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I had never heard anyone say "I'd like to double-click on that" until yesterday and now it's following me everywhere...

> Try teaching someone C# nowadays. Completely impossible. That isn't a reasonable take. Failing to teach a language by enumerating all its features is an indictment of the instruc…

From the PoV of someone who uses C# every day those are very strange things to be upset about.

A decent portion of Azure Web Apps internals hasn't moved past .net core 2.3

Evergreen. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/prompt-injection-is-not-sq...

Cries in dapper dapr

> C# similarly has old warts that are discouraged now. .NET Framework is a great example (completely different from modern c#, which used to be called "dotnet core"). WPF and MAUI …

I don't know if you've heard, but norms don't matter anymore.

> How is it possible that other users of Aurora aren't experiencing this issue basically all the time? How could AWS not know it exists? If it's anything like how Azure handles thi…

> The party affiliation of the owner is irrelevant to that. Yeah that's a nice thought, but it ignores a whole lot of recent evidence to the contrary.

This exploit seems to be taking advantage of the slow token-at-a-time pattern of LLM conversations to ensure that the extracted data can be reconstructed in order? Seems as though …

My most recent experience was terrible for two reasons: 1. They didn't take down an obvious banking scam site that was hiding behind their service 2. They forwarded my "report phis…

> Sagan fails to identify any of these and instead dunks on harmless folk superstitions. Show me where the Fed rate or IBM's quarterly earnings or a Fox News chyron were determined…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning They aren't engaging in good faith. You're better off not responding.

I don't get it either, but I haven't found any other explanation that fits as well.

The appeal is "I will hurt the people you don't like".

Every interaction I've ever had with CloudFlare has left me feeling like I needed a bath. The vertical desperately needs some competition but I don't know how that could happen at …

I think you misunderstood what was meant by "API connections". In azure, they're an entity that is created to represent connectivity to some external service, usually bundled with …

Entrust is/was doing it with ssl.com after they were detrusted.

It's refreshing to see folks who're obviously used to hiding behind clouds of bullshit get skewered by people who both know enough to see through it and have the time and energy to…

We actually did use booleans, I just found it easier to explain using enums, and the code would have been simpler if we'd done it that way.

We did this. Two tables. One for feature flags, with name, desc, id, enum (none, defaultToEnabled, overrideToDisabled). One for user flag overrides, with flagId, userId, enum (enab…

https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/infosec-researc... https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/11/28/the-russian-metadata-i...

Kusto is wonderful. I'd love to be able to use outside of log analytics.

> The worst use case for SQLite that I've seen in production was a shop using it with some minimal UI on top as an order tracking system. Even in that case, the orders were accepte…