Posts by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #9wPTAl7y2ztxtMTJ7g by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2020-06-24T13:48:00Z
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@RobF the cost of games has gone up, they used to be £1.99, now they're £6-£12.
(DIR) Post #9xK48BGe44r3hxONii by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2020-07-21T15:43:49Z
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When there's no Windows build of your software
(DIR) Post #9xiGldUsJaV8mKJ9qS by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2020-08-01T19:45:57Z
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Be parrot do crimes
(DIR) Post #9z3K6upXjy23xjqiFU by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2020-09-11T14:52:37Z
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@fribbledom Shows what Kent Beck knows. Literally every programmer I know is clinically depressed.
(DIR) Post #9zcqtNpvP1YG0BWCPI by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2020-09-28T16:50:06Z
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@nolan programming in any language on any platform, 2012: all of your dependencies have well-known critical security bugs and you don't even notice
(DIR) Post #A182anXrHrPqQPBn7I by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2020-11-12T01:35:35Z
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@ArneBab @civodul @mikegerwitz the answer to all of your questions is https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate
(DIR) Post #A182apLsZN1Q1pbFiq by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2020-11-12T02:18:27Z
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@mikegerwitz @ArneBab @civodul I would describe it as a repudiation of doing things the Debian way where every update is held up by the limited bandwidth of a handful of overworked volunteers and inflexible centralised policy, but I'm probably not going to change your mind.
(DIR) Post #A1ABZMCyj7p7FtjLHc by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2020-11-13T15:41:10Z
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@cwebber @civodul @mikegerwitz @ArneBab jquery has and has always had zero dependencies on npm, so in the context of a conversation about npm encouraging dependency proliferation I'm not sure what you're basing that on, unless you're counting every element of a Debian system required to host jquery on a web server.
(DIR) Post #A1ABZQq7VXVfcS4eqe by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2020-11-13T15:49:43Z
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@cwebber @civodul @mikegerwitz @ArneBab oh, I found the article you were talking about. I see you mean you need a big pile of packages to build it.Well that's true, but insisting on building everything from scratch is a self-imposed problem, a classic example of distros making trouble for themselves and then wondering why their job is so hard.
(DIR) Post #A1ABZTlGe2PWgGpKCW by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2020-11-13T16:17:45Z
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@cwebber @civodul @mikegerwitz @ArneBab I do care about reproducibility, I just think you can verify reproducibility without tying it to unrelated packaging processes in a way that creates needless problems.
(DIR) Post #A2oHfpk0khwJUgklXM by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2021-01-02T00:11:55Z
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@roxie They were pretty well known at least as far back as 2001, but nobody could actually *prove* anything and so the mainstream lumped the idea in with wild conspiracy theories.
(DIR) Post #A2oHhMFTNMxWbUCDcu by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2021-01-02T00:19:10Z
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@roxie Yeah, there were also similar but more specific programs of mass data collection (phone calls, text messages, email, etc) going back decades before then that were open secrets in the security community for a long time but nobody could actually prove it publicly, but we have proof of all of it now.I said "at least as far back as 2001" because that was when I first got wind of it and I couldn't be bothered to look up the actual history :-).
(DIR) Post #A2oIfHLyhkYCnSoN2O by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2021-01-02T00:28:12Z
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@galena @roxie It's more than zero, which is indeed quite amazing. But I think it's important to keep perspective and remember that most of them are nonsense.It seems to me like since Snowden, people are more inclined to believe crap like QAnon or 5G causes Covid, and that's clearly not helpful.The difference is that mass data collection was always plausible and always had evidence to support it, but non-experts are bad at telling the difference.
(DIR) Post #A56qiH4PaQhY6qvV7Q by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2021-03-11T19:03:11Z
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@Clifford this is exactly the sort of thing that would have been sold as a revolutionary new way to increase game immersion in the 90s
(DIR) Post #A7rYG8WeIUnzzyqfs8 by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2021-05-30T11:55:49Z
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@fribbledom if a product makes a claim - any claim - in its advertising it always has the exact opposite property to that claimed.Case study: Fairy liquid, which "keeps your hands soft" (actually turns them to stone, in contrast to literally any other washing up liquid).If a product actually had the property claimed then they wouldn't have to advertise it to try to convince people.
(DIR) Post #A9RCRnBws4yDcP1JNQ by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2021-07-19T06:08:19Z
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@wauz @cwebber @mlemweb If they're busy trying to wrap their brains round an ISO standard that would go some way to explaining why they have no brainpower left to get their orders right.
(DIR) Post #A9RGK4J7kdFMCZwtHc by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2021-07-19T06:51:45Z
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@wauz 🙄
(DIR) Post #AF0xSbKJli48vnaRuq by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2022-01-02T01:23:19Z
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@cwebber a co-worker and I used to regularly joke about the ultimate evolutionary stage of every software project being a degenerate implementation of eval.
(DIR) Post #AL3P0ieXcY10c1X0c4 by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2022-07-01T17:00:54Z
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@newt @evelyn not in Britain where a lot of sewage is released into rivers by accident on purpose
(DIR) Post #AMDZdhmYJDYusrrZpo by danielcassidy@mastodon.social
2022-08-05T12:35:34Z
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@fribbledom this has "ORM" written all over it