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time4tea··on DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why
What does "this is not a pay wall" mean - if I have to give personal information over, that is a price.

Didn't read - too expensive.

time4tea··on What Sun got wrong
First work computer was Sparc IPX, a brief dalliance with HP D and K series, then had various Ultra, and servers were all sorts including E10k then various SunFire, and the Fujitsu Prime Power.

They were quite fun.

But can confirm, buying Sun was PITA.

time4tea··on Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
Cheap!! USD6/gallon is about GBP1.17/litre, but actual price in UK is GBP1.97/litre
time4tea··on Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?
Betteridge
time4tea··on OTel isn’t going well
Its a shame that the various implementations are pretty horrible. Global state, static methods etc etc.

If you get rid of that, and just pass dependencies around, create some appropriate local abstraction around them.. the tooling, be it datadog or honeycomb does a great job making it useful. Can't really say the same for grafana, but ymmv - depending on budget

time4tea··on Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist
Seems like a shell company set up in January 2026 - never traded before.

How could they be getting loads of NHS contracts?

Will be interesting to see how it works out.

time4tea··on GIMP Development Update
Zipped xml i wouldn't tbh. Its just not a great random access container. Compressed xml in a sqlite? Sure.
time4tea··on Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)
You dont know immediately if something that superficially seems the same actually is.

Copy and paste once is fine, twice, not so much.

Often I've seen two totally different things exist in one bit of code, no overlap!

Premature generification is bad, and leads the developer to believe that two things are the same, making it harder to see they are not.

Also, can make it much harder to see that a different abstraction would give a cleaner outcome....

time4tea··on We benchmarked Google Cloud's $512 VM – the speed wasn't the interesting part
Ax102-u

People seem to set their money on fire?

time4tea··on SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
Well, my point was that maybe it actually isnt "to get more people to give to charity", maybe its actually something else.

Its actually very easy to give £5/month direct to a charity. Takes about 2 minutes, just gotta do it.

time4tea··on SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
Ive always suspected that this is all of a tax dodge, a money spinner, and a pr exercise "we gave xxx to charity" - no, your customers did.

Just set up a direct debit to your favourite charity.

time4tea··on Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?
Yup, this works so nice.

Using traefik or caddy as proxy.

Docker context for remote access - over Internet or vpn, whatever.

Swarm-cronjob for scheduled things.

Labels for things that need to run in particular places.

So easy.

Personally, k8s is fine, but its an abstraction for building a service architecture, not the thing an end user (developer) should ever use. If you are in a big company and you are using helm or k8s yaml files to roll things out, your infra or platform teams have missed something out.. building the platform!

time4tea··on The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left
Website was too long.

ScrumMaster - a qualification you cannot fail. (Pls pay fee)

Ultimately big company look for things to help them sort their terrible product and software processes.

The whole point of agile, its that you don't know!

If you are SaFE, or 4 week sprints.. you are in management imposed bs.

Your company is a about to be eaten.

time4tea··on Securing the Git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution
I mean, sure.

But what about allowing user inputs in trusted fields,

Or allowing switching environments per request, on inputs from users

Or allowing requests in a user context to access storage from another

Or storing everything in plaintext on a node that everything can access

Or not validating user inputs

Or...

Its not a success story.

time4tea··on What async promised and what it delivered
Ah yeah, you are right. It was easy to miss, as it was ~30 words in a massive article.
time4tea··on Jumping into cold water can stop your heart
Float to Live

https://rnli.org/safety/know-the-risks/cold-water-shock

time4tea··on What async promised and what it delivered
No mention of JVM.. which is a bit odd as recently is kinda solved this problem. Sure, not all use cases, but a lot.

It uses N:M threading model - where N virtual threads are mapped to M system threads and its all hidden away from you.

All the other languages just leak their abstractions to you, java quietly doesn't.

Sure, java is kinda ugly language, you can use a different JVM language, all good.

Don't get me wrong, love python, rust, dart etc, but JVM is nice for this.

time4tea··on Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)
Super interesting article.

Didn't operate for long? 1984-1995 - its long enough. Still remember seeing those scrambled programs in France.

At the time in UK, lets say 87-92, the concept of paid tv over the air was incredible. Satellite existed, but wasn't very prevalent.

time4tea··on 98% of all recent environmental claims can be categorized as "greenwashing"
Carbon offsetting is a nonsense.

Any company that uses it, is doing nothing other than buying a grant to pollute.

time4tea··on Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
So hard to read that article, with all the pop ups, scroll hijacks, and back button grabbing (soon to be illegal)

Why do they try to hide actual content with hateful tech?

Anyhow, no way I would give that company money.

time4tea··on Tell HN: GitHub Apps – Private key is not private
Hmm, not sure - the entire point of this sort of thing is that nobody should ever have your private key material. Whether they say they discard it is immaterial, they have had it, so they could use it, and then as far as everyone is concerned, they are you.

Because the key is sent via the web, anyone in the way can see it. In lots of companies, trusts are manipulated so that the content is visible to intermediate proxies.

With a private key that has been given to you by somebody else, it is possible to repudiate any transaction that was made with the key. Its not so much as they could skip any security - its that if they have the key, they don't have to.

keys are protection from anyone, and an audit trail isn't useful when its possible to forge/repudiate literally anything.

imagine if your card pin was also written down in the card factory - you'd be suspicious that anyone can withdraw money from your account - and the bank would say 'ah but only you know it'. In fact this did happen - the bank was only issuing 3 different pin numbers.

time4tea··on Tell HN: GitHub Apps – Private key is not private
When you create an app in GitHub - you are required to create a private key so that you can sign requests on behalf of your app.

Sounds reasonable.

However... to create the private key, they require you to download the private key from them. Which means they have it. So ANY APP on GitHub can be impersonated by GitHub as they have the key material for every app... so what is the point?

Am I losing my mind?

edit: i can't edit the link - it should be https://github.com/settings/apps

time4tea··on "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2
See also 2600Hz...
time4tea··on Mozilla Thunderbolt
I definitely have not had that experience, although use FF for personal, various work, and various educational places.

None of those have required me to install a particular extension..

Of course thats not to deny your experience!

The only time profiles ever come into it, for me, is using web driver, playwright, or whatever.

I guess maybe the usage stats dont support making the profile selector better.

But also, maybe its a thing they would accept a change for?

time4tea··on Mozilla Thunderbolt
Firefox is pretty cool. Use it every day.

Blocks ads Multi account containers Dev tools very good

I never notice that it is in any way slow, except for those sites that need infinity cpu on any browser, like jira.

What specifically is the issue? To my mind it quietly just gets on with things.

time4tea··on I just want simple S3
Garage is quite nice, for the cases I've tried so far. I didnt find it heavyweight.

Tres bon!

time4tea··on Saying goodbye to Agile
Spec driven ddevelopment.. ahh yes, because the formal methods era of computer programming was so quick and successful!

Let me find my: Requirements Specification Requirements Analysis ...

The circle will turn once again when people re-realise that by tue time you've written what should happen in enough detail, you've written the software, and English isn't that great at avoiding ambiguity.

time4tea··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
Cancelled today after responses became code soup, skills ignored completely, and in response to a question told me "its A, no thats wrong, its B, no actually i dont know, please look for the answer".

Something materially changed in last 4 weeks.

Also, see made up boosterism about finding security holes everywhere. Its just fanning the flames of the industry worries about all the stupid account take overs.

time4tea··on Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache
Totally agree. But, if i may, the docs on varnish and tls are hella confusing. I just re-read the varnish v9 docs, and its not clear at all that/if it supports tls termination.

Literally every doc, from the install guide to the "beef in the sandwich" talks about it NOT supporting tls termination... then one teeny para in "extra features in v9.0" mentions 'use -A flag'...

This is cool! But also, worth mentioning. Sure I know its an open source project so you don't owe anyone anything, but also one with a huge company behind it - and this is a huge change of stance and also, sounds cool.

time4tea··on Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache
I initially read this as "we" being "Varnish Software", but maybe that was wrong.
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