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I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

@unusual_whales It seems insider trading doesn't really apply to you if you're in the government

@Govindtwtt The unfortunate truth is that most people are not disciplined enough to WFH. Big corps know this, they're not stupid. However, you'd have to pry it from my cold dead hands personally - I work better without the distractions of the office.

why do boomer CEOs hate remote work?

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too. Google's Play Integrity API requires hardware attestation for the strong integrity level and is gradually phasing in requiring it for the more commonly used device integrity level. Apple already has it as a requirement. Over the long term, this will increasingly lock out hardware and OS competition. The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is wrongly presented as being a security feature. Banks and government services are the main ones adopting it but Apple and Google are encouraging every service to use it. Apple's Privacy Pass brought hardware attestation to the web to help with passing captchas on their own hardware. Many people saw that as harmless since few sites would be willing to lock out non-Apple-hardware users. Apple and Google are both likely to bring broader hardware attestation to the web. Google's reCAPTCHA is planning an approach where they use Privacy Pass on Apple hardware, their own approach on Google Mobile Services Android devices and a QR code scanning system to require an iOS or Google certified Android device for Windows and other systems: support.google.com/recaptcha/answ… Banking and government services increasingly require using a mobile app where they can use attestation to force using an Apple or Google approved device and OS. Apple's privacy pass, Google's 'cancelled' Web Environment Integrity and now reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification are bringing this to the web. Current media coverage for reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification misunderstands it and the impact of it. They're bringing a hardware attestation requirement to Windows, desktop Linux, OpenBSD, etc. by requiring a QR scan from a certified smartphone to pass reCAPTCHA in some cases. They could expand it more. Control over reCAPTCHA puts Google in a position where they can require having either iOS or a certified Android device to use an enormous amount of the web. Google defines certification requirements for Android which includes forcing bundling Google Chrome, etc. It's enormously anti-competitive. Google's Play Integrity API bans using GrapheneOS despite it being far more secure than anything they permit. It also bans using any other alternative. This isn't somehow specific to an AOSP-based OS. You can't avoid this by using a mobile OS based on FreeBSD instead. You'll just be more locked out. Google's Play Integrity API permits devices with no security patches for 10 years. The device integrity level can be bypassed via spoofing but they can detect it quite well and block it once it starts being done at scale. The strong integrity level requires leaked keys from TEEs/SEs to bypass it. It doesn't provide a useful security feature, but it does lock out competition very well. Services requiring Apple App Attest or Google Play Integrity are primarily helping to lock in Apple and Google having a duopoly for mobile devices. Play Integrity is more relevant due to AOSP being open source. Governments are increasingly mandating using Apple's App Attest and Google's Play Integrity for not only their own services but also commercial services. The EU is leading the charge of making these requirements for digital payments, ID, age verification, etc. Many EU government apps require them. Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they're directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security. reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will currently work with sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS but it clearly exists to provide a way for them to start using hardware attestation on systems without it. People without an iOS or Android device will be locked out when this is required even without that. This isn't about security or any missing functionality. GrapheneOS can be verified via hardware attestation. Google bans using GrapheneOS for Play Integrity because we don't license Google Mobile Services and conform to anti-competitive rules already found to be illegal in South Korea and elsewhere. Services shouldn't ban people from using arbitrary hardware and operating systems in the first place. Google's security excuse is clearly bogus when they permit devices with no patches for 10 years but not a much more secure OS. It's for enforcing their monopolies via GMS licensing, that's all.

@mholt6 @WindowsCentral You, sir, have earned a right to judge others for slow software. ❤️ Caddy!

@WindowsCentral Why is it a Mode... what are the trade-offs... why isn't it just fast in the first place?!?

TESTED: Windows 11's upcoming "Low Latency Profile" mode brings genuine performance improvements to the OS, speeding up flyout and app launches significantly. We've benchmarked opening some apps on video with the Low Latency Profile enabled and disabled, and you can see differences in how quickly things appear. For some things, it's a fraction of a second faster, for others, it's a significant increase in speed. In our testing, this new Low Latency Profile is a major improvement in overall responsiveness when it comes to opening apps and flyouts. Our tests were conducted on a clean install of the latest Windows 11 preview build on the same hardware. windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind…

@mitchellh Love this! It's how I architect backend and iterate: completely slop the Vue frontend, align models/data/controllers/APIs by hand, then pass to FE who can just... Remove all the Vue I created. But by doing that I can skip many iterations/refactors later on.

AI slop is good, actually. Slop is what enables fast parallel experimentation. The etiquette and skill is understanding the boundaries of where slop exists and the extent to which it should be cleaned up and how. A few examples: I’m working on the internals of some system right now. The API and GUI of this thing is fully zero shame slop. It’s horrible. But it lets me focus on the core quality while shipping a usable piece of alpha quality software to testers (transparent about the slop frontend). Similarly, this system has plugins. We sent agents in Ralph loops overnight to generate dozens of plugins. The plugins are slop. The quality is bad. The plugin API/SDK is absolutely not done. But we can test a full GUI with a full plugin ecosystem. When we change the API, we can regenerate them all. The cost of change is just tokens, the velocity is incomparable to before. I built Terraform. We tested and shipped TF 0.1 with about 3 very weak providers. Because we ran out of time. Building was slow. And when we changed our SDK the cost was immense. Totally different today, 10 years later. Today, I would’ve slop generated 100 providers (again, with transparency and cleanup later, but just to prove it out). As an anti example, I would not PR this (without prior warning) to another project. I would not throw this onto customers without full review or transparency (as I’m already doing). I would not accept first pass slop. It’s almost never right. Slop is a tool. And like anything else it’s not blanket bad or good. The context is everything.

@dhh Or just figure out how to run them without using so much water. Literally the only reason it gets pushback from people where I'm from.

This is how we turn public opinion around on data centers. Make them as beautiful as temples of the past. Give them aesthetic appeal worthy of the silicon miracles performed inside.

A shoe company pivoted to AI before Ask.com did. Want a perfect domain/brand name they had for it too...

Having been part of the industry for 50 years, I can confidently report that none of this is true. Sure, writing code has a non-zero cost; this is true of any artifact. But you know what costs even more, Jonathan? Writing bad code; writing unnecessary code; writing more code than you really need simply because you think you might need it someday or you are too lazy or sloppy to clean up after yourself. Anything that costs nothing is often worth nothing as well, and results in significant unintended consequences.

@joshmanders I'm waiting for a FOSS git tool that has parity with Github Actions - Gitea is great minus the actions portion

GitLab was designed by developers with no eye for design but think they do. The UX is atrocious as if they never used their own product. I'd let GitHub lose another 5-10% uptime before I'd consider switching to BitBucket before I'd consider GitLab.

“Let’s subsidize a loss leader at a membership-only warehouse store” Just absolutely retarded

Assuming you're literate, it's a selfish way of communicating. It saves the sender a small amount of time where they can 'ummm' instead of formulating a point properly. Then the receiver has to sit through it all, spending multiples of the amount of time they'd spend to read it.

The only people who believe any of this are non-coders. I tried to build a game (an area I’m an n00b in.) The results are amusingly disastrous - I never before coded a decent game. But I’ll crack out backend services w AI rapidly - because I coded dozens of them before…

@om_patel5 Also if he thinks it's $0/mo, he's clearly not gotten his first electric bill yet.

THIS GUY REPLACED EVERY SUBSCRIPTION FOR OVER 30 SERVICES WITH A HOMELAB HE BUILT USING CLAUDE CODE he built his own self hosted version of basically every service you pay for online and runs it all from a 27U server rack in his house the goal was simple: stop renting access to your own data, stop paying monthly subscriptions for things you can run yourself, and have one private dashboard that controls everything in your digital life he opens one homepage on his browser and from there he can: > stream his entire movie and TV collection through plex or jellyfin > request a new movie through overseerr and watch it appear in his library automatically once it's downloaded and tagged > back up every photo he takes through immich (his own google photos) > store all his files through nextcloud (his own google drive) > manage his audiobooks, ebooks, music, RSS feeds, recipes, and bookmarks from one place > block ads across his entire network with adguard home > see live grafana stats for every machine running in his house at any moment and a lot more the homepage dashboard even shows the current weather, his calendar, system stats, download queues, library counts, and shortcuts to every service he uses the hardware list: > netgate 1100 router running pfsense+ for firewall, DHCP, DNS, and VLANs > tp-link 8 port managed switch > tp-link archer C6 access point > raspberry pi 4 dedicated to a full screen grafana dashboard > HP laptop with i3 11th gen and 24GB RAM running proxmox VE as the main hypervisor > compaq laptop with a core 2 duo and 4GB RAM running proxmox backup server > tower PC with a core 2 duo running unraid for the NAS the proxmox VE box runs every self hosted service inside a debian VM with docker compose. backups run on a schedule with chunk based deduplication. unraid handles all the storage with mixed drive sizes and a single parity drive every device is on a tailscale tailnet so he can hit anything from anywhere in the world without poking holes in his firewall then he built his own private streaming empire on top of it: > plex and jellyfin pointing at the same library > overseerr to request movies and shows > radarr, sonarr, lidarr, readarr managing different media types > prowlarr indexing everything > sabnzbd and qbittorrent handling the downloads > bazarr pulling subtitles automatically > tautulli for plex stats > trailarr for trailers then the rest of the stack: > nextcloud replaces google drive > immich replaces google photos > paperless-ngx for OCR document management > adguard home blocks ads across the entire network > miniflux for RSS, karakeep for bookmarks > mealie for recipes, navidrome for music, audiobookshelf for audiobooks > calibre for ebooks, code server for VS code in the browser > stirling PDF, IT tools, microbin, searxng, pairdrop every service surfaces through homepage, a self hosted dashboard he built tooling around to auto generate the YAML config (made with claude code) this guy is paying $0 a month for what most people pay $200+ in subscriptions for and had an initial setup cost of ~1000 to 1500 USD the homelab community is quietly the most overpowered and cracked group of builders on the internet

@drewfallon12 @ChrisGorges can do a lot better...

just paid an agency $6k for a deck and got a claude output 😭

How is it not false advertising to say "$3.99/mo flat." * Renews at 17.99/mo

The Swoole team are working on an AOT (Ahead-of-Time) compiler for PHP, i.e. transpiling PHP to C++ then compiling to NATIVE binaries🤯 These guys are mad scientists in the best sense of the word🔥 x.com/albert_cht/sta…

@Wendys why did you ruin your chicken sandwiches? They're worse than McDonald's chicken now 😭

@jackmcdade Would be cool if collaboration worked with Runway since our content is mixed between entries and Runway :)

@amNebula42 Runway support meaning what, exactly?

Built this for Statamic's 1st party Collaboration addon today. Whatcha think?