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> Once you get to the point of something working, the business is going to move on ahead without giving your team any time to go back to refine and improve.

Just recently on HN: 'Software engineers hate code'[0]

It does seem once every modular part of your system works, it's enshrined as a microservice and forgotten about. Tech debt happens this way.

[0] https://www.dancowell.com/software-engineers-hate-code/

Online, network-attached printers are a privacy blunder. This is why I buy old printers from car boot sales. No Internet = Better Privacy.

I routinely get outages. Then I go to HN to see if anyone has the same problem, but there's nothing. I imagine people have experienced 'outage fatigue' with Twitter. It's the new normal now.

A small mitigation: disable JS in Safari.

> nested virtualization

Such abstraction is very unstable. You can always VNC into a machine from a browser though, so 'vmception' can be achieved.

What kind of threat model requires someone to use Qubes? I know Snowden uses it and there's even a testimonial of him on the Qubes site recommending it. Is this for people on 'lists' or are high value targets because they visited the wrong site or said something the authorities didn't like and their machines are now being targeted?

Firefox profiles. Go to about:profiles and create new profiles for each account, all insulated from each other.

A lot of it for me is cruft. Apparently this cruft is very important for other people. (HN is very STEM biased). I come here for industry news. I typically read the front page for obituaries for dead products/services/platforms that I should know about going forward, and to see what new things I should be using too.

Who knew the Sun was hot?

Agreed. I found the omission of System1[0] a bit strange. Maybe Alex just didn't want to mention them since they nosedived the amount of trust people had in the project, infact cancelling such trust entirely. I'm glad it's now an independent project un-influenced by an advertising agency.

[0] https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-has-joined-system1/

> Brainf*ck

Regular expressions look a lot like Brainfuck. A little trick is to break regexps up

into

various

lines

that

do

different

things

I don't use it, but I've heard Tutanota's calendar[0] feature is good, since it's encrypted and more private than say, something like Notion.

But to answer your question, I'm typically warned well in advance of any social outings, and I plan my life according to those events.

[0] https://tutanota.com/calendar/

I've swung between Dunning–Kruger[0] and impostor syndrome all throughout my career. Impostor syndrome is only damaging if you lose money for the company. Same with Dunning–Kruger.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

AI answers need to be human verified though, otherwise the machines run rampant without human oversight or a 'human in the loop'. Most AI output should be highly context specific to the task at hand, otherwise it's just noise.

Just for the meantime:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...

What bothers me about Google's CAPTCHAS is they have to /know/ the answer beforehand meaning they had to be pre-trained. We're not training them, we're just providing the right answer. It's the opposite of what a Turing test should be.

Still no way to see how many videos are in a channel though? Unless I need to pay more attention.

I'm not a bot, I promise. My comments have been trained on a vast trove of HN comments and fed into HackerNewsLLM v2.0. Ignore me. I'm not that important.

> a secure browser like GNU IceCat

There's no such thing as a secure browser. Especially a custom fork which is not up to date with mainline Firefox and could be vulnerable.

It's an anti-Project92 initiative:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/10/metas-...

https://fortune.com/2023/06/08/meta-instagram-chris-cox-buil...

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-exec-taunts-elon-musk-w...

I toyed with Umbrel[0] but only to try it out. I was unsure of the security model of having all my eggs in one basket. I only self-host things as separate and distinct instances now.

[0] https://umbrel.com/

Worth reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderation

My view is that it is needed. Otherwise communities quickly devolve into cesspools. Even toxic places like 4chan have moderation, despite attracting the worst of humanity.

Starting to think his account is shared by a small team of people. He has to sleep like all of us, you know? And when you have his pattern-of-life documented on HN, you can discern when he sleeps, but his account is active 24/7 so there has to be a team.

Try this. Maybe some other versions have a working download:

https://tb.rg-adguard.net/public.php

Or try Tiny11:

https://archive.org/details/tiny-11-NTDEV

Got sent a few .PSDs (Photoshop format) and there was some artifacts which looked like they weren't intended for the recipient. Of course, this is part of the .PSD format and not a privacy issue per se. Just be careful sending .PSDs in an e-mail with stuff in them you don't want the recipient to see.

> We believe the change was sparked by a few small precursor proteins that performed key steps in an ancient metabolic reaction

Anyone believe the Panspermia[0] theory?

> Panspermia proposes that organisms such as bacteria, complete with their DNA, could be transported by means such as comets through space to planets including Earth.

For all we know there could have been an Earth-like planet that had life in the early solar system, and they got destroyed by large impacts, and some of that life rained down on Earth (in a simple form).

There is also the theory that life propagated from distant star systems that harbored life (or still do) and had enough time to spread to Earth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

I don't use any third party HN clients made by other people, for privacy reasons. All those clients are neat, but you don't know what they're doing in the background unless you start firing up debuggers. The HN site itself is enough and last time I checked there's no trackers and it even works with JS disabled. I use a mix of my phone and my desktop PC. (Phone for casual surfing of /newest and my desktop for commenting and submitting posts).

I tailor my CV to the job I want. The golden rule of two A4 pages with the relevant badges and certs which apply to the job you want, not a laundry list of every little badge you earned throughout your career. There is sometimes merit in simplicity.