Some engineers say “No,” and mean “No, we can’t.” Some engineers say “No,” and mean “No, but now I will think about it a lot.” The latter sometimes change to Yes delightfully unexpectedly.
no sure, but let's not forget the time Obama wore a tan suit
Sarah O'Connor@sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 7mo agoOnce upon a time, a President of the United States saying "fuck you" and raising his middle finger to an American factory worker would be front page news around the world. Now it's a "colour lede" on a business analysis. www.ft.com/content/36ab...
What's funny is you can tell exactly why it output this string. When it stole literally all of Stack Overflow, it stole tons and tons of people's explanations of how to make a program that produces random character strings. One of the easiest ways to do so, contains *this* ASCII string.
K. Thor Jensen@kthorjensen.bsky.social · last yr.Lmao this rules so hard
GitHub Actions charging per build minute for *self-hosted-runners*? Shit's about to hit the fan lol
An iPhone has so many privacy and security features that it’s very easy to miss them. Now’s a good time to dive in and get to know them all. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
How to: Get to Know iPhone Privacy and Security Settings
Open up your iPhone’s Settings app and you’ll find dozens of different options with little guidance on what those options do. Some of these settings have a serious impact on your privacy and security, altering what data gets shared automatically with apps, data brokers, and Apple itself. What sorts of...
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I am reminded of an IT manager who put a list together in Excel, printed it out and then added it up using a calculator on their desk...
The Register@theregister.com · 11mo agoWord to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel
Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic
![4-panel Comic. (1) STUDENT: If the wavefunction only collapses when I observe it, does that mean my consciousness affects the universe? (2) [Bad:] PROFESSOR: Yes, quantum entanglement proves that we all have souls. (3) [Good:] PROFESSOR: No, consciousness plays no role here. It’s just physical measurement. (4) [Chaotic:] PROFESSOR: No. The wavefunction collapses when *I* look at it because I’m a full professor. It won’t collapse for an undergraduate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic2mhmdvsftki6qe275hycolgt22msekbwzdyqoujt56qzpcbm3hm)
PSA: go apply the urgent security update to your Apple devices. Don’t wait. Do it right now
Update Now: iOS 18.6.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability
Apple today released new iOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 18.6.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 updates, and the software addresses a security vulnerability that is...
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The evolution of "vibe coding production software as a non-dev" the last few months Success stories do exist... ones I see all come from people who are/were software engineers Learning to code / build software not a waste after all?
I'm laughing, I'm crying... I'm mostly crying www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPp...
Interview with Senior DevOps engineer 2025
YouTube video by Programmers are also human
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Oh my god... it knows all the tricks (Claude's response to failing to make a test pass for the third time)
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr."I’ll go down this thread with GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” said Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber. gizmodo.com/billionaires...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets into secret Strava wars with people.
fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · last yr.My nemesis on Strava is an old colleague I haven't spoken to in 5 years. He doesn't know it, but we are in a war to see who is quicker and covers more mileage. I have all our stats logged on a spreadsheet.
Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader that allows the crims to steal sensitive data.…
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"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning. You don’t know your code. You’re babysitting it". Indeed, a very good read, harsh but realistic.
Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · last yr.This blog is SO good at pointing out what should have been obvious about AI for coding (Copilot and others) These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on. They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.
You don't even need the graphs, the first image says it all www.ft.com/content/b418...
So much winning — in 15 charts
The fallout from ‘Liquidation Day’
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For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.