programming Programming Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
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  • flumph flumph 3 months ago 93%

    The library hadn't had any updates in 2 years before this. Clearly it wasn't maintained. If you're a user and bothered by this super edge case "vulnerability", fork it and take on the responsibility yourself.

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  • opensource Open Source How is everyone handling the 2FA requirement for GitHub?
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  • flumph flumph 4 months ago 100%

    2FAS is open source and doesn't have a cloud presence to store data. You can use it to add 2FA to your other services as well.

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  • technology Technology Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira
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  • flumph flumph 4 months ago 100%

    I switched all my domains to Porkbun. No way I'm hanging out in Squarespace land.

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  • science science Men and women are less likely to die when treated by female doctors, study suggests
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  • flumph flumph 5 months ago 100%

    Both female and male patients had a lower patient mortality when treated by female physicians; however, the benefit of receiving care from female physicians was larger for female patients than for male patients.

    Of note, the study was conducted on 800k senior citizens.

    The findings may not be generalizable to younger populations.

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  • gaming Gaming Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months
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  • flumph flumph 5 months ago 100%

    It's a video game show that uses the rules of the video game world.

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  • technology Technology VPN by Google One is shutting down for good
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  • flumph flumph 5 months ago 100%

    I use it when I'm traveling and am on insecure WiFi.

    However, it doesn't let you pick your egress location,.so if you're trying to get to PornHub in Texas, it won't help.

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  • technology Technology AI Could Soon Replace Entry-Level Wall Street Analysts
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  • flumph flumph 5 months ago 66%

    Again, you're putting words in my mouth. I'm done engaging with you as I don't think you're conversing in good faith.

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  • technology Technology AI Could Soon Replace Entry-Level Wall Street Analysts
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  • flumph flumph 5 months ago 100%

    No one said anything is beneath senior employees.

    It's a lost opportunity when you, a staff engineer, spend your time doing something that a junior engineer could do -- instead of doing a task a junior engineer can't do.

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  • technology Technology AI Could Soon Replace Entry-Level Wall Street Analysts
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  • flumph flumph 5 months ago 100%

    It's faulty, short-sighted logic though. If every company trained juniors, only for them to jump ship in two years, there'd be a pool of trained juniors to hire from. Yes you wouldn't get your investment out of that particular person, but you'd be hiring someone else's investment.

    Beyond that, there's work that is better suited to more junior employees because it's literally a waste of the senior employees' skills.

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  • technology Technology AI Could Soon Replace Entry-Level Wall Street Analysts
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  • flumph flumph 5 months ago 100%

    Too many industries are shitting on entry level employees now.. They're easy targets for layoffs and easy targets for AI, apparently. Now they're already complaining about the lack of quality talent.

    The Great Resignation is effectively over. We’re now in the Great Talent Stagnation, where employers’ biggest concern is the lack of qualified applicants

    If you don't invest in the next set of entry-level employees, you won't have the next set of qualified employees.

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  • books Books Angry Robot launches open submission period with AI... and quickly reverses course due to community blowback
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  • flumph flumph 5 months ago 100%

    AI and LLM have earned a bad reputation in creative circles because of the push to eliminate creative jobs. Companies that want to build tools for creative communities should know this and not lean on AI-hype marketing.

    That being said, in my opinion, Storywise looks fishy as heck. It's probably a few tech bros using Azure's DIY GPT. They pinky promise not to use your manuscripts in training data, but there's no contact info on their website, including in the ToS. So when they inevitably break their promise or have a data breach, how do you sue them?

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  • opensource Open Source Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather
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  • flumph flumph 5 months ago 100%

    The release notes mention why they request each one.

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  • android Android Lawnchair 14 is here! | Lawnchair Blogs
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    Am I missing it, or is there no way to organize the Drawer, either by folder or tab?

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  • climate Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. Facebook removed every post linking to Kansas Reflector’s website, apparently in response to an op-ed about Facebook's censorship of climate-related ads
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    So we're going to ban TikTok so China can't manipulate us, but continue to allow corporations to do the same.

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  • technology Technology You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 50%

    Checkout https://infosec.exchange instead of blocking Threads, the admin made a second instance for people who wanted Threads blocked. Like 40 people migrated, lol

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  • technology Technology George Carlin Estate Settles Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Comedy Special
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    What is missing is that the podcast originally claimed it was entirely written and generated by AI. They only changed the story when they were sued.

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  • technology Technology Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 50%

    And I don't think any of their nude photos are appropriate for academic papers (unrelated to nudity research) either?

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  • technology Technology New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    Yeah. The arbitration section of the agreement specifically says it only applies to US residents.

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  • technology Technology Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 83%
    1. "Run around" = Respond to a thread that appeared in my subscriptions.
    2. "Must lick Meta's boots" = Let users decide for themselves to block Meta.

    Your hyperbole makes it obvious you have no place in a reasonable debate about this topic.

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  • technology Technology Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 69%

    I love when people conflate rights and ethics. I agree with you that no one has a right to be listed on Fedi Garden. And I still think it's not nice to pressure admins into taking choice away from users.

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  • technology Technology Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 82%

    “I don’t think it’s nice to federate with a company that has been cited in multiple independent reports of massacres/genocides,”

    And I don't think it's nice to take the choice away from users. I can block threads all on my own -- I don't need a nanny who doesn't even cite their sources.

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  • foss Free and Open Source Software Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule.
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    The purpose is to learn how to publish code that cannot be used for forking as open source.

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    I have to obligate the folks to choose whether they want to pay me or help me code.

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    ....it was not beneficial to me.

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    ...new to gaining good visibility through open source,

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  • games Games Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 83%

    Your entire comment reads as a refute of OPs criticism and an excuse for Meta's actions. If you were agreeing with OPs criticism, you would typically use phrases like "only five years".

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  • games Games Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 95%

    And? Why take active steps to stop it from working instead of just stopping technical support? Oh yeah, to get more money.

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  • programmerhumor Programmer Humor Aaargh....my eyes......my eyes......
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    Strong names are great, but (sometimes) mentioning the type of variable in the name is redundant.

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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    "Monday".length is working JavaScript and does equal 6. No print command afaik though.

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  • foss Free and Open Source Software Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule.
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    Yeah. The maintainer said in their blog post they're looking for a license that lets people read the code but not fork it. Isn't that just standard American copyright?

    Edit: Looks like they went with CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Deed (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International). So not an open source license and one that CC themselves recommends not using for software.

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  • foss Free and Open Source Software Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule.
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    This blog from the maintainer makes it clear they have no interest in open source other than to advertise their own skills

    Preparing for a New Beginning for Floorp

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  • gaming Gaming Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 50%

    Appreciate you giving credit where credit is due. It is 100% corporate greed.

    Kotaku’s editor-in-chief has resigned

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  • technology Technology Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    I'm more concerned that the company decided it was OK to meld the "From:" line of her email (asking for support) into her profile. If they think that's an appropriate way to handle PII, I don't trust them.

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  • technology Technology Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents.
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 98%

    I hate patent trolls, but I will say "it couldn't have happened to a nicer company". I hope they both go broke on legal fees.

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  • pcgaming PC Gaming Valve COO on Epic's Tim Sweeney "you mad bro?" when launching the Epic Store
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 50%

    I generally have to disagree on it being disrespectful. There's an inherent cost in any business relationship that has to be accounted for with low volume partners. Every company that offers volume discounting does it for this exact reason -- the price per piece doesn't change, but the other costs can be spread over more pieces.

    Could Valve eat some of this cost to promote indie development? Absolutely. But it's not disrespectful to price your product with volume discounts.

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  • technology Technology How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can)
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    Misread that as "cat" and thought I was in for a cute satire, not a boring dystopia.

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  • aboringdystopia A Boring Dystopia As a precaution, houses of worship in New Jersey are getting bleeding control kits
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%
    1. New Jersey distributed these kits to schools in 2020
    2. DHS isn't involved, this is FEMA and NJOHSP
    3. The Interfaith Advisory Council helps churches, synagogues, temples and mosques
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    A Boring Dystopia flumph 6 months ago 97%
    As a precaution, houses of worship in New Jersey are getting bleeding control kits whyy.org

    They encourage all worshipers to understand how to stop the bleeding if someone is shot or stabbed.

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    privacy Privacy Airbnb bans all indoor security cameras
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    Thanks for your comment. I usually travel alone and was like "why would anyone subject themselves to AirBNB." I appreciate the context and perspective.

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  • technology Technology IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 66%

    Not at all! I had to use ID.me for unemployment and it skeeved me out too.

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  • webdev Web Development Tailwind vs. normal CSS - performance and size
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 72%

    But you didn't use the word normal / plain / vanilla. You used proper, which is a loaded word.

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  • books Books Can you recommend a book for me please?
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    Most of the novellas in The Murderbot Diaries are short. If you like the first one, the rest are more of the same. And if you don't, you only invested a little time.

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  • webdev Web Development Tailwind vs. normal CSS - performance and size
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 62%

    Why the editorialized title? Why not use the one from the article?

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  • technology Technology IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states
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  • flumph flumph 6 months ago 100%

    They're working to improve login.gov to support the level of user verification needed for this service, but it isn't there yet. Hopefully next year when tax time rolls around again.

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    Technology flumph 7 months ago 93%
    The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle www.humblebundle.com

    Lose yourself in the visionary fiction of Cory Doctorow, the celebrated author and digital rights activist known for his masterful explorations of the intersection of tech and society. And help support the Electronic Frontier Foundation with your purchase.

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    D&D Next - 5e Discussion flumph 7 months ago 61%
    The Fall of Hightower (Beta) - Subclasses by Ben Brainard (TikTok Comedian) store.benbrainard.com

    Sourcebook for D&D 5e that introduces a new subclass for every single class in the game, focusing on using hit dice to power abilities.

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    Ask Experienced Devs flumph 8 months ago 100%
    How to liven up retrospectives when they've gotten uneventful / unhelpful?

    My current team runs weekly retrospectives using the Lean Coffee format. More and more, I find that the items people are bringing up aren't really important or could just be a question in Slack. For example, someone recently made a topic for how we can test credit card payments. Another topic was navel gazing about how we use Jira and multiple team members asked "what's the problem you're hoping to solve?" to which the only answer was "That's not what I've seen elsewhere". I'm beginning to think that there's something wrong with our format or prompts, in that we aren't identifying important issues for discussion. Perhaps the format is stale or there's no serious issues lingering each week? Any advice on alternative formats, how to get better feedback, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

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    DeGoogle Yourself flumph 9 months ago 90%
    Kagi doubles down on paid Brave partnership despite losing at least 0.5% of users in 1 day. And invoking Godwin's Law https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave

    "Should we not be buying VW, BMW, Siemens and Bayer technology and products today because they participated in holocaust and directly collaborated with Hitler?" -- CEO of Kagi when given feedback re: Brave partnership

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearUS
    United States | News & Politics flumph 9 months ago 93%
    Trump tells Iowans to ‘get over’ school shooting at campaign event www.theguardian.com

    Trump’s comments on the shooting that occurred about 36 hours earlier were the first he had made addressing the violence.

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