Someone should start an anthology of posts claiming "I vibe-coded this toy project. Software Engineering is dead."
I bet we could vibe-post a bunch of them, even! Blogging is dead!
Readit Newsubertaco commented on Two kinds of vibe coding davidbau.com/archives/202... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
ubertaco commented on Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Android syncs them to your Google account and iPhone to your iCloud account by default. Which isn't a perfect solution but, again, is pretty good for most people.
And that's great, as long as you're totally cool with access to _any_ of your accounts _anywhere_ being completely controlled by either Apple or Google.
ubertaco commented on Israel Pumps Desalinated Water into Depleted Sea of Galilee humanprogress.org/in-worl... · Posted by u/geox
I'm struggling to figure out how you really believe this.
Even if you didn't bother to actually read reporting or see images from the ground of children being shot in their mothers' arms by the IDF and such real horrors perpetrated against civilians who are obviously and visibly non-combatants, it's puzzling how nothing in the hyperbolic, propagandic tone of the alleged quote leads you to question its veracity (or even makes you look twice at taking Russia Today TV as a trustworthy source).
ubertaco commented on Self-hosting my photos with Immich michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/birdculture
iOS doesn't allow that sort of pattern for non-Apple applications last time I looked, so probably doesn't work on iOS at all.
Yeah, this and syncthing for keeping our shared password vault file in sync together were 2 of the 3 major reasons my wife's last phone upgrade was a swap from iOS to Android (went with a Pixel 8, which was new at the time).
Since then, Immich and Syncthing+Keepass have worked as well as or better than their proprietary equivalents for my decidedly-non-technical wife.
I did initial setup, and she never has to think about it again. It just works, which is more than I can say for paid cloud subscriptions and their constant nags over exceeded storage space.
Banking websites will tell you that you need 2FA. Of course you need to use not just any 2FA you need to use their app and of course you don't need a 2FA if you use the app directly for banking.
My companys equity app does not even want to run on lineageos.
At the moment it looks like a 2 phone will be necessary at some point.
Is there anything preventing use of something like Keepass vaults as your 2FA solution?
A little pedantic, but: this will tell you if a poem is shaped like the common English conception of a haiku, but it won't tell you if this is a haiku, because a haiku is more than just counting syllables.
Aside from the fact that "syllables" is not exactly the unit being counted in haiku, there are also considerations of theme, tone, and a sort of "open-ended-ness" – among other considerations.
This article served as my introduction to the actual complexities of haiku: https://forgottenpoets.substack.com/p/haiku-thursdays-one-pl...
Very cool that the author was able to use a profiler without source code and even add debug symbols, but...the actual conclusion (a third-party script using a third-party scripting system the author had installed but never mentioned until the end was the culprit) was so obvious of a first thing to check that it made the post feel a bit contrived.
It's like if someone wrote up a post detailing a step-by-step teardown of their vehicle's engine to determine why they were suddenly getting worse gas mileage, only to end with "oh, you know what, it's probably the giant always-open drag parachute I installed right before I started getting bad gas mileage. Let me try removing that now that I've ruled out every accessible part of the engine."
ubertaco commented on Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (Chips) developer.mozilla.org/en-... · Posted by u/gslin
I was so disappointed a few days ago.
CHIPS is exactly what I need for my project. Safari introduced support for CHIPS in 18.4! And then removed it in 18.5… with no visibility on when they’ll add it back (they have the intention to, apparently, but they have a bug in a private framework that prevent them from doing it).
Now I have to find another solution and it is so annoying to know the proper solution exists and I have to fallback to a less elegant solution because of third-party problems.
Classic Safari. If their traditional pattern holds, they'll re-add it in a year or so, but it'll be unusably broken.
I think much of human history (not just recent US history, but that's a prominent example on folks' minds these days) proves that the biggest differentiator that the wealthy can buy is complete immunity from any sort of legal consequences.
Even if you don't already live in a high-corruption society, you can either spend some of your wealth introducing that corruption (which pays dividends), or you can just go somewhere else that's already high-corruption and bribe your way into immediate permanent residence.
Live in a democracy? Just buy public opinion by leveraging your wealth into a highly-profitable propaganda network, which will also give you an appealing platform for opportunist would-be government officials, who will then owe you, making your bribes cheaper. Maybe you can even just directly blackmail or entrap them along the way, so you don't even have to pay.
Live in an autocracy? Buy enough weaponry and PMCs to insulate yourself or even rival the government itself, or just buy the autocrat's favor directly.
Live in an oligarchy? Psh, your work is already done. Just use the system as it's designed: to be exploited by your vast wealth.
ubertaco commented on SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery cloud.google.com/bigquery... · Posted by u/marcyb5st
Many such things from F# come from Haskell (given the influence from MSR UK, specifically Simon Peyton Jones before he left a few years ago), so likely Haskell or earlier imo (at least in terms of "complex" "pipe" operations that have higher-level operations than "bytes in, bytes out" of Unix).
Worth noting that F# started out life as an implementation of OCaml for the .NET runtime [1], so most likely the pipe syntax was taken from there, although the pipeline-of-functions construction is much older than that [2]
[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2099...
[2] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17335/wha...