V0ldek

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Thanks Scott, never change.

Not to worry, he never will!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

“Do not use for anything.”

That's really harsh since I have a few bad books that are at least useful as monitor stands

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I agree with him insofar as Trump and his lackeys definitely think and act as if it was the "autocratic branch" and both the legislature and judiciary don't seem to be interested in disabusing them of that notion

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

TW: contains real chuds

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

read the study yourself

  • > ask the commenter if it's a study or a self-interested blog post
  • > they don't understand
  • > pull out illustrated diagram explaining that something hosted exclusively on the website of the for-profit business all authors are affiliated with is not the same as a peer-reviewed study published in a real venue
  • > they laugh and say "it's a good study sir"
  • > click the link
  • > it's a blog post
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is actually an accurate representation of most "gifted olympiad laureate attempting to solve a freshman CS problem on the blackboard" students I've went to uni with.

Jumps to the front after 5 seconds from the task being assigned, bluffs that the problem is trivial, tries to salvage their reasoning for 5 minutes when questioned by the tutor, turns out the theorem they said was trivial is actually false, sits down having wasted 10 minutes of everyone's time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

OpenBrain "responsibly" elects not to release its model publicly to avoid it being called "underwhelming" and, to use a technical term, "gobshite".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

It's eugenics but as a religious cult for reactionaries

Yud is that creepy nerd from your middle school who wrote disturbing fan fiction, but it wasn't just a phase and now he has the aforementioned cult

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Misogyny is the free square, easy to forget

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a fucking for profit that does this and it's used by the god damn USA Speaker of the House so that his son can monitor his fondling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey! 👋

Thanks for contributing! 🤗

Just one quick question 🤔

What ✨ the fuck ✨ are you on about?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

While all the comments are correct, i.e. what the fuck is wrong with you, this is also wrong since it immediately leaves the duck unsupervised after the first trip. So really not sure what you're trying to prove here.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm looking for recommendations of good blogs for programmers. I've been asked about what I would recommend by younger folks a few times these past few months and I realised I don't really have a good list that I could just share with them.

What I'm interested in are blogs that don't focus specifically on any particular tech but more things like Coding Horror that are just for devs in general. They don't have to be for beginners. It'd also be interesting to see which of those are most popular in our little circle, so please upvote comments that contain recommendations you agree with.

I'm implicitly assuming stuff shared by folks here is going to be sensible, well-written blogs, and not some AI shill nonsense or other tech grift.

Note that I'm specifically interested in the text medium, podcasts or YT not so much.

 

I'm not sure if this fully fits into TechTakes mission statement, but "CEO thinks it's a-okay to abuse certificate trust to sell data to advertisers" is, in my opinion, a great snapshot of what brain worms live inside those people's heads.

In short, Facebook wiretapped Snapchat by sending data through their VPN company, Onavo. Installing it on your machine would add their certificates as trusted. Onavo would then intercept all communication to Snapchat and pretend the connection is TLS-secure by forging a Snapchat certificate and signing it with its own.

"Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted, we have no analytics about them," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a 2016 email to Javier Olivan.

"Given how quickly they're growing, it seems important to figure out a new way to get reliable analytics about them," Zuckerberg continued. "Perhaps we need to do panels or write custom software. You should figure out how to do this."

Zuckerberg ordered his engineers to "think outside the box" to break TLS encryption in a way that would allow them to quietly sell data to advertisers.

I'm sure the brave programmers that came up with and implemented this nonsense were very proud of their service. Jesus fucking cinammon crunch Christ.

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