Notices by Saagar Jha (saagar@federated.saagarjha.com)
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One of the biggest concerns I have with relying on indie iOS software is that I have to hedge against the author being hired by Apple and never being able to update the app ever again
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The guy in front of me on Caltrain works at OpenAI and the fact that he’s spent the last ten minutes on Google writing queries with “site:reddit.com” after them tells me everything I want to know about the state of this industry
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Finally got around to reading about Private Cloud Compute and let’s just say I’m not super impressed
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The security community is going through the five stages of grief right now with the xz thing and I think a lot of people are coping with “there are technical measures that could have prevented this”. To move on, it is important to understand that this is not true in the slightest
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I have noticed a worrying trend in computer science where topics that are have surprising, non-intuitive properties are now taught as “oh, treat this as a magic black box, you will never understand it”. I hate this as people then “teach” by discouraging exploration in the space
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honestly, probably the most normal conversation I’ve had all day
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I see a lot of GitHub spam but this comment has been circling in my head for weeks
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Every argument about undefined behavior in a nutshell
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Every time I hear a news article brag about rocket scientists making navigational systems so precise that it’s like “throwing a baseball from SF to NYC and hitting a specific windowpane” I think about how exploit developers regularly hit windows on houses in the Oort cloud
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@bot @retr0id Making things people don’t want doesn’t mean you go out of business. For example, you may have removed all options that people wanted
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@bot @retr0id No I mean they are slaves to making money
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@bot @retr0id They are slaves to capitalism
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@bot @retr0id Worse, it’s Corporations
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@bot @retr0id Problem is that most people that work on proprietary software are not Online
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@retr0id In a proprietary project you can’t target your abuse at the specific person who did the bad thing though
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