I would say yes and no. I don’t think it’s entirely horrible as a programming assistant. I used it just a week ago to perform a series of UI upgrades. I probably wouldn’t have learned anything doing it myself, just mindlessly following the upgrade guide until it’s all done. It would’ve taken me a day at least, between meetings and other distractions, but an agent did it for me, unattended, in about 5 min. I still verified functionality afterwards and fixed a couple tests.

In some respects it kind of feels like the argument I had with a coworker over the use of Lombok (a tool for injecting common but often tedious coding patterns in Java). I was on the side of not using it because some of the patterns are important to understand and not understanding the implementation can lead to misuse of them. Eventually I decided it was a “necessary evil” and that using stuff like that could free me up for tackling the stuff that is completely unique and wouldn’t be found in any library. The fun stuff.

I still hate data centers and AI revenge porn and AI scams and people that replace perfectly functioning tools and experienced workers with AI bots that aren’t nearly as reliable. But I don’t think it’s an inherently bad technology.

Technically yes, it would make it harder, but a house with unpickable locks isn’t impervious to entry. In my personal experience memory exploits aren’t the primary methods hackers use to gain access or run custom code. I think layers of protection are more effective at stopping actual damage from being done. Run custom code, but you’re still an unprivileged user. Elevate your access but you’re still in a sandbox. Break out of the sandbox but you breach memory allocation and the environment is destroyed and rebuilt. And all the while you should be tripping alerts.

It “regularly happens” in NPM because it has one of the biggest attack surfaces. You think hackers are spending a meaningful amount of time taking over abandoned Lua projects?

That could’ve been us.🖐️😢

Bu, bu, but… the subsidies are gone!

- Honda

I use Atlassian products every day.

I’m good. 😒

I’ve been using jdupes for a week or so and it’s worked well. It’s got a few options for deduplication if you just want to reclaim space and organization isn’t your priority (e.g. symlink/hardlink creation, block-level deduplication).

And if they put something like 10% of those savings back into developing more open source tech it would be a huge boost to the global community.

A shared volume could help with this but of course every container needs to be on the same version to benefit from deduplication.

I used this method and it worked great for me but the main problem was that when my screen locked it would turn off the monitor (including the virtual one). I had to set it to be always on. And if you have a monitor already plugged in I recommend using a different EDID so you can easily tell which is the virtual one.

Don’t think Docker Desktop would simplify networking, unless it added a new feature since I last used it ~2 years ago.

Bitsocial is very similar to bittorrent and inspired by bittorrent

You can’t upload media directly

Inspired by a media sharing protocol so you can not share media… 😖

Yeah, I’m a developer and my teammates don’t always follow semver standards. I try to but every now and then it’s really hard to know which is the right move. I’ve also had breaks because of minor increments and the author refused to roll back the change because the new behavior was consistent with the spec [that didn’t change].

Great idea. Automatic updates (e.g. Watchtower) make me a little nervous.

Read title and thought, “Which one was the disappointment?”

I love asking new hires about ORMs. If they don’t have anything bad to say about them I know they’ve never used them.

Not just that, but a good amount of software wouldn’t work or even install because of a direct dependency on systemd.

I was thinking it’s less about using a “zero date” and more about the Linux/Unix community protesting the change by coding a well-known date.

01/01/1970 about to be a real popular birthdate.

The EU can’t get enough BYD vehicles and conversely wouldn’t be caught dead in a Tesla. Some EU cities, maybe countries, won’t even allow our stupid ass mega-trucks either.