Hacker News: artichokeheart

New comment by artichokeheart in "Information Security: "We Can Do It, We Just Choose Not To""

artichokeheart — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:04:08 +0000

Yep. Seen it in action.

If we store credit card information we need to be PCI compliant. Let’s outsource that then.

All stored personal information needs to be PCI compliant.

New comment by artichokeheart in "When do we stop finding new music?"

artichokeheart — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:52:24 +0000

I think the problem is that the algorithms are based on statistical probabilities from other users. I.e users who listen to X also like to listen to Y. So we’ll add Y to the queue. Then Y becomes the new reference point. I mean that is a gross simplification but essentially if your musical taste is outside of 2 standard deviations of the norm all the algorithms are gonna suck. For me they do.

New comment by artichokeheart in "Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting"

artichokeheart — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:02:20 +0000

And just to prove my point this is now on page 3.

New comment by artichokeheart in "Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting"

artichokeheart — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:36:01 +0000

The sad thing is people who should know better will still find excuses to keep using Chrome. And people with ulterior motives will help amplify their excuses.

New comment by artichokeheart in "The worst programmer I know"

artichokeheart — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 05:15:29 +0000

> A few years ago I wrote a Twitter/X thread about the best programmer I know, which I should write up as a blog post

Given that the thread is no longer visible without an account. They might want to do that sooner than later if they want people to actually read it

New comment by artichokeheart in "Richard Scarry Collection: Archive.org"

artichokeheart — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:16:43 +0000

Well damn. I loved these books as a kid but it was only your comment that made me realise that Lowly worms name was a pun. 40+ years of ignorance.

New comment by artichokeheart in "Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it"

artichokeheart — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 22:08:47 +0000

Did you actually read the article linked? There was no mention of margins. I question the motives of your comment. It reads like big tech bootlicking.

New comment by artichokeheart in "Pixar was never a masterpiece factory"

artichokeheart — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:59:02 +0000

There have only been a few Pixar movies I haven’t liked Cars 2, The Good Dinosaur and Finding Dory and not all of the others have had drawn an emotional response from me. That said anything that draws you in and makes you feel something is by definition good art. Art is completely subjective. This blog post is just another “I don’t like other people having fun” post

New comment by artichokeheart in "The Federated App Problem"

artichokeheart — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:51:35 +0000

“ why would all problematic users congregate on the same server? ”

There’s a simple answer to why server blocking is a feature of mastodon. It was built to handle a real world problem. I.e there was early on a server that was a “free speech absolutist” server that server mods wanted to block at a server level.

New comment by artichokeheart in "We Didn't Sell GitHub to Google"

artichokeheart — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:27:59 +0000

Microsoft was never evil, well not any more evil than any other company. Microsoft was a monopoly. Given what they get away with with Windows 10 and 11 one could argue they still are or at least still act like they are.

New comment by artichokeheart in "OpenAI's plans according to sama"

artichokeheart — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 03:02:31 +0000

Off-topic note Humanloop might want to redesign their logo. It's been the Australian Broadcasting Corporation logo since 1963. Maybe pick a different Lissajous curve.

New comment by artichokeheart in "'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True'"

artichokeheart — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:04:53 +0000

> Folks, we are in uncharted waters

Not really. Religion has been a thing for pretty much as long as there’s been humans.

New comment by artichokeheart in "s/bash/zsh/g"

artichokeheart — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:24:55 +0000

vscodium

New comment by artichokeheart in "One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown"

artichokeheart — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 13:55:20 +0000

It reminds me of that ancient joke: A QA engineer walks into a bar. He orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd.

First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

New comment by artichokeheart in "Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home"

artichokeheart — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:39:29 +0000

1. That is true whether you WFH or not.

2. As a contractor, yes, As an employee WFH changes nothing here, particularly in countries with worker favorable employment laws.

3. See 1.

4. True, remote workers need to maintain a 9-5ish routine. meaning that remote means you can be flexible about which 8 hours you work, but you should still stick to the 8 hours you are paid for

5. True, but you now have more time to find a social group to join, closer to home and more into things your interested in outside of work.

New comment by artichokeheart in "Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024"

artichokeheart — Thu, 27 May 2021 03:56:42 +0000

I think more pressure needs to be put on the developers in these big tech enterprises. I think the problem is that it's cash and cachet, not fear and torture, that blind them to real human impacts of what they are doing in their day job.

New comment by artichokeheart in "Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt"

artichokeheart — Wed, 05 May 2021 00:52:56 +0000

AWS employs cost obfuscation by design otherwise the default view when you open the console would show you all of your current active services. Not only is that not the case, a single screen to show you all of your current active services doesn't exist. You need to take a deep dive into cost explorer (assuming you have access in corporate land) and try to decipher in what that all means.

New comment by artichokeheart in "Firefox Replay"

artichokeheart — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:00:29 +0000

Especially as macOS users are the most likely to complain about Firefox's performance. Well, maybe that IS why

New comment by artichokeheart in "Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?"

artichokeheart — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 23:25:49 +0000

Candidates should just be given a horrible, undocumented, broken piece of legacy code and asked to fix it. Select the person who comes up with the quickest solution. That's who you want on your team when you find out there's a production issue at 4:30pm on a Friday afternoon.

New comment by artichokeheart in "Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon"

artichokeheart — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:16:04 +0000

Actually StatusNet had a good solution for discoverability groups. An equivalent is an outstanding issue for ActtivityPub https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/328