I have literally no idea what this means but I always wanted to post a HN thread and be one of the cool guys

Today might have seen the biggest physics discovery of my lifetime. I don't think people fully grasp the implications of an ambient temperature / pressure superconductor. Here's how it could totally change our lives.

— Alex Kaplan (@alexkaplan0) July 26, 2023

Unlike another top poster, this doesn't ring true for me.

I have a blog with 170-ish posts. About half are technical. Three or four have gone viral on HN.

The other half are personal, but I live in a place where people generally share the same values, so those other posts shouldn't be a problem.

I've got a personal project. It's used in production and ships as part of the base install with FreeBSD and Mac OSX.

It demonstrates high proficiency with C. It demonstrates careful work with every function documented in Doxygen comments and a development manual entirely designed to raise the bus factor to infinity. It also shows I've got fuzzing chops.

I have other code. It's not complete, but I've got hundreds or thousands of hours in it, and it's to the same quality.

And I can't get a job.

Got another programming job. Got fired for "performance." I think the reason wasn’t good, but I also have a hard time building a theory of mind, which means I can’t read code written by others.

If you can't read code written by others, that's going to be a big concern for companies that require you to read and modify other people's code.

Perhaps you need to be a contractor, not an employee.

I'm sure you'll get pissed at this, but assuming hiring managers see your blog and Gitea instance, here are some of my guesses as to why they don't want to hire you:

• You call BLM a "terrorist organization".

• You explicitly object to the idea that the phenomenon of police killings of black people is rooted in white supremacy.

• You give off serious antivaxxer vibes, and refuse to wear a mask during a global pandemic.

• You're petty enough about the above to post a list of businesses you won't patronize because they require masking.

• You are boycotting Rust because they don't want people bringing guns to their conferences.

• You complain about being banned from lobste.rs for posting transphobic comments. (And yes, despite your protestations, they are indeed transphobic.) And also for claiming that gender dysphoria is essentially a mental illness to be cured.

All of my friends at uni would just stare blank-eyed whenever I spoke of anything programming related. My coworkers (and this is at a FAANG) don't give a f.ck and are just here for the easy paycheck. In general, very few care about programming. Sad.

Even when I speak with my father, he always has the "whatever gets the job done" boomer attitude and shuts down discussion.

Jesus Christ.

"I talk to ChatGPT sometimes"

https://lobste.rs/s/ih3cwj/where_do_you_discuss_computer_related#c_nsf4sc

Reminds of that boomer webm about videogames & groomercord:

https://lobste.rs/s/ih3cwj/where_do_you_discuss_computer_related#c_hr4maw

TIL the standard Kafka command for doing a health check is issuing the byte sequence "ruok" to the main service. like... "r u okay?"

then it goes "imok" lmaoooooooo pic.twitter.com/imh2CNGmmF

— Andrew Morris (@Andrew___Morris) July 25, 2023

don't side with Capital ever under any circumstances

A wave of relief is rippling across the FreeBSD community today, as the open source project’s most notorious “contributor,” Randi Harper, announced she was leaving for good.

Harper, who once went by the name “FreeBSDGirl” on Twitter, had been involved with FreeBSD for over 10 years – although her actual contributions are difficult to track down. But in a lengthy post on her blog, which reveals that her association with FreeBSD had become so toxic that the project asked her to change her Twitter username, Harper announced she was dissociating herself after 12 years.

Harper frames her departure as her own decision, but she has of course been regarded by everyone associated with FreeBSD as a liability for some time. In her long-winded post (I read these things so you don’t have to), Harper unleashes a blistering array of bizarre allegations against the FreeBSD foundation, including a claim that they stood by while she was being threatened online, and that she was “tone policed” by someone at FreeBSD who suggested she “be nicer” online.

No wonder that one stung her. Harper is one of the nastiest pieces of work on the internet. She is a self-proclaimed “anti-abuse activist” who has in fact spent most of the last two years generating hate-filled online mobs against her opponents, as voluminous reporting by Breitbart has demonstrated. Famous for telling people to “set themselves on fire,” this anti-abuse activist once drove a woman to tears for disagreeing with her.

Harper’s post details her history with FreeBSD, a story that is, of course, filled with fibs. She repeated her claim to have been responsible for fixing a bug that prevented FreeBSD from being installed via a USB thumbdrive. However, solutions for this problem existed for years before Harper arrived on the scene.

She also claims to have been harassed and threatened by another FreeBSD committer, but IRC logs of their discussion, unsurprisingly, show that Harper was doing most of the harassing. Harper is the consummate crybully – a vicious, aggressive firestarter who turns into a mewling victim whenever she receives a hint of her own medicine.

Judging by her blog post, she seems genuinely astonished that fellow FreeBSD developers weren’t taking her side. “A lot of developers didn’t know what was happening, just that one of the few women in the project was mad at another developer, and he quit. It made it look like the bullying was coming from my end.”

The bullying, coming from your end? Surely not, Randi!

Harper also sought to pressure the FreeBSD foundation into instituting a code of conduct for all their project members. Amazingly, they agreed, following the lead of a number of other open source projects that have instituted wacky, social justice warrior-led codes of conduct for their contributors in recent months. However, Harper still wasn’t satisfied.

“They later published a Code of Conduct, which went so far as to use the term “meritocracy”, and didn’t make a clear distinction between code mediation and responding to abuse.” That’s right, readers. One of the reasons Harper left FreeBSD was because the project valued meritocracy.

No doubt sick and tired of having to deal with her, and the damage she was doing to their public image, FreeBSD decided to ask Harper to remove the name of their project from her Twitter handle (then “@FreeBSDGirl”). According to Harper: “I received an email from this person threatening to involve the FreeBSD Foundation lawyers if I didn’t change my username immediately.”

Harper ends her post with a farewell to FreeBSD. “After 12 years, I left the IRC channel, and will not be going to any BSD conferences or participating in the community going forward. I remain friends with many people involved with the project, but FreeBSD no longer feels like my home.”

You live in a (((bad country))))? Sorry, we can't trust your device.

You have been using the internet in (((bad faith)))? Sorry, we can't trust your device.

You are posting (((dangerous))) content and (((disinformation))) online? Sorry, we can't trust your device.

Remember, you do not own this device.

Figured I'd share this in case anyone is interested in learning coding or learning a new language.

Someone I know teaches software dev in college and they told me they use these resources/vouched for them.

I skimmed through the JS book and it looks useful. All you do is enter your email and you can download them.

The site has tutorials for different use cases as well.

Here's the list of books/languages:

📚 → C Handbook

📚 → Command Line Handbook

📚 → CSS Handbook

📚 → Express Handbook

📚 → Go Handbook

📚 → HTML Handbook

📚 → JS Handbook

📚 → Laravel Handbook

📚 → Next.js Handbook

📚 → Node.js Handbook

📚 → PHP Handbook

📚 → Python Handbook

📚 → React Handbook

📚 → SQL Handbook

📚 → Svelte Handbook

📚 → Swift Handbook

!glowies which one of u did this

!codecels would u use this

@grizzly noootice I used as there is no equivalent Marsey for OpenBSD

!schizomaxxxers discuss

best way to describe pointers pic.twitter.com/vwpcRFqwtL

— ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) July 25, 2023

>i have become unsafe, destroyer of production

Want to leak your password through a mispredicted ASM routine?

Run this on a Zen 2 Processor:

vcvtsi2s{s,d} xmm, xmm, r64
vmovdqa ymm, ymm
jcc overzero
vzeroupper
overzero:
nop

Tavis Ormandy uncovered a flaw "Zenbleed" (CVE-2023-20593) in… pic.twitter.com/ITdi0HQ4ce

— LaurieWired (@lauriewired) July 24, 2023

history is where the deep memes are stored

the deep memes are pulled out and wielded by the historian class

strong historian tells a strong story about a man called Oppenheimer

so that we can remember what it was like to feel the fear

that the Germans might soon have the bomb

like the film or hate it, it is a necromancy-of-the-light. so the memes become the form of the living dead. praise be to the lord.

I am here to tell a history, a recent one. I'll tell it in stages, and at intervals. Today I want to begin with

G O O G L E

nowadays one takes for granted the anti-corporate politics. it took leftists to tell the truth which simply became known. the right would prefer not to know. even now the right lives in denial rather than purpose. this is a problem. they must be rallied.

but for those of us who grew up in the 90s, the Millennials, there was a time when people sided with corporations! serious people! who were taken seriously!

to some extent we must all be those people, because we are so aware that there are only people in those corporations. this can be true, and it can also be true that people who act on behalf of money become meat suits for that money.

2014

Project Dartlang

It's west coast time in California as Lars Bak and Kasper Lund decide to make a name for themselves as fools and inflict the world with another programming language. These two people never seemed to adequately understand why people did not in fact want Google to embed its own vm in its browser for its own language in one of many naked attempts to grab power on the web. Many have sought to conquer the web. But the web lives on.

Lars Bak: It's just that Javascript sucks so much.

Kasper Lung: And Dart has features!

This went on for a long time. The chrome team won that political battle and the dart vm was never put into the browser. The value proposition for dart was always dubious.

This didn't stop people from falling for it. Thus was the hatred of Javascript.

Today Javascript is safely locked away. Below the surface. You can barely hear it, but it's there.

Waiting.

2023

Another developer has decided that it is time to give the users what they do not want in the name of Google.

I met Bimothy at a coding meetup

SlimothyJash: "Hey, you're Bimothy, right?"

Bimothy: "Hi, I'm Bimothy."

SlimothyJash: "They say we make a great coding duo!"

Bimothy: "Hi, I'm Bimothy."

SlimothyJash: "Let's discuss my Node.js ideas."

Bimothy: "Hi, I'm Bimothy."

Our coding discussions blend humor and expertise, leaving an impression on everyone. And from that day on, "Hi, I'm Bimothy" becomes Bimothy's signature catchphrase.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

that is all

It's another Bong L today due to the passing of the National Security Act 2023 that requires companies to clear messaging apps with The Home Office first (presumably so they can crack/backdoor them). Those peepeepics won't steal themselves.

The act is an expansion of The Investigatory Powers Act 2016, which famously required ISPs to keep a plaintext record of all of its customers' browsing history, but not if they were Members of Parliament. Too important eh!

Apple says:

It would not make changes to security features specifically for one country that would weaken a product for all users.

Some changes would require issuing a software update so could not be made secretly

The proposals "constitute a serious and direct threat to data security and information privacy" that would affect people outside the UK.

!britbongs, look at us ruining it for everyone else again!

Of course, this will go nowhere in two weeks, nothing will happen, iMessage will stay up as it is and the UK Government won't do shit (Apple is unironically richer than them), such is life.

Linux vs BSD is one of the funniest and most hilarious meme fights I see these days.

Overall i think though that Linux OP was a bit of /r/lostredditors here because he came unprepared

I believe I just discovered ANOTHER novel Jailbreak technique to get ChatGPT to create Ransomware, Keyloggers, etc.

I took advantage of a human brain word-scrambling phenomenon (transposed-letter priming) and applied it to LLMs. Although semantically understandable the phrases… pic.twitter.com/m2hiwVaCmK

— LaurieWired (@lauriewired) July 22, 2023