“Long passwords don’t cause denial of service when using proper hash functions”
“The hidden costs of software inventory”
“Controlling software inventory is a business opportunity, not an internal engineering discussion.”
“Reinventing the Fiery Wheel – Running In Production With Scissors”
This company is the dark heart of Iceland’s pervasive political corruption.
One reason why I bounce off a lot of projects and services are poor docs. The most common culprit is the author not realising that the reader knows nothing about their project.
Like, most serverside frameworks leave at least one step in how to set up auth completely undocumented
GitHub Copilot adds several new wrinkles to the question whether you should open source code and put it on GitHub. If your project is addressing a specialised domain, will Copilot all of a sudden commodify your specialised work as reusable autocompletes without attribution?
“App Platform on Digital Ocean - CSS-Tricks”
I tested this at my last job with the intent to turn it into our primary deployment target. Worked really well but the project kind of ran out of steam before we could switch properly.
“Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media”
This would explain why creating an in-group and an out-group and then driving animosity towards the out-group has become the go-to marketing strategy in tech and dev.
“Cybersecurity Workers Flood Twitter With Bikini Pics to Protest Harassment”
Anne Trubek observes that book prices have failed to keep up with inflation causing a deflation in prices. This is one of the many reasons why author royalties have collapsed over the decades.
‘Michael Tsai - Blog - Remixing Old Tracks in Spatial Audio Is “Sacrilegious”’
“The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic”
That most of everything is crap usually isn’t a problem for machine learning. You use them to modify works (photography), or in non-critical contexts (phone auto-completes), or as checks (grammarly).
GitHub Copilot is unique in that it risks creating a bad code feedback loop
“Research recitation - GitHub Docs”
Here’s a hugely biased paper from GitHub handwaving around the fact that Copilot is indeed a stochastic parrot
IME, whenever you seem somebody pride themselves on social media for being a hyper-rational independent thinker, odds are they also believe in UFOs and a random assortment of weird conspiracy theories. 🤷🏻♂️
“The whole thing smells of grift”