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@heydon@front-end.social Despite so much evidence, people just refuse to listen. CAPTCHA companies have no incentive to tell implementers that the crap tun of data collected by people solving CAPTCHAs is their business model.

@ppatel@mstdn.social People don't talk enough about how fucking shit CAPTCHA is. It doesn't even catch spam effectively. In my last contract I argued and argued to replace it with a honey pot. We did so and went from 100 plus spam emails a day to zero, and got rid of the accessibility barrier with it.

@hungry_joe@mas.to If you sit on a throne in the middle of it, does it make you an edgelord ?

People say content is being locked up in proprietary silos but look all I had to do to get an RSS feed of articles on a certain site was install a mitm proxy to intercept their mobile app's requests, fake an SSL certificate to inspect them, reverse engineer their internal APIs, then write a script to discretely query aforementioned APIs and generate an RSS feed file on a schedule. Simple! 🙄 #indieweb #rss

Nadella is super concerned about all the generative AI he put everywhere; we should definitely think about guardrails, he says, while putting more generative AI everywhere

I have a common dread that there will be a minor earthquake that will cause the glasses in the cupboard in the kitchen to rub together and make a horrible noise. And it has only just now occurred to me that this is absolutely batshit.

I just bought some cute underwear… that are not meant for tucking. …that are *not* meant for tucking. *THAT ARE NOT MEANT FOR TUCKING!!!!!*

🗒️ Notes from a tired maintainer. Contribute to pi0/tired-maintainer development by creating an account on GitHub.

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange "no way to prevent this" says only country where this regularly happens

Attached: 1 image Have a pretty #fractal. All pinks, plasma waves, and zoomy. 1280x960

Watching Return of the Jedi, and something grated on me for a moment. "It's an older code, sir, but it checks out. I *was* about to let them through." Surely the Empire would have better OpSec than this? ...oh, wait. Gigantic Enterprise-scale operation, driven by fear and tight deadlines, with lots of silos and mini-empires with a culture of internal rivalry for Dear Leader's favour? Never mind. It checks out; I'll let it through.

Documentation: "This will return a 200 status and {msg: "ok", apikey: "yourapikey"} if all goes well." Me: omg, it's calling someone a pikey?! I seriously did a double-take. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey

I do NOT enjoy the weird religious-colonialist overtones and origins of the phrase "servant leadership" it is not a good phrase I do not like it and I think it has not escaped its 1970s source enough to have transcended it.

I am increasingly convinced that hyper independence and self-sufficiency is a trauma response or coping mechanism.

Copilot decreases code quality leading to more reverts/refactoring. Who could have seen this coming? :blobcatthinkingglare: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx #Copilot #GitHub #programming #development

sing like no one's listening, dance like no one's watching, masturbate like no one's called security

Attached: 1 video extremely normal about these cut voice lines from portal 2 [content warning: degradation aimed at the listener]

“New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ – Visual Studio Magazine” No shit. I’m so surprised /s https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

Attached: 1 image Scandinavian airlines sending me a ”2023 wrapped” and I can’t tell if it’s a joke or not.

PSA: Do not put git repos inside other git repos. Git is not a package manager. You will make yourself sad. It doesn't matter how many conceptual primitives they share. Don't do it. Just use a package manager. You don't even need a package repository. You can still download things directly from git repos if you want to. Just list them in a package.json or something, and let npm do it. Or go.mod. Anything. Please. For your own sake. And everyone who comes after you.

Attached: 1 image Day 26 - my arms are wet noodles and this is the best I can manage, thanks to @tamonten@mstdn.social for providing two potatoes and an ice cream cone #YearOfPigeons #birds

“The new RHEL pricing to cloud partners will scale by vCPU count, which is consistent with the most common model for cloud virtual machines (VMs) and software" twenty years ago. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-scalable-pricing-cloud-partners-announcement

Accidentally back on TikTok and very upset at how many aggregator accounts there are - like a cat video, see that it's been reposted and edited into an aggregator account, block the aggregator, track down the original my life is exhausting and I only have myself to blame

Attached: 1 image Don't forget to bring your own cake to the #golang devroom at #FOSDEM (I do not have budget for a giant cake where i can jump out of)

Any time I see someone saying something about "X openly supporting Nazis" I think, "That's a *bit* hyperbolic about what happened with the XFree86 / Xorg schism..."

The EU response to this should be simple: Tell Apple it will be barred from trading in the EU unless it commits to implementing EU requirements globally. Will the EU understand it does not require global jurisdiction in order to have global impact? Let’s wait and see. #eu #apple #maliciousCompliance https://mastodon.social/@verge/111824614624891170

The current accelerating trend of requiring accounts and logins for everything has to stop.

Who called it The Hobbit Part One and not Bilbo Begins?

Attached: 1 image this came to me in a dream

Apparently 8.2% of the most downloaded package versions from npm are depreciated.. Deceptive Deprecation: The Truth About npm Deprecated Packages https://blog.aquasec.com/deceptive-deprecation-the-truth-about-npm-deprecated-packages

Here's a tough but common situation for open source maintainers: You want a project you co-maintain to be more secure by reducing the attack surface. There are one or more folks in privileged rol...

*Opens zoom *Angles camera so boobs are in shot *Turns on video

The best management advice I ever got is to try and figure out what good management looks like and then put on a performance - try and act like a good manager, go through all of the required motions Because it turns out imitating a good manager and actually being a good manager are mostly the same thing (I think about this sometimes when I encounter debates about whether or not LLMs can reason about or understand content)

Me and @charlieegan3 have been working on a new guide for the most common errors seen in #OPA during #Rego policy development. Parser errors, compiler errors and evaluation errors — it's all in there. Hopefully it'll be a useful resource to anyone trying to get a better understanding on why some errors happen, and how to fix them. Feedback always welcome! https://docs.styra.com/opa/errors #PolicyAsCode #IAM #Identity #Authorization #DevOps #DevSecOps

Pro tip: If you want to stop being friends with an autistic ADHDer, you probably need to tell them straight out. Because all this "fading away into the woodwork" doesn't work with people who will often not speak to their friends in years without any of the friendship feelings changing. Not seeing someone doesn't change that we think of them as our friends. So not being in touch with us, doesn't communicate "I don't want to be friends anymore". You're going to have to say it. And don't worry, we'll respect your wishes. We just need to know to understand. #adhd #audhd #actuallyAutistic

This year’s State of Open Con schedule focuses on establishing the future of open source across software, hardware and data.  Open source communities are reliant on a significant amount of unpaid labour. That makes for an interesting dichotomy that is emphasized during economic downturns. Since, theoretically, anyone should be able to join an open source project, it should have lower barriers to entry. But having free time time do free work — or being employed by a big tech company specifically to contribute to open source — is entirely based on privilege.  » Read more about: The Future of Open Source is Uncertain  »

Attached: 1 image I don’t know what I was timing but it’s safe to say, I probably didn’t achieve it.

Went to a tech meetup in Dublin yesterday and no one I spoke to had heard of the fediverse (or Mastodon, even). I’m talking about software engineers. This blows my mind. (At least everyone I spoke with has heard of it now, though. And when people do hear about it – as with the #SmallWeb – they do get it. And they’re excited about it.) #fediverse #mastodon #SmallWeb

❌ hypnotizing your partner’s partners ✅ metaprogramming

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I strive to respect everybody’s personal preferences, so I usually steer clear of debates about which is the best programming language, text editor or operating system. However, recently I was asked a couple of times why I like and use a lot of Go, so here is a coherent article to fill in the blanks of my ad-hoc in-person ramblings :-).

In an era of remote work, some employees are recording and posting their video layoffs and firings on social media. It can be empowering in a lonely situation, but is it wise?

GDS is leading the digital transformation of the UK government.