Justin Beasley

@peeplaja Agreed, but in a world where compliance theater is required, dealing with SOC2 via tools like Vanta is at least way less painful than without. Not cheaper, but at least less painful. But I feel like AI is about to show everyone just how fragile control-based compliance is.

What I want to see disrupted the most is SOC2. What an extortion/scam that is.

@HarrisonAmy You'll know for sure if you wake up tomorrow in a bathtub of ice missing a kidney 😂

Got a model combine harvester online that came with two “farmers”. For some reason one has a knife and one has a gun. What are they harvesting??!!

@lsanger Surprised by the almost complete lack of Omarchy in these replies (maybe because of the term "distro"?)

It is time to abandon Ubuntu, which has abandoned its OSS principles. There are plenty of other solid distros.

@unclebobmartin Think of it as very expensive rubber duck debugging 😂

Just chased a lovely bug. Claude insisted that it was working properly but it was clearly not. Because I understood the architecture of the system I was able to start asking it probing questions. Then it saw the problem.

@cgenco We did opt to return a unique error code (a 419 which is the common CSRF mismatch code in several PHP frameworks already, inc. Laravel). Thus far the only thing we've lost is annoying false-positives and a bunch of async token refresh requests we don't have to handle anymore! :)

@cgenco We dropped it completely since we don't support legacy browsers (e.g. IE11/Edge Legacy Mode). Most other scripting use cases could be handled otherwise or exist outside our primary app (e.g. Cloud Functions invoked from internal services). A couple routes we disabled the check.

Rails 8.2 will use Sec-Fetch-Site instead of cookie tokens for CSRF protection by default. Love seeing browsers compressing complexity like this. Stellar work by Rosa to extract this from Fizzy 👌github.com/rails/rails/pu…

"I'm an innovation consulting expert", said the man to another at the airport. No irony, dead serious 💀

@lsanger @DeplorableSEO THIS. We need to make "I used em-dashes properly before LLMs" t-shirts.

@DeplorableSEO We habitual em dash users are going, "Damn it! I WROTE THIS! I use em dashes! Correctly! Have for years!"

Serious question, for people who use LLM web interfaces for serious document editing: What is your favorite model for this purpose at present? Why? What other models have you tried seriously?

@lsanger I think that to achieve this (and partly because of western individualism), we also create structures with low accountability. We isolate those at the top from the average church member, and create an echo chamber of people who have the most to gain in overlooking sin.

@lsanger I think we value talent and charisma over faithfulness and character. But at its core, there's a lot of bad theology of what the Christian life is. We, like Israel of old, want a king other than the Lord—because we want our own kingdom (and want to be like the world around us).

Do we want the visible Church to be led by men ambitious for worldly power? No? Then what are we doing wrong?

@lsanger 50. Do I get a prize 😂

Lived, stayed, or visited (e.g., for a meal): 30. If you include "driving through the city limits, not just a suburb": 39. The other 11 include those I have only had a layover at or never beheld in person in any way. The place in the third category I have most often visited is Charlotte: been to the airport a zillion times, never actually been to the city. If you include suburbs, and if you add the days stayed together, I have stayed for a week or longer at 14. I have had actual home addresses in the areas of 7.

@LukeW I feel like "useful idiot" would typically be more apt in a lot of these cases 😂

the "helpful assistant" framing strikes again.

@peeplaja In my experience this is much more about the way that some orgs work with regard to trust and accounting processes. I know of one where anything on a credit card has to be personally set up by the CFO. And he won't do wires because of "security" 😂

Why would a company prefer sending checks over wiring money? A customer keeps mailing us checks that for whatever reason never get to us. Cost savings?

@peeplaja @AnalyticsNinja Even just a starting price. Let me qualify or disqualify myself for you—we'll both be better off!

@AnalyticsNinja I'm always talking in a B2B context. This one is a reference to lack of pricing on so many sites

Them: what's content that actually converts? Me: pricing.

@Svigel @lsanger @MichaelHorton_ My same thoughts, glad I'm not the only one who holds back a bit for nuance 😂 I think a key in unconditional election is that if it is God who calls those He's predestined, that call MUST be effectual (or it violates his attributes). But not all followers are saved, like Judas

As a Calvinist who holds to perseverance of the saints (not merely “eternal security” as it is popularly called), I don’t really have a problem with the statement as it is phrased, though I probably would have just said “true” because I’d probably add a few lines of nuance and emphasized the “supposedly.” Sorry to disappoint you, but you asked. :)

"Certainly true" is the correct answer. Some relevant verses: “For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.” (2 Peter 2:20) “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” (1 Corinthians 10:12) “They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.” (Luke 8:13) “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” (Matthew 7:21) There are different ways to understand what is going on in this sort of case. Some (who believe in what Calvinists call Perseverence of the Saints) say that we really are saved once for all, and that we cannot ever lose our salvation; but they say that some people should not *presume* that they are saved. This becomes difficult to apply in practice. Can we know whether we have been saved, or that our conversion was genuine? Others (who deny the Calvinist doctrine) say that when we are converted, our sins really are forgiven, but that we must stay faithful to God in order ultimately to be saved. There is an "already" and "not yet" aspect to salvation. So, on this view, we can know we are initially saved, but we can fall away or "lose our salvation"—a thing that the above verses, and others, make quite clear is possible. This has the worrisome consequence that we cannot be *certain* of our "not yet" salvation—unless we remain faithful. But then Paul did say, "Work out your salvation with fear and trembling."

@mymo AI is too risky; I just re-trained my fleet of monkeys with typewriters to vibe code for me. In assembly language.

To maximize efficiency I have set up an AI agent that vibe codes for me. I think soon we will see the first $1MM ARR company with zero employees.

@AnalyticsNinja Yeah, I don't get it. I intentionally try to follow a mix of people including those I often disagree with but who help me to think or understand how they think. I'm happy to engage in good-faith conversations with anyone. To me, a block requires extreme vulgarity or threats.

It takes quite a lot for me to block a person here.. I think that people disagreeing with my opinions can be healthy. I don't get why so many people are so quick with the block hammer.

@lsanger @elonmusk Is that not a thing? My Following tab is still chronological on the Android app and it's all I use other than following rabbit trails on reposts, trends, etc.

@elonmusk Provide a chronological feed again (why'd you get rid of it?...and perhaps in 2-3 types) and let people select which feed is their default feed.

Please post feedback for improving the 𝕏 algorithm in replies. Be as specific as possible and include examples.

@AnalyticsNinja Maybe add Unfortunate Events while we're at it

@AnalyticsNinja I want to track my Unforeseen Events

The fourth and fifth type of events, "important events" and "potentially important events" will be launching with GA5 at the end of Q3 this year.