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jmbwell

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jmbwell
·kemarin·discuss
I guess I mean treat it as a clear first class feature. Right now most browsers treat it as an arcane error. I’m thinking more “This is the first time you’re connecting to this site. Do you trust it?”

And later if something changes, then they can do the whole DOING SOMETHING NASTY! thing, which is effectively the experience today
jmbwell
·kemarin·discuss
I don’t know much in this space, but I find myself wishing there was a dead simple self hosted CA solution and also that trust on first use (à la ssh) was A Thing for self-managed root certs in client implementations. TOFU is such an elegant, good-enough solution for these use cases. Fixed deployment is always still an option, but in this day and age it feels so much like we are unnecessarily still dealing with solved problems
jmbwell
·10 hari yang lalu·discuss
I’m so almost here. The thing holding me back is projects that don’t do their own migrations reliably. Through no fault of their own, perhaps, though at this point I would argue LLMs should eliminate any good reason not to have alembic integrated or something. And even Home Assistant is bizarrely averse to fully automated system wide updates. Updating system and core and addons all independently is bonkers. But yes, the simplest implementation is often the best
jmbwell
·bulan lalu·discuss
I just caught myself thinking Pantos shouldn’t have answered the phone. Not in a blame the victim way, more in that never answering the phone is just good opsec at this point. The phone, the door, just don’t talk to a cop without a lawyer. They don’t come to you to be helpful to -you-.

Except in this case in a broader sense, we know about something we wouldn’t have otherwise
jmbwell
·bulan lalu·discuss
Who benefits from all this brilliant deal making who doesn’t already have plenty of money? If we are going to invent money out of paperwork maneuvers, you’d think we could invent a way to fund healthcare and schools.
jmbwell
·bulan lalu·discuss
I might argue that generating and decoding an actual NTSC signal, as the OP project does, would be true in ways that a generative model based on all of that would not be.
jmbwell
·bulan lalu·discuss
I sincerely appreciate this fidelity to fidelity
jmbwell
·bulan lalu·discuss
One of my favorite artifacts of the pre-platform era of the web. Valuable stuff presented clearly … all clearly handmade with care. Not a monetized journey conversion experience in sight
jmbwell
·bulan lalu·discuss
Exploring and at times debating is how we figure things out and share ideas.

What’s pointless is doing so in pursuit of winning rather than understanding
jmbwell
·bulan lalu·discuss
There’s the other direction too. You only get a couple toggles, and something you actually need is behind both, so you can’t not get all notifications
jmbwell
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I find this really effective. Also, “ask me questions about this one at a time until I say to stop”
jmbwell
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I’ve also moved all mine to Europe. There are ample alternatives to us-based commercial cloud.

The regulatory environment is different, so it’s worth understanding the ramifications as far as what’s expected of you if you’re operating in a different jurisdiction. It’s nothing that can’t be handled, but some may find they have to care about things they haven’t before

It’s a great exercise for shoring up independence from extractive providers

Maybe I should have AI write up an article too. Honestly, it’s not just rare, it quietly matters
jmbwell
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Indeed. Understand the principles, you can work with just about any tool
jmbwell
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I’ve been finding it difficult to hand things over to an LLM completely, and I wonder if this is part of it. I’ll let it help me organize at the beginning, and then I’ll have it come through and refactor or review, but the crafting part is where I want to spend my time. I love hitting tab but it seems like every time I do, I get this sensation like I’ve sort of time-warped into the future by a few seconds, and I wonder what I’d have written if the LLM hadn’t done it for me. At which point I’ll never know.

Great for generating volumes of output. Less great for going into a flow state and coming out with something that looks like I made it, something that I see my hand in

And yeah, maybe it’s because I never quite get into a flow state when I do it this way. Hmm
jmbwell
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The language of drama and import without meaningful substance. Words statistically likely to be used in a segue, regardless of the preceding or subsequent point. Particularly effective when it seems like you’re getting let in on a secret. Really fatiguing to read

A writing teacher once excoriated me for saying that something was important. “Don’t tell me it’s important, show me, and let me decide, and if you do your job I’ll agree”

I don’t know how a completion can tell when it needs to do this. Mostly so far it doesn’t seem capable
jmbwell
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
It does seem like an LLM’s ability to see a constraint and just say “I’ll write a quick helper to work around it” kinda wrecks some older-world assumptions. We know how to deal with remote human attackers, remote bot attackers, and to some extent local human attackers, but local self-coding bot attackers lately needs more attention than it used to. It’s not even the same category as malware

I’ve been guilty myself of building containers where everything runs as root on the assumption that the container was the relevant domain

If LLMs are involved, I can’t tell whether OS level security is suddenly more relevant, or suddenly utterly obsolete
jmbwell
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I understood it to mean, GitHub is being crushed by LLM/AI/Agentic code review and submission, not GitHub’s code itself

What I’m not seeing here but I am seeing with the Linux kernel is, most of the automatically submitted code is irrelevant or not useful

(Maybe that’s what you were getting at, apologies)
jmbwell
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
These days, I’ll take Mad magazine
jmbwell
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I struggle not to have a cynical take these days. Of course he cared about the ROI. The ROI is access to an underserved market, a halo effect, a new community of adherents, a new reason for customers to cross the moat into the ecosystem… a modest investment with a durable long term return in multiple categories.

I appreciate that it’s a win-win for Apple and for its customers, and I firmly believe that accessibility features serve everyone eventually. I’m glad that there are some billionaires who also see it that way.

I guess I just wish we didn’t have to rely on rare cases of billionaires finding it in their own best interest to happen to serve the rest of us. Especially when the actual accessibility work and everything else is actually done by a whole class of people that never make headlines just for leaving their jobs and being replaced.
jmbwell
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
“Brand” and “branding” is arguably the most important thing -not- mentioned in the article. The commercial incentives to differentiate are powerful enough to kick a lot of UX out of the way.

Now that all we do is “experience” a “journey,” it’s more about the user doing what the app wants instead of the other way around