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willsr··on An Agentic IDE That Builds Itself
Been using bb for the last few days. Definitely onto something here. Really cool being able to build out an ECAD plugin for a hardware project and have it be fully customisable. I wonder if this same premise could be applied to lightweight custom plugins for other fields like GTM.
willsr··on GitHub Actions Outage
Issues with VSCode Marketplace as well.
willsr··on 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
"homeless people acting without worry, setting up camps, pooping in the streets" - otherwise known as existing
willsr··on Biggest U.S. airlines spent bulk of free cash flow on stock repurchases
What about some equity in return for a bail out..
willsr··on NSW Digital Driver Licence
This probably has something to do with the ISO 18013-5 standard.

https://medium.com/@dkelts.id/mobile-driver-licenses-mdl-how...

willsr··on NSW Digital Driver Licence
This is precisely what the South Australian Digital ID does.
willsr··on Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext
Amazon use it in their Cognito offering.
willsr··on Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster
This. Also covers deleted files being overwritten when new files are created.
willsr··on Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
Depends on where you get the Psilocybin from. Search "Magic Truffles"
willsr··on Canada’s legal pot is going well
I think we'll see the market shift to delivery in BC. Storefronts are getting heavily targeted now.
willsr··on Julian Assange arrested in London
"Stories" is a good descriptor for unsubstantiated claims made by the Ecuadorian government, which were denied by the former president.
willsr··on Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago
Testing the waters maybe..
willsr··on Zoom S-1
Sales.
willsr··on The “.ro” Gold Rush (2018)
This has been happening in the .au for years. One example: https://www.drop.com.au/

Registrars that run drop catch auction sites increase their odds by acquiring more connections to the Registry.

willsr··on On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality
I remember looking into this years ago, and the prices were in the $100-$200 range for low volumes. Was this your experience?
willsr··on Estonia sues Gemalto for €152M over ID card flaws
I suppose the Estonians are partially at fault for trusting Gemalto with anything, post Snowden.
willsr··on Atlassian's new terms forbid benchmarking
We replaced Jira+Confluence with Notion. It might not work for everyone, but it definitely fits our use case. (small dev team)
willsr··on Atlassian's new terms forbid benchmarking
After 4 years of dicking around with Jira/Confluence, we finally got rid of them last month. Haven't looked back since.
willsr··on OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000
Hmm - cool project. Don't want to be a buzzkill, but copyright?

Should probably remove the assets to avoid a takedown.

willsr··on Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
Yuval Yarom's contribution (Flush+Reload) seems quite understated, considering how important it is to the attack.
willsr··on Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
Interesting that they left it this late.
willsr··on SEC Emergency Action Halts PlexCoin ICO
From their FAQ:

"Is it safe? The cryptocurrency is currently the safest currency. Unlike cash, you cannot lose it or have it robbed. No bank will be able to validate your transactions or to take fees on your transactions. It's your money and no one will be able to scrutinize your operations."

People bought this?

willsr··on Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology
The EU is going in the right direction with this, re: the right to data portability in the GDPR. Only way Facebook is going to implement this functionality is when they are forced to.
willsr··on Great, now there's 'responsible encryption'
I've been seeing the 'responsible encryption' meme popping up quite a bit recently. Like this bloke, who thinks people that want working encryption are extremists. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20171024_legal_controls_on_ext...
willsr··on TXT Record XSS
yep, I just fixed it then. Trending on hackernews is not always a good thing.