doitformango (u/doitformango)

doitformango commented on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X nytimes.com/2025/07/09/te... · Posted by u/donohoe

> liberal echo chamber

It skews one way, but there's definitely a large diversity in opinions on Reddit that are not hard to find. It's also transitioning into an India social media site, just from sheer population numbers.

doitformango · 2 months ago

"a large diversity in opinions on Reddit that are not hard to find."

I think you forgot the /s. Plus reddit is mostly bots now driving engagement, with AI slop splattered everywhere. It went from bad to worse in just a few years. I scan the homepage without an account every now and then and it's awful.

doitformango commented on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/gausswho

doitformango · 2 months ago

This is an even better reason to always use Virtual Credit Cards or Paypal: you can cut off the source of funding with a single click.

CapitalOne allows unlimited virtual cards and IT IS AWESOME because you can sidestep PayPal.

Man, do Trump supporters actually get excited about awful things like this? I don't get it.

doitformango commented on The era of full stack chip designers chipinsights.substack.com... · Posted by u/bharathw30

doitformango · 2 months ago

A lot of steps are missing, seems like OP doesn't have much experience. Sure, you can license ARM or download RISC-V, configure and validate the RTL (even configurations with no RTL changes require RTL validation, and a mountain of test vectors), license some analog IP from Synopsys for analog, power and clocking; synthesize your design, place and route, timing converge, functionally validate against the RTL, lay out pinmap and bonding rules, fracture the DB, send the GLS to TSMC, validate the package characteristics and process corner, do post-silicon debug of ROM/timing/package/digital/analog, and maybe if the gods smile on you it'll only be one stepping and won't need any FIB edits ... but that requires an army of people to get it done in under a year. Re-designing a modern ISA would take one person decades, look how long the first cut of RISC-V took with genius volunteers. Maybe if you want to build a 6502 on your own for fun and can cough up $50k for a 0.180 micron shuttle at TSMC or Global Foundries. It's fun to fantasize about AI making all this happen automatically, but chip design is wildly nontrival. Its funny, Sematech talked about 3rd (or 4th?)-generation silicon design where humans would be taken out of the loop entirely within the next decade... back in 1993!

(Source: I've been a CPU Architect going on my fourth decade.)

doitformango commented on What a Hacker Stole from Me mynoise.net/blog.php... · Posted by u/wonger_

gblargg · 2 months ago

I read it as the opposite, trying to help them process it as not something deeply malicious targeting them. I'm thankful of the times I took something deeply, then realized it was something else and had a change of heart. This is ultimately what trauma and processing is about: something blindsided you and your initial response is a large field of shock and avoidance, then slowly you process it until you have a practical approach to deal with the thing next time, so it doesn't blindside you again.

doitformango · 2 months ago

That's a really good point. Now that you explain it, its not boorish but insightful. Thanks.

doitformango commented on What a Hacker Stole from Me mynoise.net/blog.php... · Posted by u/wonger_

flkenosad · 2 months ago

> Also, sharks weren't made by ethically-questionable hackers.

You don't know that.

doitformango · 2 months ago

I cannot argue with that.

doitformango commented on What a Hacker Stole from Me mynoise.net/blog.php... · Posted by u/wonger_

iwassayinbourns · 2 months ago

Pentester/bug bounty hunter here. I appreciate that this is frustrating for the owner to experience, but this reads like normal internet noise to me, or at worst someone fired up burp suite and hit go on a website. Many, many commercial tools run these sorts of attacks en masse by default, some SaaS companies even do it as a product. The entire internet is being scanned constantly and many of those scanners have automated collections of attacks run against websites when discovered. I’m not say it’s right, but it is the reality we live in. I wouldn’t be taking it personally.

doitformango · 2 months ago

If a shark attacks you, it isn't personal, but it is traumatic.

Also, sharks weren't made by ethically-questionable hackers.

I don't see why you need to dismiss this person's legitimate trauma, seems awfully boorish of you to do so.