ottoflux

SDF is wonderful. Been supporting them for around 20 years.

I’ve been saying people need to do this for over a year. I’ve known (personally) quite a few executive leaders and while I don’t think AI is a good replacement for any _good_ person at a job, the executive team is the low hanging fruit.

We glamorize execs but at the end of the day if you watch their careers they have plenty of failures (usually) and generally fail upwards. I’ve known some amazing CTOs and VPs of engineering and they’ve brought more to the table but a lot of what the executive team does is looking at the currents in the industry and trying to make educated guesses about where things are going. Yes more than that but this is a news.y comment.

the amount of code i've seen either allowing * when it shouldn't because someone was desperately trying to make their code work is astounding.

contractors, "specialists", etc. who never took the time to read how CORS works and how simply you can handle a list of allowable sites, etc.

it's only complicated until you take the 5-10 minutes to properly understand what happens where. if you don't know, go do it now.

100% been saying this for a while now. the main thing AI will be able to replace is a C suite.

100% and I’m a software developer and have been for ~30 years. Good QA people know how to find regression and bugs _that you didn’t think about_ which is the whole reason why it shouldn’t be under “engineering” and that it should exist. One of the QA people I work with currently is one of my favorite people. They don’t always make me happy (in the moment) with their bugs or with how they decide to break the software, but in the end it makes a better, more resilient product.

(and yes — i do love a good emdash, and despise that it makes me look like AI)

I'll add that Libre Office can be great but if you already have an ecosystem you like, most of those have online editors too which can handle most of the average user needs.

Oh wow. That's wide open then, just about any of them. I run Mint on older mac hardware (happily cruising along on an 11" MacBook Air), I'm a sucker for Ubuntu's default look and feel a lot of the time - and they have a pretty large user community (as do all the major distros), and love Fedora too.

One note - a lot of the distros are Debian based (Mint/Ubuntu/etc.) vs. Red Hat (Fedora, Asahi - M1/2 Apple hardware Fedora, etc.) vs. Arch Linux.

If you're just getting started it's probably easier to get into the Debian world, but I'd advise you to dip your toes in other distros too unless you just deeply fall in love with your first pick.

(I have my 80 year old neighbor happily running Mint on their old computer to save them from having to buy a new Windows machine.)

Get off social media, and go do things you enjoy that aren’t centered around consuming.

Volunteer at a museum if you like art, etc.

You just have to go live and bump into other people living in the world.

this. despite all the ghost stories and war stories. it’s how apple sells you the watch to save you from that bear attack or that time you got trapped somewhere.

the stories are real, and in some cases you may need it — in most cases you don’t. and it clearly doesn’t always protect you.

“zero hidden costs” — lol. maybe one?

lofl. no. like… did they try any 2nd order thinking here?

for anyone else not able to get past the paywall:

from the article, only around 14% think DE&I efforts are "too much", while 54% say "about right", 17% "not sure", 15% "too little".

for thinking increasing DE&I at work is a good thing, only 47% of white people agreed while 78%, 72%, 65% (Black, Asian, Hispanic) thought so.