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harikb
·16 dni temu·discuss
Got this toast/notification message from your desktop app.

> Added ok to your PATH — managed block in ~/.zshrc, ~/.config/fish/conf.d/open-knowledge.fish.

Took a while to see that 'ok' is the name of your product.
harikb
·27 dni temu·discuss
It is only a problem if you claim it to be an independently developed OS with no attribution to base
harikb
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Why isn't there a middle man service to do IRL verification.

Like - account is locked, you must use 2FA backup codes.

Else go to western union / 7-eleven / super-market, show ID proof, pay $10 for recovery service.

Wait 2 days (of someone not clicking on this-was-not-me)

If account is already hacked - pay $100 for expert support
harikb
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Laptop without internet access, sure. Pencil and paper? that is brutal :)
harikb
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Well, you don't know how many more would have died if doctors and hospital didn't care about their insurance going higher???
harikb
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
> It's interesting that it's the universities being ransomed, while the technical failure was Instructure's.

My guess would be they get likelihood of getting paid when blackmailing 9,000 schools (at least a few would pay up) than blackmailing Canvas/Instructure.

I don't think any SLA/terms would change who gets to feel the pain.
harikb
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
The guy who bought friendster.com lurks here
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Is the last photo on that page, describing the cabling, a screenshot of another photo displayed using flipdiscs? that is a whole lot of discs!!
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
On the credentials point. Here is what I find.

Day 1: Carefully handles the creds, gives me a lecture (without asking) about why .env should be in .gitignore and why I should edit .env and not hand over the creds to it.

Day 2: I ask for a repeat, has lost track of that skill or setting, frantically searches my entire disk, reads .env including many other files, understands that it is holding a token, manually creates curl commands to test the token and then comes back with some result.

It is like it is a security expert on Day 1 and absolute mediocre intern on Day 2
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
> with secrets possibly baked into source

please don't suggest this. The right way is to have the creds fetched from a vault, which is programmed to release the creds auth-free to your VM (with machine level identify managed by the parent platform)

This is how Google Secrets or AWS Vaults work.
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
The providers themselves can't keep this straight even within their own ecosystem. Plus everyone is running at a million miles/hour.

For example `Claude code` used to set 2 specific beta headers with some version numbers for their Max subscription to be supported.

Oauth tokens for Max plan is different from how their API keys looked. They kind of look similar, but has specific prefix that these tool pre-validate.

It is barely working at this point even within a single provider
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
A comment from the PR

> Not a serious problem, but the weekdays are wrong. For example, 18-Apr-2127 is a Friday, not Sunday.

There is now many magical dates to remember - 2126 ( I think PR was updated after that comment) and 2177. There is also 2028 also somewhere.
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
The only people panicking are probably those state level actors who were using these for their own benefit.
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Somewhat unrelated to the language itself:

> The compiler bootstraps through 3+ generations of self-compilation.

I guess it applies to any language compiler, but f you are self-hosting, you will naturally release binary packages. Please make sure you have enough support behind the project to setup secure build pipeline. As a user, we will never be able to see something even one nesting-level up.
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Thank you for PartitionMagic!! I remember using it to undo whatever disk partitioning mistake I did when originally setting up a machine :)
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I struggled with disappearing icons (like our company VPN client - which wasn't tailscale by the way) thinking the app was somehow "stuck". I would go kill the app, restart machine etc - during restart it would get fixed "automatically" by being an app earlier in the order!

Took me months to figure out it was running afterall and just hidden by the notch.

How hard is for apple to move the "least used icons" to a fold? (but still accessible)
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Somewhat counter quote...

"Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats." -- Howard Aiken

...to mean that, usually, the good ideas are the crazy sounding ones...
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Not everything done by claude-code is decided by LLM. They need the wrapper to be deterministic (or one-time generated) code?
harikb
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
He was told, he had a call from Pope
harikb
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I think the point would be that - some random upcoming revision of claude-code could remove or simply change the config name just as silently as it was introduced.

People might genuinely want some other software to do the sandboxing. Something other than the fox.