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by benoau 1y ago
Working for a fintech and being responsible for the software made me very wary of dependencies and weeding out the deprecated and EOL'd stuff that had somehow already found its way into what was a young project when I joined. Left unr
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by benoau 1y ago
Always disliked Plex for them imposing themselves as a middleman to using the software locally, which is ultimately the root cause for this incident.
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by benoau 1y ago
You have to at a minimum trust the OS vendor, probably a slew of development tools, and blindly trust all the hardware you work upon and cloud platforms you deploy to to only-work as advertised. You shouldn't particularly trust any sof
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by benoau 1y ago
This story's been going around for a while but at the end of the day the issue is a low/no/whatever coding platform where the development occurs against the production version conflated by not having any sort of backup or ver
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by benoau 1y ago
More the "dark pattern" of empowering unlimited spending and then what keeps on unfolding from it.
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by benoau 1y ago
I bet it's a minuscule amount. For a start, all they're shopping for is a shorter delay for the visa interview - maybe that is 1 month instead of 3 - and most people from countries that require visas will already be factoring tha
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by benoau 1y ago
Putting stuff on the internet is dangerous, but the absence of hard caps is a choice and it just looks like another massive tech company optimizing for their own benefit. Another example of this is smartphone games for children, it'
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by benoau 1y ago
Somewhere on the horizon is the distinct possibility some tech leaders will serve time for the favors they curry from Trump, and Tim Cook is probably the top candidate after Apple's run of good luck in the last month: tariffs, Watch ba
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by benoau 1y ago
I meant one on https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs Doesn't specifically say 996 but 6-days a week in-office.
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by benoau 1y ago
There was a HN /jobs post a week ago for "100% in-person, 6 days per week" lol. No thanks!
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by benoau 1y ago
Github, TypeScript, VSCode, Playwright, NPM. I wouldn't say I have a dependency, I could excise all of this from my work pretty easily. But I certainly agree it feels problematic, especially with how easily most of this could be adve
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by benoau 1y ago
The problem with this is big tech companies are very adept at stringing court-based enforcement along, that would defer this punishment until well into the 2030s and even the 2040s for actually rectifying the issues.
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by benoau 1y ago
I'm betting on Steam's "early access" personally.
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by benoau 1y ago
They on average pass approximately 70% on, but the record labels also eat heavily into that before the artists get their share. I'm reminded of an effort a few years ago to legislate the creators getting 50% - which of course meant the
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by benoau 1y ago
Greatly enjoying working on my own software for now!
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by benoau 1y ago
Yep. I didn't even "pass" some of the coding challenges despite hiring, firing, and writing coding challenges myself! What I often saw was many of those jobs were sitting on the market for months and months just getting reli
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by benoau 1y ago
Well, they pay $20 billion to Apple, Firefox etc to be default and now that can't be exclusive - but you could always change search engines so in practice perhaps nothing changes at all.
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by benoau 1y ago
The judge hasn't issued a formal apology to Google... yet.
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by benoau 1y ago
Apple's antitrust is in-progress though, so who knows, the deal is cited throughout the DOJ complaint but not for being a monopoly itself more sort of how they cash-in on the lack of competition - > 5. When users run an internet sea
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by benoau 1y ago
Bing by itself reportedly doesn't even gross that much, overall $20 billion represents about a quarter of Microsoft's entire annual profit. Microsoft already decided it wasn't viable to spend that much to compete, and the re
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by benoau 1y ago
Except Google's offer is funded by their (court-ruled) advertising monopoly... which neither Bing nor all other competitors combined can compete with.
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by benoau 1y ago
But in that case the remedy is ... nothing?
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by benoau 1y ago
> Some JavaScript paywall solutions include the full content in the server response, then use JavaScript to hide it until subscription status is confirmed. This isn’t a reliable way to limit access to the content. Make sure your paywall
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by benoau 1y ago
I would have thought this traces back to GitHub making your readme the defacto "landing page" for your project?
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by benoau 1y ago
You can read a lot more about this on Wikipedia, most would be surprised at just how bad parts of it were - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...
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by benoau 1y ago
It feels like they are harmonizing their policies to present a united stand against the DMA: they both now charge similar fees on using external payments, they both now claim absolute veto over what software may exist.
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by benoau 1y ago
Strix Halo is very impressive but they're benchmarking the AMD AI Max 395+ which is a $2000 desktop, it's not very good value for gaming.
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by benoau 1y ago
Both of the CPUs you mention are low-power I don't think this a problem for slightly meatier processors unless you need the GPU or Quick Sync for multiple purposes?
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by benoau 1y ago
Biggest argument in favour of certain languages is the wealth of documentation and guides and tutorials and stuff that train AI. I think there's something to be gained for constraining AI to produce human-readable code too as a securit
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by benoau 1y ago
Sounds like they're only missing an epiphany about offshoring the engineering!

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