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0dmethz

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0dmethz··on Project Vend: Phase Two
Roleplaying with LLMs sure is fun! Not sure I'd want to run my business on it though.
0dmethz··on The Quirks of Gmail UI
As a typical end user you probably won't understand what that "via" means. All you see is that your e-mail was sent "via" some unknown thing you don't recognize.

Even if you do understand - isn't the "via" specifically designed to reduce trust? "Hey, head's up, this message actually came in through this third-party"

0dmethz··on Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
Unless I'm misunderstanding something the system did not perform as documented. It should have scaled, it didn't.

When a critical piece of infrastructure fails under massive load I'm not sure it it'll help much when you politely tell your engineers they fucked up for not anticipating it.

You learn lessons. Both Slack and AWS seem to have learnt lessons here.

0dmethz··on Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
I mean, when the hammer manufacturer sells managed, auto scaling thumb-avoiding services you might rely on that.

If I understand correctly they didn't initially hit a TGW quota, it just didn't scale up fast enough.

0dmethz··on Nissan code leaked after bitbucket repo set-up with defaults admin/admin
You kind of have a point, but "Customer Management Tools" sounds like it could be absolutely anything. If that's the alternative I'd rather have a fun memorable name.
0dmethz··on Working from Bed
This article kind of feels like people are working really hard to rationalize working from bed?

Personally I just find it extremely uncomfortable, and I just can't be productive that way. Plus you have to wonder what the long term effects are, it doesn't seem very ergonomic.

0dmethz··on Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
You stopped using their tools because some people at a conference didn't respond enthusiastically enough to your praise?
0dmethz··on I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel
1. You can create throwaway PGP keys, it's not like they can definitively identify you 2. You can encrypt messages for target PGP public key(s) without actually signing them

It's a good way to prevent people from snooping on your messages. Why do you think it's a bad idea?

0dmethz··on Adopt your elePHPant now, the only original PHP elephant
It's a cute elephant. :) But I have to be honest, I hate everything about this website, video and ordering process.
0dmethz··on Dutch journalist gatecrashes EU defence video conference
I think it's better to have a journalist step in and warn you about your door being open, rather than having someone with bad intentions sneak in, don't you think?
0dmethz··on Dutch journalist gatecrashes EU defence video conference
Of course they respond with the obligatory "we'll report this to the authorities", rather than "thank you for pointing this out in a harmless way we'll do better".
0dmethz··on Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
I don't really understand this point of view.

WSL2 is faster and works better in almost every way. As a developer I absolutely love it and it has changed my workflow completely.

I haven't run into any limitations that kept me from doing what I wanted to do with it, and some minor adjustments like using wsl2host helps bridge any gaps.

What did we sacrifice along the way? Well, apparently we can't change our Windows network config or see Windows processes through Linux tools that weren't designed for it anyway.

And we want that sort of thing because, it's, uhh, "cool"? Those priorities don't make sense to me, but maybe I don't fully understand what people want to do with it.

0dmethz··on No Free Features
100% agree. "Sorry, but I don't work for free, consider sponsoring the project" should be a perfectly legitimate reason to reject a request on an open source project.
0dmethz··on Civilization VI UI, but made in Webflow (a no-code tool)
This seems a little misleading. It's the game's UI built in Webflow, but the actual game is 100% missing from this.
0dmethz··on Performance First
Of course you should consider performance when you start a project - if your language, framework or core design is slow it seems unlikely you'll be able to do much to improve it later. You need to at least think about it.

But I don't think "Premature optimization" is synonymous with "performance". Optimizing or perfecting every detail of a feature that might still go through significant changes over time seems risky and wasteful.

0dmethz··on U.S. judges propose updating warrants for Tor, remote searches: p338 (2014)
Haha! Do you really believe that?
0dmethz··on Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
Use AdBlock. Not AdBlock Plus.

Remember: ABP = Shit. AB = Good.