the same tool pilots rely on before every flight.

He also mentioned Doctors Without Borders, who weren't seeing the outcomes they expected when it came to saving lives. One surprising reason? The medical teams often didn't speak the same language or even know each other's names.

The solution was simple: a pre-surgery checklist. Before any procedure, team members would state their name and role. This small ritual dramatically improved their success rates, not through better technique, but through better communication.

https://sqlite.org/src/ext/checklist/3070700/index

bastardoperator··on Put SSH keys in .git to make repos USB-portable
No thank you. Use ~/.ssh/config with per-repo Host aliases and IdentityFile directives.
bastardoperator··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
All those things we had before AI?
bastardoperator··on Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case
Thats after you make a million dollars though. It's free until then.

"0% Store Fee For First $1,000,000 in Revenue Per App Per Year Starting in June 2025, for any Epic Games Store payments we process, developers will pay a 0% revenue share on their first $1,000,000 in revenue per app per year, and then our regular 88%/12% revenue share when they earn more than that. "

bastardoperator··on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over
Yeah, ruins the whole story. He's a bum and a dead beat.
bastardoperator··on Days since last GitHub incident
Incorrect, you can use GitHub connect to sync licenses, this allows you to license users under GHEC and GHES at the cost of a single seat. You will need an entitlement for Copilot, but the fact is you can absolutely get access while storing none of your code on .com.
bastardoperator··on Days since last GitHub incident
They do, it's called GHES.

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.19/admin/over...

"GitHub Enterprise Server is a self-hosted version of the GitHub platform"

bastardoperator··on Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
I'm kind of in the same boat, I'm probably missing something big, this seems like a lot of work to serve a json file with a url.
bastardoperator··on GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
LOL, I worked on the Jenkins project paid for three years. Even they use actions to build Jenkins.

https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/tree/master/.github/wor...

bastardoperator··on GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
Such as?
bastardoperator··on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
You're conflating GitHub the platform with GitHub the bundle of services. CI is optional, swappable, not unique to GitHub. Sponsorship infrastructure and discoverability are not. The complaints target the optional layer. The migration sacrifices the sticky layer. That's backwards, and ironic, with the intention of being performative. It's almost like selling your car because a tire lost some air, lol.
bastardoperator··on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
I was pointing out how ironic it was for them to move from git SaaS to git SaaS while having no issues with git on the git SaaS they're moving away from. Make sense?
bastardoperator··on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
It's all faux outrage, they didn't give a shit about ICE or MSFT until they could use it as a rage bait prop.

Imagine being a slave to any SCM UI when cli tools and desktop clients have existed for ages not to mention integration into nearly every IDE. Also, what they're describing "random" workflows is classic ci build machine went offline and came back later.

Regardless, best of luck to them, hopefully they don't run into any more "monkeys", that would be terrible for them.

bastardoperator··on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
ICE, Actions, and Microsoft, not a single complaint about git itself. All I see is they have CI issues coupled with dumbest anti AI policy that is impossible for them to enforce. Giving up your donations and losing half your community doesn't seem like an intelligent move when all you had to do is update your CI.
bastardoperator··on Steam Machine
You are allowed and maybe have one option, what's the problem?
bastardoperator··on Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA
There is zero top down accountability from supposed leaders these days. They will happily throw employees under the bus to cover for their own mistakes.
bastardoperator··on How the US got left behind in the electric car race
I think the negative we're seeing right now outweighs the positive. It's not brain rot when you can't dispute a single point. You may be enjoying the Biff Tannen timeline, many are not.
bastardoperator··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
I've been using groupon to get licenses for about 10-15 bucks.
bastardoperator··on How the US got left behind in the electric car race
Who wants to go walk around a city when you have a bunch of troops and ice villains doing horrific stuff to people? We can't even go a week without a mass shooting, forcing women to give birth, taxing people that make the least. What are you sticking up for?
bastardoperator··on DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025
Started with Perl, always loved it, never understood the hate. I feel like after Perl you can write in any language. I'll never forget writing Python the first time and searching for a Data::Dumper alternative...
bastardoperator··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
They're shaking everyone down, it's been going on for years. They want huge sums of money to maintain chat history. I'm watching orgs left and right move to teams, not because it's better in anyway, but because it's basically free.
bastardoperator··on macOS Tahoe
Sounds sensational. If it takes you a month to ignore stuff, I have doubts that your workflow is even productive. I use every OS, you gotta roll with the punches, and they all punch back. There is no silver bullet OS. They all have issues and many of them fit your exact description. Good luck out there!
bastardoperator··on I ditched Docker for Podman
Docker has persuaded several big shops to purchase site licenses.
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