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That's not "hidden" though, it's the alt text that also appears verbatim on the image itself.

> is so f*cking retarded

It's possible to express yourself without resorting to words/phrases like this. Shake your vocab tree. There are a million other appropriate ways to express your belief that a person thing (or country) is backwards, regressive or foolish.

> That it also coded it up itself is pretty amazing

I haven't tried to replicate the author's journey, but in my experience it requires a considerable amount of hand-holding. e.g. Functions will be stubbed out, but contain no logic.

I was able to guide it through a "playable" flappy bird, bit it took several revisions where I pointed out what was wrong/needed to be done before it truly returned a functional error-free prototype.

It felt like pair-programming with a promising and apologetic junior dev.

"I quit infosec and I couldn't be happier" is how I'd have written it.

Thanks for the good-read!

Stuck out to me as well—author uses it only once apart from the title, and it's in scare quotes. Are they calling attention to the fact that it's not the usual form of the word, but then failing to explain why that's important to the subject of the post?

In any case, TIL that although "quit" is most common for past tense/past participle, "quitted" is sometimes included in dictionaries as an alternative.

Made me think of Joaquin Phoenix's job in Her:

> Theodore Twombly is a lonely, introverted man who works for a business that has professional writers compose letters for people who are unable to write letters of a personal nature themselves[0]

Thinking about it now, it's sort of funny how in that imagined future, humans are writing personal letters for others, when the technology that makes OS1 possible, exists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)

That the frontend is hosted on someone else's server is a convenience, but I see your point and agree. Technically nothing is uploaded anywhere, nor does it call any APIs to do the de/encryption. Instead, it uses the cryptography mechanisms built into your browser. Local file access and creation are via FileSystem api[0]. Said differently, you could save the page to your desktop—ensure all the includes are to local files, and still run it. In fact, thats's what I did with Portable Secret[1] which others noted was previously posted here. I can confirm this works and nothing "calls home".

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystem [1] https://mprimi.github.io/portable-secret

> Can Apple disable push notifications if the website [] and is actively []

No, and previously you could add a hacked website to your homescreen and Apple couldn't stop you from doing so. Not speaking for the other features, but the webpush api provides no mechanism to steal info as much as it provides a way to alert a user who previously installed the app and allowed notifications that the app is sending them a notification.

Now, if after the user installing and allowing, the site gets "hacked", the hacked site operator could send push notifications that invite the user to interact with the compromised web site/app. Apple has no recourse; the pressure would have to be applied to the hosting service to shut down the site. That's a tall order for your average web user.

I did. I even asked ChatGPT if having "please" and "thank you" included in my prompts affects it in any way shape or form—it told me "No".

I still do it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> but you're playing with fire if it's something you can't immediately catch the mistake

Agreed. I was able to manually review 52 results, but wouldn't trust it blindly.

> also, how hard is it to get a list of abbreviations, and wrap them all in quote and comma and brackets.

Not hard at all. And I may still do that, but it was pretty enjoyable to ask the machine.

I had to work with a list of the 50 states abbreviations, full names, etc. Previously, I'd have found the data somewhere with Google et al and then manipulated it myself into the JSON I needed. But this time I asked GPT to not only source the data, but also return it structured to my liking—with revisions ("please include Guam and Puetro Rico")

Lots of my searches are simply I want an answer, but often times I also want to then do something with the result. This is where ChatGPT is going to eat Google's lunch, IMO.

A bit of a hack, but I used one of those plastic cereal containers. Hose feeds into the lid, dust and particles goes into the water—whatever is leftover exists through an additional vent I made on the opposite side of the lid. Somewhat similar to a "bong" I suppose.

To your point, the laser doesn't produce particles that are the same size a brill bit would (larger pieces sit pretty on the bed until they are lifted away) but I reckon it might still help!

Just spitballing, but would a setup that swaps the dryer-vent-fan for suction on par with a Shop Vac be able to move those larger chunks? (add water to the Shop Vac's belly before using it as extra filtering)

> Sadly, if someone wants to find information there is enough online without needing to help them with social media.

I agree, but there is a fundamental difference between dealing with/managing publicly available information and contributing to it by vlogging/blogging/posting otherwise non-public details about your life and family. Sure, anyone could use the internet to find me/info about me with the right details and resolve—but I refuse to help or add to the pile by documenting my life for their perusal. Maybe I'm just turning into a curmudgeon, but I have ZERO desire to participate in this trend.

I have a laser CNC, which has a built-in fan that is not quite strong enough to move both the smell and the particles out the exhaust system. I bought a pretty cheap dryer-vent blower fan and added it to the exhaust tube. With the addition of this fan, the particles and odor are sucked out sufficiently. Previously the smell of cut particle board and acrylic were so bad, I considered returning the machine.

The business-end of the exhaust tube sits outside a window, and has a reservoir for collecting debris that make it through the tubing--seems to also subdue the odor.

This is why I'm so confused by people wishing to document their lives, their children, their home—to strangers on the internet. On the best day, maybe that translates to positive comments and upvotes. Is the juice worth the squeeze? No. A thousand times, NO.

To send a message, seems like. "Senior engineering lead fired for challenging corporate directive" might deter others who thought of taking a similar stance.

"Senior engineering lead resigns in protest of corporate directive", on the other hand, seems like a call to arms for the conscience-driven; a thorn in corporate's side. Better to squash it and deal with the one-off "firing". Especially if it's for "cause"—then they can give nothing as severance, and quote a violation of the "employee agreement" as the reason.

Have these past issues come up at some juncture during your pursuit for work or applying for jobs? Or are you instead fearful that it might if you try?

Primary thought is: be honest—you've explained your situation here, do similar if you need to elsewhere. Your (past crime) story at face-value wouldn't affect my assessment of you for a technical role.

Second thought is: apply for jobs with a "professional name". Not uncommon. Your first name + your middle name, perhaps. At some point, HR will need to see/know your official name, but that's for book-keeping...you may even be able to have your corp email reflect your professional name, and only your W2 having the true record. If at any point the issue of the past comes up, simply be honest. Should that be grounds for firing you, or not hiring you, so be it. Find an outfit that will understand and give you a fair shot.

say -v cellos "droid"

Pretty sure this is how they generated the sound that was used for those commercials once upon a time.

> It would be interesting what your thoughts are on dumping your parents in a similar “dodgy nursing home” once they aren’t mentally or financially capable anymore. It’s “character-building”, right?

a 20-something experiencing "my first apartment" is not (in any way) comparable to elderly parents in an undesirable nursing home.

Painted differently, "nearly half of Americans age 18 to 29 have parent(s) who allow them to live [at home]"

Which is nice. Family is important—though on the other hand, dodgy apartments and "starter houses" exist for a reason. Young adults need (and should be looking for) character-building independence and freedom. Including and not limited to paying rent on time.

In these cases, "tough love" would be move-out by $date, for your own good.

> He specifically said that @elonjet was ok and then reversed course on that

Why did he reverse course? This part is missing from your appeal so I'm wondering if you know the answer, but just find it irrelevant.

If Canada's implementation is anything like the UK's, the ISP will be responsible for this mechanism, not the site operators themselves. By default, it would be "on", blocking sites which are "adult" in nature. Not sure how they determine what to block beyond a known-list of adult sites and scanning headers/metadata. I assume there are lots of false positives.

Right? Such a liability. I read they had to tie him to his Roadster just so they could actually launch the SpaceX rockets. Unbelievable.

> don't really understand what there is worth talking about here.

Elon Musk, previously adored by many for futurist technology advocacy and largely forgiven for quirky-billionaire-behavior is now on the "bad guy list". This is "public opinion", from my perspective. It is now common to hear people saying: "He didn't really build that" "His family had money" "His family had a mine" "He's a fascist" "He's a racist because of where/when he was born"

Any and every attempt to report on the fallout from Musk buying twitter will command the headlines. Doesn't matter if it's the same strategy any other takeover management would employ. That's irrelevant. Musk? Bad Guy.

So: "Elon Bad. Twitter suffer. Here's an example..."

On the other hand, Wikipedia pages seemingly get "vandalized" all the time and sometimes aren't corrected immediately.

Doesn't this create a situation where a bad actor could change the Wikipedia page for a `semi-popular-brand.com` url listing to something bad? Anyone who used `semi-popular-brand.idk` in that timeframe would land in the bad page. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding.

If I were angry whilst at the cafe, and received a photo of myself, looking angry—I'm pretty sure that'd make it worse. An unusual way to show concern, but I guess that's the age we live in.

edit: misplaced modifier

Hm. Well what versions of Chrome are they running?

/s point taken. :)

IP addresses are frequently kept and stored to show users their active sessions. Are you sincerely doubting that a company like Google doesn't or can't use this information in other ways that support their core business? You don't have to call it "tracking", but I can't think of a better name.

Anyone else having issues loading the images? They appear to be (not even large, dimensionally) pngs, but loading, line-by-line as if they are massive files—calculating ~10mins to download. Checked my download speed, no sign of an issue.

Edit: curl https://sabrinas.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/goo-1024x5... --output 'test.png' took 0:04:22

> “I think people would be surprised at the level of scrutiny each episode goes through,”

What I'm more surprised about is that this product got green-lit at all. I remember years ago thinking rotating company-made 11x17 printed posters on the back of each stall door was too invasive and in bad taste. The entirety of the actual office is a placard that corporate can and does use to "teach" or "inspire". Please, leave the restroom alone.

The only plausible explanation is that the decision-makers here have their own private toilets, where they can't be bothered.