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There's been a thread about dependencies lately and the challenge of convincing developers to look at the full dependency chain. I once maintained a C++ binary that included a PostScript interpreter, a JPEG decoder, a JavaScript interpreter, and a number of other utterly irrelevant pieces causing a huge factor increase in the size of the binary. The culprit: A single logging statement that invoked a general-purpose printer that could print web stuff. Switching to sprintf fixed it.

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I love RSS, but one thing I don't like is that readers typically homogenize the appearance of posts from different sources, which is fine that's how aggregators work. But I miss seeing the flair of individual websites so I often find myself clicking thru entries to see their site designs. I kind of want a stylesheet element in the RSS feeds and feed readers could have a toggle where you can view each feed's entries with their custom styles. I understand how that could break things though.

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Management's role isn't necessarily to break unions but to keep workers compliant with company objectives. If the company is open to a union, they'll only impede it (and keep lower management out of the loop) so much so to make it a burden for workers to manage. If they're more offensive, they'll do what Apple, Trader Joe's, GM, Microsoft, Walmart and other conventional businesses do: take a complete about-face from whatever purported values the company is about and use their own legal prowess to weaken the constitutional rights workers have (it's only a crime if you're tried and sentenced when it comes to companies weakening unions).

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How it often works is DevEx & Marketing push out some half-baked thing as a free service driving to drive adoption and generate interest. Generally there aren't many Engineering or Ops resources assigned to these things. Monitoring is next to nothing. No one even thought to consider fraud prevention measures. Many times InfoSec isn't informed at all. When a free service that allows arbitrary hosting, or arbitrary email/SMS content goes out, the first ones to adopt it are often criminals. The end result is you're playing catch-up for months to years to get the proper level of resourcing dedicated to closing the exploitable holes. No one wants to do that for a product that isn't directly generating revenue. The thing is, if you can't afford to assign resources, you should never deploy it. If it's connected to the Internet and connected to your brand, you're going to suffer reputation loss when it's abused, and it WILL be abused. Once I got a free service (temporarily) shut down because I showed our CMO how many complaints we were getting about it from people targeted by abuse. You'll have a hard time convincing random PMs or DevEx folks to limit the project they're working on for their quarterly goals/promotion opportunity. Marketing and Legal leaders will definitely care about reputation damage if you can make a strong, evidence-backed case.

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Attached: 1 image My wife sent me this screenshot today from her Facebook feed. It depicts a "remember 17 years ago" flashback featuring a friend of hers. The "then" image shows his face while the "now" side is blank... Because he died a decade ago. "Technically Wrong" came out in 2017, filled with numerous accounts of similar situations. This isn't new, but tech giants still continue to roll out this kind of half baked crap with no care for how it might impact the people using their products.

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Its Friday at just past 6pm which means it’s time for your next episode of “jokes I make to my therapist to assert control over the situation in order to avoid being emotionally vulnerable to the person I have paid for the last three and a half years of my own free will specifically to facilitate emotional vulnerability but fuck you im built different” 👩🏻‍🦰: hi James :) 👨🏻: hi [redacted] :) 👩🏻‍🦰: how are you doing today? 👨🏻: well that’s an awfully loaded question, isn’t it 🙄 👩🏻‍🦰: :) how about my other opener then? what’s on your mind for today? 👨🏻: 🙄 👩🏻‍🦰: 🤭 👨🏻: so anyway I think I’m dying

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I will say she knows how to keep the spice in our relationship, she did a 180 on me today and refused to let me get away with it 👨🏻: kdndhdiejebe 👨🏻: skslsnsjslskjsk 🤭 👩🏻‍🦰: 👩🏻‍🦰: so, I have a duty of care and I’m actually a little worried today 👨🏻: oh don’t worry I’m not ACTUALLY dying lmao and lol 👩🏻‍🦰: 👨🏻: :blobcatsip: 👩🏻‍🦰: 👨🏻: :blobCat_sunglasses_blanket: 👩🏻‍🦰: 👨🏻: fine. yes I’ll seriously consider taking your advice and understand why you are unusually concerned. I will act appropriately based on this information in the continuous strive for mental health and respect toward myself 👩🏻‍🦰: :blobcatthumbsup: 👨🏻: 🙄 honestly tho

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If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and pining for the good old days. And there’s the real lesson: When neoliberalism turns into fascism, neoliberals will adapt to life under fascism. Right, class dismissed.