bitbasher

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by bitbasher 3mo ago
I enjoy writing code. I've tried AI tooling in the past and it felt wrong to me. The software was alright (it worked). I don't know if anyone can relate, but it didn't feel like it was "mine". I didn't even kee
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by bitbasher 3mo ago
I don't really get stuck, but when I do the answer is usually in documentation or a man page. I probably read documentation and man pages more than the average developer. You could argue that is slower than asking an LLM, but I am will
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by bitbasher 3mo ago
For whatever it's worth -- I run my own product/company (software). I do all code by hand and don't use any AI.
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
Getting a user to do _anything_ on your site is difficult. I run a SaaS product that has closed sign ups. I get inbound email asking (sometimes begging) for access to the service. I follow up with their usecase (make sure they are a good fi
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
Most dependencies in the C/C++ world come with fewer dependencies of their own (at least, an order of magnitude fewer than the average rust dependency). Perhaps a Makefile could be considered arbitrary code execution, but we've be
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
I've seen it, but it's from 2016. They have known about the issue for a 10+ years and haven't fixed it yet... seems unlikely to change! Maybe some day though!
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
Rust's standard library is incredibly thin (intentionally so). As a result, you need to use the crate ecosystem. This comes with some downsides. 1. Each crate you depend on generally comes with dozens of its own dependencies. 2. A larg
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
Memory safety is a concern, but there are many solutions that don't include Rust. Rust is certainly one solution, though. However, Rust seems to trade memory safety vulnerabilities for supply chain risk.
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
I read this blog post and the authors other blog posts. They give off a strange vibe to me. It's almost like a reverse doomer-doomer-ism. I'm terribly sad because others don't see the value in this thing I grew to value. It i
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
“Just” curl and openssl. Those are not small and do a ton of lifting… easily adds 2-3mb to a static binary.
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
Libera gives all registered users a cloak to hide their ip.
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
Ticket Master can never be replaced because Terry Davis himself worked on it.
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
120K lines of Rust and several thousand transient dependencies with a few million lines of code.
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
Bell Labs
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
Do any of these NVR solutions offer police/authority notifications when alerts trigger and you are not home? It's the one thing that keeps me tied to a cloud provider.
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
I can’t help but feel Microsoft will regret this. Guy finds zero days and gets no compensation. Instead gets banned. Guy sells zero days elsewhere.
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
My worst interview was at Uber (their security team). The screening and technical interviews on site were all fine and dandy. At the end of the onsite interviews I spoke with the director in charge of the team. I asked some general question
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by bitbasher 4mo ago
I really like Linux, but it's incredibly fragmented. The fragmentation can be seen as part of the allure of Linux (make it your own, use whatever you want, may the best software win, etc). As I've gained experience (and maybe some
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by bitbasher 5mo ago
I recently switched from Debian based servers to OpenBSD and I have never been happier. I wish I would have done it much, much earlier.
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by bitbasher 5mo ago
I can't really relate to this post at all. I've tried Windows a few times over the years and every time I regretted it. From nagging notifications, random restarts while I sleep (for "updates"), ads in the start menu, ai
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by bitbasher 5mo ago
I used Tailwind in one web based product and it was alright, but I'll never go back to using it. The HTML bloat was really tough to deal with. I spend far more time in HTML than I'd like, and having more Tailwind classes than I do
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by bitbasher 5mo ago
Most "gamers" don't want to pay $5 for a game you spent 10,000 hours slaving to make. They will complain the game was too short when Steam shows they spent 10+ hours playing it. Now they want more.
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by bitbasher 5mo ago
I'm a solo entrepreneur running a b2b saas product I built. I do not have a soc2 certificate (or any certificate). I have never lost any sales (that I know of) because of it. I've sold to customers that pay $2XX,XXX annually and i
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Omnisearch – A lightweight metasearch engine written in C(git.bwaaa.monster)
17 points by bitbasher 5mo ago|2 comments
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by bitbasher 5mo ago
No license?
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by bitbasher 6mo ago
Privacy and security are not synonymous. Though it would have been nice to have the ideas discussed in the video.
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by bitbasher 6mo ago
Real question--- why does one of the GitHub co-founders need to raise 17M for a venture? I'm certain they could fund it themselves. Is this more or less a marketing play than anything else?
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JPLY BBS Portal(amjp.psy-k.org)
2 points by bitbasher 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bitbasher 6mo ago
Sorry but the author sounds incredibly annoying.
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by bitbasher 6mo ago
I’ve been feeling this as well. I was wondering if something was wrong with my car. I used to refill once a month but I’m doing two refills a month.

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