The noise levels everywhere in our cities overwhelms me. The constant chatter of people all around, e.g., a loud conversation in close proximity, people blasting some TikTok garbage on the train, or someone approaching me trying to sell me something when I'm simply walking - I'd rather avoid all of this.
I'm usually playing dark noise on noise cancelling earphones most of the time, and that helps me tune out the constant, stress inducing bombardment of unwelcome auditory inputs.
I want my software to work, consistently, repeatably, and predictably, every time. Whether it's the software that I use is for work - including embedded and real-time systems - or tools for personal use, the last thing I want is some "quirk of its soul" deciding that it feels like 1 + 1 == oranges, or thunderbird doesn't feel like showing me my email because it's too bored today.
Even the original author Ryo's rambling post on X [1] conflates the personal web (personal blogs), window manager UX, AI-generated code, commercial / enterprise software, testing, and boutique or hobby apps, concluding with a plea for a "path forward" that is already available today, while painting everything with the same brush.
Even back in the 1990's real software (e.g., I used VxWorks every day) was built for consistency, functionality, and repeatability, with strong QA, and the thing was expected to work.
There was a 1970's Indonesian progressive rock band called Contrapunk that released an album called "Putri Mohon Diri" [1]
You can find the recording on YT [2]
They were really unique - blending traditional Indonesian instruments, intense guitar work and classical influences.
The BBC micro was revolutionary. Had a few of these in school in the 1980's. This was the first machine I came across where you could program inline assembly, out of the box. Got me started on adventures with the amazing 6502 family, assembly language, RISC, hardware and a ton of fun things.
OAuth2.0 is for authorization, it is not an identity layer or authentication protocol. The article further conflates the purpose of OAuth with authentication types, phishing and other (valid) concerns, which are not entirely in the scope of OAuth.
There are widely used schemes (OAuth+OIDC+... etc.) that the industry is already using. The last two paragraphs are fluff. Not sure who this article is is meant for, but it's sloppy.
The user agreement T&C document is cause for concern. [1]
Specifically, sec 4.4:
4.4 You understand and agree that, unless proven otherwise, by uploading, publishing, or transmitting content using the services of this product, you irrevocably grant DeepSeek and its affiliates a non-exclusive, geographically unlimited, perpetual, royalty-free license to use (including but not limited to storing, using, copying, revising, editing, publishing, displaying, translating, distributing the aforesaid content or creating derivative works, for both commercial and non-commercial use) and to sublicense to third parties. You also grant the right to collect evidence and initiate litigation on their own behalf against third-party infringement.
Does this mean what I think it means, as a layperson? All your content can be used by them for all eternity?
There could also be a distant relationship with the Brahmi script / family [1]
Some characters have similarities. The Brahmi 𑀕 may be related to the <Gimel> 𐤂
character in the tablet. Other characters like the "tha" (the O with a dot in the middle), the (, the O, the ) and some others also appear to have common traits.
Shein sells cheap, "fast fashion" goods. They had a few pop up stores here in Singapore, selling what looked like low end knockoffs, albeit at low prices. They're selling tops and dresses for anywhere between $4.95 and $12 (Singapore dollars). I'm sure that toxic chemical safety is at the top of their list, selling at those prices.
I remember hearing about them in their early days when they were called "ZZKKO" like yet another of those random sounding shopfronts flooding amazon and peddling junk. Their mobile app looks and works pretty much the same as the other Chinese owned marketplaces like Lazada or Shopee.
Their founder appears to be following a similar trajectory too, moving from China to Singapore with a permanent residency, like the founder of Shopee. I think the Shopee founder is now a Singapore citizen. Not that there's anything wrong, this seems to be a common pattern on the Silk Road these days.
You would be interested in this if you need the 'crypto' library to work in a FIPS 140-2 compliant way. You can switch on / off this mode by setting the runtime variable GOFIPS=1 before running your Go program [1]. Nice.
It looks like the Go community officially has no plans to support FIPS140-2 any time, so I'm glad to see this alternative.
“If there’s a clear and present market reality, we need to twitch faster, like the athletes twitch faster,” he said.
“There is something to be learned from that faster-twitch, shorter wavelength execution,” he said.
Raghavan urged employees to “meet this moment” and “act with urgency based on market conditions.”
After that he goes to praise the teams working 120 hours a week, that's basically 17 hours a day.
Early in my career I'd have been angry, surprised or in denial at hearing this sort of rancid garbage. Now I see this in so many organizations, this is just a symptom of the deeper rot and top-down dysfunction.
My current and past employers are all-in with Microsoft because (like it or not) managing large corporate fleets is easier. Our Linux and Mac machines are treated as exceptions.
This has nothing to do with user experience, it's all about risk management. If we need some software on our Mac, we need to sign a waiver accepting responsibility for any security issues. With the corporate issued windows laptops the IT department is responsible for risks.
Valgrind will tell you about memory leaks and won't always behave the way it did here when there's a backdoor. In this case it just so happened that valgrind was throwing errors because the stack layout didn't match what the exploit was expecting. Otherwise valgrind would have probably worked without issues.
xz is so pervasive, I just discovered on my Mac that the (affected?) version 5.6.1 made it into homebrew. The post in the linked article says that only Linux x86-64 systems are affected, but now I'm left scratching my head whether my Mac is also in trouble, just that we don't know it yet.
Hindenburg research's entire business revolves around producing "reports" about companies, claiming fraud and manipulation, and then short-selling on a large scale. They've done this in the past, and they've been sued.
In my wildly biased opinion, companies like Hindenburg are leeches that contribute nothing to the world.
While there may be some elements of truth behind their reports, I'd take it with a large helping of salt, given the main objective of this company.
Moderate to heavy use. Not 100% heavy use. The official specs claim 15-18 hours battery life. Practically, I'd say I do about 8 hours a day and the Mac lasts a couple of days before the battery goes to single-digit percentages. With lighter use, I see nearly a week of battery life.
[Mine is an M2 16-inch MBP from last year, perhaps the M3's are somewhat better?]
In comparison, my new Dell work laptop with an Intel chip gives me about 4 hours. It's not an apples <-> apples comparison but they're in the ballpark.
Ignoring the power-guzzling data centres running Xeons at work, and talking as a layperson using a laptop, my older Intel MacBook Pro gives me 2-3 hours of battery life and heats up like a toaster, while my M2 MacBook Pro runs cool, and lasts a couple of days under moderate to heavy use before going flat. That's a huge win for me.
I paid for Affinity Photo because of its reasonably priced perpetual license, being a great alternative to Adobe's tools for my work.
Canva's business model revolves around cloud based services, and subscription licensing, and I don't see how Canva will keep both pricing models available in the long term. The linked "pledge" is just a canned public relations soundbite during this merger process, until six months later when they pull the plug and mandate subscriptions.
Call me cynical, but I've seen this happen time and again. Parallels is another product I'd been using for ages until they switched to subscriptions.
The topic is on what monks know about focus, so I'd say that any relevant monastic practices are relevant to the discussion, that includes Buddhist monks' practices on focus and mindfulness.
As to the second point - the Bible is older than Buddhism? What now?!? I'm surely in a different universe.
I'm usually playing dark noise on noise cancelling earphones most of the time, and that helps me tune out the constant, stress inducing bombardment of unwelcome auditory inputs.