Passkeys: A shattered dream.

https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/

Gonna get roasted for this one.

I don't care about TikTok. Like, at all. The service and its users can do one for all I care.

But I still don't think the US should force a sale at gunpoint. That's not how government is supposed to work.

If the government has a list of things they don't want TikTok to do, that's fine -- they can pass laws regulating all businesses, equally. You have a problem with TikTok harvesting user data? Make harvesting user data illegal for everyone.

@jplebreton Everyone wants to be Steve Jobs announcing visionary products, and nobody wants to be Steve Jobs saying these products aren't shipping if they aren't good enough.

it's so on brand for america to ban tiktok before having gun control lmao

"What starts here changes the world"

https://www.johnhawthorn.com/2024/ruby-might-be-faster-than-you-think/

Tired: We simply can't trust critical software infrastructure to unpaid volunteers
Inspired: We simply can't trust critical software infrastructure to people who make money

@simon direnv and layout python (actually layout pyenv since that’s what I use to manage different python versions, since different projects need different pythons). echo "layout python" > .envrc; direnv allow (from memory, so might not be exactly right) and then no commands needed to activate the virtualenv after that in the directory.

May I never ever ever be the kind of guy who Ed Zitron gets a hate on for

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Just a devastating career-long rundown of the dude who drove Google search into the ground, and some of the people on whose necks he stepped along the way

Via @mhoye

@drbrain Given that Balatro’s a card-based rogue-like, I’d hazard that perf here wasn’t the primary motivation.

I don’t think it’s bad code, at that - more an example of how abstractions aren’t always the right tool for the job.

The terms "Autopilot" and "Full Self Driving" are meant to convey that the car is, well, fully self driving.

The government really needs to step in and put a stop to fatally misleading marketing.

#VisionZero #CarCulture

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-motorcycle-crash-death-autopilot-washington-1851428850

To be clear, not throwing shade at this code - it’s a hugely successful shipped product, and it’s useful to reflect on the constraints that different environments impose on writing code.

self hosters and homelab owners be like: "idk it's not that great I mean sure I run a full redundancy kubernetes cluster and everything is automated into detail and I have CI pipelines set up to automatically integrate the latest code into my services 10 seconds after the update got released and all but like, I don't know it's not that professional or anything"

Professional companies with a lot at stake be like: "We are currently experiencing an issue" (cert/DNS expired) https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112148837765000872

@breadandcircuses

A genuine question: why do people put diffusion output that looks like trash at the top of their blog posts?

I don't mean your carefully crafted thousandth iteration of your image, I wish you wouldn't but whatever. I mean stuff that was clearly revision one or two, animals with too many legs, people missing half their faces, wavy keyboards, etc.

I hate it, but I also just don't get it. Do your readers *like* looking at that kind of crap?

Game programming is such a fascinating adjacent field: https://twitter.com/maxbittker/status/1782645521888247956

Feels like the right day to repost this quilt

(In case you didn’t hear yet, #NASA fixed the broken #Voyager I — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth)

We did a release called Schrödinger's Cat and that was probably what killed release names because it turns out the problem wasn't the umlaut it was the apostrophe and the sheer number of things that didn't handle single quotes properly

We have the millennium prizes in mathematics. There should be a similar prizes in computer science. Here's 5 problems I suggest for the list. Maybe they're too hard, I'm not sure.

* Synchronizing audio and video streams.
* Detecting an external display has been plugged in. Especially if that display is a projector.
* Establishing that everything is correctly set up at the start of a video conference call. Especially verifying audio is working, and unmuted.
* Bluetooth. Especially emulating the straightforward operation we can do with wired devices: unplugging from one and plugging into the other.
* Printers. Making them work.

@sewblue @sinituulia @artcollisions I bet that dressmakers also get way, way more real world repetitions at their craft than surgeons do!