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scaryclam commented on Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid   forum.f-droid.org/t/nsfw-... · Posted by u/jtlebigot
wazdra · 4 months ago
I think there's a large cultural bias at play here. Different nations have different relationships to religion. As a french person, the decision to mark religious content as NSFW seems totally normal to me, but I also know that french people are (often too) fierce atheists.

I also understand things are different in many places, but I think the argument is too heated right now, maybe everyone needs to take a step back and think in a more "international" way?

Someone in the linked thread suggested a new tag altogether for religious content, that might be a sound decision.

scaryclam · 4 months ago
I mean, unless you work at an organisation that deals with a specific religion, I would say that they're all NSFW, as there's no reason to be using them at work, and they're bound to cause controvosy at some point.

Given the level of NSFW material in some of them (sex, violence, etc), I think it's not surprising they're getting labelled as such, even without the link to a religion.

scaryclam commented on Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date   adrianhoward.com/posts/gi... · Posted by u/adrianhoward
bluGill · 4 months ago
You cannot usefully change/review architecture decisions in 1 year. The point of architecture is to make the hard decisions that you will regret getting wrong in the future to try to get them right now (often without enough information to make them). If you decide to make a free for all an architecture will emerge that is a mess that you cannot change.

Architecture should not be "we have always done it like this". If you don't write down why though it will become that. Often there are good reasons that things have always been done like that - those reasons may or may not still be valid but if you don't know what they are it is hard to evaluation. More than once I've seen someone rethink a "we have always done it like that" and discover the hard way why they always did it that way.

I've never seen a company with a good way to write down why they do things though. When someone even tries nobody reads those documents.

scaryclam · 4 months ago
It really depends on the decision, what was done, and the overall impact. If the decision is to migrate to microservices, a year in it may be reviewed and decided that the work has been far more than anticipated, and is too much for EVERYTHING to be migrated, and the decision changed.

Or it might be an architectural decision to change the hierarchy of some organisational structure. Again, it could be the correct call for the time, but as things evolve over a year, it may not be sufficiant a year later.

A year isn't a bad time to review, and if the decision is just a "yeah, duh, of course we'll continue", then it's a really quick conversation, but at least you're thinking about things.

scaryclam commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1   health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
jwr · 4 months ago
Yes. Which is why I try to keep my software from being overly complex, for example by not succumbing to the Kubernetes craze.
scaryclam · 4 months ago
As another data point, I run a k8s cluster on Hetzner (mainly for my own experience, as I'd rather learn on my pet projects vs production), and haven't had any Hetzner related issues with it.

So Hetzner is OK for the overly complex as well, if you wish to do so.

scaryclam commented on The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf]   microsoft.com/en-us/resea... · Posted by u/nosianu
matwood · a year ago
> AI can program, but not engineer.

I feel like that's what the OP said. People can focus on the engineering part and not memorizing syntax or function names.

Too often I see people thinking in very binary terms, and we see it here again. AI does everything or nothing. I just keep thinking it'll be in between and people who are good at leveraging every tool at their disposal will reap the largest benefits.

scaryclam · a year ago
You don't need AI if that's all you're using it for. In fact, IDEs have been doing a fine job at that for years.

It feels right now, that much of the time, AI is a solution looking for a problem to solve.

I find it more useful to treat AI like an easier to search stack overflow. You can ask it to go find you an answer, and then elaborate when it's not the right one.

scaryclam commented on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO   businesswire.com/news/hom... · Posted by u/tolerable
stackskipton · a year ago
I doubt 50% of Fortune 100 customers are all in on GitLab. My guess is most of their F100 customers are acquisitions that were using Gitlab and continue to use Gitlab.

When my company was acquired by $MegaCorp, I noted one of vendors was like "trusted by $MegaCorp" because yes technically, they got a check from $MegaCorp but $MegaCorp was not interested in becoming further customer.

scaryclam · a year ago
Or one or two devs in the F100 customers made an account using their work email so they could chuck some OSS prototype code somewhere, or test something out.
scaryclam commented on The correct amount of ads is zero   manuelmoreale.com/the-cor... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
DrBazza · a year ago
I stopped visiting The Verge after their last 'rebrand' which offended my eyes.

As for the article, well, ads are everywhere now aren't they?

"Accept all cookies or pay £3 a month for ad-free" is what we're getting on most media sites in the UK. I'm guessing there's some company I've yet to discover that's selling this platform ("tech") to all the newspaper/magazine sites.

scaryclam · a year ago
You should report sites that do that. We still enforce the GDPR, and it's illegal to force acceptance of cookies (excepting functional cookies) for any reason, including offering to remove them for money.
scaryclam commented on How we migrated Gov.uk notify to AWS elastic container service   gds.blog.gov.uk/2024/08/1... · Posted by u/dmdmdmdm
vindex10 · a year ago
https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/features/who-can-us...

* central government departments

* local authorities

* the armed forces

* the NHS

* the emergency services

* GP surgeries

* state-funded schools

looks quite critical to me

scaryclam · a year ago
The kinds of messages that get sent via email or text are usually pretty unimportant. Important things tend to be sent via letter or a phone call.

It's not likely to be anything critical.

scaryclam commented on Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers   ft.com/content/b3bb80f4-4... · Posted by u/ViktorRay
imiric · 2 years ago
Granted, the EU is pushing back against some of this. But it's far from enough, it's only one continent, and like others mentioned, their solutions often have technical problems.

I'm still glad they're at least trying to do the right thing.

I've seen the patterns you mention, but yes, they're not coming from the same people. It's indicative of differing opinions, so the hive mind comparison is not a good fit (in this case :).

scaryclam · 2 years ago
The EU isn't even a continent. It's a trade/political block, making up a part of a continent. And the part of the EU pushing back is generally just the European Parliament, not the whole organisation.
scaryclam commented on Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys   github.com/d3witt/viking... · Posted by u/d3witt
hartator · 2 years ago
What's the point of having different ssh key per server?

You are .pub is meant to be shared; even publicly. It's fine to have one ssh key for everything. It's also hard to think about a scenario where one ssh key in your machine is compromised, but not the others.

scaryclam · 2 years ago
Some segregation is useful. If a key I use for work never touches my personal machine, that's a good thing. If my work laptop gets stolen I don't want to have to cycle my personal key, etc.

I guess the point I'm making is more for making decent keys to create sensible separation points, rather than having one for each machine though. Allowing work vs home vs foo vs bar

scaryclam commented on As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)   nelson.cloud/as-an-employ... · Posted by u/nelsonfigueroa
scaryclam · 2 years ago
And if you work at a place as an employee that has made a situation where you ARN'T disposable, you should either try and change that or leave.

If there's a single point of failure like that, the company is being mismanaged. NOBODY leaving, getting sick, taking a holiday or even dying, should leave the rest of the company at risk.

Companies should most certainly value employees and treat us with respect, but they should also be setup to allow for employees not being around forever.

u/scaryclam

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