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by troupo 6mo ago
> So why be angry at people who did nothing wrong "Oh no, I know everything about this company, so I actively chose to work for it and keep working for it while all this is happening. But I did nothing wrong. I only work here, maki
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by troupo 6mo ago
> I think expecting everyone else (which is, I believe, almost everyone working at facebook) not involved with any of these things to take a large personal sacrifice or be condemned is unlikely to result in many resignations. Ah yes. All
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by troupo 6mo ago
You keep diluting the arguments with sweeping generalizing statements and non-working analogies like "but think of people in other countries". When it's actually pretty easy: The people worked and kept working at Facebook aft
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by troupo 6mo ago
Ah yes. Only companies that are in SNP 500 matter. Also, the existence of those other companies fully absolves any people working at Facebook.
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by troupo 6mo ago
> Do all of the hundred thousand meta employees have a say in what happens? They all chose to work at Meta. And for the vast majority of them (especially programmers) there were other choices.
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by troupo 6mo ago
"I chose to work as a developer for this supranational corporation, but nothing bad this corporation does is any reflection on me personally, I only work there, making sure this supranational corporation keeps existing through my work.
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by troupo 6mo ago
> IoT turned out to be sort of a nothing. Mostly because it's fragmented and Apple was nowhere to be found with their initially quite good and promising but then completely abandoned HomeKit. In 2026 I still can't have my alway
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by troupo 6mo ago
> IMO one of their great advantages so far is that they have not blindly bought into the AI hysteria and wasted $billions on it. They both bought into hysteria and they've likely already wasted billions on it. Are you forgetting t
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by troupo 6mo ago
I wish he would say good bye to software forever. Apple software is getting worse by the minute it seems.
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by troupo 6mo ago
> until they all or sudden update their policy tomorrow that retracts everything. Oh no. They won't update the policy. Boris or Thariq will casually mention in a random off-hand commebt on Twitter that this is banned now, and then w
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by troupo 6mo ago
> your argument is a non-sequitur Browsers don't exist in a vacuum. And yet everyone treats "yet another security pop up" as it does. > those OS permissions are confusing and obtuse, dare I say useless, and yet they sti
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by troupo 6mo ago
> Consistently get a simple sed or similar oneliner Ah yes. A sed one-liner in a Javascript code > Maybe if you had a little more faith Ah yes, all I have to do as an engineer , is to ... checks notes ... have faith
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by troupo 6mo ago
Ironically Google is the world's largest advertising and tracking company and literally does everything in their power to trick users into tracking and surveillance. https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1908951546869
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by troupo 6mo ago
Yup, I would agree to an about:config
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by troupo 6mo ago
> Native apps also have this, and it's worse because they usually just ask for sweeping admin access on windows On iOS they only pop up the menu when they try to access the required functionality, and there's a limited number o
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by troupo 6mo ago
Just because you don't look at the code, doesn't mean it doesn't produce subpar code constantly . Opus 4.7, high effort. Literally 30 minutes ago. There's a `const UNMATCHED_MARKER = "<hardcoded value>"`
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by troupo 6mo ago
GDPR isn't about cookies, or any specific tech. It's a GENERAL Data Protection Regulation. On top of that it literally defines opt-out as the default state As for browsers, imagine if world's largest advertising and track
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by troupo 6mo ago
Yeah, it's "my code is lives in another (gas) town, you wouldn't know her". Same for some undisclosed opensource projects. I can't imagine letting any LLMs do 500+ hours of autonomous work on any code at my company,
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by troupo 6mo ago
> They have, and people preferred smaller phones. Are these smaller phones in room with use right now? Where can I buy an iPhone 8-sized iPhone? Or an iPhone 4-sized iPhone? The only ones who "preferred" "smaller" aka
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by troupo 6mo ago
Quote from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C... --- start quote --- Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 states that a battery shall be considered readily removable by
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by troupo 6mo ago
> They can click everything away, so maybe So maybe don't populate the browser with dozens of features requiring permission popups?
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by troupo 6mo ago
> What are the security implications this raises that downloading native programs (needed for example to flash my smartphone) doesn't raise? 1. Permission popups fatigue 2. Usually users select the apps they install, most sites are
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by troupo 6mo ago
> their silly role in the security theater of “but what if our users are dumb” It's not security theater. If you go to Chromium settings -> Site settings -> permissions, and expand "additional permissions", you will
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by troupo 6mo ago
It's still an autocomplete on steroids (that's what LLMs are ). It still produces subpar code, with horrendous data access patterns, endless duplication of fucntionality etc. You still need a human in the loop to fix all the mist
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by troupo 6mo ago
Note: what follows is absolute 100% speculation based on nothing but gut feelings. Theo has long been Vercel supporter and was sponsored by them several times. In this case it could be a combination of him being genuinely interested in Verc
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by troupo 6mo ago
> High performers have built infrastructure that makes AI effective And yet these "high performers" ship nothing but thousands of words of how AI makes them performant, or hundreds of thousands of the worst quality slop you can
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by troupo 6mo ago
He is "whatever gives me short-term boost in popularity". Including doing 180 turns on whatever he's evangelizing or bashing.
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by troupo 6mo ago
Strange then that so many apps are barely usable on these powerful CPUs. Perhaps, CPUs can no longer demand more
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by troupo 6mo ago
> Outside of some optimizations there's not much a designer couldn't debug through Claude Code. 90% of the industry is toast. I've seen the "debugging" and "coding" that non-coding designers are attempt
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by troupo 6mo ago
Oh no. Figma has variables and instances and it's hard to debug bad colors. And here I am with Claude Code... That so far generated a 2000-line CSS file for a 7000-line app consisting of literally three web pages [1]. Where almost ever

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