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I think the opposite side of this coin is that the company should clearly define the minimum lifetime of the product and it support, including what services they will provide upon …

At my work, I often see these 2 things throughout the codebase: - an identifier for an environment variable that gives us the azure key vault scope (another identifier) - an identi…

Generic Segmentation Offload https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/segmentati...

Yep. California DMV. 1 in 10 Americans live in California and these companies have our data.

Obligatory side material that was a joy to read: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons-v2/pre-index.htm...

Tangentially, I really dislike walking into the DMV and seeing ads from private companies. I heavily dislike that ID checking and document verification is done by ID.me and others …

LinkedIn was never perfect. It worked for some who had extensive people networks to bring to the platform, but the platform itself was always hot garbage. I still tell younger folk…

> Model outputs are untrusted input. I think the problem is they're trying to introduce nuance and a narrow path to allow this. They want an acceptable level of risk to using untru…

I believe in you.

I've struggled with ending my shift and mentally checking out of work. However, I wouldn't impose going back to the office on others who can do this effectively. I think the commen…

What is with the defeatism? It all starts somewhere. I moved on from desktop computers 10+ years ago. I've only owned laptops, and I've stayed on laptops because I cannot do "every…

I feel like I should say something about discord not being a suitable replacement for a forum or bugtracker.

I feel like motion blur should be used like mouse acceleration. Like you said: If I whip my head around quickly that image should present clearly and immediately. However, if I'm i…

Could they just package ollama and build a Python GTK interface around the CLI interface?

Okay, I am of course excited that KDE is making such fantastic strides forward. How-the-ever, GNOME is ahead of them because of the progress on high dynamic range color, non-fullsc…

If it is internet-connected without the Apple TV, it's likely taking screen captures an identifying what you're watching.

Our ServiceNow team literally believes use of the REST API is a security risk, because you can insert "bad data" into the incident table and others. I showed them different ways yo…

As an aside: I'm stunned how willing my own org is to train an RPA process that can break so easily, vs scripting the same actions in PowerShell and performing it against a REST in…

I liked Nix, because it worked very well to reproduce "the same system" every time. However, it became unmanageable and a huge time sink to constantly remake how I scripted togethe…