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by mdhb 1y ago
I’m not sure why you think a story that is almost half a century old is particularly relevant here.
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by mdhb 1y ago
Here is the white paper it is based on for anyone who wants to go deep on the technical details https://www.coverdrop.org/coverdrop_guardian_implementation_... But I think the idea of using a news app that millions of peopl
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The Guardian Launches Secure Messaging(theguardian.com)
22 points by mdhb 1y ago|7 comments
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by mdhb 1y ago
Apples dogshit behaviour is going to cost them billions and they deserve to lose every cent of it.
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by mdhb 1y ago
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the leaked document mentioned in this story?
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by mdhb 1y ago
But in this case it WAS all bug ridden crap. Casually rolling the dice with people’s lives like this means you probably won’t be able to live without some fear of people coming looking for you when this is all said and over. Maybe they don’
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The AI Prompts Doge Used to "Munch" Contracts Related to Veterans' Health(propublica.org)
8 points by mdhb 1y ago|1 comments
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by mdhb 1y ago
Half a decade is more than enough time for me to be able to say with a really high degree of confidence and authority that I’m positive that the situation with Google and Dart is in fact not at all like the situation with Apple and Swift as
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by mdhb 1y ago
This is purely a vibes based answer and is actively wrong on a number of fronts. I don’t know what caused you to answer so confidently.
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by mdhb 1y ago
I think that argument is on increasingly shaky ground these days as the barriers are starting to come down in a lot of ways. First in the sense of hand crafted interop solutions that modern languages provide. Take Dart for example as someth
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by mdhb 1y ago
I’m actively a part of that community for the past 5 years and I have zero idea what you’re talking about. It’s one of the most loved languages out there when you look at surveys of its users and for good reason.
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by mdhb 1y ago
There is something incredibly weird about people associated with Apple. I don’t know what it is but I think people are not wrong to describe it as a cult like mentality sometimes. But they notoriously do not like any criticism no matter how
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by mdhb 1y ago
They actually are not. Take a look at say the two most popular languages to come out of Google being Go and Dart… none of those communities ever really feel hard done by, the tooling is great, the documentation is amazing, it runs everywher
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by mdhb 1y ago
I just can’t ever see Apple not treating developers like shit and it makes me want to have nothing to do with Swift.
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by mdhb 1y ago
Remember when Thiel had a army of blood boys? https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h... Two incredibly weird fuckers.
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by mdhb 1y ago
Literally just finished mine today using vanilla HTML / CSS. It’s already designed as a document format and gives me full control, exports seemlessly to PDF when needed, lets me do nice little progressive enhancements moving from paper
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Trump officials delayed farm trade report over deficit forecast(politico.com)
10 points by mdhb 1y ago|2 comments
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by mdhb 1y ago
I’m looking at logs for a service I run on cloud run right now which scales to zero. Boot times are approximate 200ms for a Dart backend.
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by mdhb 1y ago
I think that as far as a security measure this is really up there with the form the US makes you fill out when you visit the country that asks you to tick the box if you are a terrorist. There are countless ways around this beginning with j
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by mdhb 1y ago
The latest technique is (besides the fiber optic stuff) is running the command and control over the local phone network of the country you’re in so it just looks like regular mobile data. That’s what allegedly happened here.
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by mdhb 1y ago
It’s primarily the react crowd specifically who have been off doing their own thing for many years at this point and never seem to look outside their ecosystem and are stuck in this bizarre infinite loop of just reinventing the wheel consta
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Data firm is building 'detailed portraits of Americans' on Trump's order(rawstory.com)
10 points by mdhb 1y ago|2 comments
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by mdhb 1y ago
https://archive.is/4DyVk
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by mdhb 1y ago
Also could be phrased as: perform unpaid labour collecting surveillance data for Meta (who ultimately control the data source)
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by mdhb 1y ago
No I am sure the fine and morally upstanding leadership of xAI are paying $300M just for the fun of it.
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A historical reference of React criticism (2023)(zachleat.com)
1 points by mdhb 1y ago|0 comments
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by mdhb 1y ago
It’s truly wild that something like this exists. It really speaks to the unfathomable levels of incompetence that this is what the Trump administration was using to plan military operations over.
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by mdhb 1y ago
Meanwhile.. actual photoshop is built with web components.
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Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears(nature.com)
429 points by mdhb 1y ago|409 comments
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by mdhb 1y ago
Shut it down is the best thing you could do for it and for society. You work for a spyware company.

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