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Comment · 14 days ago
Sounds like an interesting take. Is it public?
Comment · 17 days ago
Demerdzhiev, Radev and their entire cabinet in general just avoid blaming Russia for some “unknown” reason as a blanket policy. Yesterday, Russia bombed two Ukrainian ships super close to Bulgaria’s waters in the Black Sea, 11 civilians died, and the PM still says we can’t make any conclusions about the perpetrators when questioned in parliament today.

I’m trying to say that the logical conclusion is to shift the responsibility explicitly to SpaceX, since otherwise you have to admit the attacks are state sponsored and you have to name the perpetrator.

Comment · 18 days ago
Using the structs for return values with `[[nodiscard]]` looks so clean.
Comment · 3 months ago
We had an incredible run with Zamund, RARBG and Arena. I’m still salty because I spent 15 years building up my ratio by repurposing old PCs as seed boxes even when I was a kid living with my parents. Too bad our govt is focused on piracy instead of the plethora of other cybercrimes that Bulgarians fall victim to on the daily.
Comment · 1 year ago
> But far from demanding more electricity personal computers have become more efficient with laptops mostly replacing large standalone boxes, and software improvements reducing waste.

If only it was true, I reckon we’re using multiple-orders of magnitude more computational per $ of business objectives simply because of the crazy abstractions. For example, I know of multiple small HFT firms that are crypto market makers with their trading bots in Python. Many banks in my country have excel macros on top of SQL extensions on top of COBOL. We’ve not reduced waste in software but rather quite the opposite.

I don’t think this is super relevant to the articles point but I think it’s an under discussed topic.

Comment · 1 year ago
It’s quite upsetting that if you want a modern car so that you utilise the newest advances in safety, you have to consent to constant tracking, enshitification, subscription services, etc. It would be really cool if you could get something like a ‘67 impala that doesn’t make ‘67 emissions and has actual seatbelts and airbags…
Comment · 1 year ago
$0 in rewards for RCE on the Windows build servers is crazy. I understand he didn’t find an actual zero-day, only a configuration issue, but still. Imagine the global havoc you can cause if you can pollute the build environment with backdoored DLLs…
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m ashamed to admit we have a discord channel for each project and we dump secrets there with access control to the channels based on who works on the project.

It’s peak startup opsec.

Comment · 1 year ago
The README itself is also very much in the style of ChatGPT. It loves the to overuse rhetorical questions.

What I find most interesting is that it apparently didn’t trigger their content filters which, at least previously, were also blocking piracy stuff.

Comment · 1 year ago
Kernel level packet filtering to avoid Spotify ads is about the same level of mental gymnastics as the GPT-generated “we’re not pirates” argument in their README.

While Spotify is obviously an immoral company, you, the person reading this, are not entitled to free 24/7 cloud-streamed music on demand. They are a business and they don’t owe that service to you on principle.

If you don’t like them as a company, there’s way to purchase the music directly (remember how we all used the iTunes Store back in the day) and there are other streaming services whose morals you might find more acceptable.

To be clear, I’m not making some grand “piracy is evil” argument, but I’m saying that to publish software enabling piracy with the justification that a business’ free service is not good enough value for you is a bit out there.

Comment · 1 year ago
Taken straight from the new regulation: “Providers of internet search engine services are not required to implement age assurance measures for end-users who are not account holders.”

How can you argue any of this is NOT in the interest of centralised surveillance and advertising identities for ADULTS when there’s such an easy way to bypass the regulation if you’re a child?

Comment · 1 year ago
Is there a write up on how you deal with the captchas?
Comment · 1 year ago
great job on zod. it’s an incredible library. also really excited about the locale errors. finally I can push the zod errors directly to the frontend. would love to take responsibility for the BG locale.

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