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The biggest change Copilot has done for me so far is to have me replace my VSCode with VSCodium to be sure it doesn't sneak any uploading of my code to a third party without my kno…

The real scam is the audit. Many moons ago, I failed a "security audit" because `/sbin/iptables --append INPUT --in-interface lo --jump ACCEPT` "This leaves the interface completel…

Yeah, if I had a spare million, I can imagine buying that dip.

We don't pay nearly enough attention to this, considering how relatively simple it is to do right.

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You can't outgrow your lineage in evolution. We're monkeys. KFC is made of dinosaurs. Anything descended from bacteria would still be bacteria.

I guess there is no PR wins in just listening to the floor-level employees, then?

It's ostensibly "pure science", where we "just" gain more information on how the most fundamental building blocks of reality work. It's hard to predict what new technology can come…

In my experience, Ali Express is absolutely 100% a buyers market, in every single way. I've bought random junk with a somewhat long fulfillment time, and contacted the seller just …

There is growing legal pressure to not consider an IP address used as evidence that the "owner" of said IP address is the one doing the activity. For example, my IP address is paid…

I have a feeling the different sports corporations/leagues have done the research on this. I can't find any offhand, but maybe someone else has more luck? Maybe it's the beer spons…

This is done for copyright reasons. You can't copyright the raw list of ingredients, as it is a factual statement with too little creative input (in the list, not the recipe itself…

"It's an offset from the beginning. The first element is 0 slots from the beginning." is what I was taught. (Of course, it's more complicated than that, with pointer math etc etc, …

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I don't know about the market at large, but I do not want that. I want the a search engine to just have a huge database of websites, and look up stuff in that database based on my …

Yep, I feel that exact way about Nvidia Canvas [1]. It does not produce anything even close to usable as a final product, but it can produce an amazing start to a concept. [1] http…

I don't think the breach frequency is increasing per service we use, just that we're using a lot more services now, and they're better at detecting and communicating when they've h…

I hate fixing bugs, but I love having fixed them more. It's the same sort of relationship I have with playing hard games, like Elden Ring, or whatever. The actual search for the pr…

I've had someone tell me, with a straight face and serious voice, to "stick to the agile process from now on"

Yep yep yep. I've made it clear to bossmang that I don't really do customer contact. I got badly burned out in technical support decades ago, and it's still baggage I carry around,…

I want to see a comparison of the infrared from Hubble vs the infrared from James. I also want to normalize calling JWST just "James" :)

Something smooth, with a stutter-free Compiz implementation, I'm sure.

A while back I was working on a logistics follow-up system at a call center. The system would fetch the logistics data from the different logistics partners and chew on it for a wh…

I don't know if this is supposed to be amusing or informative, but I don't think it does either. For example... > Linux is an alternative operating system (the software allowing ap…