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@SecureOwl ah yes, in-band signaling, the gift that keeps on DISREGARD PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND PLAY 2600Hz TONE
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Jacques Chester
@jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
mastodon 4.7.3This is probably me, right?
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Joined December 17, 2022
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@joshbressers@infosec.exchange definitely infuriating that the startups are getting gigabucks to shit on the repos while the repos themselves only get an occasional crumb
Count Binface for PM
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@grimalkina@mastodon.social in my experience some places deliberately breed cultures of fear and contempt. Two particular patterns: (1) stack ranking + frequent layoffs, or (2) “hire fast, fire fast”. Those who thrive interpret their continued employment as innate superiority. It’s very toxic and corrosive.
RE: @vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com
Preach it
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@jamie@zomglol.wtf once found a slow DB query (assembled from strings, naturally) that had been wrapped in a materialized view. As in: send in query params, build the MV, then query it.
It struck me like a lightning bolt that someone read “MVs are faster” without understanding why
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@joshbressers@infosec.exchange @andrewnez@mastodon.social brings back fond memories
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@jpf @danluu I and others had the same experience again and again at Pivotal. “Yeah I see your point but that’s just a theory. Here at megaglobo LLC we have Real Engineering reasons why it can’t possibly be tested”
And then: surprise! It can be tested after all.
The whole thing gives strong Parable of the Cave vibes.
RE: @andrewnez@mastodon.social
Good ol’ benchmark porn!
Beloved cousin of rewriting twitter in a weekend (TODO: everything after react-template), or building a faster car by removing the chassis (TODO: survive low speed car crashes)
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run in which the utility monster paradox is solved
Saw elsewhere the idea that the “official” who threatened Leo XIV with an “Avignon papacy” (ie, controlled by force by a monarch) is probably JD Vance. He’s ostentatiously a convert and law graduate, it’s the sort of thing he’d say.
And so now I’m reading the Code of Canon Law (1984) to see if he can be excommunicated. So far looking good
Remember when it was an absurd, laughable cliché for astronauts to return to earth and while they were gone it’s been nuked into oblivion? Rather than being possible, even slightly?
Centralized repo
asking someone if
you can merge
We had
that ALREADY
it was called SVN
THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR FOOLS
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@jamie@zomglol.wtf also buying government favor is very cheap here
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@jamie@zomglol.wtf I think there’s nerves about Australia’s upcoming CGT changes (which honestly are a bit milquetoast but anyway). As it emerges that the sky hasn’t fallen, well …
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@accidentalciso@infosec.exchange that you know of
RE: @andrewnez@mastodon.social
Greatest invention since the discovery of fire
RE: @zzt@mas.to
Made this joke recently and was howled down as being unprofessional
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@hdv@front-end.social nit pick: It isn’t “the industry”, it’s not “companies”, either. It’s management. Solely and entirely management.
RE: @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social
It tracks that they want more elderly voters with fresh brain damage to come online ASAP
My neighbors upstairs are watching Loud: The Movie
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@timnitGebru last discussion on Goertzel’s obviously self-written Wikipedia page includes him obviously praising himself with a sock puppet
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@andrewnez@mastodon.social somehow finagle a tax cut but not actually contribute anything
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@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net @claudeai reinvent reinventing things, make no mistakes
Babe wake up the new cryptojacking/ecrime proxy/denial-of-wallet vector just dropped
History can be summarized as the running battle between autists and psychopaths
Matt Canavan proposes an “Australia on steroids” plan. Apparently forgetting that anabolic steroid abuse often leads to dangerously high blood pressure and terrible blood markers. Frequently also brings liver damage (sometimes failure), infertility, erectile dysfunction, aggression, depression, paranoia…
I mean yes they can make you look good.Amazing, even, if that’s the look you want. But it doesn’t come without side effects.
As the old saying goes: there ain’t no such thing as a free pump
Is there a betting market on which billionaires have fled to their luxury bunkers?
Ben Roberts-Smith getting charged for war crimes (murder) is oddly reassuring. At least, somewhere, for some shitbags, there are still consequences.
My sincerest hope for the legacy of Borges is that he is never discovered by podcast bros
The “Clean Architecture” is really just PTSD and masochism in a preacher’s overalls.
Which I guess you’d expect from its author.
LLMs can always be trusted to code the thing right, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.
“In another example of them not understanding the spirit of WordPress, the fact that plugins can change every aspect of your WordPress experience is a feature, not a bug!” — Matt you-know-who writing about EmDash.
My new keyboard:
Over the years I have frequently disagreed with Rob Pike’s opinions, but this is not such an occasion.
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@Huntn00@mastodon.world @JackTheCat@mastodon.scot AML laws typically don’t let you tell someone why you suspended them. I would guess that somehow the AML wire is being tripped.
Aw hell fucking no
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@gvwilson@mastodon.social well that’s a skill issue, the prompt harness agent framework system graph tree loop needs proper protection guardrail safety mechanisms before you hook it to the nukes. Otherwise when you ask to play a game Skynet makes a wopr of a mess
Except for me, everyone is a hypocrite, even me.
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@meltedcheese@c.im @hdv@front-end.social mostly it’s other managers
It is extremely noticeable how slow and janky Cloudflare UI/docs/etc web pages are now, shortly after the grand announcement of their vibecoded Wordpress replacement.
I have negative affection for WP. But it was working.
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@jamie@zomglol.wtf I’m… guilty of being clever myself. I’ve banked so far on steady improvements in consolidation in the planner
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@sebastian@phpc.social fascinating read. I’m especially impressed by the breadth of events kept in the transparency log. I pitched this for sigstore in a RubyGems context several years ago, with an eye to creating a shared event format for multiple ecosystems.
Do you or other packageist maintainers participate in the OpenSSF Secure Repos working group? If not I think everyone would gain from adding PHP’s perspectives and experiences
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@Schneems@ruby.social I hear good things about Sublime Merge. In the past I’ve found the JetBrains 3-panel layout good.
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@Huntn00@mastodon.world @JackTheCat@mastodon.scot in my lay person understanding the idea is that if you tell people what they did wrong, bad people can more quickly figure out how to evade detection.
Three completely distinct recruiters have pitched me on the same terrible startup role in the past 2 weeks
1. We have time for this but not for boring stuff like inbuilt column sorting for simple tables.
2. It feels like this was mostly made necessary by the React-industrial complex.
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@rmi@cloudisland.nz The very understand I see an emoji I bounce
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@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social I’ve got no idea. Two of them sent identical messages, which I assume came from the business. The third wrote a distinct blurb but the description lines up exactly
RE: @jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
IT HAPPENED AGAIN 🧛♂️