Notices by A myriad of Qyriad (qyriad@chaos.social)

“You don’t get rewarded for being extra. You don’t get any money when you save costs. You’re going to get a raise below inflation. You’re stupid for caring the way that you do. The business’ downside risk is not yours, and it’s profits are not yours either.”

Excellent article. https://www.qword.net/2023/04/30/maybe-you-should-store-passwords-in-plaintext

“One person is aware of almost 100k/mo in unnecessary spend on AWS. They don’t bother to care about it or fix it. They reason that they’ll be punished for fixing it by having to JIRA the issue, bring it into the sprint, discuss it in standup, and not be rewarded with any fraction of those savings financially. Worse yet, it may take longer than expected to fix and they may be punished for it on their performance review. They’ve known about this issue for almost eight months.”

"Apple Music is only available on unrooted Android devices"

This should actually be illegal

*most* of the time you're going to want to use the same allocator for everything, but occasionally you might e.g. know that there's a reasonably small upper bound on the memory usage of something and use a stack-backed allocator for a few specific functions

This sounds *extremely* niche to us though and I'm not sure when it would actually be beneficial

Honestly one of the more interesting things we're finding with Zig is just that there's no global allocator at all. Things that need to allocate conventionally take an allocator parameter and the application code decides what allocator to use

It does have the problem of needing to pass a helper param around and around in any wrappings APIs, which of course will bubble up if you realize late that some function deep in the call stack needs to allocate

But it's a really interesting design choice

found this classic again

youtube is A/B testing login-walling videos. a *huge* step towards internet lockdown, and they appear to be blocking accounts using their cookies for downloaders.

https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/issues/551

this is. not good.

Very glad that we can finally publicly share something we've been working on for a while: https://lix.systems/

It's still a pre-release and we're still setting things up, so this isn't an Official Announcement or anything, but it's public now 🎉

NixOS: /nix/store/sxr2igfkwhxbagri49b8krmcqz168sim-python3-3.11.8/bin/python3 /nix/store/fn63v8v8ck14f41wm56avv56c8jlp8ni-grc-1.13/bin/.grcat-wrapped conf.log

macOS, handing you its beer: /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaAccessibility.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.accessibility.mediaaccessibilityd.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.accessibility.mediaaccessibilityd

NixOS 🤝 macOS
The executable paths in your `ps` output being way too fucking long

@ShadowJonathan see also

Is there a (preferably web, self-hosted or otherwise) UI that you can just give an arbitrary Git URL and it'll give you a Github/Gitlab/Gitea/Codeberg/etc-like interface?

#LazyWebs #Git

Shoutout to @Feditext for preserving alt text on image downloads and uploads

@vyr @Lunaphied We're pretty sure Feditext is the first time we've *ever* seen an iOS app touch that field; I'd love to see more apps support it in general tbh

@TheEvilSkeleton @thisven I'm not sure what the comparison to the drug scene is supposed to be for, but mostly I think you're just bringing up something other than what I'm talking about. Criticizing our tools for being bad tools isn't the same as ensuring we're supporting what we want to support with our engineering

Don't get me wrong; I think software ethics are *incredibly* important, just not what I'm talking about here

just a general reminder: when you criticize a technology, be careful that you're not tearing down people that use it

technologies are tools, and we can be critical of a tool while understanding that there are reasons to use it, especially in the complex web of modern society

#tech #programming

@starshine same energy

@QuietMisdreavus tbh we're not willing to accept this is a generational thing. a quality search feature is good for lowering the barrier to entry, so having a good search is a good feature, but it shouldn't take priority over good navigation in general

@feditips I would be far more concerned about the legal concerns tbh. Do you have any guides on navigating that as A Person rather than a corporation with lawyers?