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MyFedoraon Features I'd like to see in future IDEs

Commit masks remind me of that time I couldn't run a Java app because it assumed a specific classpath order, but the classpath order is random on each boot, and my randomized classpath makes the app crash.

I've also seen some development teams rely way too much on IDE plugins to get anything done. Horrible software architecture with a 45 minute start-up time, I shit you not. They paid a shitload of money on software licenses for a special JVM/IDE plugin combo that allows them to hotswap almost everything to avoid ever having to restart the app during development.

Oh, it's also pretty much impossible to launch the development version of the app with a stock IDE due to the sheer amount of runtime code modifications from IDE plugins the development version depends on. Great times.

MyFedoraon Intel took billions from the CHIPS Act, and gave nothing back

This enables America to go to war against countries that produce chips without worrying too much about losing access to chips. Independence allows countries to go to war. Dependence on each other forces countries to remain neutral.

MyFedoraon Why Discover is no American Express

How so? London is doing quite poor nowadays, even more so after the UK left the EU.

MyFedoraon Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

> You can't apply the law retroactively.

I don't know, it depends on their mood I guess? I'm unaware of the U.S. legal system specifically, but the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated laws retroactively in the past. This isn't exclusive to EU laws either. My home country did the same thing with national laws. So I don't know, maybe the US can do that as well, but people just assume the US can't because it feels intuitive for it to be that way?

MyFedoraon Why Discover is no American Express

Most people in the UK live outside of London (87 % as of 2021), so I can't see how that's relevant to anything here.

MyFedoraon CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee

> I don't think "CS are idiots and use their kernel-level trojan to accidentally crash every Windows computer it's running on across the whole world" was ever on anyone's threat board.

No, but cyberattack takes out all computer infrastructure is a high impact, low risk that critical infrastructure providers must account for and would've prevented any impact from CrowdStrike's blunder. They obviously didn't do that.

MyFedoraon CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee

> Why is this different?

Because critical infrastructure doesn't get the convenience of shifting the blame. They must account for these risks in advance. Do you know what happens when IT breaks down in a bank? They've got two or more printers that print all new transactions. Database corruption? No problem, we've got the transactions right there. Printer breaks down? No problem, we've got another one printing the transactions right there. Hospitals don't get the luxury of shifting the cause of death from them failing to properly account for risks to a piece of software.

MyFedoraon CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee

It was a virus definition update, not a software update. CrowdStrike will obviously update their virus definition deployment pre-flight check to prevent a situation like this from happening again, but a staged roll-out is out of the question. What do you want them to do? Expose everyone to new known viruses for longer?

MyFedoraon Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed

Anti-cheats also whitelist legit AV drivers, even though cheaters exploit them to no end.

MyFedoraon Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone

This thread is the definition of people who want features that most people don't care about.

Headphone jack? Bluetooth.

Audiophile? DAC.

microSD slot? Cloud storage.

User-removable battery? Power bank.

FM radio? Internet.

Degoogled phone? Really?

MyFedoraon Microsoft laid off a DEI team, DEI is 'no longer business critical'

The post title is misleading, but the news article title is: Microsoft laid off a DEI team, and its lead wrote an internal email blasting how DEI is 'no longer business critical'

MyFedoraon Solving the Worst Problem in Programming Education: Windows

Thanks, I hate it.

MyFedoraon Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128

> if it works and becomes standard

We're talking about Firefox here. Advertisers care about browsers that most people use, and Firefox isn't one of them.

MyFedoraon Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions

Maybe other countries are different, but terminations here are a unilateral declaration of intent. Would it occur to you to tell a company exactly how its communications (e.g. invoices) should look like? No, of course not. And neither can a company tell you exactly how your terminations should look like. It's none of their business.

MyFedoraon [dead]

For an article about “mastering email security,” this is missing an awful lot of recent email security developments like ARC, DANE, MTA-STS and TLSRPT while simultaneously spreading misinformation about the holy trinity of email security protocols. Impressive, I guess?

Edit: Oh wow, even from an email security vendor. They really didn't do their research. I definitely wouldn't trust them to protect my email security, partially due to them literally not supporting the necessary protocols to do so.

MyFedoraon Facebook and Instagram's 'pay or consent' ad model violates the DMA, says the EU

Yes, it probably does violate the GDPR. At least the European Data Protection Board thinks so, see https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2024-04/edpb_opinion...

MyFedoraon Facebook and Instagram's 'pay or consent' ad model violates the DMA, says the EU

Because it's an extortion fee to get access to rights you're already supposed to have. Every pay or consent prompt asks you to pay a ridiculous sum of money, much more than they earn from tracking you.

They force people who don't want to be tracked to involuntarily consent to tracking, which happens to be the overwhelming majority of people, according to pay or consent providers themselves.

It's also designed to rob people who pay to not get tracked, even though the entire scheme is illegal anyways.

This would be a non-issue if providers would charge how much they earn from tracking you in return for not tracking you. But alas, they want to earn more money.

MyFedoraon Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it

No, this is a side effect of Apple striving to design the world's most unrepairable devices, or more accurately, earn more money with overpriced repairs by creating an artifical monopoly on Apple device repairs using part pairing. Why else would there be no option to pair parts for repairs if you can prove that you are the owner of the device?

MyFedoraon Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

You should advocate for laws that enable security research.

MyFedoraon Arm aims to capture 50% of PC market in five years, CEO says

It sounds like a pipe dream backed by hot air more than anything else. 50 % is such an arbitrary percentage as well.

MyFedoraon Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it

No, they sell the parts if they can't get the phone unlocked. Even if the phone would be a worthless brick, a stolen phone is a phone that the owner will never get back. Fresh e-waste, straight into the landfill I guess. Is this sarcasm?

MyFedoraon Deception abilities emerged in large language models

> Oh. And what are these universal "human values?"

American values. Look up the author.

MyFedoraon Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

In case you didn't know, the court retroactively voided these agreements. EU-US data transfers have been illegal for around 25 years or so thanks to that. People can sue you and win, even though the data protection authorities don't do much.

MyFedoraon Manifest V2 phase-out begins

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-we...

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...

Brave's close association with cryptocurrency and Web 3 is also concerning. Most fraud occurs at the endpoints, not in the middle. While the centralized banking system has mechanisms like chargebacks to address fraud, the crypto space lacks such safeguards. Cryptocurrency has limited real-life utility and is largely sustained by con artists looking to scam people. Once people recognize one scheme as a scam, new crypto concepts, like NFT games, are quickly invented to keep the deception going.

MyFedoraon Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

> That would shutdown the entire company.

Yeah... and? OpenAI is pretty much a for-profit company now. Why shouldn't a non-profit board pull the plug on a non-profit turned for-profit? Isn't that a part of their job?

MyFedoraon Stripe closed our account and refuses to migrate our data to another processor

Maybe I don't understand the context here, but Stripe doesn't have a monopoly on payment processing. Stripe flat out rejects cards from a few countries. Companies that serve Europeans can't use Stripe since they fall under US surveillance laws, which are fundamentally incompatible with the GDPR. So there generally are plenty of payment processors to choose from.

MyFedoraon Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

So then why did the board re-hire Sam Altman? A non-profit board should want a CEO befitting a non-profit company in my eyes, not one that promotes a for-profit culture. I see losing employees with for-profit motives as a desirable side effect of firing Sam Altman.

MyFedoraon US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster

Sounds like any government with little to no taxes to me. Do you want anything? Pay for it. No subsidized social services. No nothing. Pay up.

MyFedoraon Bluesky adds direct messages

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

MyFedoraon Schumacher's family wins compensation for AI 'interview'

I'm surprised anyone got fired. Surely the tabloid publisher must have considered 200,000 € an acceptable risk in their cost/benefit analysis for a cover feature to boost sales? Or does this specific tabloid not fake interviews, contrary to others for whatever reason? I must be missing some kind of context here. Anne Hoffmann was the chief editor as well.