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New comment by nedt in "What Is a Dickover?"

nedt — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:12:49 +0000

NOYB is working on it. I think for derstandard.at it was already declared illegally with the prices they have, but it’s still ongoing.

I like to call that a mafia tactic as the framing is normally „it would be a shame if we have to sell your personal data“.

New comment by nedt in "The worst job interview I ever had"

nedt — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:02:51 +0000

Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, is so proud of they way they are working and the clear process for interviews. They invite you to a Slack channel, you get information before hand so you know exactly what they are looking for.

When I interviewed with them I've already worked with PHP for 20 years, even working on the Zend Framework, experiences in Javascript, HTML and CSS, leading projects for the longest time. But the interviewer I had seemed not to be interested very much. Shortly after the interview they threw me out of the channel, so I couldn't get to the information they shared yet they told me "Come back in a year when you are more experienced". Experienced in what? Well they never answered.

Of all interviews I had during that time they were the worst. Not really human. They saying "Automatticians are curious, driven, compassionate, tenacious, autonomous, friendly, independent, collaborative, communicative, supportive, self-motivated, and amazing with GIFs." I haven't even seen them posting a GIF.

New comment by nedt in "GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100"

nedt — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:44:34 +0000

And if you look at the bar chart you'll see 69 is almost never picked, while 67 is almost as often as 42. The whole research might be written by AI without any human review.

New comment by nedt in "How to make your text look futuristic (2016)"

nedt — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:09:27 +0000

But Star Wars isn't from the future. Does that mean there is a time loop in fonts?

New comment by nedt in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

nedt — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:26:17 +0000

Just stop calling everyone a software engineer. You can be a script kiddie, coder, developer - but all of those are not engineers. Engineering is much more than just writing the code. There is a reason why you can earn a degree in engineering - not saying a degree is automatically making you an engineer or that it's even needed.

New comment by nedt in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

nedt — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:03:28 +0000

Have been working with HTML in decades and still it's quicker to write markdown for simple documents. Now if you'd have some middle ground that would be nice. And actually there are already things like Githubs Markdown which has more features, you can embed mermaid etc. Or you'd use something like MDX (which readme.com is using internally) where you mix in components when needed - those could even be based on something like bootstrap because you might like having cards and layouts. Now the only thing missing is support in the interface. Plain HTML can already be rendered, adding a more capable Markdown shouldn't be too hard.

New comment by nedt in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

nedt — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:52:16 +0000

But then at the same time you should always update because it might fix a security vulnerability. Otherwise you end up running nodejs 10 because you don't need the new stuff.

New comment by nedt in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

nedt — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:55:03 +0000

You have a lot of private data. So running it locally makes you use less credits and then you also don't have your emails as training data for cloud models.

New comment by nedt in "The End of Eleventy"

nedt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:28:30 +0000

Wordpress can be part of a SSG setup - it's not versus.

New comment by nedt in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

nedt — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:46:52 +0000

Really seems to be a government issue. I have an app on my phone where I can generate a QR code which proves my age. Nothing else is transmitted - no birthdate or name. And it's based on an open standard. You can read any verify everything yourself. You just can't fake it as you can't sign it without the private key.

New comment by nedt in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

nedt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:39:01 +0000

Yeah, I understand where you are coming from. I'm just also thinking about the human side that is discussed here so often and having a more pessimistic view on hiring might be bad for the job market. Especially in countries that are not considered a social state. So while it's not good for the company itself it might not be so bad for people overall if those billionaire companies are wasting some of their money - at least until investors start to complain.

New comment by nedt in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

nedt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:53:23 +0000

So you are saying they shouldn't have given those 30k people a job to begin with? I don't know if that's any better.

New comment by nedt in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

nedt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:48:55 +0000

People tend to be bad in estimating the performance of others and are almost always bad in estimating their own performance. So you end up with people asking themself why it wasn't them and if they will be next. And management can't tell you you are safe, because it might change - and if they promise they can only do that once.

New comment by nedt in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

nedt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:00:32 +0000

Managers do know. Some of them are better at it than others. But even for the best it never is easy. And they are still humans, don't go to harsh on them with your blame.

New comment by nedt in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

nedt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:36:20 +0000

Now I'm curious, because we have a big server side code base using fetch(). What are you using that doesn't work with fetch? Especially since axios nowadays has a fetch adapter.

New comment by nedt in "“Your frustration is the product”"

nedt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:33:59 +0000

Also the companies selling the ad platforms aren’t knowing their own technical documentation. They tell everyone you need to load JS as heavy and blocking as possible and collect as much user data as possible because they can’t read their damn documentation. That’s also why news pages always say ad only works with massive tracking, which isn’t true and not even that effective.

New comment by nedt in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

nedt — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:21:11 +0000

Before that we had node-fetch. If you already use a dependency why not one that's pretty much what will come natively to every JS runtime soon.

New comment by nedt in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

nedt — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:10:23 +0000

They can just take the glasses off and stop being a thread. What about you?

New comment by nedt in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

nedt — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:05:05 +0000

That's more for age verification and prove of identity, especially in the real world. It's weird that the wikipedia page is talking about drivers license, because I have the Austrian app and I use it with my normal ID card.

To access government service we have something different. Here in Austria it's called ID Austria and you sign with an app when you try to access government services, but also others like health insurance etc.

New comment by nedt in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

nedt — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:54:23 +0000

If it say "punch me in the face" then you have bigger problems. And after you got recorded showing what it says to you they might be growing. Tell them what you think but don't forget "Pretty, I feel pretty, ..." - just in case.