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akerro··on Joblint – Test tech job posts for issues
Sooo I just put one of the most vulgar, sexist, racist, homophobic text I could think of, also said extra points for knowledge of NodeJS and I got score 0. No problems found.
akerro··on All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
Just found Intel leaks and Gwent on github without any effort. Intel has a few repositories in different formats, plain copy of .svn directory or converted to git. TF2/Portal leak is there as well. All but 2 I found were made by throwaway accounts.
akerro··on [dead]
Before covid kicked in on full scale I worked in a med-tech startup. We had a product that orchestrated full delivery of cancer drugs, some personalised research-type drugs produced only for a single patient, we supported 2 CRISPR researches on other drugs. First, clinics in US were closed, then transport companies (specialised drug-delivery planes with freezers), at this point we knew that cancer patients will be 3rd class patients and will eventually die without treatment, likely in pain. Patients weren't allowed in to clinics to prevent them getting covid, as they were high risk (as in health and financially, for the research).

Next week the company lost financial support, 100 devs and 70 testers were made redundant. Investors and board members handled redundancy particularly bad, burnt bridges with employees who were there for the mission. Pretty much all moved to fin-tech. No one I keep contact with is thinking about getting there back with our unique knowledge of the product and industry.

akerro··on Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer
This isn't the first time moxie0 found something important on a street, is it?
akerro··on GitHub, fuck your name change
>I think the name change does more harm than good because it trivializes the movement.

What do you mean? Name change of a default branch clearly fixes issues of racism in the software industry. Racism in IT = gone

akerro··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
> I have and upload them to the site, which is really outside of this project.

>Or is Nginx also infringing because when downloaded

No, you have to use Google Chrome for this.

akerro··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
They took down youtube-dl first, then torrent tracker, so torrent clients, browsers and ffmpeg are next.
akerro··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
transmission and qbittorrent next?
akerro··on GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
Like Mint failed to fork Ubuntu? Or Ubuntu failed to fork Debian? Or LibreOffice failed to fork OpenOffice? MariaDB MySQL?
akerro··on GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
>This has somehow gotten worse in recent years

I used to contribute bugfixes to Gnome2 in months before Gnome 3 was released. I observed product plan for Gnome 3 and was joking Gnome 3 will be just a red button that farts.

So many functionalities removed, slower response time, regressions and defects everywhere, broken user experience worse than what Window 10 gave us later. I moved to XFCE and then to Plasma.

akerro··on Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
It's similar situation to removal of slave/master terminology from IT. Without context such accusations are pointless. "I don't like the word you use so you are not allowed to use it." We're seeing the same thing. Apple doesn't like you using the word that's also name of a drug, so you're gone. No context needed.
akerro··on A Youtube video downloader written in Go
1163 is 600+
akerro··on A Youtube video downloader written in Go
yes, looks like it. only member in the organization is https://gitlab.com/iruoy who doesn't seem to be related to the official youtube-dl
akerro··on A Youtube video downloader written in Go
moved to gitlab for now https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
akerro··on A Youtube video downloader written in Go
youtube-dl supports like 600+ websites, not just youtube
akerro··on The Chaos Engineering Book
AWS? You kids have good life, try Oracle Cloud, let me show you... oh sorry can't login now
akerro··on PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab
> in the name of free speech

Hereby I revoke your freedom of speech.

akerro··on Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland
Not only you need to have slightly higher taxes but also much less corrupt government at all levels!
akerro··on First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws
So Bitcoin is officially money now?
akerro··on IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push
https://www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk/
akerro··on IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push
>Instead Ikea use veneers and crumbling particle materials so you can't fix it at all. Many people say you essentially can't move Ikea furniture between houses because you can't dismantle it and if you tried to it'd simply fall apart.

Not only say that. It has happened to me. I bought 3 doors wardrobe with 2 mirror doors. 2 years later I was moving to a different accommodation, wardrobe fall apart when we were holding it above stairs. Only mirror doors were reusable. The rest filled full container for garbage.

I'm all for buy-for-life, so I bought only oak-made furniture since then. I still visit IKEA quite often, but just for plants and clearance section where you can find sheepskin, natural carpets and IoT lights for 1/3 of price. They also have really good hot chocolate and cakes :D

akerro··on Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to use Google URL redirect
>It'd finally make me leave Gmail for sure.

If Snowdens leaks didn't make you leave nothing will.

akerro··on We deleted the production database by accident
I'm on similar position as you, but I say systems are as complex as their designed made them and it's on you to change it.
akerro··on How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (2016)
My solution was to change the checks into single methods and move one god-decision-making-method into classes that are components with their own logic.
akerro··on How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (2016)
As far as our manual testing goes, there was no bug in it. But also there were no tests for it. Writing tests for it is horrible. You need to prepare test for each switch/case branch and it adds a lot of mocking, faking data, setting up variables...
akerro··on How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (2016)
> It's not like your passing those variables to functions right there

Yes it did. Case blocks had several lines.

>So what if they're different types?

It makes it hard to read and destroys expectation of what possible cases there are. It makes it hard to test as a lot of test preparation/mocking is necessary.

>Except the recursive function bit. Why bother if its always false...

Yea, that the point! Because there was no test for it

akerro··on How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (2016)
FUCK, you might think it's funny, but I literally work with one senior developer (10+ years experience in pure Java). He write code like that, during review insists this is OK because he's been writing such code for over a decade! I inherited this project after he moved to another country and is not legally to work remotely for company in the UK. He has permissions to override jenkins+sonarqube, so he merges code without test coverage. His code has literally 0 tests. Only today I was rewriting code like:

   if(i == 1) {}
   else if(b == true){}
   else if(s == "string") {}
   else if(response.status() == Status.OK){}
   else if(hereIsARecursiveMethodAlwaysReturningFalse()){}
   ... 3 more
notice each `if` block has different variable of different type!
akerro··on 'Person in jetpack' spotted flying again near LA airport
>someone in a jetpack on Wednesday at 6,000ft (1,829m), seven miles (11km)

Is technology for such jetpack even possible already?!

akerro··on Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up
What are differences between this and original?
akerro··on German Made State Malware Company FinFisher Raided
Neither is China and India. No one mentioned EU.
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