Notices by Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange), page 2

@inthehands The bet that a lot of these CXOs are making implicitly is that this will be like the transition from assembly to higher-level languages like C (I think most of them are too young and/or too disconnected to make it explicitly). And I'm not 100% sold on it but my 60% hunch is that it's not.

This, this, this.

@inthehands

As frustrating as it can be from the outside, anybody who's ever watched (or been) a developer who was like, "enh it was easier to write the library/script/tool that I needed from scratch than to use repurpose any of these several preexisting ones" has seen this in action

https://ioc.exchange/@inthehands@hachyderm.io/113641949254508839

@GossiTheDog betteridge’s law but for cybersecurity headlines

@GossiTheDog the worse it sounds , the sketchier the methods section

What I’m taking from this is that software engineers spend most of our time on engineering software, and writing code is (as expected) a relatively small portion of that work.

Imagine this for other engineering disciplines. “Wow structural engineers seem to spend most of their time on meetings and CAD and relatively little time physically building bridges! This is something AI can and should fix. I am very smart”

https://fortune.com/2024/12/05/amazon-developers-spend-hour-per-day-coding/

Now testing whether the attribution on link cards feature works, cc: @CriticalPointTV

https://warstories.criticalpoint.tv/episodes/he-won-george-hotzs-money-andrey-petrov

@skinnylatte I very much regret that I never did any fishing while I lived in California, but also it had never occurred to me that sea urchin would be, like, a thing you could just, like, collect and eat

(In the same way that I’m still flabbergasted every time I remember that lemons and limes grow on trees there)

@futurebird Malka Older calls this “narrative disorder”, which I think about every time I find myself falling into it

@mhoye By this standard Google did RSS a favor by shuttering Reader when they did

@aardvark @Mordoukna @mekkaokereke As “invariants which must be true for the system to be safe” go, “the door handles work in the event of a power outage” is a big one

@TeeCeeGee @mekkaokereke I for one look forward to some SEC enforcement actions in the marketplace of ideas to ensure a fair and level playing field for all market participants

@lindsey @mekkaokereke this is half the magic of Pride. The other half is that, hey, it’s a really good party, and only bad people don’t like a really good party

@Unixbigot At 38 and an early starter I’m pretty much the end of the generation that learned to code by typing in BASIC listings from magazines and books, and I say pretty often that it taught certain useful skills like hunting for that one-character mistake

In case you need it tonight, here’s a minute of my girlfriend’s guinea pig hanging out in a pumpkin

@tilde @Tarah although, actually, rereading your question again, dovecot alone can also speak Maildir to your filesystem and IMAP to your mail client, it may even handle filesystem actions gracefully enough, I forget

@tilde @Tarah yes although you can point a regular imap server like dovecot at the Maildir, and let offlineimap sync the Maildir.

Now that I say this I have no idea if using rsync to keep a Maildir folder in sync between computers has any horrid failure modes or not

@Tarah @tilde I think that offlineimap is what you’re looking for here, clients speak Maildir to the filesystem and the offlineimap daemon syncs it using IMAP. It works pretty great tho

@danhon any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence

A full episode transcript is available along with the audio version of the podcast here

https://warstories.criticalpoint.tv/episodes/she-missed-the-overnight-push-julia-lunetta

"Write something like you would want it to be written if you had to debug it at three in the morning, six months from now." Good advice for #coding and especially good advice for documentation. #CriticalPointWarStories

https://youtu.be/2f9ifyVxg1s