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Reddit became the best place to find technical informations. 99% of Google results are LLM generated drivel that never gets to the point and repeats other LLM generated drivel.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Threat actors known as 'Stargazer Goblin' have created a malware Distribution-as-a-Service (DaaS) from over 3,000 fake accounts on GitHub that push information-stealing malware. At least they're using version control
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Article wrote: from over 3,000 fake accounts on GitHub that push information-stealing malware.
That's only the ones they discovered
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You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way. Sharing is caring, and they really care (Forking heck!)
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And they still ask me, why am I so paranoic with some stuff 
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Your software is hurt by toxic personalities on your team. Smart jerks aren't worth it. Let's dispel the myth. Stick with the dumb jerks. There's plenty of them
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Should we have refinement meetings where we just point the people directly instead of the stories?
It sounds ridiculous on its face but I think I might actually be swayed to such a thing being good.
Skip the rigamarole and get straight to the island voting so people can sooner discover their better islands. Life is short.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Stick with the dumb jerks. There's plenty of them
Q: How do you know the dumb jerks?
A: They think they are smart.
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Additionally:
Q: How do you know the dumbest jerks?
A: They think shout they are the smartest and everyone else are dumb.
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Security awareness company KnowBe4 noticed something was fishy when the employee's company-issued Mac began loading malware. Did they at least stop other hackers from getting into networks?
Started by a (supposedly ex-)hacker, hiring hackers. Profit!
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Article wrote: Security awareness company KnowBe4 noticed something was fishy when the employee's company-issued Mac began loading malware.
I do wonder... would they have discovered it, if he had typed the malware directly in the company network instead of uploading it?
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I don’t actually think predictability is a good thing in software engineering. Insert a "Well, technically..." blurb here while pushing up my glasses
aka "If the code you write could be automated, shouldn't it be?"
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Article wrote: I don’t actually think predictability is a good thing in software engineering.
If you don't need to do something totally new, predictability can be perfectly acceptable in many contexts. Overengineering something might be as much dangerous as many other things.
Why do you need to re-invent the wheel? Better invest your time in inventing a new motor to move it more efficiently
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As junk web pages written by AI proliferate, the models that rely on that data will suffer. So, like the regular AI then?
I'm glad someone actually went out and studied it, but isn't this kind of a big duh?
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how to get money to keep us "oficially busy" for a couple of years? Just get a Murphy's law or a standard corollary and make a study from it
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Microsoft warned that some Windows devices will boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the July 2024 Windows security updates. Someone needs to be shoved into a locker
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Quote: Oh, think twice
'cause another day
for you and me in paradise
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CrowdStrike is making improvements to error handling and software rollouts. "It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools"
Looks like it's another CrowdStrike-themed newsletter
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Why don't they just rename it ClownStrike and be done with it?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Overture Maps Foundation (Overture) was founded in 2022 by Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and TomTom to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map services and products. We are here
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Does they really need to join forces to beat Google Maps?  
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CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one. Sorry you had to work all night to try to restart your business, have a coffee on us
Oh, sorry. You can't get a coffee as Starbuck's ordering system was affected by CrowdStrike.
And to add the pièce de résistance, it seems the card doesn't work: "On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled."
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IMDEA Software researchers Facundo Molina, Juan Manuel Copia and Alessandra Gorla present FIXCHECK, a novel approach to improve patch fix analysis that combines static analysis, randomized testing and large language models. Why just get the AI to write the code when you can get it to write the tests to prove it works?
What could possibly go right?
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Heh. Haven't read just yet.
I'm aware of some folks who would definitely not see it this way, but I think auto-generation of tests is a pretty good idea. A big reason though (maybe irony?) is that we cannot get this bit wrong. When we mess up a test it's like we did worse than any other kind of mess up and we did it on code we don't even have to have.
What if when I clicked Post Message, I held down a magic key combo which caused a branching on the repo with a new commit that contained tests across all logic that click caused to run?
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Proprietary code goes unpublished – but no FOSS package ever dies If they ain't broke, rewrite them anyway?
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