twisteriffic

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   by twisteriffic 24d ago

   I mean... The problem is common enough that there are industry specific terms to describe it. Go search that database for "commercial pressure" and I'm certain you'll find what your sealioning self is demanding from ever
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   by twisteriffic 2mo ago

   I've found my Razer Deathadder 2013 and Logitech G5 v2 very easy to repair. I go through a set of switches every 4-5 years it seems, plus cables on the G5.
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   by twisteriffic 5mo ago

   I had never heard anyone say "I'd like to double-click on that" until yesterday and now it's following me everywhere...
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   by twisteriffic 6mo ago

   > Try teaching someone C# nowadays. Completely impossible. That isn't a reasonable take. Failing to teach a language by enumerating all its features is an indictment of the instructor and not the language.
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   by twisteriffic 6mo ago

   From the PoV of someone who uses C# every day those are very strange things to be upset about.
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   by twisteriffic 6mo ago

   A decent portion of Azure Web Apps internals hasn't moved past .net core 2.3
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   by twisteriffic 7mo ago

   Evergreen. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/prompt-injection-is-not-sq...
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   by twisteriffic 8mo ago

   Cries in dapper dapr
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   by twisteriffic 8mo ago

   > C# similarly has old warts that are discouraged now. .NET Framework is a great example (completely different from modern c#, which used to be called "dotnet core"). WPF and MAUI are also examples. Or when "dynamic"
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    by twisteriffic 10mo ago

    I don't know if you've heard, but norms don't matter anymore.
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    by twisteriffic 11mo ago

    > How is it possible that other users of Aurora aren't experiencing this issue basically all the time? How could AWS not know it exists? If it's anything like how Azure handles this kind of issue, it's likely "lots o
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    by twisteriffic 1y ago

    > The party affiliation of the owner is irrelevant to that. Yeah that's a nice thought, but it ignores a whole lot of recent evidence to the contrary.
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    by twisteriffic 1y ago

    This exploit seems to be taking advantage of the slow token-at-a-time pattern of LLM conversations to ensure that the extracted data can be reconstructed in order? Seems as though returning the entire response as a single block could interf
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    by twisteriffic 1y ago

    My most recent experience was terrible for two reasons: 1. They didn't take down an obvious banking scam site that was hiding behind their service 2. They forwarded my "report phishing content" submission, including contact i
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    by twisteriffic 1y ago

    > Sagan fails to identify any of these and instead dunks on harmless folk superstitions. Show me where the Fed rate or IBM's quarterly earnings or a Fox News chyron were determined by a horoscope. It's in the same paragraph...
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    by twisteriffic 1y ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning They aren't engaging in good faith. You're better off not responding.
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    I don't get it either, but I haven't found any other explanation that fits as well.
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    The appeal is "I will hurt the people you don't like".
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    Every interaction I've ever had with CloudFlare has left me feeling like I needed a bath. The vertical desperately needs some competition but I don't know how that could happen at this point.
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    I think you misunderstood what was meant by "API connections". In azure, they're an entity that is created to represent connectivity to some external service, usually bundled with credentials and the OpenAPI definition of the
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    Entrust is/was doing it with ssl.com after they were detrusted.
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    It's refreshing to see folks who're obviously used to hiding behind clouds of bullshit get skewered by people who both know enough to see through it and have the time and energy to follow every thread to completion. The most recen
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    We actually did use booleans, I just found it easier to explain using enums, and the code would have been simpler if we'd done it that way.
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    We did this. Two tables. One for feature flags, with name, desc, id, enum (none, defaultToEnabled, overrideToDisabled). One for user flag overrides, with flagId, userId, enum (enabled, disabled). The combination of these two has been all we
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/infosec-researc... https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/11/28/the-russian-metadata-i...
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    Kusto is wonderful. I'd love to be able to use outside of log analytics.
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    > The worst use case for SQLite that I've seen in production was a shop using it with some minimal UI on top as an order tracking system. Even in that case, the orders were accepted on paper, they just used the SQLite db as a way to
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    Windows 11 is also buggy as hell. And not esoteric things either - things like the clock crashing, or the path in the file explorer being wrong, or the wrong icon appearing for a file type until a reboot. Basic polish is missing.
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    Smells like the kind of location triangulation that IPinfo.io has talked about engaging in.
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    by twisteriffic 2y ago

    > Everything important about the flow of human life is decided by the mighty ship minds; humans are left to nibble at the margins and dance to the tune of their betters. Dajeil Gelian spends something like 40 years bending the Sleeper Se