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bcvvvy··on Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents
Dunno why you’re downvoted. You’re not wrong.

Trusting an SSO system, or anything with security sensitive data on the public internet presents an attack surface with untenable risk when your adversary is thousands of people with LLM tools.

It’s going to take a lot of this before people realise using someone else’s computer is a pretty fucking stupid idea.

I mean Entra and Okta got popped. That should have been the point companies looked at this risk and went nope.

bcvvvy··on Rising rates of colorectal cancer found in nearly all age groups
My ex wife’s diabetes was definitely her fault.
bcvvvy··on Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released
ALL the Studio configurations are cheaper than a Lenovo P4 with AMD consumer CPU, no GPU and shit storage.
bcvvvy··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
I have been wondering recently if Apple are bothering to maintain the Unix side of the OS. Seems like they occasionally remove or deprecate stuff but don’t put any serious effort into maintenance.

This is just another one of those smells.

bcvvvy··on Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok
Israel are easier to blame than the reality, which is some people are entirely feral and will turn legitimate protests into an excuse to riot and loot. It doesn’t need a state actor to amplify this stuff. Just a bunch of idiots in social media bubbles.
bcvvvy··on Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
It’s only a benefit if it doesn’t bog the next stage down in noise. At that point it could be detrimental.

We already see that with software. It will be exactly the same with drug design.

My daughter is a leading biochem at one of the big pharma companies and that’s their principal worry about this. It’s really easy to create a lot of information these days which compromises the entire process.

bcvvvy··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Especially seeing is the things break if you fart near them too loudly.
bcvvvy··on Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible
Test cases doesn't mean shit works. It means test cases pass.

About 50% of the test cases I've ever seen are pointless.

bcvvvy··on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
I am fairly bothered about that but the one that really gets to me is the inconsistency of user interfaces across applications.

This precisely coincides with the web developers being allowed to wrap stuff into "apps" in Electron and the like.

bcvvvy··on Everything
But it was an EDA suite, not an EDA suite shaped object.
bcvvvy··on Everything
KiCad does an ok job. This does not even do job.
bcvvvy··on Everything
Yes that.
bcvvvy··on Everything
Why should I when there's KiCad on the market? Or even pay for Altium?

Put a usable product on the market from day one or don't bother. There's absolutely no proof you will deliver anything here. This is just slavery to an inferior promise in the name of progress.

I'm not patting this on the head and waiting and expecting it to grow up into a work dog.

bcvvvy··on Everything
I immediately tried Circuits, because I have a lot of expertise here and realised it was expected: absolutely zero understanding of the product domain. It looks like an EDA package, it smells like an EDA package but an EDA package it ain't.

And I don't want to hear "it's alpha" and "it'll improve over time". The very foundation it is built on is a near zero understanding of the domain.

This is exactly the same as all the sudden Lightroom and Photoshop replacements.

bcvvvy··on Anthropic S-1
Neither are a risk here. Mostly rain and incompetence.
bcvvvy··on Anthropic S-1
Buy. Canned food and water.
bcvvvy··on Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
Yeah they do. Usually staring at Peppa Pig and crap like that. Take it away and they have a meltdown. It's awful.

Mine were never exposed to tablets and consumption based technology until they went to university when they were given an iPad and apple pencil. One science grad and one still studying at top tier universities, no cognitive issues or addiction. Their peers, not so much as since the advent of the iPad they were given an unrestricted device to stare at.

bcvvvy··on The Curse of Soldered RAM
Gone back to my old T480 here for that. I don’t need a lot of CPU but I do need a lot of RAM. Managed to get 2x16Gb sticks for not much money. And a better screen than the newer T14 I have.
bcvvvy··on All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
Do you have a steaming pile of 1000 microservices?
bcvvvy··on All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
Vendor PR driven development.
bcvvvy··on All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
When something shits the bed in your software, write a simple log out. Otherwise STFU.
bcvvvy··on All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
The latter is the problem. When your observability stack takes 20% of your cluster operation costs, 40% of your license costs and 25% of your salary costs, you’ve been licking toads.

Objectively we did the same job without it 15 years ago under the same traffic conditions.

bcvvvy··on All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
As someone who has been on that side of things for 10 years, can we stop building really complicated stuff that requires this pile of shit and dedicated staff to run it.

The whole otel, logging and metrics thing is based around "record everything" and dig through the pile of shit looking for things that might be helpful. Fine until you have 50TB of logs/traces online which is our problem. Oh that and the 50 gig prometheus instance. 99.99999% of all information we record is entirely and utterly useless and costs us money

Make simpler things, log only exceptional things, use the rule of silence.

bcvvvy··on SpeedCrunch 1.1
Free42
bcvvvy··on Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless
I got banned from AWS once :)
bcvvvy··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
Load of horse shit. Politicised post and not cited.
bcvvvy··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Right that does it. I'm fucking off to the pub and drinking myself under the table after this week.
bcvvvy··on Is this the new cyber normal?
Not for me. I’m taking my shit offline. Out of harms way.
bcvvvy··on Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
This is the World Wide Web I want to see. Amazing job. Thank you!
bcvvvy··on Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure
Probably waiting for their AI credits to get reset.
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