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[–] percent@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

To me, that just looks like "move fast and break things" taken to an extreme level. Quantity ≠ quality. Honestly, I think it kinda makes the other companies look better, in terms of software quality.

(I'm going solely by the chart though; I have not installed any of these apps)

[–] percent@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah but that's a porn site, not Discord, Reddit, Instagram, X, etc. A porn site is at least understandable. I mean, people have had to show ID to buy physical porn for years, so it's at least not a new concept. (I would never upload my PII in exchange for porn, but I can at least understand the logic.)

[–] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Ah that makes sense. Personally, I tend to avoid urban areas if possible. Too much air pollution, noise pollution, light pollution, people... Maybe it's a sensory thing. I could see how it's much easier to build a public transit system when everyone's so close together though

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly, it's just so convenient to be able to get in the car and go (unless the destination's parking situation is really bad).

Americans value convenience quite a lot. We even trade our personal data for it.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I kinda wish the big companies would do the same and just block the states that pass these laws. Like, the state just loses access to a big chunk of the internet as soon as the bill passes, prompting an uproar and a learning opportunity for those lawmakers.

Obviously that's probably unrealistic, but I can dream 🙂

[–] percent@infosec.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

By verifying that they're correct...? 🤔

[–] percent@infosec.pub 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is probably a dumb question, but I'm always out of the loop: What exactly did this guy (or kid? He looks like he could be in his teens) do to piss everyone off?

I try not to ask questions that could easily be Googled, but I'd rather not search for "big balls."

[–] percent@infosec.pub 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

American here. I have seen plenty of roadkill in my lifetime, but none of it was ever a baguette.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I decided to try Cursor today (first time using any coding assistant) to refactor my sloppy NixOS config, and I'm really impressed to far. My config is so much cleaner and very well documented. It even has automated backups, a README.md, and CHANGELOG.md now!

The cost has been ~$20 so far (I'm still tinkering with it).

ETA: I also use ~~Arch~~ NixOS btw


Edit 2: I asked it "how might I streamline my deployments a little?" It wrote some nicely polished scripts that use deploy-rs, and wrote some nice documentation for it.

The script didn't work on first run, so I added the console output to the context and asked "what went wrong here?" It debugged and fixed the script, and updated the docs.

I think this has been the most frictionless NixOS experience I've had so far

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Have you ever considered not being like this?