Nextgrid

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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
I am not a lawyer, I am just "making up" what exculpatory evidence I would prefer to have on my side when potentially confronted with a charge of destruction of evidence after pulling a stunt like this.
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Until very recently, creating arbitrary USB/PCIe devices has been out of reach of hobbyists, as a result the device drivers (running with kernel privileges and written in memory-unsafe languages) generally have no hardening against a m
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Presumably you must disclose that "doing that" would wipe the device... and you better hope this is caught on some neutral party's camera so there is a record of you saying that.
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Nobody _wants_ it, but in practice if all cars/TVs/smartphones break every two weeks, what choice do people have? In tech, the era of competing based on quality is long gone. The winning strategy is to get a monopoly/oligopol
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
> I continue to produce work better, faster and more reliably than my colleagues who have outsourced their brains to Claude. It matters little if your employer does not recognize/value that? Given the quality of most software nowada
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Nobody is wasting nation-state exploits to launder stolen phones.
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
> Are these outages caused by introduced bugs, though, or by load issues? Probably both. But it still throws a thorn into the theory that LLMs are about to replace software engineers any day now. You'd think they could LLM-code thei
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Hard disagree. Self-hosting a service like GitHub that operates at GitHub scale is difficult. Self-hosting a service like GitHub that operates at the typical small/medium company's scale is trivial. A single machine (with separa
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
I am talking more about the knowledge of the code rather than an objective/subjective measure of code "quality". Code might be bad by some objective/subjective measure, but if you (or the author) can understand, naviga
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
But for their target market, corporate office drones writing crap that nobody will ever read more than once (if even that), this is actually perfect and makes AI usage numbers go up. "Make longer" is amazing for someone who just w
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Companies that have something worth protecting already don't use it and/or pay for the on-prem version. The rest don't have anything worth stealing anyway.
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
I'm not talking about code quality (though indeed that could be a problem too), I'm talking about understanding the code - having written the code by hand means you don't need to rediscover it from scratch. (with human-writ
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
This is also missing step 6: when your solution breaks in production or needs to be extended. Having done step 2 & 3 by hand is the difference between being able to fix/extend it quickly with no further damage or fumbling around li
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Some people are just looking to be offended. You don’t have to read or agree with his drivel to use his software. (Do you also check out the blogs/social media of every dev involved in every library you use?)
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Wouldn’t that be the job of the software TCB to ensure only the appropriate user is given access (and prevent the user from accessing the TPM directly obviously)? The TPM validates the state of the software TCB, and the software TCB validat
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Is there anything they're doing that can't be replicated by hypervisor/management software on commodity x86 servers? Seems like their "secret sauce" is a software stack that "just works" more than any actu
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
I wonder what's the selling point at that scale. If your ~monthly~ cloud spend ends in "M", you can easily justify hiring the talent needed to wrangle conventional bare-metal (in fact you can do so at much lower spends, but a
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
If you somehow manage to get on top of the elevator cab (indeed as the sibling comment points out, there is no escape hatch at the top), you will generally see a small control panel with a switch to put it in inspection mode. That turns off
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Dealing with SaaS doesn't just mean accounting for the subscription cost of the software. There's also the fact that said software can change its terms, pricing or functionality at any time (or disappear entirely) - often a time m
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
MySQL has a lot of broken "features" that sadly some existing legacy code might be relying upon and there just isn't engineering capacity required to move to a saner DB, so they have to make do. I had a legacy project on MySQ
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Considering a lot (all?) of AI is currently being sold at a loss, I wonder if all that outpouring of interest is exactly the reason why they're changing course, as it would've otherwise been too expensive to offer. It could'v
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by Nextgrid 2mo ago
He is probably referring to Beta 1.6.x. I remember running 1.7.3 in 2011-2012 on a potentially 1 or 2GB RAM machine and some Nvidia 7xxx series card (7600?). It worked fine on Linux.
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by Nextgrid 3mo ago
I suspect most of the "corruption" RPi users experience is likely bad power (shitty undersized USB power bricks) glitching the CPU and causing the filesystem to corrupt. The SD card is likely doing exactly as it's being told
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by Nextgrid 6mo ago
Downvoted - this is false, sorry. The whole point of security keys (whether exposed via PKCS#11, or FIDO) is that the private key material never leaves the security key and instead the cryptographic operations are delegated to the key, just
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by Nextgrid 6mo ago
The idea with HSM-backed keys is that even in case of compromise, you can clean up without having to rotate the keys. It also makes auditing easier as you can ensure that if your machine was powered down or offline then you are guaranteed t
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by Nextgrid 7mo ago
> not pull a sidearm and shoot the corrupt commander Wouldn't you just get "zeroed" by the upstream commander or court-martialed and sentenced to a gulag?
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by Nextgrid 7mo ago
I don't mind the increase per-se, but the "improvements" they advertise to justify it are laughable. Not to mention that 1Password 8 has been a major downgrade across the board.
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by Nextgrid 7mo ago
In my opinion, if something isn’t actually an error, you modify your logging to not log it as an error. Your error logging/alerting pipeline should always stay clean. If something shows up in there, you should only have 2 options: 1) i
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by Nextgrid 7mo ago
Trial and error? Just like it does when given an existing GPL’d source and dealing with its hallucinations, the agent could be operated on a black box (or a binary Windows driver and a disassembly)? The GPL code helped here but as long as t
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by Nextgrid 7mo ago
Your ISP will cut your account when you saturate the upstream pipe 24/7 for weeks on end... which will only happen if you host video. And your home insurance will not know/care if you're operating a desktop-sized computer or

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