froztbyte

heh fuck you’re right, I forgot about that

heh you may be right, they certainly do appear to be that flavour of delusional

a good post all over, and something that'd be a good thing if other people also introspected their use of these things in a similar manner. I get why they don't, ofc (good lord so many tired people), but it'd be nice

now every time you use the Google Assistant, you get a popup that compels you to switch to Gemini.

this is one of the things that is so very mindbending for me. to me it is so very obvious that: because all of these things are a service, because the shape of service is subject to the whims of the organisation creating it, because that organisation will always feel the pressure of "market forces" (or in the more recent case, product desperation), these things will almost every[0] damn time result in some shit that an end-user cannot control. and yet that same person ends up reliant and expectant on these things, only for it to be ripped from their grasp, in a manner that may well amount to it being "murdered" in front of them

the state of where we're at with "service-shape" as it pertains to sociological impact is just very not good atm :|

[0] - I hesitate to say "always" here, but it's more or less what I mean

Me, 17 days ago

this really isn't a hard guess

You want my take

probably not

anyone who gets hired for slop cleanup should try to squeeze as much cash out their clients as much as possible

"people should try to get paid well"? that's your whole take? really? you thought this was worthwhile posting? not, maybe, spitballing ideas for how people should get paid well? some advice on how to negotiate with clients who are quite likely to be pennypinching types (evidenced by them trying to get as much as possible for free)? none of that, just more fluff? okay then

noted for advancements in cryptography, and “stayed impartial” (iirc not quite defending, but also not acknowledging nor distancing) when the jacob appelbaum shit hit wider knowledge

probably about all you need to know in a nutshell

the most recent shit before this when I recall seeing his name pop up was when he was causing slapfight around Kyber (ML-KEM) in the cryptography spaces, but I don’t have links at hand

ah yes, that great mark of certainty and product security, when you have to unleash pitbulls to patrol the completely not dangerous park that everyone can totally feel at ease in

(and of course I bet the damn play is a resource exhaustion attack on critics, isn’t it)

the cellebrite tools are also definitely sold to a wider set of people/orgs than they readily admit to[0]: I've personally seen one in a walk-in retail cell store here in ZA. couldn't make out the model exactly, but vendor was clearly identifiable

(at-time suspicions: that it was a lower-end model, for fielding "I lost my iphone password" type walk-ins. but still, 'twas present)

[0] - or, rather, admitted to when I last read up around them. been a while tho

iirc, spain too (~2022?)

in what seems to be a very popular theme of "maybe we can just live off defense money" for tech outfits, oura is planning to manufacture in texas for simping to the DoD

I'm struggling to sneer it, it's so fucking absurd

One of quantum’s big selling points is its purported ability to break the current encryption algorithms in use today - for a couple examples, Shor’s algorithm can reportedly double-tap public key cryptography schemes such as RSA, and Grover’s algorithm promises to supercharge brute-force attacks on symmetric-key cryptography.

once again. you're posting fluff about things you do not appear to understand at all. we already have zitron shouting loudly about things he only partly understands, we don't need another.

more widely, your posts are really starting to verge on crank spam. the sheer volume of them stands out, and that they're all this .... barely-anywhere fluff stuff doesn't help

so, for my part, I ask you: please post better

also from a number of devs who went borderline malicious compliance in "adopting tdd/testing" but didn't really grok the assignment

best advice I'd have for you is continuing with python is fine but

1. find a good mentor
2. read a lot of sourcecode (both good and bad), reason through stuff, try to understand the decisionmaking behind things

on the good, you could read code by people like glyph, hynek, projects like twisted. they have years of experience, high mark of quality, care for their work, and also do a lot of teaching

on the bad, you could read something like the code to home assistant (and/or esphome), or bits of calibre code (and calibre plugin code). I will say that these are not bad intentionally, but bad out of "someone inexperienced trying their best". it ends up creating a very particular kind of other thing.

you can, and should, learn from both

µPython is a bit of a special beast in that it's juuuust close enough (and handy enough) that it can trip you up, because there's some notable significant differences that if you spend all your effort in it first you might pick up bad habits that don't apply elsewhere (off the top of my head, some of the applicable: scoping, some arg-handling semantics, stack stuff)

other bit of advice: remember, it's all just code. especially when you deal with libraries, if some error is coming out of a thing your first instinct may be to try ask the internet but you could also dive into the library - follow the callpath, figure out what's what, see if you can figure the problem out yourself. it's often not too hard, and it gives you some good practice of code reading and reasoning