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by bigiain 2y ago
It's 1999 or 2000, and "proper" web developers, who wrote Perl (as God intended) or possibly C (if they were contributors to the Apache project), started to notice the trend of Graphic Designers over-reaching from their place
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by bigiain 2y ago
Yeah. It seems t me though that there two distinct demographics at play here. The"HN commenting crowd" and the "potential customers for a SaaS". I understand and (mostly) stay out of the arguments between HN users (both
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by bigiain 2y ago
> he doesn't want the "made with AI" branding to hurt the image of the product from a customer perspective That's kinda telling.
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Wix doesn't let you move your files. That's skeezy behaviour on Wix's part. BUT hope you're not using your web host as the only copy of "your files". You should never _need_ to "move your files"
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by bigiain 2y ago
I have absolutely no idea if you are being facetious or naive there. Yes. Oracle is absolutely the tech vendor that's going to be dropped on the engineering team with zero input and no consideration for whether it fits the problems the
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by bigiain 2y ago
Weapons grade infinte snark, probably. He seems to have stopped blogging a few years back. I kinda miss his epic rants and Learning $whatever The Hard Way stuff. Part of me hopes them and whoever used to run n-gate moved to Portland and are
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by bigiain 2y ago
Here's a report of another similar incident: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/furry-hackers-fbi-raided/ Once is happenstance, Twice is a coincidence. But I'm way more suspicious of coincidences than I was
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by bigiain 2y ago
> if it were happening with any kind of regularity we would have seen it by now. If the "unhinged conspiracy theories" turn out to be at least partially true, I'm sure we'll find out it's happening regularly, but
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Notably, they haven't been "disappearing" people in the manner that would have to be happening here. Not that we know about yet. Someone's got to be the first of that sort of government action to be discovered and c
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by bigiain 2y ago
I think there's a fair argument to be made that when you're chasing Big O algorithmic improvements, then the effective constant terms incurred by "faster or slower language execution" are premature optimisation. The diff
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by bigiain 2y ago
This made me wonder what a poffert is, if a poffertje is a cute baby version of them. So I Googled it. Sure enough, it's a cake.
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by bigiain 2y ago
And from outside, it certainly seems like those “good guys” are edging closer and closer to a malicious dictatorship recently. (If you don’t see that from inside, try asking a trans person. Or a non white person. Or a Canadian. Or a woman w
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by bigiain 2y ago
> In my experiences of living in suburbs for 30 years, I’ve seen the default is to ignore neighbors. This rings really true for me. My last house was in a small gated set of 16 townhouses. I knew everybody's cat or dog's name,
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by bigiain 2y ago
Helvetica - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zis-1z8jc60 Sadly, that live version is the only one I can find streaming anywhere. The album version (which I have on CD) uses a sample of a dot matrix printer to play the part t
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by bigiain 2y ago
I just used the reader mode button...
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by bigiain 2y ago
If anybody now anybody, summoning someone on her tech team to tell us about what goes on would be really great.
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by bigiain 2y ago
Everybody knows how to become one. It's just like every "enterprise SaaS" out there. There's no 3 tier pricing plan with lists of features. You need to contact enterprise sales so they can work out how much you can affor
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by bigiain 2y ago
Google 2025 is not the Google you remember and respect. "GoogleAssociationService bot was kind enough to ask 1,000,000+ times yesterday for the same file from 4000+ Google IP addresses. Answer was the same 404 - File Not Found. The Use
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by bigiain 2y ago
Cynical-me suspects step three is something to do with: "while allowing legitimate users and verified crawlers to browse normally." and probably involved renting access to your website to AI grifters who pay to become "verifi
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by bigiain 2y ago
The complexity you avoid by choosing this 'scale vertically all the way' approach is _huge_. Like you say, deploy read replicas or automate regular backups (with regularly tested restore automation), whatever you need to meet your
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by bigiain 2y ago
Sure, but so far as I know none of it has access to the contents of SMS or iMessages.
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by bigiain 2y ago
Interestingly, the most recent commit and release in their github is from March 11 2025, so it's still clearly maintained. I remember using it, it must have been in 2012 or 2013, to automatically make static sites out of Wordpress. We
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by bigiain 2y ago
Yep. Same. I do not want 3rd party hardware/software vendors to have unrestricted access to the messaging app on my phone that is the only option my bank and PayPal and a bunch of other critical services use for 2FA. Especially not whe
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by bigiain 2y ago
Heh. I remember back in the comp.lang.perl.misc days, where newbies would show up and ask "What's the best IDE for Perl development" and all the longtime greybeards would reply "Unix".
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by bigiain 2y ago
"We add a $70 surcharge to each delivery for the ballistic parachute system that protects people on the sidewalk from fumbled delivery handovers. This surcharge is refunded when the intact and unused parachute system is returned via th
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by bigiain 2y ago
Tasty tasty boot grime.
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by bigiain 2y ago
I also absolutely have an issue with smartphones and privacy. But I'm also a pragmatist. In my opinion Apple, while not even approaching being "perfect", are most likely to be the least worst of all practical options. 5 or 10
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by bigiain 2y ago
Hmmm, if you're starting a cult as a way to tap into tax exemptions, I suspect your accountants and lawyers would have long heated arguments about exactly how to best structure the church building ownership or lease/rental. Is you
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by bigiain 2y ago
I dunno why anybody thinks a computer with a 10 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 16GB of RAM and a TB or two of storage is "an e-bike". None of the machines I do the work that pays my salary exceed those specs. Apart from the 16GB of RAM no
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by bigiain 2y ago
For me, acknowledging that: "YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON" is quite comforting at times. When I'm doing security related thinking at work (or at home), understanding that if a powerful nation state's security for

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