 This is just... Taking out a loan from your employer? To buy shares from your employer? That's tied to conditions of your employment? Have you completely forgotten the fourth crack commandment? https://www.axios.com/2022/05/26/bolt-financials-loans-come-due I think the distinction is that rather than being one giant sadness machine that none of us can change, a fediverse full of tiny sadness machines each of us can tune in our own ways to make them a little less sad a little bit at a time makes room for optimism, and maybe even hope. It's a place to put the thin edge of the wedge. Hey, so this is super cool. Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout. https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf Setting up 2FA: Google Accounts (including gmail): https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185839 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/530540643805698/148233965247823 Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/two-factor-authentication For your personal email in particular, if you don't have 2FA set up, get there ASAP. Ask yourself: where do the "forgot your passwords" messages from _every other thing in your life_ go? Today in "Every Smart Contract Comes With A Built-In 100% Bug Bounty" news: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/3/22916111/wormhole-hack-github-error-325-million-theft-ethereum-solana Seriously, the Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block "View Source" _right in the middle_ of the Chrome Dev Summit. https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3260807 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes", Mr. Warhol you are like little baby with your adorable toy 20th century notion of fame, we all get 48 hours where a billion people love or despise you and tell all their friends about you at once and it will be like doing an arm-long line of coke while shanking yourself in the spine with an epipen while the Sauron's Eye of global celebrity reduces you to a Vice article, a knowyourmeme page and a smoking crater where your identity was. This is a great paper that says it's about code complexity metrics but is really about the superstitions that can abound in a young, poorly-understood field: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/ST/publications/papers/ICSE21.pdf We've built elaborate tooling around code complexity metrics, to try and rein in the difficulties of managing complex codebases, but do those metrics actually correlate with programmer's brains working harder? It's a small sample in this paper, but so far the answer is: nope. Not at all. Lazyweb, I'm listening to The Weeknd's Blinding Lights, and I know _for sure_ I've heard that synth beat intro before somewhere before. Question: where? Google is a "cornerstone sponsor" of FOSDEM this year, which is being run entirely on Matrix, accessible on Android via Element, which has just been pulled from Google's Play Store. FOSDEM is in a week. This all makes perfect sense. Shopping for things that are mildly electronic when you don’t want or care about apps is getting increasingly difficult. I mean, I’m shopping for a scale? I’d like to stand on something, see my weight accurately displayed to within a tenth of a kilo or so, and that’s it. How can I gain information about this product segment? TIL: https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came-from-uo/ The term "database sharding" comes directly from some game lore that needed to be created for Ultima Online, because of the implementation details of scaling an MMORPG "The Origins Of C" drilling back to Turing himself, this is definitely my jam. https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/a-damn-stupid-thing-to-do-the-origins-of-c/ Reading an early account of character encoding decisions, where the debate about whether “00000000” should mean space, null or zero. It’s a hard problem!  |
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@mhoye fucking brainworms. I'm glad it was apparently less than ten people affected. still. god.