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by alt227 1y ago
> Right. This, right now, is 100% a UK problem. Do you not think every other govenrment in the world is currently eyeing this up and figuring out how to do the same thing?
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by alt227 1y ago
The problem IMO is nothing to do with status or pay, specifically in the UK the issue is capitalism. Capitalism demands that companies show continous growth, or they are classed to be failing. The UK is very small on the world stage, and so
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by alt227 1y ago
Do you believe that seeing a computer generated picture of them is more lifelike than an actual video of them talking to you live?
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by alt227 1y ago
You have reduced it down to the wrong components. Its not about the price, its about care and effort in development. If something free gets put behind a paywall because theres genuinely a push for growth in the software thats fair enough. T
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by alt227 1y ago
Stick with Adobe. They may like to squeeze the money out of you but at least their tools are top tier.
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by alt227 1y ago
At least if you care about it enough then if it dies you can pick it up yourself and maintain it.
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by alt227 1y ago
I agree one is more difficult than the other, but I feel the principal is the same. Whilst anything is built using other modules, there is always risk those modules will be compromised.
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by alt227 1y ago
This is why Huwawei equipment was disallowed to be part of Western Europes 5g rollout. https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/08/12/eleven-eu-countries... What can we do about it indeed!? I guess its either
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by alt227 1y ago
> freezing entire npm setups inside docker containers, which gave me reproducible builds How does that work when enevitably those npm packages are shown to have vulnerabilites?
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by alt227 1y ago
You have a choice, reinvent the wheel or use someone elses wheel.
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by alt227 1y ago
Whats to stop OS builds from being infiltrated either upstream or in build tooling?
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by alt227 1y ago
All languages use libraries that come from somewhere. Even your OS upstream packages could be tainted at this point.
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by alt227 1y ago
Exactly, you are trusting an OS or library which could very much be maliciously interfered with. I would be willing to bet attacks on linux upstream libraries are already happening in the same way as the js ecosystem.
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by alt227 1y ago
When you start writing with C, where do you get your stdio.h file? Do you write it yourself, or inspect it line by line every time or do you trust the installation package you just ran?
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by alt227 1y ago
Yeah, id just take the time to convert the 10 projects rather than try to get 50 people to chnage their working habots, plus new staff coming in etc. Switch your projects once, done for all.
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by alt227 1y ago
Yep, the design side of the software will rot and die.
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by alt227 1y ago
Plenty of people in this thread mourning the loss of the only real competitor to Adobe in the design space. This is indeed a sad day.
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by alt227 1y ago
Yep, but dont expect the level of quality development that was there before. These'free' tools are to attract you to buy ai. They are now only selling tools. Serif were pushing to beat Adobe at their own game and make the best des
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by alt227 1y ago
This is such a shame IMO. The Serif suite was great, and I used to try to get every designer I could to dump adobe and switch to serif. Now that it has switched to a freemium model trying to get you to subscribe to AI, I wont be using this
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by alt227 1y ago
Wow thats crazy! National transport infrastructure being so fragile. What a great age we live in.
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by alt227 1y ago
That saying is just as alive today as it ever was. https://isitdns.com/
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by alt227 1y ago
I think he was implying that those companies think they are so important that it doesnt matter they are down, they wont loose any customers over it because they are too big and important.
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by alt227 1y ago
Microsoft have started putting customer status pages up on windows.net, so it must be really really bad! For example when I try to log into our payroll provider Brightpay, it sends me here: https://bpuk1prod1environment.blob.core
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by alt227 1y ago
All the clouds hav had major outages this year. At this point I dont believe that any one of them is any better or reliable than the others.
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by alt227 1y ago
... and DNS caching, and browser file cache, and sessions... Moving a website quickly is never fun.
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by alt227 1y ago
I may or may not have been known to temporarily take a database down in the past to make a point to management about how unreliable some old software is.
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by alt227 1y ago
Thats the whole point, big players like AWS and MS can go down, but here we are still talking on the internet. Decentralisation is winning it seems.
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by alt227 1y ago
Cant access certain banking websites in the UK, I am assuming it because of this. https://www.natwest.com/
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by alt227 1y ago
Am I missing something? Alexa+ with LLMs was already released this year? https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generativ...
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by alt227 1y ago
Id love to see a wave solder machine mine some cobalt...

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