Read that book in two days. Wild stuff. Of course I don't absolve Sarah Wynn for of her responsibility that is Facebook and it's completely maliciously run company. She is also complicit I don't care how many "I was trying to do the right thing! Whaa!" she sprinkled throughout the book.
The fact that they successfully got the book removed from sale for a while speaks volumes. They not only lie they are encouraged to.
One dev allowed remote debugging which introduced a backdoor and what's really bad about it is there was no prompt that the remote debugger had been started. He said he thought it would make debugging easier. That was a wtf moment for me. Sure, introduce that feature if you know what you're doing. The devs seem really inexperienced which is concerning.
> One dev allowed remote debugging which introduced a backdoor and what's really bad about it is there was no prompt that the remote debugger had been started. He said he thought it would make debugging easier
This is just the start of the madness. Mistakes like this are typically from so-called JS/TS developers who ‘think’ they can maintain core browser technology.
We’ll certainly get more of these typical amateur mistakes in the AI age, and will certainly get this from vibe-coders who completely have no idea what they are doing.
This is a different league in engineering and we’re starting to realize that perhaps it is a bad idea to hire devs who have little experience in building production-grade browsers because they are too used to tolerating the clumsiness of the JS/TS ecosystem.
I'm not a JS/TS developer but am definitely a novice. I'm somewhat overly cautious when I deal with things that involve network programming and service, as I know my limitations around such stuff. With all that said, it seems like nothing new would happen since the pool of appropriately skilled devs is really small.
Just to note I'm not making excuses for the issue in the article.
This seems pedantic. I am trying to wrap my head around why "family sharing" is an issue here. You want to share with someone, use family sharing I don't see what the issue is.
No motivation, sure. But do they even care? Most people just don't care about this stuff. You try to get them to care and they "say, yeah, okay, yeah, I know" as they roll their eyes and go back to scrolling Instagram or whatever.
The apathy is real and I don't see it getting better.
My interests vary so widely that my home feed is awful. I like watching videos on power tools, software development, video games, sports highlights, math, and other, less focused things like the hoard of cat video channels I sub to to keep existential dread at bay.
I get recommended right leaning videos and videos with ads for manscaped and I'm neither a conservative or a man. It's super weird so I tend to separate my interests into two apps: the YouTube web app for "junk food content" and FreeTube when I want to learn and focus. It's the only way I've found to not be fed the random content carrots while falling down the rabbit hole.
This is interesting. How do you support yourself if it’s not about the money? Are you in the US? If you are have you noticed you will be paying $10 for a dozen of eggs?
In what world does getting a PhD for curiosity make sense in 2025? It’s not even about money, it’s about literal survival.
The people here in this thread talking about getting a PhD to satisfy an interest in a subject must have never gone to bed for dinner because if they had they’d understand why this position they’re taking doesn’t make a lick of sense.
I think if you have to deal with financial survival issues then study is going to be the last thing on your mind. Where are you going to study? Is it too hot? too cold? too noisy? Are you distracted by hunger? Psychological problems? Family issues? Neighbours doing dumb things? etc. Assuming none of those things are your problems, then what do you do? Do you study to get a job? or because you like the subject matter? Here in Australia, if you want money, you're much better off learning a trade. Plumbers charge upwards of $100 p/h where the minimum wage is about $20 p/h. No way is a software dev going to earn $100 p/h. Oh and we dont have a startup culture like over in America. We're a failed banana republic. So I study because I like the subject matter. I'm certainly not going to be adequately financially rewarded for my knowledge and effort so I'd rather do it for personal satisfaction. Gosh, now I've gone and made myself depressed.
Want your thoughts. Every time I watch this channel, I feel like everything is overkill. Why does one need k3s to run homelab services, or colocating your infrastructure when it is just you and your partner? I am trying to understand it.
