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by sph 6mo ago
Can you pro-AI people at least agree on what is it even useful for? Every thread is endless back-and-forth between the "AI works great and vibe coding is the future" and "no, AI works great as long as you don't vibe code
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by sph 6mo ago
It's like those labels of protected origin they put on high-quality artisan foods from the EU.
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by sph 6mo ago
Copied from the defectdojo report (generated on an Elixir 1.19 app on ubuntu noble base image from February 2026): Critical CVE-2025-32433 in erlang:27.3 Critical CVE-2026-28808 in erlang:27.3 High CVE-2026-23941 in erlang:27.3
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by sph 6mo ago
This is a good list. I started with the books by Saša Jurić (they are excellent), and the Programming Phoenix LiveView is a must have if you want to do anything web-related. If you're on the fence, this'll convince you: https:&#x
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by sph 6mo ago
> ActiveRecord is more pleasant to work with than the ORM of Phoenix IMHO A stateful mechanism vs a data mapper? Absolutely not. Being able to write `user.save()` is such a lunacy, thank god we have functional languages that (necessarily
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by sph 6mo ago
Elsewhere I called it akin to Bannon's "flood the zone" marketing strategy. HN is lousy with new accounts (created in the past year) that are overwhelmingly excited for the so-called AI revolution.
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by sph 6mo ago
I’ve been writing Elixir apps full time since 2016. Clients are very, very happy never to see a crash. In fact, all the applications I have deployed in production in the past 10 years have 100% uptime. (Apart from hardware, OS and network f
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by sph 6mo ago
You might want to update prod apps ASAP to this or the latest point version if below 29. Just deployed an app to production, automated security scans found 2 CRITICAL CVEs and half a dozen of HIGH risk ones dated Feb-May 2026.
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by sph 6mo ago
Ah, a cognitive Moore’s law, so to speak.
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by sph 6mo ago
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by sph 6mo ago
Horseshoe theory
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by sph 6mo ago
AI-powered cobra breeding tool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
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by sph 6mo ago
Sure, but we should probably plan for what’s actually going to happen
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by sph 6mo ago
> When [...] all outputs are formally verified based on exquisite architectures and standards and we all live in a green utopia of flying cars and peace upon the world.
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by sph 6mo ago
Civilization collapses unless people stop being short-sighted and greedy, trying to cut corners whenever possible? I know which outcome I'd put my money on.
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by sph 6mo ago
Nuclear families are another modern invention.
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by sph 6mo ago
When in Rome…
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by sph 6mo ago
Government agencies get budgets linked to performance.
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by sph 6mo ago
To add: apparently that PRISM slide got its own Knowyourmeme entry: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ssl-added-and-removed-here
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by sph 6mo ago
> Unlike other companies in the leaked NSA slides that participated in PRISM, Cloudflare would face a near-total loss of customers People didn’t care when they learned about PRISM, why would they care now when it’s a known fact? The sane
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by sph 6mo ago
Bannon’s ‘flood the zone’ strategy applied to AI.
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by sph 6mo ago
That’s been my pet theory from day 1, and not because of DDoS. Simply because they are the SSL terminator for most of the internet and can see anything going on in cleartext (and I’ve seen them protecting some shady stuff) I recall a PRISM
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by sph 6mo ago
Exactly. I'd rather appreciate a bad piece of art made in earnest by a person. That's precisely the difference between art and a commodity.
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by sph 6mo ago
AI art enjoyers and missing the point of art: name a better duo. No one has ever claimed AI cannot imitate a Monet, but however good the imitation, it still isn't art any more than a Xerox of a painting is art. This is the exact reas
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by sph 6mo ago
This is a good place as any to ask, last time I didn't get any answer: has there ever been a serious Linux exploit from manipulating/predicting bad PRNG? Apart from the Debian SSH key generation fiasco from years ago, of course. H
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by sph 6mo ago
I have never truly appreciated Marx and his theory on alienation after working for 18 months for a big co. on two projects, the first of which was canned halfway through, the second of which might see the same fate, but I have preempted it
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by sph 6mo ago
My theory is that Microsoft is paying Adobe billions never to release their tools on Linux. It's Windows' last stronghold.
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by sph 6mo ago
I have stopped playing native ports and just prefer Proton when I have the choice. Many devs using Unity & co. just tick the "export to Linux" option and never try the build, which is often much slower or bug ridden. I was pla
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by sph 6mo ago
AI: Actual Indians^WMalagasy
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by sph 6mo ago
Don’t get offended then.

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