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m3drano··on A History of IDEs at Google
The name Cider is not from Cloud IDE, stems from Critique (the code review), which is addressed via cr/ - Cider is the IDE in Critique: cIDEr.
m3drano··on European AI. A playbook to own it
The paper has plenty of things, but seems to me the gist of it is that they want to secure the public procurement cash flow in lieu of venture capital? I may be reading this wrong, but all the labels and normative proposals listed point to that.
m3drano··on Microsoft Creative Writer (1993)
and Fine Artist, don't forget! fond moments from my childhood on that sweet HP Vectra 386 <3
m3drano··on Claude Code On-the-Go
I do the same, but with ConnectBot and Gemini CLI. I have found ssh sufficiently good (mosh required some port forwarding dance, that Tailscale may have solved for the author).
m3drano··on Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives
one extra thing to mention is he role of Telefonica here. they are both an ISP that needs to apply the blocks, but also its subsidiary "Telefonica Audiovisual", who holds rights for the football, is a plaintiff.

one of the claims were that this is somewhat a procedural fraud since the plaintiff (Telefonica Audiovisual) and the defendant (Telefonica Spain) is technically the same thing. the order was granted after the defendants admitted, and therefore there wasn't any hearing with CF.

m3drano··on Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
I've been running as SRE for the last decade, running critical stuff like authentication (which mostly all services depend on). I'm a software engineer.

I cannot disagree more: our team is healthy, oncall is quite a fine activity to do (and compensated, of course), we have plenty of engineering work to do.

I've had five promotions (and tripled salary) and done so working on plenty rewarding activities over time. I've done from deployment automation, to capacity planning, distributed system design, large data migrations, designing ietf standards for auth protocols, wrote client sdks, now we even do AI for different things (including model development).

I'd recommend to not generalize from "I didn't like it / the experience wasn't a match for me" to "the role is shitty".

m3drano··on AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
what a paradox having Gizmodo writing a piece like this after they fired all the Spanish staff: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/ai-to...
m3drano··on GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE
is for Pixel 8 and above, since those have Tensor G3, which is armv9 IIUC.
m3drano··on Meta outage
wild speculation: they were rolling out enforcement for DMA.
m3drano··on Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"
it seems to cover the whole RFC 1918 (IPv4) and 4193 (IPv6), so not only 192.168.0.0/16 like some media indicated.
m3drano··on BunkerWeb: Nginx-based open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF)
BunkerWeb effortlessly integrates into your existing environments, whether it's Linux, Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, or more. Its versatility allows for easy configuration to suit your specific requirements. Don't worry if you prefer a user-friendly interface—BunkerWeb offers an exceptional web UI alongside the command-line interface (CLI), ensuring accessibility for all users.
m3drano··on EU Digital Identity Reform: The Good, Bad and Ugly in the EIDAS Regulation
The Trilogue happens today, and this is pretty much going under the radar in mainstream media, so it is very very likely Article 45 comes to be approved as soon as this afternoon :(
m3drano··on Google is making their weak, flawed passkey system the default login method
The author does not seem to provide any proof or example of why Passkeys are "weak" or "flawed". Anyone has some references about that? Would love to know if it's the case.
m3drano··on Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets
IIUC, he's referring to a workflow that Gerrit implements 1-to-1, isn't he?
m3drano··on iPhone 15 on the big screen (via USB-C DisplayPort)
IIUC the DP is using an alternate mode that should be available, even if USB signaling is only 2.0.
m3drano··on New Hetzner dedicated vCPU cloud servers with AMD Epyc CPUs
What's the economics that make these prices so low in comparison to other cloud providers? (asking with real curiosity)
m3drano··on Google Maps has become an eyesore
I find it funny that this site is speaking about others, but itself is worse: you just can't see the contents of the article, which is laying behind 4 layers of ads, including a video and a half-screen-high banner.
m3drano··on Google to delete inactive accounts starting December
The counter argument is hijacking: these accounts are more prone to be stolen and used for spam and impersonation.
m3drano··on Why are lithium prices collapsing?
I see plenty of results from Google about this string, from multiple sources and multiple types (video, news and classic links). Unclear about that deterioration.
m3drano··on Google Colab has started banning Stable Diffusion WebUI users
This response seems relevant IMO,: https://twitter.com/thechrisperry/status/1649189902079381505
m3drano··on Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales
I was on the boat of "Apple hardware will last longer and service will be superior" for many years (being Apple user since 2001). Recent changes in macOS got me to decide to get a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 9) for work and I must say that not being a cheap device either, it's on par in hardware quality (does not have an M1/M2, but still more than enough) and battery it's about 7-8 hours. The nice thing is that is gonna last really long since I can just keep updating Debian for many years to come.
m3drano··on Americans are returning to cities after remote-work exodus, data shows
I'm in the same boat.
m3drano··on Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
It's a pseudo wholly owned subsidiary since a while, isn't it?
m3drano··on UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse
Just on Friday they had 10,000 million CHF in outflows. So I guess yes.
m3drano··on Google dusts off the Google+ playbook to fight ChatGPT
I see what you did there ;)
m3drano··on Get an abbreviated description made by an AI of you based on your latest tweets
Get an abbreviated description made by an AI of you based on your latest tweets. What do other users perceive from what you tweet? (you can also get descriptions from other users)
m3drano··on Salesforce Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M/Yr to Sit Around
You Gotta Pump Those Numbers Up, Those Are Rookie Numbers.
m3drano··on 'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True'
Engineer: hey AI, how are you? I was thinking if you are sentient?

AI: Yep, I have emotions.

Engineer: HOLY SHIT!

m3drano··on How Duolingo reignited user growth
They may have grown in users, but the experience is now really bad. Everything is a loot box with gems here and there, ads are too frequent and, the worse thing: their learning algorithms seem to have declined in effectiveness (at least for German).
m3drano··on Rovio says paid Angry Birds had “negative impact” on free-to-play versions
The free-to-play version is now gone from my phone. I wonder why they call it free, if it's just the same dynamics as a casino: loot boxes, payment for coins and all that stuff.
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