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Toxic max security. Not everyone has the same threat model as you, $BIGTECHCORP.

I feel like this is not as important as people make it out to be.

I remember it was very common when the UK was in the EU to have employers get you to opt-out from the European Time Directive.

Fed up and bored of this

That is not unheard of at a large software company.

Repos should not contain customer data.

Sounds like a great way to have outages because you can’t tell what legacy features are still in use or not. Or even worse, not being able to ever refactor or clean up because you …

Did lingscars get rid of their crazy website?

Microservices without a monorepo is hell

I’m fed up of Americans telling me London is full of knife crime when the stats say that it is much worse in the USA. The situation is even improving, UK homicide rates are at the …

I use GCP, but it also has the idea of a metadata server. When you use a Google Cloud library in your server code like PubSub or Firestore or GCS or BigQuery, it is automatically a…

What’s it like to work on the frontier of AI model creation? What do you do in your typical day? I’ve been really enjoying using frontier LLMs in my work, but really have no idea w…

Not game dev related, but I program in both Go and Python, and there really is no difference in my feedback loop / iteration because Go builds are so fast and cache unchanged parts…

It seems to be correct now

I also have to run Defender on my MacBook at work. If you have access to the Defender settings, I found it to be much better after setting an exclusion for the folder that you clon…

There are two solutions GitHub Actions people will tell you about. Both are fundamentally flawed because GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst [1]. One th…

London has loads of exceptional museums that are completely free. If you ever have the chance to visit the city, do try to take advantage!

I prefer “—really-do”, so the default behaviour of the tool is to do nothing. That’s more fault tolerant for the scenario you forget to add “—dry-run”.

Do those same banks have websites that you can access from a computer with root access? Most likely, yes.

I agree with the CEO, while also feeling a bit nauseous at the MAGA Musk suck-up at the end - I suppose this is the game you have to play with this current administration.

It would be nice. Our security team started complaining that we serve a 301 redirect on port 80 for our website (just like 99.9% of websites do... sigh) and wanted port 80 shut dow…

In my home media setup (LG UQ81 TV, WiiM Amp via ARC, Xbox Series X, Chromecast with Google TV), the CEC setup _almost_ works perfectly. * I can use the LG TV’s remote alone to con…

What a horrid thought… You might be interested to read about the findings by Ruter, the publicly owned transport company for Oslo. They discovered their Chinese Yutong electric bus…

Where I live, all the 4G is oversaturated and really slow.