Gormo

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by Gormo 6mo ago
> > If Mythos continues to find exploits so long as you keep throwing money at it, security is reduced to a brutally simple equation: to harden a system you need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers will spend expl
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by Gormo 6mo ago
IANAL, but I don't think there is any "clean room hole in licensing": licensing is downstream of copyright law, and clean-room reverse engineering, if done properly, results in products that do not infringe the copyright of t
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by Gormo 6mo ago
Vertical integration has been a common practice in industry for 150 years. Yes, very few firms fully control their upstream supply chains, but very few conversely produce nothing but their core market offering in-house. Most companie
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by Gormo 6mo ago
They are, and always have. Looking over "software engineer" roles in my local area, I see folks at companies in a variety of industries: finance, health, logistics, health care, and the local power utility, all well outside the s
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by Gormo 6mo ago
That's true to some extent, but working with many modern frameworks often still requires a build step. Next.js in particular has quite a heavy toolchain.
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by Gormo 6mo ago
Those are great solutions for production deployment, but to the previous commenter's point, for iterating on your local machine during development work, nothing beats just running `php -S`. Launch the interpreter's built-in dev se
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by Gormo 6mo ago
ReactPHP is another good option.
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by Gormo 6mo ago
> What if you need to call multiple external APIs at once with complex json? A few years ago, I had a PHP project that had grown by accretion from taking a single complex input and triggering 2-3 external endpoints to eventually making c
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by Gormo 6mo ago
A more applicable case is Carpenter v. United States ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States ), in which SCOTUS ruled that aggregating an "exhausting chronicle" of information from third-part
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by Gormo 6mo ago
Conversely, whenever I see people talking about server-side JS, I can't find any reason why I wouldn't use PHP instead. PHP has a vastly simpler toolchain (making it much more effective for rapid iteration), much more consistent a
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by Gormo 6mo ago
Press Ctrl+Shift+U to enter Unicode entry mode in GTK controls, then enter the code point for the em dash, 2014. That will produce '—'. Although I still prefer the traditional ASCII double-dash -- easier to type, and less potenti
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by Gormo 6mo ago
AI raised awareness of em-dashes among people who didn't/don't read much, especially the kind of long-form writing that LLMs have been trained on. Treating em-dashes as a tell of LLM output is a form of unintentional "v
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by Gormo 6mo ago
Yes. Governments are themselves just organizations of people doing things, based on the same motivations and incentive structures as every other organization. The distinction between corporations, governments, and every other form of orga
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by Gormo 6mo ago
The term "allow" implies that some entity called "we" exists, and has the capacity to exercise control over over unrelated third-parties' ability to engage in organized activity. No such entity exists, nor has such
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by Gormo 6mo ago
> Visidata is a fast popular data tool in python https://www.visidata.org/ if you just want data entry. Visidata does vastly more than data entry. It's one of the most powerful applications I've used in years
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> Why should my ideas then be anything different? It's not a "should" -- ideas simply are fundamentally different from physical materials, and the norms we use to deal with the inherent qualities of one don't automa
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> How do you square "complete privacy" with the fact that you're authenticating to these VPNs with a persistent username or other credential and are then sending traffic through them, both from an IP address that might ide
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> In my brief experience with abuse mitigation, connections coming from VPNs or unusual IP ranges were very significantly more likely to be associated with abuse. Correlating these factors with abuse implies that you already have methods
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by Gormo 7mo ago
To the contrary, people running botnets or AI scrapers are likely going out of their way to mimic ordinary web traffic from consumer devices. Ultimately, these measures will only affect users who are trying to protect their privacy and s
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by Gormo 7mo ago
I'm glad "reticulating" is in there. Just need to make sure "splines" is in the nouns list!
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> Apologies for the intemperate response but in my experience everyone who talks about capital-H Hayek has the same set of shrink-wrapped opinions, and the open source / free software thing doesn't fit into them very well. Perh
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Right -- that's exactly the point. JSON is sequential data, and has no mechanism for random access. The previous comment described piping the JSON into jq as a solution for querying specific bits of data out of a JSON stream, which i
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Right, but we typically use the term "natural" in contrast to "artificial", where the latter implies that the selection pressures are intentionally applied by humans in pursuit of specific outcomes, and the former implie
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Well, no, there was an actual point there about trying to effect change via top-down intentionality vs. bottom-up emergence. Any alignment with a particular ideological position is necessarily downstream of that. Consider the possibility t
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> I've long held that open source is one of the world's biggest anarchist experiments. Anarchism, as understood by the likes of Kropotkin, largely believed that we can self organize towards working for the wellbeing of all, tha
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> True open source is dead. Ai and big tech will eat it instantly. What does it mean for open source to be "eaten"? What do you make of all of the traditional FOSS projects that are still going strong?
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by Gormo 7mo ago
I think the overuse of .env files is a side effect of the overuse of containers. Working with config files is much more convenient if you're running software normally, but if you're shipping an entire baseline OS along with your
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Well, you do have to draw the line somewhere when up against opponents pursuing a salami-slicing strategy. If you keep compromising on incremental measures, you ultimately do lose everything.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> I think that pepper mostly exists in movies. What type of pepper are we talking about: piper or capsicum?
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Not just gas pumps, but any measuring device used to determine the price of a metered product. The scales at the register at supermarkets also have calibration stickers in my state.

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