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Arbortheus
·上個月·discuss
I remember it was very common when the UK was in the EU to have employers get you to opt-out from the European Time Directive.
Arbortheus
·2 個月前·discuss
Fed up and bored of this
Arbortheus
·2 個月前·discuss
That is not unheard of at a large software company.
Arbortheus
·2 個月前·discuss
Repos should not contain customer data.
Arbortheus
·2 個月前·discuss
Sounds like a great way to have outages because you can’t tell what legacy features are still in use or not. Or even worse, not being able to ever refactor or clean up because you have no means to discover your dependencies.
Arbortheus
·3 個月前·discuss
Did lingscars get rid of their crazy website?
Arbortheus
·3 個月前·discuss
Microservices without a monorepo is hell
Arbortheus
·3 個月前·discuss
I’m fed up of Americans telling me London is full of knife crime when the stats say that it is much worse in the USA.

The situation is even improving, UK homicide rates are at the lowest level in 50 years [1].

Not to mention that the USA has an entire category of gun crime which is a non-issue in the UK.

I swear to you, London is not an unsafe city.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk86rr0vxyo
Arbortheus
·3 個月前·discuss
I use GCP, but it also has the idea of a metadata server. When you use a Google Cloud library in your server code like PubSub or Firestore or GCS or BigQuery, it is automatically authenticated as the service account you assigned to that VM (or K8S deployment).

This is because the metadata server provides an access token for the service account you assigned. Internally, those client libraries automatically retrieve the access token and therefore auth to those services.
Arbortheus
·3 個月前·discuss
What’s it like to work on the frontier of AI model creation? What do you do in your typical day?

I’ve been really enjoying using frontier LLMs in my work, but really have no idea what goes into making one.
Arbortheus
·4 個月前·discuss
Not game dev related, but I program in both Go and Python, and there really is no difference in my feedback loop / iteration because Go builds are so fast and cache unchanged parts.
Arbortheus
·5 個月前·discuss
It seems to be correct now
Arbortheus
·5 個月前·discuss
I also have to run Defender on my MacBook at work.

If you have access to the Defender settings, I found it to be much better after setting an exclusion for the folder that you clone your git repositories to. You can also set exclusions for the git binary and your IDE.
Arbortheus
·5 個月前·discuss
There are two solutions GitHub Actions people will tell you about. Both are fundamentally flawed because GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst [1].

One thing people will say is to pin the commit SHA, so don't do "uses: randomAuthor/some-normal-action@v1", instead do "uses: randomAuthor/some-normal-action@e20fd1d81c3f403df57f5f06e2aa9653a6a60763". Alternatively, just fork the action into your own GitHub account and import that instead.

However, neither of these "solutions" work, because they do not pin the transitive dependencies.

Suppose I pin the action at a SHA or fork it, but that action still imports "tj-actions/changed-files". In that case, you would have still been pwned in the "tj-actions/changed-files" incident [2].

The only way to be sure is to manually traverse the dependency hierarchy, forking each action as you go down the "tree" and updating every action to only depend on code you control.

In other package managers, this is solved with a lockfile - go.sum, yarn.lock, ...

[1] https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager...

[2] https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/github-actions-supply-ch...
Arbortheus
·5 個月前·discuss
London has loads of exceptional museums that are completely free. If you ever have the chance to visit the city, do try to take advantage!
Arbortheus
·5 個月前·discuss
I prefer “—really-do”, so the default behaviour of the tool is to do nothing. That’s more fault tolerant for the scenario you forget to add “—dry-run”.
Arbortheus
·6 個月前·discuss
Do those same banks have websites that you can access from a computer with root access? Most likely, yes.
Arbortheus
·6 個月前·discuss
I agree with the CEO, while also feeling a bit nauseous at the MAGA Musk suck-up at the end - I suppose this is the game you have to play with this current administration.
Arbortheus
·6 個月前·discuss
It would be nice. Our security team started complaining that we serve a 301 redirect on port 80 for our website (just like 99.9% of websites do... sigh) and wanted port 80 shut down.

To appease them, I switched the redirect off in dev/staging, and soon enough even devs are having trouble accessing the site because they type 'website.com' and that can't resolve, only 'https://website.com' can.

(And before you say it, yes we use HSTS, but I presume there were some scenarios where that wasn't already cached/hit).
Arbortheus
·7 個月前·discuss
In my home media setup (LG UQ81 TV, WiiM Amp via ARC, Xbox Series X, Chromecast with Google TV), the CEC setup _almost_ works perfectly.

* I can use the LG TV’s remote alone to control everything including the Chromecast and amp’s volume controls.

* The amp automatically switches on and off with the TV.

* Turning the Xbox on/off via its controller also turns on/off the TV and the amplifier together.

Mostly good, except sometimes when I have my Chromecast on and switch the Xbox on via the controller it gets stuck in an endless loop of flicking back and forth between HDMI 1 and HDMI 2, between Chromecast and Xbox. Nothing I can do will stop it except to power cycle the TV.

If anyone has experienced anything similar or has any tips on how to debug this that would be much appreciated!