Posts by alcachofas 40 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2024
me. when I swapped from android pre timer history, I was so grumpy. I have a handful of timers I regularly set. Why make me enter them every single time? Maddening.
But I will say that the timer history is an absolute bag of shit - just keep the last X, ordered by length FFS. Or let me choose which ones to save.
“Sensitive personal data should be encrypted at rest”
Do we know it wasn’t? This was an exploit of the software that reads the sensitive data, which will definitely have the means to read the data.
Your database files can be as encrypted as you like but if you give me a login to your database I can read your files…
(Though I totally agree on their awful statement)
Yeah that’s a crummy statement. Especially as they’re just throwing words in to make it sound like a higher bar.
Access to compressed files means nothing. That sentence should just read “the risk is limited to those able to access the dark web”. Which frankly isn’t much of a relief!
What on earth does your bizarre experiment have to do with what the other poster suggested?
All they’re saying is the newbie might get some tips and ideas for how to solve their problem, where they’d previously had to read a lot of docs or consult someone else for advice.
We can argue about whether that’s good or not - imo reading docs and asking for help are both good skills to nurture - but I’ve got no idea what you think your experiment demonstrates
Decent interview, cheers.
I might not agree with a bunch of what he says but it’s nice that he’s at least aware of the points of difference and has his reasons for why they’re taking the path they are. Too many interviews are just “we’re right, critics are wrong”.
I’ve not really played with immutable installs. If the Ubuntu one is a way off, what’s the best in class at the moment?
Surprised myself but I’m with Anthropic here. If the repo is archived and the concern is that it’s been forked, there’s very little that them pushing a fix to it would achieve. The forks simply won’t pick it up.
This feels a bit like blaming stack overflow for hosting a bad answer. Sure, it’d be better if it wasn’t there but it’s on you if you copy example code and it does something dumb. This wasn’t exactly released software.
If I was anthropic I’d just shrug and delete the repo “fixed”
Oh no, really?
Can they just not see that lots of people will already have been put off my having to choose a distro (“I thought I was choosing Linux…”). And the ones who stick around get questioned on their philosophical beliefs around init systems? Do they actually want to just alienate every potential convert?
Feels like the whole chooser should end with a set of questions on your personal take on Gnu/Linux naming and how you feel about Stallman. That should drive the last few away…
Oh boy the reg comentariat can never just not like anything can they? Where does the hyperbolic whining come from?
It’s not a ‘toy database’. It’s not ‘awful’. You may disagree with some key decisions in it but eeesh… grow up.
And the person who “refuses to work” with MySQL? I’d rather have data integrity issues than have someone like that on my team
Reading that GitHub thread, this is an almost perfect example of how to acknowledge, handle and communicate around a serious issue.
This shouldn’t be a surprise but I’m so used now to deflection, weasel words and excuses, that the clear response and expected timelines are seriously good to see
The joy of missing out is an interesting concept. I like it, but I think I’d find it hard to embrace it.
There’s a real problem in how we’ve done away with gatekeepers, or rather, just added a lot more gatekeepers. None of us trust a single source to curate our news and knowledge for us. In some senses it’s empowering - each and every one can be an independent researcher - but in reality it’s both exhausting and a con: trusting to an algorithm doesn’t actually ensure greater transparency or variety than just reading a newspaper ever did.
As someone who worked in this space for years and years… I’m not surprised. A lot of these orgs just aren’t talking to each other and/or not listening.
We spent a lot of time pushing back against half thought through plans around data sharing and control and were frequently accused of simply being “opposed to joining up healthcare” rather than flagging up concerns that proposals were unworkable.
I am not sad that I do not work in this domain any more.
Interesting piece.
I’m not at all sure that this guy’s approach is going to be a sustainable and widely used one but it’s good to see people attacking the problem from a different angle. There’s way too much groupthink right now - we get bursts of innovation and then just a truckload of people all doing the same thing.
