ivraatiems (u/ivraatiems)

ivraatiems commented on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale fredbenenson.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mecredis

ghaff · 4 days ago

I'm not sure I get the huge safety risk. You buy a property and you're in a public registry. There's no anonymity at that point in the US other than setting up trusts or other ownership screens.

ivraatiems · 4 days ago

First of all, like you say, those registries can have an LLC's name or the name of a trust, etc. It may not be my name. But some rando showing up doesn't know me, they want to occupy my house.

Second, those registries are much harder to find me in than a random Facebook Marketplace ad.

Third, those registries do not advertise that I am trying to sell my property or rent it out; there is no invitation to come to my home and approach me. I have literally had people show up at my door asking why I'm there if my house is for rent. Imagine if one of those people - as is common on Facebook Marketplace - was unhinged or dangerous, or got mad when I told them the truth.

It is a direct threat to my safety in a way that the mere record of my ownership of the property wouldn't be (if it had my name on it).

ivraatiems commented on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale fredbenenson.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mecredis

milesvp · 5 days ago

I would contact Facebook legal directly with documents showing the problem. Legal’s job is always to minimize liability for the company, and they have levers they can pull in any organization, no matter how “hyper scale” they claim to be.

Bonus points for figuring out the correct language to use to imply repercussions for failure to act without any actual threats. Patio11 has written about similarly worded letters with regards to debt collections and banking, and I know that there are all kinds of magic incantations in law for all kinds of transgretions.

ivraatiems · 5 days ago

This is good advice and probably an avenue I need to explore, thank you.

ivraatiems commented on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale fredbenenson.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mecredis

ivraatiems · 5 days ago

I have had people show up at my house to ask if it was for rent, based on a fake post on Facebook using photos from Zillow from before my home was sold.

My realtor helped me get the photos taken down, but the Facebook ads for it are up to this day. Facebook completely ignores any and all attempts by me to report this malfeasance -- even though these ads literally have my personal home address on them!

It's a huge safety risk to me and not due to anything I did whatsoever; all I did was buy a house that was on the market and then move into it. It's a nightmare.

ivraatiems commented on Xfce is great rubenerd.com/xfce-is-grea... · Posted by u/mikece

ivraatiems · a month ago

XFCE and LXDE are saviors for old machines. I frequently install Xubuntu and Lubuntu on old Chromebooks (e. g. HP Chromebook 14 from around 10 years ago, 2GB RAM, Celeron processor), and you can quickly get a fully functional, usable system. I'm not writing code on them, but you can easily use them for all the things the average person needs on a daily basis from their computer.

It's great that these projects have not given into "the times" or tried to become things they're not. They're great at what they do and I hope they remain that way.

ivraatiems commented on Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave linkedin.com/posts/gsurma... · Posted by u/canucker2016

ivraatiems · a month ago

Thank you for finding this, really helpful. I checked PACER and didn't realize it was filed in state court instead.

The complaint is speaking and it is aggressively written and, to my non-lawyer mind, pretty well drafted. If I were Mongo, I would be trying aggressively to settle this and make it go away.

If I were the parents, I would be trying very hard to force any other outcome, preferably one where Mongo pays the biggest public relations price possible for what they've done, assuming the allegations are true.

The way Mongo answers the complaint will be really instructive in figuring out how they intend to play this, and in whether they think there is some explanation that will make this seem less dire.

ivraatiems · a month ago

(For anyone looking now, the case has been removed to federal court for the moment. Caption "Surman, by and through the Administrators of her Estate, Gregory Surman and Karen Connolly et al v. MONGODB, INC.", 2026cv00166 in SDNY.)

ivraatiems commented on LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-... · Posted by u/pertymcpert

zeroonetwothree · a month ago

I only wish my workplace had the same policy. I’m so tired of reviewing slop where the submitter has no idea what it’s even for.

ivraatiems · a month ago

For what it's worth, this is essentially the policy my current and most recent previous workplace followed. (My employers before that were pre-LLMs.)

If you are the one with your name on the PR, it's your code and you have to understand it. If you don't understand it at least well enough to speak intelligently about it, you aren't ready to submit it for review. If you ask Copilot, Cursor, or whatever to generate a PR for you, it still must be reviewed and approved by you and another engineer who acts as your reviewer.

I haven't heard a lot of pushback on this; it feels like common sense to me. It's effectively the same rules we'd use if somebody who wasn't an engineer wanted to submit code; they'd need to go through an engineer to do it.

LLM usage has increased our throughput and the quality of our code thus far, but without these rules (and people following the spirit of them, being bought in to their importance), I really don't think it would.

I encourage you to raise this policy with your management, if you think you can get them to listen, and demonstrate how it might help. I would be very frustrated if my colleagues were submitting AI-generated code without thinking it through.

ivraatiems commented on Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave linkedin.com/posts/gsurma... · Posted by u/canucker2016

joecool1029 · a month ago

I don't know legally how it works, but my gut says if this is found to be a wrongful termination under state/local/FMLA, then it also stands to reason that this could also be a wrongful death. From 1960, but it covers this line of thinking wrt suicide: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

Anyway here's the actual complaint (I read it after I wrote the above), I guess her parents/counsel thought the same thing: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docInde...

ivraatiems · a month ago

Thank you for finding this, really helpful. I checked PACER and didn't realize it was filed in state court instead.

The complaint is speaking and it is aggressively written and, to my non-lawyer mind, pretty well drafted. If I were Mongo, I would be trying aggressively to settle this and make it go away.

If I were the parents, I would be trying very hard to force any other outcome, preferably one where Mongo pays the biggest public relations price possible for what they've done, assuming the allegations are true.

The way Mongo answers the complaint will be really instructive in figuring out how they intend to play this, and in whether they think there is some explanation that will make this seem less dire.

ivraatiems commented on North Korean infiltrator caught at Amazon due to 110ms keystroke lag tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/bns

ivraatiems · 2 months ago

The Arizona woman the article refers to was sentenced to 102 months in prison for her role in this scheme: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arizona-woman-sentenced-17m-i...

Pretty fascinating stuff.

ivraatiems commented on Executive order to reclassify marijuana as soon as Monday cnbc.com/2025/12/12/canna... · Posted by u/perihelions

ivraatiems · 2 months ago

I support this, but I am not sure if it can be done via executive order? (Not that that has stopped any recent president from doing whatever they like via EO.)

It looks like, maybe yes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_cannabis_from_Sched...

but it could and probably will be challenged.

Still, it would be a good move and has been needed for a while now.

ivraatiems commented on The realities of being a pop star itscharlibb.substack.com/... · Posted by u/lovestory

ivraatiems · 3 months ago

There is a weird assumption people make that somebody as successful as Charli XCX isn't smart because her persona is "I like cocaine and partying," and then are surprised when she can express herself like this. Like she says: "Another thing about being a pop star is that you cannot avoid the fact that some people are simply determined to prove that you are stupid."

Making music at any professional level is extremely hard work. Touring and dancing and hosting shows is even harder. It requires a substantial intellectual capacity and stamina to achieve. You either have these things yourself, or you are propped up entirely by others who have them and are invested in you for money's sake. Given Charli XCX's background, it's not actually surprising that she, in fact, has all the talent, skill, and intellect required to do this stuff herself.

Editing to add: Another place to look to learn that people with this skillset often have very very deep inner lives is Dua Lipa's book club podcast (https://www.service95.com/tag/book-club). As someone who used to run these kinds of in-depth interviews, I can say, she is damn good at it.