n0toosethis benefit isn't really that convincing to me tbh
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Adrian Kosmaczewski
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"The “AI is stealing our jobs” meme comes from a lack of understanding that software engineers are workers, not employers, and that the economic principles of employment and work apply to them the same as to other workers."
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jbz⚠️ Critical FreeBSD Flaws Let Attackers Trigger Complete System Crashes
https://cyberpress.org/critical-freebsd-flaws-let-attackers-trigger-complete-system-crashes/
Critical FreeBSD Flaws Let Attackers Trigger Complete System Crashes
The FreeBSD Project recently disclosed a critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-15576, that lets attackers escape jail environments and access the full host filesystem. This flaw hits FreeBSD versions 14.3 and 13.5, exposing unpatched systems to full compromise. Understanding FreeBSD Jails FreeBSD jails provide operating system-level virtualization. Admins use them to isolate processes in a restricted, chroot-like space. […]
De Programmatica Ipsum"After reading these pieces, however, you will have the eerie feeling that pretty much anything related to computers should be considered harmful. And you might be right. Le sigh."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/joanna-rutkowska/
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Joanna Rutkowska
In a key scene of the 2012 blockbuster James Bond film "Skyfall", MI6 quartermaster Q, played by Ben Whishaw, realizes too late that plugging a cable into the laptop of a notoriously skilled terrorist like Raoul Silva (one of Javier Bardem's most remarkable roles) was a terrible idea. After a few seconds of connection, the laptop infects the systems of MI6, releasing all physical doors and disabling all security guards, prompting Silva to escape and wreak havoc through the London Underground. A message appears on the laptop screen, taunting Q, reading "Not such a clever boy".
Xerz (☕ mode)wow that's a massive throwback
that's from when I started learning web dev, like ohmygosh I had this PhoneGa-I mean, Apache Cordova + jQuery Mobile book and *wow the memories*
(I think the book was "Mobile JavaScript Application Development" by Adrian Kosmaczewski? maybe?)
Alan Francis@deprogrammaticaipsum one strong memory I have of Borland is the package/branding. That huge blue box of Borland C++ with all the printed manual. It was such a strong brand identity. I was also a fan of JBuilder until IntelliJ came along.
"In a theme dear to this magazine, we cannot but acknowledge that Lick embodied the fight against the impossible dialogue between engineering and business. He was a psychologist and a computer scientist. He understood the minds of humans and those of computers alike. Lick was the thread and the needle, shaping the path from Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, and John von Neumann, to the World Wide Web, Object-Oriented Programming, and the home office."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/j-c-r-licklider-m-mitchell-waldrop/
J. C. R. Licklider & M. Mitchell Waldrop
The writings of Jorge Luis Borges twist our perception of time and space. In between articles about Shaw, Chesterton, Wilde, and Coleridge, his 1952 book "Otras Inquisiciones" included an unexpected gem: a short story called "El Tiempo y J. W. Dunne". The question is, who was this John William Dunne and what does he have to do with time? Well, his name might be forgotten by contemporary audiences, but Dunne was the author of one of the biggest bestsellers of the first half of the twentieth century.
"The name “Borland” should not, a priori, ring a bell in any Millennial, let alone any Gen Z reading this article. But for a lot of software developers self-identifying as Gen X (like this author) or as Boomer, “Borland” immediately evokes memories of a time long gone; a company that could have been more, but which consciously decided to crash and burn."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/a-roller-coaster-of-emotions/
A Roller Coaster Of Emotions
On November 1988, Byte Magazine published two separate editions; first, the standard monthly issue, focused on the newly introduced NeXT computer; and the "Fifth Annual Extra All-IBM Issue" focused on the IBM PC, both of which are thankfully available on the Internet Archive at the time of this writing. Both of these magazines feature the same expensive advertising on pages 2 to 5, showcasing products from a company called Borland.
Graham Lee, D.PhilAnnouncing AppScript: an interpreted Objective-C subset with no pointers or primitive C types. We finally got Objective-C without the C. https://codeberg.org/leeg/appscript
"This man is one of the founders of a small French software cooperative called Les Tilleuls with offices in Lille, Paris, Nantes, and Lyon. A cooperative, of all things. How could we not celebrate the fact that software engineers have decided to finally start organizing themselves and their work using the most democratic and progressive ways available in common law?"
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Kévin Dunglas
PHP is the effective lingua franca of cheap web hosting. You know, that thing costing 5 bucks a month, where your uncle hosts a WordPress blog about fishing and his personal email. You know, that crappy service that comes with some gigabytes on a shared server, a nice LAMP stack on top, a shitty cPanel and WHM combo to manage things... and SFTP access to upload pictures from Jamie and Larry's wedding in Chattanooga. Woop woop!