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Amju Wolf

@ amju_wolf @pawb.social

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  • Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code - Ars Technica

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  • I mean if you write malware "for a good cause" plenty of people will rightfully judge you for subverting their expectations, and the reasoning doesn't matter thst much. And it's not like they're completely in the wrong either.

  • Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code - Ars Technica

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  • ...but do yoz "understand libraries" by reading every line of their code, or by reading the documentation? And only in the parts you're actually interested in?

  • Systemd v261-rc1 is out with the 'birth date field'

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  • Yeah, and I'm never going to use it, just like I don't use any of the other existing fields - it doesn't matter.

  • Systemd v261-rc1 is out with the 'birth date field'

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  • No; I think these bills are terrible and should be resisted. But the outrage about (what is effectively) a database on your pc to store information that itself doesn't do anything is ridiculous.

    If abyone wants or needs to implement a system like that (could be for work,for example), that's perfectly fine. What isn't fine is the existence of the laws in the first place, and they shouldn't be resisted with (just) technology.

  • Systemd v261-rc1 is out with the 'birth date field'

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  • I could imagine a parental control setup using this information, for example. Linux is really behind in this regard and it's time it started catching up IMO.

  • The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?

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  • There are even open source tools that do the same thing.

    Also, yeah, if something solves a problem, it can be worth it to pay for it even if it's proprietary.

  • Systemd v261-rc1 is out with the 'birth date field'

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  • There are genuinely useful use cases for it, and unlike what you suggest it is completely harmless.

  • Designing Firefox for the future

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  • I don't think you understand.

    If you spoof your resolution and window size to the degree that it's undetectable you effectively have to render it in that resolution.

    Guess how websites make it so that they work on any resolution? They use relative units and whatnot that make it work that way, and all that is detectable one way or another. So you'd have to spoof it all in order to resist fingerprinting - and that is either going to break the rendering, or it's going to effectively render that website at that resolution, making it a bad experience for regular users either way.

    I do wish this was an option for more "normal" browsers, and that they resisted fingerprinting better in some other ways, but you have to make serious compromises to make it work fully.

  • The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?

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  • Soooo you're not actually arguing for cURL but for bash scripts and potentially something else.

    And now you come across all the issues that come with that, like portability, the inevitable messiness of Bash (and the fact that people actually need to learn it unlike a GUI tool that uses simple JS for scripting), and you lose all the convenience of a nice UX and stuff like validation that comes with it.

    In other words your argument is about as valid as people who argue that vim is the peak of IDEs and noone ever needs anything else. Which - I really hope - you realize is a bit crazy.

  • They just formed the biggest tech worker union in the US. The plan is to take on AI and industry layoffs

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  • Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes | Zillow asked for a preliminary injunction as real estate industry fight heats up.

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  • Commissions are perfectly fine as long as they're upfront about the price and it's not percentage based. Then you basically just pay for a service / someone's time.

    And title.search is a problem with the government... Civilized countries have national registries of who exactlx owns what, and in the best ones you can freely look it up online, too.

  • The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?

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  • That does not really work for DX... Or collaboration. Or testing. Or documentation.

  • Designing Firefox for the future

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  • ...and then your websites break, because you actually need to render them correctly.

    ...or it needs to be your actual window size, too.

  • They just formed the biggest tech worker union in the US. The plan is to take on AI and industry layoffs

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  • There are tens of millions of tech jobs, the vast, vast majority of which is doing boring stuff like running the websites you visit.

    ...and then in their free time some create platforms like the one you're on roght now, for free. So the generalization you made therr isn't that appreciated.

  • China's new homegrown gaming GPU flops in performance and price — flagship $485 LX 7G100 can't keep pace with Nvidia's older RTX 4060

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  • It's a stupid misdirection. What should be celebrated is the achievement and the trajectory they're on. This is as if the US finally took renewables seriously, reached at least the global average, and people were like "it doesn't matter because there are countries that do a 100%". No - context absolutely does matter.

  • Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"

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  • Hate is maybe the wrong word, but they're certainly naturally opposed to it. Like a fish is naturally opposed to living on land. It doesn't hate the land, but if it gets to decide you don't get any.

  • GitLab Act 2 - A letter to our customers and our investors.

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  • Besides their pipelines being miles better, they never wete that great of an alternative.

  • EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

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  • My point is that institutions like that simply should not exist. They are effectively lobbying groups (if it's nonprofit / non-governmental organization) or propaganda machines (if established by the people in power).

    Neither has any place in democracy.

    We don't need "purpose built" think tanks; we need people with actual experience, with jobs, etc. giving in their 10 cents of expertise when required.

    And they should be required only when the governmening bodies are implementing things they have been actually voted in to do. We shouldn't havr good-for-nothing "government employees" fearing to be out of job creating busywork for themselves that only perpetuates and creates layers upon layers of useless bureaucracy that nakes the average person's lives worse.

  • EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

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  • The fact that anyone with any power (and they do have the power to influence politicians, which is more than what your average citizen has) is even suggesting this should absolutely be alarming. It is "only a suggestion" now, and then next time when the politicians vote on it it might be late.

  • Technology @beehaw.org
    Amju Wolf @pawb.social

    YouTube trials DRM on all videos served to TVs (yt-dlp Github issue)

    github.com /yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563
  • Reddit @lemmy.ml
    Amju Wolf @pawb.social

    Reddit purges all NSFW subreddits

  • Thunder App @lemmy.world
    Amju Wolf @pawb.social

    How do you reply to comments without using the gesture?