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> The CA/B is accomplishing absolutely nothing for security and absolutely everything for centralized control and platform instability.

is it their fault?

with the structure of the browser market today: you do what Google or Apple tell you to, or you're finished as a CA

the "forum" seems to be more of a puppet government

> are you an AI?

no, I'm a competent engineer

maybe you've not worked with any

> GitHub used to be a fantastic product. Now it barely even works.

it's almost as if Microsoft bought it, isn't it?

forgejo doesn't need half a supercomputer to run it

> We all write insecure code in our first pass through

no, we don't

I think software engineers in the right place can actually do far more damage than most doctors and lawyers

the scale is simply humongous

just look at what facebook has done to our democracies

for a computer science degree in the UK to be accredited, the chartered institute mandated an ethics course

therac-25 was in there

and now everyone's shoving as much generative excrement as possibly into everything as quickly as possible

presumably slophub's now dogfooding GitHub Agentic Workflows?

zero

because they tell you to stop being so stupid and run apt install gcc

the "AI" bot closing the issue here is particularly funny

> but why would you want one involved in any continuous degree with your CI/CD

because helping you isn't the goal

the goal is to generate revenue by consuming tokens

and a never ending swarm of "AI" "agents" is a fantastic way to do that

writing a C compiler is a 1st year undergrad project

C was explicitly designed to make it simple to write a compiler

> Linux desktop environments are developed by its users wanting the best experience possible.

have you used GNOME?

that worked real well for cloud computing

aws and gcp's margins are legendarily poor

oh, wait

Simon Willison has publicly posted many times that he finds it frustrating that people call him a shill for the AI industry

I don't think it's unreasonable to say that your enumerated list would be considered beyond simply being enthusiastic about a new technology

it is a very, very strange thing to witness

even if you can be a prompt engineer (or whatever it's called this week) today

well, with the feedback you're providing: you're training it to do that too

you are LITERALLY training the newly hired outsourced personnel to do your job

but this time you won't be able to get a job anywhere else, because your fellow class traitors are doing exactly the same thing at every other company in the world

> Nothing I've ever built has lasted more than a few years.

maybe this say something more about your career decisions than anything else?

> I'm still fascinated every day by JetBrains IDEs.

have you used them recently?

terrible, is the word I would use

(as a customer since the 2010s)

that is a very long attempt at backwards rationalisation

just say it's for the money, people understand that

but this sort of post is simply gross

on monday they'll have to update the article

> 900 former Google employees

> I see people at work who are drooling about being able to have code made for them .. but I'm not in that group.

people seem to have a inability to predict second and third order effects

the first order effect is "I can sip a latte while the bot does my job for me"... well, great I suppose, while it lasts

but the second order effect is: unless you're in the top 10%, you will now lose your job, permanently

and the third order effect is the economy collapses as it is built on consumer spending

> What they have always criticised is that it makes it harder to do so than MV2, and the difficulty of implementing dynamic filtering with it gives the advertisers an upper hand over adblockers.

it's more than this

the filter list is now bundled in extension, which has to be approved by Google

so they're now the gatekeepers of the filter list updates

so to stop youtube adblockers, all they have to do is:

    - design a countermeasure
    - deploy it
    - don't approve updates until the next countermeasure is ready

and repeat

you'd never be able to block a youtube ad again

we are ALL negatively impacted by generative excrement

I have to use Windows at my day job

and my god, I'd prefer Windows 3.1

pray tell, how I can practice my craft from prison

no, this is what massive subsidy looks like

> Consequences for me messing up are far less severe than the consequences for a PE messing up.

if I approve a bad release that leads to an egregious failure, for me it's a prison sentence and unlimited fines

in addition to being struck off and banned from the industry

> That's a whole different ball game.

if you say so

> Where this analogy breaks down is that the work you’re describing is done by Professional Engineers that have strict licensing and are (criminally) liable for the end result of the plans they approve.

there are plenty of software engineers that work in regulated industries, with individual licensing, criminal liability, and the ability to be struck off and banned from the industry by the regulator

... such as myself

it's not that one, but it's in my parents house

you'll forgive me if I don't ring them in the early hours of the morning...

remember C was specifically designed to be easy to compile

(hence anachronisms like forward declarations)

indeed

building a working C compiler from scratch is literally in my "teach yourself C in 24 hours" book from 30 years ago

have you used Windows 11?

file explorer takes 5 seconds to open