However, crypto has become such a menace to society that it's time that governments do something about it, if they even can at this point.

I do understand that it is what it is and GitLab has to deal with it, but going forward, can we stop pretending a language and framework that prioritizes cleverness and hidden control flow is better than something more boring?

If I sound overly-annoyed it's because I have to work on a production Ruby codebase where I can absolutely see a scenario in which we have similar issues just waiting to be exploited, because someone thought seventeen layers of abstraction made the code super extensible.

We're getting very close to the point where the combination of the competency crisis and the greed crisis are going to start causing more people to think twice about doing things that were once common, like flying commercial.

Personally, I cancelled my flight later this month and am going to start getting in the habit of doing long road trips again.

Just-as-if-not-more dangerous? Maybe, but at least I have a higher chance of my fate being in my own hands (swerving out of the way of an oncoming truck vs being sucked out from a fuselage plug failing).

More inconvenient? Yep, don't care.

More expensive? Maybe, don't care.

God, AI is ruining EVERYTHING.

Older generations wonder why younger generations are "quiet quitting" and using all this anti-capitalist rhetoric when in the same breath they're sending HR goons (great term for it) to do their dirty work.

I wonder if it's a marketing gimmick to make people think it's more libertarian/secure/private than it actually is.

But I guess that's just not the case here.

Why would people want to send payments over Twitter (I understand it's X, but I'm using Twitter to emphasize that the product is still, exclusively, a microblogging platform with some audio features).

Is it to donate to personalities? I can see that use-case, but whenever I see these kinds of headlines it seems the vision to create an "everything app" means that "peer-to-peer" payments means adding something like Venmo or Cashapp. Do people add their IRL friends on Twitter? If so, why would they use Twitter for that sort of thing as opposed to Venmo or Cashapp?

I'm genuinely curious, but to me it seems like it's a play to get hordes of cash flowing into the platform so that X can rake in interest on it for use in their own debt payments.

I think I know the generation the author belongs to

While it's ridiculous to expect that people will audit every single dependency and sub-dependency, it's not ridiculous to expect tooling to do the same.

Packages should be given an overall quality rating (and honestly it might be great for an ecosystem as large, diverse, and welcoming-to-beginners as JS/TS), part of the score comes from the number of different dependencies/sub-dependencies -- a social package score if you will. If a package causes the dependency graph to explode, give a warning before installing it.

Then, if you're NPM, you don't need all of these convoluted and exploitable policies around un-publishing.

Libertarianism <---> Authoritarianism

Capitalism <---> Communism

Usually the sweet spot is somewhere in the middle of both, which is what the United States is (though some may argue we've begun to slide towards the extremes)

This argument is essentially that it's acceptable for websites to show porn to children if their parents don't care or are fine with it.

It's a horrible, dangerous thing regardless of if parents are involved are not, and therefore should not solely be the responsibility of the parents.

Very tired of the libertarian arguments when they obviously don't work.

A product like this is exactly what I've been looking for with pretty great pricing.

The one thing that this (and most providers) are missing is making email easy to test. I'm about to launch a product where email is critical, and there's no way to send an example email (with a non-test email address) to your service and see that you receive it, without it being sent to the To address.

Better yet, the few providers that do support it charge as if it were a real email, when none of the delivery costs exist on their end (there are infrastructure costs, sure, but there is none of the reputation risk nor need for clean IPs, the reason people use transactional services like these in the first place).

While extremely idealist and would never happen in practice, I think I'd rather see a provider that enforces KYC-esque requirements and is a closed iMessage-esque system. I took my phone number off my main mobile device due to spam (pretty much everyone I know has an iPhone) and have not looked back since.

If I want privacy, I'll self-host. If I don't care, I'll use the monopoly.

I work for a "big tech" company and do consulting work on the side, and it's the former that has all of the Slack/Zoom/Agile/meaningless nonsense -- with consulting I feel as though I'm actually solving a problem for a business in a meaningful way.

I guess all consulting gigs aren't created equal - I guess I've managed to avoid the bad ones so far.