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by edelbitter 7mo ago
> If you don’t use Copilot this will not affect you. How does this work for a private repository with access granted to additional contributors? Which setting is consulted then?
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by edelbitter 7mo ago
> dependency resolution. conda could take 30-60 minutes Quite literally this is what first raised the alarm bells for me. Dependency resolution complexity is more of a symptom. If that delay ends up being the point where Ops finally agre
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by edelbitter 7mo ago
Have you looked at the .github/ folder of any actively developed python packages lately? It has become difficult to find one where there isn't a few interesting people with code-execution-capable push/publish/cache-wri
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by edelbitter 7mo ago
Its weird that still so many consider bug triage a problem to be circumnavigated, somehow in the way of "actual" contributions. Those are actual contributions! Even if they never make it into structured documentation or even pytho
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by edelbitter 7mo ago
This is not a regulators move. This is the industry slightly adjusting their recommendations to parents. Will this change anything? Maybe it will help the industry avoid being targeted by actual regulation.
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by edelbitter 7mo ago
>whatever that library is called https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177
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by edelbitter 7mo ago
To complete your analogy: To this day there are humans who have never in their life exceeded 300km/h outside of an airplane. Mostly people in places that had become used to driving. Used to subpar travel times, safety, efficiency and c
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by edelbitter 8mo ago
For commits you author. Kernel guidelines now have a more verbose section about tagging: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-pa...
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by edelbitter 8mo ago
One particular chasm to keep an eye on, possibly even more relevant than Ubuntu using Rust: When it comes to building important stuff, Ubuntu sticks to curl|YOLO|bash instead of trusting trust in their own distributions. https:/&#x2
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by edelbitter 11mo ago
Mozilla suggests policies [1] (which, in turn are capable of default-setting or enforcing most prefs and has proper release notes) and has removed a bunch of pages that previously recommended directly editing prefs.js or shipping user.js (w
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by edelbitter 11mo ago
To be fair, Mozilla-affiliated developers have accomplished some serious cleanup in recent years. New & redesigned features are fake tabs with special permissions instead of that unholy intertwining of web standards and local UI in C+
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by edelbitter 11mo ago
Its not just that each new "feature" is unnecessarily difficult to disable, and already active-with-privacy-side-effect by the time you notice. Most new "features" are by now covered by an existing setting and/or po
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by edelbitter 11mo ago
This new "please accept cookies and scripts to prove you are running Google Chrome without Adblockers" Internet does not exactly look like mission accomplished to me. And that is before we even get to the part of the Internet that
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by edelbitter 11mo ago
I sometimes use lwn.net as an exemplary showcase of things non-tech journalists should learn (e.g.: add references whenever paraphrasing material some or all readers might have direct access to)
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by edelbitter 11mo ago
As long as grid upgrades & maintenance continue to work reasonably well across western Europe, bad examples from the US are not particularly worrying. Economics of scale still very much apply; there is a point in maintaining expensive g
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by edelbitter 11mo ago
I would love for steam to offer even the complement: Only distribution & SSO services, so I can have fast downloads and quick non-replayable-auth for games I buy/subscribe elsewhere (not subject to steam peculiarities about squee
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by edelbitter 1y ago
One would expect the results to be highly correlated to corrected vision which is all over the place.. but they get suspiciously tightly grouped results. Did they maybe not measure how many pixels we can see.. but rather how laughably bad C
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by edelbitter 1y ago
Bernstein also published a simple checklist [1] of what people are likely to do wrong if not ruled out by design. Bullet point 2 on that list was: > Your implementation leaks secret data when the input isn't a curve point. [1]: htt
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by edelbitter 1y ago
Having your customers suddenly require proprietary machinery (only sold/licensed by you) to unlock the full potential of your upgraded product line.. does seem compatible with the SF startup way of thinking.
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by edelbitter 1y ago
The almost-superset relationship of the respective non-waivable human/employee/consumer rights, and the weak enforcement of a level playing ground in each market. If you want to have competitive business both sides of the pond, th
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by edelbitter 1y ago
Replace "leading LLM" with progressively more evil things and see at what point the "if they exist, they better be European" logic stops seeming logical to you.
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by edelbitter 1y ago
I can subscribe to the people I want to keep up with just fine. I do not need alternative ad-money-fueled intermediaries that get to decide what to insert into and remove from my feed. If there are no indefinitely growing profits to be ma
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by edelbitter 1y ago
Can't tell if any Americans call it that, but it is widely known by the name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague_Invasion_Act in Europe.
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by edelbitter 1y ago
It actually makes things a easier for both blocking and allocating (e.g. VPS hoster) side. Once the "oh no, we can't afford that many unique allocations" excuse is away, algorithms that enforce quotas for every prefix size at
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by edelbitter 1y ago
> An exception isn’t just another event. It’s your code telling you it failed, in a specific place, with a specific context. No! The other way around! All the other events should have context as well. I want to cry every time when I ge
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by edelbitter 1y ago
Well then go check if you are for some reason using any of the other surprise features [1], like honoring the CURL_CA_BUNDLE env variable, or not honoring the PROXIES env variable if REQUEST_METHOD is set. 1: https://requests
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by edelbitter 1y ago
Wait till you see the cPython stdlib email parser.. Any programming language these days should ship a decent rfc5234 API in the standard library, so you do not get these kinds of problems in slightly different fashion for each and every lib
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by edelbitter 1y ago
I wonder what is so special about onerror, onload and onclick that they need to be positively enumerated - as opposed to the 30 (?) other attributes with equivalent injection utility.
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by edelbitter 1y ago
Future readers will find this post if I add what Firefox called it: browser.shopping.experience2023
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by edelbitter 1y ago
> after a technical meeting .. I could To be fair, almost any form of one-on-one exchange looks really effective when you contrast it with the average badly-moderated, way-too-many-peoples-time-wasted-if-you-ask-questions, no-prepared-ag

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