Deborah

Bosch noooooooo.

People Stop Buying $4000 Appliances Whose Features Can Be Bricked From Corporate Challenge has ended due to lack of contestants. People Stop Buying Appliances Where It Can Set Something On Fire If It Mixes Your Data With Someone At A Different Altitude Challenge has begun.

I am not a penis-haver and when I read that article my own parts shriveled up in sympathetic horror.

I pay them, they’re doing god’s work.

In the micro, it’s usually the correct choice to have SaaS everywhere. I don’t mean the anti-labor parts like “outsource your entire [X] department to a SaaS product”, but for infrastructure? Akamai, azure, AWS, google, cloudflare, etc. are all vastly more qualified, because of scale, to manage the threat landscape. And once you’re in that ecosystem why not tie yourself into it tighter and tighter? The next thing you know US-East-1 goes down & your entire crisis mitigation system is busted.

Thankfully, I am not. I have lived well.

I mean, do any other package managers work this way? Pypi disallows complete removal from the index to prevent malware namesquatting, but nothing in pypi as a tool requires dependencies exist or be functional.

Galloway knows less about tech than Swisher and supported Bloomberg for president, seriously so insufferable he makes her look good by comparison.

(And when I was an adjunct, I tried to make my students *stop* calling me professor, it felt like lying to accept it.)

Is this supposed to be an own of the woman? I am so confused.

Until I got to the end, I actually assumed “we’re ethical hackers” meant that they were aging X-ers who’d been aspiring to some Cult of the Dead Cow shit since they were script kiddies in the 90s, not “we’re literally children”. I legit didn’t realize the Youth still talked that way; it’s off putting but almost reassuringly anarchist. Be gay, do NPM crimes, kids!

They definitely overreacted to github’s scold, though.

Can’t uninstall if you’re anyone’s dependency? That’s a social problem; if an underlying package goes away or breaks, then yes, the downstream packages need to update (and JS needs a frickin stdlib so people stop importing 12-line string formatters).

Can’t uninstall if you’re someone’s wildcard dependency? That’s a bug.

Can’t uninstall if you depend on self? Massive bug.

The kik naming thing? I find package namespacing irritating but it solves that problem.

I kept stopping while reading to rant about how each turn of the story reinforced my notion that the npm ecosystem will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

Ooh I’m getting some fun results with this search: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2024&q=%22certainly,+here%22±chatgpt&hl=en&as_sdt=0,22

But yeah, there’s a huge scandal, just … not one that’s changing anything.

oh there’s a massive controversy about it. The Chronicle of Higher Ed’s been super mad, Retraction Watch has been on fire, and every librarian group text I’m on is sending around enraged examples every day. But the barrel over which the big scholarly publishers have academia is a difficult one to address without cooperation from professors – and this system is *working* for professors.

Well, I suppose a con where HP readings aren’t considered gauche these days is… no, still not a con where HPMOR is considered good writing.

Oh that was my mom with high fructose corn syrup.

if goatse is the acausal robot god then call me roko, I’m a doomer now.

If it weren’t dated 1981 I’d be making some uh assumptions about the cover of this issue: https://archive.org/details/processedworld03proc/mode/2up?view=theater

It’s like the filter I have to add to any research about anything with an overlap on healthy food (90% of it is new age grifters, manosphere or wooanon, or fatphobia & ableism); gardening, especially native plant gardening (a substantial minority is the intersection of woo-woo and NIMBYs); or martial arts (either manosphere or wooanon, depending on the gender breakdown of the martial art). So much crank.

Every introduction to Kara Swisher should start with “Swisher, who thought Musk was an iconoclastic genius until he was rude to her”.