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Wow, just wow. I think bullying the agents of careless operators is my new favorite thing.

Considering it let them do an unauthorized wire transfer from a system account, 12k seems pretty reasonable.

Hell yeah! After all these years it's finally here.

One thing I miss here (and admittedly I only skimmed through the post so if I missed this, please do correct me) is "ad hoc" unions.

It would be great to be able to do something like

  public Union<TypeA, TypeB> GetThing()...

Without having to declare the union first. Basically OneOf<...> but built-in and more integrated

GitLab seems to be having some issues too https://status.gitlab.com/

No wonder they don't publish an availability percentage. If I was a business customer paying for GitHub I would be very upset with the availability lately.

Actions are failing and starting new actions results in a 500 error... The status page is shockingly all green...

Edit: The status page is no longer green

The closure has been lifted: https://x.com/FAANews/status/2021583720465969421

I'm working on a "toy" .NET web framework that has no dependencies on the ASP.NET Core Web SDK, runs fully on the "base" .NET Core SDK and can easily be embedded in existing applications.

https://github.com/WispFramework/Wisp, https://wispframework.github.io/Wisp/

It tries to be reasonably lightweight but batteries-included, with extra features in separate "extensions" packages. It's also designed to be modular. All functionality has a default implementation but can easily be replaced if desired. It uses the Fluid template engine[1] (a .NET implementation of the Liquid language).

It's been a great way to dig into more advanced concepts like reflection and HTTP internals and while it's probably not safe to use in production, I have used it to build small private apps with great success.

The current major pain points are the lack of websocket support, which I'm planning to add soon, and the general fragility of the NetCoreServer[2] based HTTP backend, which I'm planning to replace with EmbedIO. (Ideally, I would love to use Kestrel here, but it's so deeply baked into ASP.NET Core that you can't use it without pulling in the whole Web SDK)

The documentation is also pretty incomplete but I hate writing docs so I find it hard to force myself to do it.

[1] https://github.com/sebastienros/fluid

[2] https://github.com/chronoxor/NetCoreServer

(LLM Disclaimer: This project is not vibe-coded. Most of the code is written by hand, with some input from ChatGPT being used as a fancy search engine. The docs are written by hand and then fed through ChatGPT to make them more readable)

If you're looking for an alternative to Discord, check out Stoat (formerly Revolt). [1] Especially if you're an iOS dev with some free time as the iOS client could really use some love... [2]

(not affiliated with the project, just really want to see it succeed)

[1] https://stoat.chat/ [2] https://github.com/stoatchat/for-ios

For prototypes, almost certainly with a CNC lathe. For a large scale production, I would expect them to drop forge these...

If this doesn't work for you on a reasonably recent version of Firefox, you can enable experimental (but in my experience quite stable) WebGPU support in `about:config` by setting `dom.webgpu.enabled` to true.

Bose continues to be an extremely consumer-friendly company (especially by today's standards). I remember back when the QC35s were THE noise cancelling headphones, the bridge* snapped on mine, I contacted Bose support asking if it could be fixed and they offered me a free replacement, no questions asked, a year after my warranty ended.

* Is that what it's called? The top part that goes over your head...

It would appear that they pay their employees fairly well, as seen in this old job posting [1] (not all levels will make this much of course but it gives you a general idea, almost 300k a year is a lot even for a staff engineer).

$275,000 is almost $23,000 a month. Take that times N amount of employees, and other business overhead, and suddenly $80k a month is literally peanuts.

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/blog/hiring-a-design-engineer-and-st...

Considering the relatively limited context window even on the latest models, the output would likely be incoherent mess. Sure, you could make the LLM go through the code in easily digestible chunks (file by file) but to get any groundbreaking optimization, it would need to have the context of the entire project to properly understand the architecture. (IMO that is, I'm not an expert)

If you want a more... ergonomic language, you can also use the new "run file directly" functionality in .NET 10. It supports shebangs directly and it will even install packages referenced in the script!

  #!/usr/bin/env dotnet run
  #:package Newtonsoft.Json@13.0.3
  
  using Newtonsoft.Json;
  
  Console.WriteLine(
    JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new { Hello = "world" })
  );

Even better, with the #:sdk directive, you can even serve a tiny web app directly from your "fancy shell script"...

  #!/usr/bin/env dotnet run
  #:sdk Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web
  
  WebApplication
    .Create()
    .MapGet("/", () => "Hello from a shell script!")
    .Run();

Can we just give up on HDMI and start putting DisplayPort on TVs already?

Yarr

Surely the FTC will take issue with Netflix acquiring HBO Max?

Thanks :) I'll definitely be sending out an update soon... And yeah, I haven't really mobile optimized the site yet.

I duct-taped together a quick website[1], you can sign up for the mailing list or the discord if you're interested... Or just check up on the website in couple of weeks.

[1] https://keropunkgame.com/

I've been working on a factory sim game for some time now and I'm finally getting to a stage where I might be comfortable enough showing it off soon and maybe even try my luck with some sort of crowdfunding.

My country's national postal system still uses an IBM mainframe based system from the 80s. The clients these days are desktops with Linux Mint and a terminal emulator but it's still very much TUI based.

Is there any non-tabloid source for any of this?

Interesting, I thought the next in line was Craig Federighi

The Linux "brand" is trademarked by Linus Torvalds, presumably to stop things like "Microsoft® Linux®" from happening...

From the video description:

  I built a small language model in Minecraft using no command blocks or datapacks!

Can anyone with one of these confirm if Android Auto works with it?

You know that feature in JetBrains (and possibly other) IDEs that highlights non-errors, like code that could be optimized for speed or readability (inverting ifs, using LINQ instead of a foreach, and so on)? As far as I can tell, these are just heuristics, and it feels like the perfect place for an “AI HUD.”

I don’t use Copilot or other coding AIs directly in the IDE because, most of the time, they just get in the way. I mainly use ChatGPT as a more powerful search engine, and this feels like exactly the kind of IDE integration that would fit well with my workflow.

As someone who knows basically nothing about cryptography - wouldn't training an LLM to work on encrypted data also make that LLM extremely good at breaking that encryption?

I assume that doesn't happen? Can someone ELI5 please?

Has anyone considered that it might've just been a novelty? A fancy paperweight? I wonder if, in a couple thousands of years, archeologists will wonder why some people owned a 10x10cm cube of tungsten...