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PSA: "GitHub Developer Fund" emails are scams

bsky.app
5 points·by jxf·10 months ago·0 comments

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jxf
·4 days ago·discuss
Can't use the Twitter links if you don't have a Twitter account. Also, why make the user click away when they're trying to understand if your product does something interesting, and why do they need an account on an unrelated service when an image/gif embed would get the message across in 5 seconds?
jxf
·4 days ago·discuss
This is one of those ideas that would really benefit from a short video demo, gif, or even a screenshot directly in the README. Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme. [0]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/15hcc4x/c...
jxf
·13 days ago·discuss
.gitignore doesn't have the same security implications.

If you fail to prevent a private key from being added to your repository, you can reverse this and purge it from the blobs and reflog as if it never happened.

If you fail to prevent OpenAI from ingesting a private key, you have created a security incident.
jxf
·13 days ago·discuss
Ping me when you're ready for Android/web users :)
jxf
·13 days ago·discuss
TIL about Windows Sandbox. Not a Windows user myself (it's the Year of Linux on the Desktop™!) but this sounds immensely useful for technical and nontechnical users -- sort of a super-disposable container with UI? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...
jxf
·last month·discuss
I'm not familiar with Metafont -- is this what you're referencing? https://ctan.org/pkg/metafont?lang=en
jxf
·last month·discuss
Let them eat crow.
jxf
·last month·discuss
This is filthy undercrow talk!
jxf
·2 months ago·discuss
> It was such a simple concept but it worked so well. Wouldn't be able to do something like that anymore due to all manner of sandboxing in action. Lost a tool, gained security.

This class of programs absolutely still exists (see: every debugger, scanmem, GameConqueror, etc.).

Sandboxing doesn't prevent processes from inspecting the memory of other processes, it just prevents the sandboxed process from doing things it shouldn't.
jxf
·2 months ago·discuss
My understanding is that it's not that the _models_ are banned, but rather the _platform_ is banned. It is acceptable to host, say, `deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b` and run it yourself, for example. It is not acceptable (to the authors of these bans) to download the DeepSeek app and run it on your work device.
jxf
·2 months ago·discuss
It's much harder to search using an AST tool for a human. It's certainly harder than grepping, for example. I use AST tools myself, but it takes a while to represent a complex structure in a big codebase when I need to look for that.
jxf
·2 months ago·discuss
> What are some other things that you think "pollutes your brain"?

Moderating posts on a public (or worse, private) forum. You will see some truly heinous, vile things.
jxf
·3 months ago·discuss
It's not always amenable to grepping. But this is a great use case for AST searches, and is part of the reason that LSP tools should really be better integrated with agents.
jxf
·4 months ago·discuss
Governments have a long, long history of using "poison to kill a third party", to use your analogy.
jxf
·5 months ago·discuss
I think Cloud Run has many nice features that Heroku's apps don't. However, Heroku's services ecosystem and the easy bindings don't have a direct Cloud Run equivalent, imo, and are inferior in the GCP world.
jxf
·5 months ago·discuss
We've been writing with our hands for thousands of years. I suspect that on balance a Butlerian Jihad against AI slop would be perfectly fine for our hands.
jxf
·6 months ago·discuss
In the mathematical sense, all functions are relations, but not all relations are functions.
jxf
·8 months ago·discuss
"Personal blogs are back", says article, without providing any data or evidence to substantiate this claim.
jxf
·8 months ago·discuss
As a native English speaker, "I'm sorry for how you feel" is patronizing. Genuine apologies acknowledge mistakes rather than invalidate feelings.
jxf
·8 months ago·discuss
Agree, containers are exactly what I want and I use them all the time. Profiles are too much isolation, like installing separate VMs to run processes in a completely isolated way when something like Docker is fine.