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I turns out none of them were

I think the real longcon of this is to seed people into a TikTok competitor using the existing meta user base who will gladly give it a try initially. It will catch plenty of the Twitter crowd and even reddit crowd but that's just a coincidence of the state of those platforms. Long term I think it will be to agrigate their more active users away from Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat into something that provides the lowest common denominator of all of them so they can slowly erode them as part of the Embrace Extend Extinguish playbook taking a cue from M$ They took the best engineers and lessons learned from the platforms they bought but ideally they don't want to maintain products that do 80% of the same functions

Let them go implement fuchsia. It will check all their boxes right before it slams into a mountain from a km to mi conversion.

I thought we handled this years ago and coming from aviation experts is rather strange that they don't know the industry has migrated away from having a singular operating system that can't die to having a series of redundant fail-safes to fall back to when it does. It's strange to see the places where the microkernel debate still rages on....and how little investment is being made by those complaining multibillion $$ international corporations into projects like fuschia, RTOS, ZephyerOS, GNU Hurd, MIT Mach (or even Darwin), or even Minix!

I think these arguments are disingenuous and while they are valid the various organizations making them seem to aggressively not want to find solutions. I smell a strong desire to hold the vanguard of what they have built until they retire and can be unconcerned with compliance...understandable to a degree but harmful in the long run to be going so fast in the wrong direction.

Maybe Linux isn't a good fit, that's fine but they clearly don't care about that, they just don't want to implement anything and Linux is a convenient scape goat to not have to contribute back into an open source project even one on a BSD license

No amount of financial cost is sufficient for these kinds of things if you wish to truly prevent them in the future. There needs to be associated criminal charges for the individuals responsible. We are all still suffering from the Equifax breach all these years later and it won't be long before another Enron shows itself and that is simply because there was never any real consequences for the people primarily responsible.

There is only one course of action here and anything short of that is deeply sad and spitting in the face of Tolkien.

This card needs to be placed in a storage container somewhere randomly in the world and opened only 20 years from now at which point a group of individuals will attempt to take it to Tongariro which was the filming location for mount doom in the movies. They will each be offered 1 million $$ to sell the card at that point but if they accept it they will get the million in half off yogurt coupons. If they actually agree to cast it into the volcano of their own volition then a team will do that safely and film it well while the "fellowship" receives the actual million they were not promised if they agreed to do this.

Technically savvy people roll their eyes at the misunderstandings around how an AI becomes "intelligent" but they also ignore the various ways that AI is as dangerous as people think it is for reasons that are unrelated.

I don't think we should be rolling our eyes at an abundance of caution among most people concerning the adoption of AI and LLM, what is the harm in carefully introducing a technology?

AI doesn't need to become sentient to overthrow the natural order of the technocratic society we are currently holding together with gum and glue, it just needs to flip a burger and pump gas...

It's sad to see a post like this get so much hate in the comments section. We all benefit greatly from an organization maintaining a stable Linux ecosystem and the idea that somehow redhat isn't entitled to give back to Linux as much as they have benefited from OSS goes to show just how much coolaid HN has been drinking as of late.

These corporate concerns are not some law of nature and it's up to us to support people when they are willing to fight for end consumers, something that modern redhat has all together abandoned

The thing I find most sad about articles like this is that it doesn't seem to actually address any of the reasons that it got this way, it blames individuals within the field not a series of MBA graduates telling you what the spec is and hiring 50 people to hit an arbitrary deadline for a software project moving in the wrong direction FAST.

It's a false dichotomy to say you only have rock stars and as this person smugly tip toes around "normal people" when in reality you don't need rock stars anymore to make good software and let's be honest... Most rock stars didn't make good software they just make it in a time when software was generally even more crap than it is now.

You want to stop suffering among us plebs? Don't advocate for goofy rockstar developer propaganda, advocate for healthy work life balance and reasonable deadlines for things that truly don't matter. Stop letting sales and marketing write your software and stop taking opinions about systems design from your project managers and "technical leads" when they do not work in these systems day to day.

If you treat engineers well and respect them before a client who will drop you the moment a new product fits their need then yes you will lose clients from time to time but if you focus on making good software and happy people then you will attract stable clients who do the same and maybe the stock holders at the top don't get the ridiculous return per year that they expect out of more shameless companies but at least you have a half decent chance of sleeping at night...

I am well aware that we live in a world where this will be borderline impossible but the first step to solving a problem is admitting it

There are so many articles that float through here that can be summed up as "do this, unless you should do that" with a title equivalent to "why you should always do this"

Does this article present findings from other projects? Does it have a personal code story? Does it use any data or even antidotal evidence to support it's claims.

The answer to all of these is NO it does not...it's just a half hearted article talking about a fundamental problem in modern programming with no real solutions other that an axe to grind that they can't even really elaborate on the origins of.

I used to run several pfsense routers, tried various forks including opnsense and they were fine but ate quite a bit of memory and didn't have great driver support. If you are like me and just need a router solution for a homelab or small office I would recommend the x86 variant of openwrt. It uses a trickle of memory and CPU and will route anything you ask it too with or without a ton of filters and sniffers. I've never looked back.

Can we stop using accident to describe the haphazard and often disingenuous policies of multi billion $ international corporations as though they are freshman writing a merge sort or something. It's not an accident when a company does it... it's a crime

This article seems to assume that this is an isolated incident or that the CEO and other CEOs in question are somehow not responsible for the murder of their consumers. This wasn't somehow being risky trying to find a solution to cold fusion or how to grow food the size of a car to solve world hunger...they wanted to skim money from the wealthy to go see a monument to the folly and decadence of wealth.

This is as true of Tesla, meta, Amazon, alphabet, M$ and apple and the reason this incident has sparked such catharsis is that it happens constantly. There is a great article to be written on why there is such hatred for these people but it has to start by admitting that people's feelings are valid and this article simply didn't have the spine to explore that idea. It was clearly written to allow the author to convince themselves of something they know they don't really believe and it doesn't deserve to be read by anybody on here, go read a vacume manual and you will find more thought provoking content.

I love IRC and I am particularly fond of terminal IRC clients. In an age when Twitter and reddit are destroying their own platforms its comforting to see a major release of something that by all accounts should be as dead as ICQ or AIM but persists through passion and pure force of will.

It's concerning the level of handwaving people do by pointing to a specification and showing how this is in accordance with it. This is not a normal way for a language to behave which is why it gets this attention. Languages shouldn't get people to accept their flaws people should push to resolve the flaws in languages.

This assumes that the suicide rate isn't increasing among a number of people in various different walks of life. Things are not going well people and farmers just know that all too we'll.

I'm surprised we still post articles from Krebs on here. I'm also surprised people think SMS is a safe mechanism for verification or validation

It's not available to purchase. I have yet to see affordable and consistant RISCV hardware availability just breadcrumbs leading to preorders or coming soon or something that costs 500$

This smells of someone who has bought into the industry wholesale and has been known to make very unreasonable deadlines throughout all of their projects. Go look at doom on Sega Saturn to see an example but there are two interpretations here

1. He is disconnected from the reality of the situation he is in where he has had total autonomy of something he loves his whole life and cannot understand the concerns of others who are the backbone of his success.

2. He is disingenuous and needs to be a voice to disuate politicians and corporations from implementing something that would negatively impact his bottom line personally.

I'll leave it up to you to think about but either is quite sad for someone who is in a position of power to reduce the suffering of millions of people by just speaking out.

I always see arguments for working faster. Never arguments for taking your time to get solutions correct even if it doesn't produce something immediately visible.

...I'm sure there is no economic correlation

I don't see managers who grow and the reason is because they often weren't growing as engineers...

The most common reason I see people become managers is because they weren't cut out for engineering work or it burnt them out over time. Many couldn't keep up with the ocean of new technologies and philosophies software has gained in the last few decades and so they are relegated to being a machine that checks email for twice a starting engineers salary.

Some managers really have done so to steward a company or team through a problem but so many more of them just want to "check out" essentially and in just a few short years loose most of the engineering context value they had and become some degree of roadblock to progress because sadly they want their cake and they want to engineer it too...they often create tasks and conversations they don't make sense or deliverables that are missing the point because they are no longer engineers no matter how badly they still want to identify as one after leaving a organic growing codebase.

I get it they have families and they are getting older and the kids coming out of college are honestly intimidating sometimes but that's a problem with the absolute lack of upward mobility within engineering and they unhealthy standards of modern corporate culture.

It's sad really. Very intelligent opinionated people slowly go from talking about solutions in concrete terms to a mix of language about deliverables, burn charts, agile, circling wagons, getting on the same page, and determining a funnel for Q4 while the software they are talking about has no unit tests and they themselves have determined that it's not part of the MVP...

If they could go back 10 years and hear themselves I wonder what they would think of the people they've become...