pipingdog's comments

The changes to their whatsits are likely certificate expiration related.

For the longest time the rumor was that backward compatibility was mandated (through certificate gymnastics) by Jeff because Mackenzie had a 1st gen Kindle that she adored. I reckon nobody any longer gives a shit about that.

It's important to consider that an online service's poor behavior is amortized over it's user base (or all of the users who subscribe via the service's local copy of a given feed), so it _could_ be worse, if all those users were fetching the feed themselves.

It's also the case that a service wants to ensure they have the freshest copy or impatient users could bail somewhere else, or just do it themselves.

But, there's certainly an opportunity for a service to perform analysis on feeds to see the rate at which they're likely to have more content, as well as take cues from metadata.

At the end of the day, RSS isn't a protocol, and feed providers are just as wild west as consumers.

Tangent: I have an earnest interest in learning about methods for installing software obtained from the internet which would be any more secure than this.

The lack of consensus is on what an SBOM is for. Even the NIST recommendation which came out of Executive Order 14028 had little guidance on how to apply SBOM .

At any sort of scale, it isn't clear how an SBOM shipped with each package can be consumed to any great effect.

A central database of all dependencies, on which queries and analysis can be performed, however, can be very useful, and in a large software shop, I've seen it used to rapidly get a very real sense of the company's exposure to events like the Log4j debacle.

It would be hilarious if the fear of being faked turned out to be the final blow to demands for privacy.

A replacement for artists, on the other hand... (the graphic for the article was quite obviously AI generated.)

Logging, metrics, distributed action trace.

I'll go out on a limb and propose that end-to-end encryption and many-to-many real-time multimedia communication are two things that aren't often combined in a single product.

You can read the paper too: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

The universe ends when entropy reaches maximum and all information takes the form of popular science articles.

Found it: https://fosstodon.org/@ross/109671294741113929

I recently saw a post on Mastodon where someone figured out they could build a simple Automation[1] on their iPhone to assist them in avoiding foods that contain allergies. They take a picture of the label, then the automation OCRs the text and searches for $ALLERGEN.

It seems the technology for making "screenshot APIs" a less zany proposition is emerging.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/create-an-automation-...

I use this technique to build a personal dashboard. Rather than try to scrape data, then come up with a nice presentation for it, I just find a nice representation on the web for the data I want on the dashboard, then use Puppeteer[1] to automatically screenshot the specific DOM element that contains the thing I want. Works like a champ.

[1]: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer

If you want to get a flavor of the article without being too much of a math person, you can watch the 3Blue1Brown video linked in the article, which captures a similar surprise that for certain values a formula maps exactly to a "round" quantity, then starts to diverge after a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851U557j6HE

Don't be indispensable, that's irresponsible.

> This limits collaboration to those in the Apple ecosystem.

Not only that, it limits collaboration to those running only the newest version of iOS/MacOS.

I wish people would stop using the "10x" term, as it is meaningless. Nobody can articulate what x is or even what units x should be in. I won't even start--and nor should I need to--on "engineer."

The value of a person engaged in software development is highly context dependent. In the last year as an "engineer" in my previous role, I made a single code commit. A one line configuration change as part of an ops rotation. When I announced I was leaving, my supervisor (and his supervisor) was sad. They threw me a party with a customized cake. How was my contribution being measured? I wasn't managing people. I wasn't coding. But I had "built" multiple products.

Someone once asked me "how do you explain to your parents what it is you do at work?" I replied "I can't even explain it to my boss."

People regarded as 10x in one situation will enter another situation and appear to fail miserably.

Without understanding precisely what is being measured, it is useless to try to understand why the metric is moving in whatever direction it is moving. This is hand-wringing and trying to blame the workforce for a collapsing bubble.

That there's nothing to stop another developer from coming along and putting another for loop inside it.