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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> devs that have no problem reading your backend language will not necessarily be good at reading stored procedures But again ... why do they need to ? If you are a developer and you want to convert a string to upper case, you just use
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
"we have information" says a US Government official who almost certainly has had Anthropic and/or OpenAI on the phone spinning him stories. See also, don't trust anyone in Trump's government who says "we have i
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> it hides some logic from the developers I do not buy this argument. Its called a documented function. The developers know the function's inputs and outputs and what it does. That's all they should need to know. Its no differe
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> people will use an ORM anyway Even worse ! Don't get me started on people who treat databases like a black-box dumping ground and insist they must have "portable schemas".
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> I've spent a lot of time writing my own random queries. I don't know that I've ever written a stored function. And I've spent a lot of my working life cleaning up after people who write random queries who then start
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> They don't have time to ... Which is why they end up spending time on mea-culpa "we take your data security seriously, but clearly not seriously enough" emails when they inevitably get pwned by a completely predictable
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> The last thing a startup has time to do is stored functions If they have time to write SQL queries, they have time to write stored functions. Its really not that difficult and it certainly does not take a substantial amount of time.
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
I did a search in that post for "function", zero results. Unimpressive. Not even the most cursory of discussion of stored functions ? Given that many startup's Postgres instances will no doubt be backing some web-ui or app t
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> gives me nostalgic memories for Microsoft Encarta Those were the days ! A bit like Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? which used to ship with a physical almanac alongside the game disks.
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
Yeah, I find it intermittent as to whether it works or not. I'm guessing YT are playing whack-a-mole on that one.
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
YouTube have also become very aggressive in forcing you to have a Google account and to watch videos to allegedly "help protect our community". I avoid YouTube like the plague, but sadly there are lots of people out there who don&
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> Is academia serious enough? Of all the people, academics should know better than to get their answers from LLMs.
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> I want to make the case that it has been the more secure OS this whole time. Your phone is ringing, caller ID says its Theo de Raadt from OpenBSD. :)
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> Those that actually understood security.... Indeed, and those who actually understood software development always knew vulnerabilities can occur just as easily as bugs. And in some cases more easily than bugs, because many of modern vu
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> It should just be highly limited in scope "should" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I agree it is hard to escape some form of legitimate need for intel. The concern with intel and the present US administration comes on
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
Might need to silently archive those Microsoft Patch Tuesday jokes...
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> People absolutely use LLMs to research politically sensitive topics. Note I used the word "seriously", I meant it in its fullest form, i.e. serious people. I'm not interested in what-if arguments based on "you can&#
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
I am not going to post what I could respond on a public forum. All I will say is that it should be perfectly apparent by now to any sane external observer that Trump does not play by any long-established rules or protocols. An entire encycl
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> It’s not a new thing. Industrial espionage has always been a thing as well. Well sure, except with closed US LLMs you're basically just handing them data on a plate, and paying for the privilege. ;) Very American really ... moneti
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> you neglect the fact that US corporations have some autonomy from the government In theory. In practice, Trump picks up the phone and say "jump" and the CEO on the other end says "how high ?". And if you say no, wel
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> China can (and does) use the models to influence the west. They train in false information about Taiwan and Hong Kong. Or pretend like history is in favor of China. I am not Chinese and I'm not defending the Chinese, but I see th
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> Any non-US company, US can block the models which can disrupt the whole business. And read your data, see CLOUD act, PATRIOT act etc. etc. No longer a theoretical risk in today's US political environment.
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> But Dario said (and maybe more ppl) that Chinese models are just distillation "But Dario said" ... yawn. I am increasingly convinced that "they distilled us" is as much US FUD as "it was made by communists&quot
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> In border security there are generally two camps Well, there is a third camp. Israeli-style bio-social profiling of 100% of travelers. That really makes travel awful !
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> Now it being digitized there is no wiggle room on exit/entry. Yes. Because the primary issue is it was too easy to fly under the radar once you were in the Schengen zone. Also in 2026 there are security threats which means tighter
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> Why did Airbus go to "the cloud" in the first place? The same reason that so many companies went to "the cloud", because the hyperscalers warpped the C-suite round their little finger. There are two things any C-sui
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> using our European region To be fair, it was always obvious to anyone with half a brain that "European region" from a US provider was fake-EU. The problem is that PARIOT act, CLOUD act and everything else has gone from being
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> Did you mix up 4G with 3G/2G? Most operators have switched off both 3G and 2G by now.
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> New towers aren't backwards compatible, and the bandwidth has been largely reduced. Yup. In tech-speak there is 5G NSA (Non-Standalone Architecture) and 5G SA (Standalone Architecture). 5G NSA is a kludge, it is 5G radios operati
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> Raspberry Pis are notorious for SD card corruption True SD cards are less than ideal. But also I suspect half the problem specifically with Pi and SD cards is that people use cheap-ass SD cards and maybe ones they found in the bottom o

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