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mathijs commented on Programming with an AI copilot: My perspective as a senior dev mlagerberg.com/blog-ai-co... · Posted by u/animesh

mathijs · 5 months ago

Hey, this is my blog, thanks for sharing!

I've been finding myself increasingly annoyed by non-coding managers thinking AI is going to bring 190% reduction of cost, or will replace entire divisions of coders. It's a helpful tool, sometimes, but sometimes also a complete and utter tool. So I wrote this rant about it.

mathijs commented on I still like Sublime Text ohdoylerules.com/workflow... · Posted by u/james2doyle

ben-schaaf · 7 months ago

Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.

mathijs · 7 months ago

I've used it for 15 years and ST is still the first thing I install on a new PC.

All thoughts, meeting notes, journals, blog post drafts... everything is jotted down in ST first. I even went as far as writing my own to-do list syntax highlighter[1] which is the main reason ST is always open, at home and at work, even though I mostly use VSCode and IntelliJ for coding nowadays.

[1]: https://github.com/mlagerberg/todo

mathijs commented on Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date grumpy.website/1389... · Posted by u/microflash

ctxc · 2 years ago

We'll I'd much rather see "posted last week" where precision isn't needed over having to look up the date in the calendar.

Where precision is needed (maybe finegrained transactions?) date and time might be better.

mathijs · 2 years ago

Exactly. A video on YouTube posted '1 month ago' is not the latest episode I'm looking for. Much quicker to interpret than a timestamp. Sometimes a fuzzy date is enough.

Especially being from Europe: it is never clear if 10/04/23 means October 4th or April 11th unless you know which date format is being used.

mathijs commented on Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP github.com/Genymobile/scr... · Posted by u/thunderbong

magneticmonkey · 2 years ago

I wonder if I can use this while debugging an android app. It would be nice to have a real device on my desktop screens while coding.

mathijs · 2 years ago

Android Studio offers this out of the box since the beginning of this year, I believe

mathijs commented on Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify open.spotify.com/album/4z... · Posted by u/I-M-S

dorkinspace · 5 years ago

Do you mean youtube music has no chromecast support? Really?

mathijs · 5 years ago

The apps do, but the website does not. music.google.com used to have native support, but to cast music.youtube.com you have to cast the tab, which is far less than perfect. (Instead of streaming directly from the CDN to the chromecast, casting a tab will stream from your desktop to the chromecast. It works so poorly that sometimes even the pitch changes slightly, like an old timey recording.)

mathijs commented on Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify open.spotify.com/album/4z... · Posted by u/I-M-S

echelon · 5 years ago

YouTube Music is so bad. Comically bad.

I had an amazing indie music discovery service in Google Play Music. I found so many fantastic underplayed artists, and it helped me explore all the small music venues in my city. I've got a wall full of signed albums from artists I discovered with Google Play Music.

YouTube music recommends Britney Spears. It's so awfully wrong about my tastes.

It also randomly inserts YouTube parody videos into my playlist. Why the hell would I want to listen to stuff like this https://youtu.be/-5jWtz3rzco ?

I hate Google so much now. They're like evil 90's Microsoft, but incompetent. They've got their ad monopoly / web destruction engine to sustain them, but they're Dilbert Pointy Haired Boss bad with everything else.

No gamers will be surprised when Stadia gets canned.

It'll be hilarious when they decide to shutter GCP. Remember when it leaked that they were internally threatening to defund it if they couldn't hit growth targets? Imagine all their B2B relationships getting hit as hard as their consumers do.

mathijs · 5 years ago

And still no Chromecast support.

mathijs commented on Downsides of Google Authenticator zdnet.com/article/using-g... · Posted by u/LinuxBender

goalieca · 6 years ago

Biometric data should be considered identity and not authentication data. They can never be revoked or rotated for one. And who knows how many people have it on file. Not every auth server gets their own « key »

mathijs · 6 years ago

Makes sense. The principle of 2FA is to combine 'something you know' (a password) with 'something you own' (your phone). I guess the biometric lock is 'something you are' on top of that.

mathijs commented on Downsides of Google Authenticator zdnet.com/article/using-g... · Posted by u/LinuxBender

lima · 6 years ago

Strongly disagree with the premise of this article:

- Passcode or biometric locks on an app are a gimmick and offer negligible value.

- The keys not being backed up or or synchronised across devices is not a bug, but a feature. You're supposed to keep offline backup keys. Any sort of synchronization feature adds a ton of attack surface.

- In particular, Authy, LastPass and 1password have a giant attack surface compared to a simple app like Google Authenticator. They also rely on centralized services and if you also keep your passwords in there, you eliminate the whole point of two factor authentication.

- One important risk with authentication apps is compromised updates, and Google Authenticator has a very low risk of this since it's backed by Google's strict security processes.

What you should actually do is to move to U2F/WebAuthn and pester any of your service providers that do not offer it. Yes, if you need to replace a token, you'll have to go through all accounts and change it. There's is absolutely no way to prevent this without compromising on security.

mathijs · 6 years ago

I agree with this comment completely. Adding a biometric lock would turn it into 3FA.

Not sure if HN allows to plug your own apps, so please forgive: I made an app a while ago that aims to replace Google Authenticator for some of the reasons mentioned: it allows to back-up and transfer tokens without creating a large attack factor. Not having sync is a feature in this case as well. In fact, the app does not even have the internet permission enabled, so it utterly unable to phone home. Transferring backups does require a biometric lock.

It is also entirely free, so I'm only posting this out of pride of my own work: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixplicity...

mathijs commented on Below the Surface – Finds from an archaeological project in the River Amstel belowthesurface.amsterdam... · Posted by u/Osiris30

pforpineapple · 7 years ago

Amazed to see such good colors on even cardboard items (like that pokemon pog). Isn't the water supposed to fade paint layers?

mathijs · 7 years ago

That's a plastic 'Flippo'. Similar to cardboard milk caps but they came in bags of potato chips and are made of plastic.