Likes from 20 April 2024

guy VP of engineering on linkedin: “women who code is shutting down? what a travesty! there’s so much money in tech! how can this be happening? can nothing be done?” idk guy, perhaps as a VP OF ENGINEERING YOURSELF you could say what you are doing to help pick up the slack?

You guys. I just made a playlist that is 69 songs and 4hrs 20 minutes. It wasn’t even intentional. But this feels right. It feels good. #420day

I saw this, it's not mine, but I agree wholeheartedly. "Stop acting like you're famous" > The most egregious thing you can do with any activity is daydream about how you can make money off of it. That’s the quickest way to optimize for the wrong things and suck the fun right out of it. https://ajkprojects.com/stopactinglikeyourefamous

Attached: 1 image Why would anyone want a phone without a keyboard? I mean, he’s not wrong. #blackberry

Attached: 1 image @janellecshane@wandering.shop Makes me think of this (not mine)

It's been ten years, so a short story about the "gotofail" bug. Someone came to me about a catastrophic vulnerability in Apple's TLS implementation. I shit you not, they'd overheard someone at a bar drunkenly bragging about how they were going to sell it to a FVEY intelligence agency for six figures. They didn't know exactly what it was, just some vague details and the key point that it allowed use of the real certificate. This was enough for me to find the bug (yay open source), which would go on to be known as "gotofail", and produce a working exploit in less than a day. The details were anonymously back channelled to Apple, who released a fix. @matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange posted on Twitter about it, concerned by Apple's vague release notes. I used a burner phone to share the details with him anonymously. Then everyone forgot about the whole thing because heartbleed. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯