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But then at the same time you should always update because it might fix a security vulnerability. Otherwise you end up running nodejs 10 because you don't need the new stuff.

You have a lot of private data. So running it locally makes you use less credits and then you also don't have your emails as training data for cloud models.

Wordpress can be part of a SSG setup - it's not versus.

Really seems to be a government issue. I have an app on my phone where I can generate a QR code which proves my age. Nothing else is transmitted - no birthdate or name. And it's based on an open standard. You can read any verify everything yourself. You just can't fake it as you can't sign it without the private key.

Yeah, I understand where you are coming from. I'm just also thinking about the human side that is discussed here so often and having a more pessimistic view on hiring might be bad for the job market. Especially in countries that are not considered a social state. So while it's not good for the company itself it might not be so bad for people overall if those billionaire companies are wasting some of their money - at least until investors start to complain.

So you are saying they shouldn't have given those 30k people a job to begin with? I don't know if that's any better.

People tend to be bad in estimating the performance of others and are almost always bad in estimating their own performance. So you end up with people asking themself why it wasn't them and if they will be next. And management can't tell you you are safe, because it might change - and if they promise they can only do that once.

Managers do know. Some of them are better at it than others. But even for the best it never is easy. And they are still humans, don't go to harsh on them with your blame.

Now I'm curious, because we have a big server side code base using fetch(). What are you using that doesn't work with fetch? Especially since axios nowadays has a fetch adapter.

Also the companies selling the ad platforms aren’t knowing their own technical documentation. They tell everyone you need to load JS as heavy and blocking as possible and collect as much user data as possible because they can’t read their damn documentation. That’s also why news pages always say ad only works with massive tracking, which isn’t true and not even that effective.

Before that we had node-fetch. If you already use a dependency why not one that's pretty much what will come natively to every JS runtime soon.

They can just take the glasses off and stop being a thread. What about you?

That's more for age verification and prove of identity, especially in the real world. It's weird that the wikipedia page is talking about drivers license, because I have the Austrian app and I use it with my normal ID card.

To access government service we have something different. Here in Austria it's called ID Austria and you sign with an app when you try to access government services, but also others like health insurance etc.

If it say "punch me in the face" then you have bigger problems. And after you got recorded showing what it says to you they might be growing. Tell them what you think but don't forget "Pretty, I feel pretty, ..." - just in case.

This sounds like this old xkcd comic https://xkcd.com/832/

That title is so weird. I thought there are camera that are watching groups of birds. I know the company name is what it is but even more so it would be important to make the title clear. Not the whole world can keep up with all silly things happening in the US and now that flock surveillance can be anything but birds.

It's not only about pressure, but also telling all the people whose data can be read AKA the public.

And still it's also about the pressure. I was found a pretty bad injections/XSS in an online banking website. Told them, got no response. After waiting blogged about it (without specifying what he actual issue is). Then someone contacted me and said I need to take down the wrong information. Send back a PoC and only then they started fixing it. In the meanwhile every customer could have gotten emails stealing their login data.

You don’t need the lucky shot. But luck needs room to happen. What you need to grow into is becoming a leader. Mentor others, lead by example, suggest new things and build prototypes for show and tell. All that is actually the growth path for good senior software engineers, not becoming a middle manager creating Excel sheets.

And that’s more or less all he did. Had an idea, build a prototype, showed to the world and talked about it - even inspired people who are now saying „I could have done that“. Well do it, but don’t just copy. Improve the idea and great something better. And then very early share it. You might get lucky.

Well you don’t see the real value of coding tasks during interview. What gets tested are your communication skills, how you think and express your thinkings. You will be working in a team so you need at least fit and work with others. You are right that no one cares about your FizzBuzz.

If that really affects them it's better to take them offline.

It's not like only that the transit system is losing money? Every trip that's done with a car is also not fully paying for itself. We just keep ignoring how much hidden cost individual car rides have especially considering their use. Obviously heavier road users are even generating more costs, but they might have more use (like in delivering goods to a supermarket).

Also TO doesn't need to match. When you send to a group of BCC the envelope To has to specify the exact recipient, but the DATA doesn't. Similar with the envelope From and the one in the DATA - also useful to control bounces or who gets a reply.

Yeah I know the protocol and can do that manual, because I had to debug it often enough.

Yeah that was very visible when HBO Max launched here in Austria and Germany. The top result was HBO Max FYC (which by itself is a very bad name, but it's not for normal customers), then came other results with even other streaming services and only after scrolling a bit you got the normal HBO Max app. Didn't matter if you searched for "hbo" or the full name "hbo max".

OS X had a lot of icons that were detailed illustrations but you‘d only see it when you zoom in. Yet they also worked as small icons. You can have both and Apple did. The textedit icon is a great example.

Is this still news? I did the same thing with Windows 98, so it has been some time. Also had dual boot with Windows 95. That was on my 486.

But after a while I switched back to Windows 2000 on my notebook, because of hardware support. So it would be interesting if they do the same after a while.

Since over 20 years I‘m now on mac, which has great hardware and a Unix underneath. Don’t let that stop you from going Linux desktop.

Just look at real people. They can get the valid data from sources with a good reputation. Instead they rather want to believe what they get from a random telegram channel. Having valid data doesn't stop the existence of idiots.

I once implemented a WebDAV server in PHP. The standard isn't that bad and clients are more or less following the standard. It's still horrible how they are doing that. I saw behaviors when opening a single file like:

  - does / exists?
  - does /path/to exists?
  - does /path/to/file exists?
  - create a new file /path/to/file.lock
  - does /path/to/file.lock exist? 
  - does / exist?
  - does /path/to/file exists?
  - lock /path/to/file
  - get content of /path/to/file
  - unlock /path/to/file
  - does /path/to/file.lock exist? 
  - remove /path/to/file.lock

(if not exactly like that it was at least very close, that was either Finder on OS X or Explorer on Windows). Without some good caching mechanism it's hard to handle all of the load when you get multiple users.

Also the overwrite option was never used. You'd expect a client to copy a file, get and error if the target exists, ask user if it's ok, send same copy with overwrite flag set to true. In reality clients are doing all steps manually and delete the target before copying.

It was satisfying seeing it work at the end, but you really need to test all the clients in addition to just implementing the standard.

Well the PHP from 20 years ago was much better than the from 25 years ago. But there have been a lot of nice additions since then, including the last 5 years.

Everyone trying to access a site behind Cloudflare is forced.

But then there are packages like htm that are doing basically the same thing with just tagged templates.