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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023
  • RonSijmtoPython•synchronizing code between multiple work spaces
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t think this has been mentioned, but it kind of depends on where your multiple laptops / desktops are. Is this always on your own home network? Because in that case you don’t even need a remote service like Github

    If so, you can create a network drive on any of the devices - mount the network device on your other devices, and then create a local git repo there. Just remember that using an external git service is also a backup. So if you do everything locally, make sure to have your own backups in place

    A much, much worse but also possible solution is to just put your projects into onedrive/dropbox/gdrive and sync it everywhere. It works for syncing, since you’re saying that’s the main objective - but you lose out on version control

  • RonSijmtoProgramming•Authentication in microservices
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    8 days ago

    However, what is stopping a malicious actor from bypassing the API gateway and communicating directly to the micro services ? Do we solve this problem using a firewall, so only trusted traffic reaches the micro services ?

    Kind of - sort of

    With this kind of setup, usually you’d put all your micro services inside a VPC. The micro services wouldn’t even be directly accessible from the internet. So it wouldn’t really be a “firewall” - but a nat gateway.

    Though conceptually a little bit the same. The API gateway is kind of acting as a firewall

  • RonSijmtoTech•FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is
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    3 months ago

    It depends on the registrar. By the rules of icann:

    At least annually, a registrar must present to the registrant the current Whois information, and remind the registrant that provision of false Whois information can be grounds for cancellation of their domain name registration. Registrants must review their Whois data, and make any corrections.

    So if the FBI concludes that the provided WHOIS data is false, they could potentially still use that as reason to seize the domains

  • RonSijmtoProgramming•Would you use a service that automatically identifies refactoring opportunities in your code?
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    4 months ago

    Are there existing tools you love (or hate) that do something similar?

    This sounds similar to “Static code analysis” tools. Especially now that these code analysis tools are getting AI integrations.

    For example we use coderabbit.ai. That does a code review on PRs in github, and reviews these sort of things. Especially the simpler things that you’ve mentioned like poor naming conventions, violations of language-specific best practices, and readability issues. I’m not sure if it will automatically come up with “large refactoring opportunities” by default - but maybe you can custom-prompt configure it to try, I guess

    (Comment) Why have a separate webpage if such of helper can be built into IDE/editor?

    Coderabbit also has IDE extensions: https://www.coderabbit.ai/ide - I think the separate webpage exists for org level configurations and overviews. These “best practices” are probably defined on a team level to ensure everyone uses the same code-style and things like that

    I’m not sure if “just a website to copypaste code and get reviews” is really a good idea. Maybe for juniors that want to review one class or method or something. But usually code is spread across multiple files, and structural refactor opportunities are on a larger scale then just a couple files

  • RonSijmtoOpensource•How Ruby Went Off the Rails
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    4 months ago

    On September 19, Ruby Central, a nonprofit organization that manages RubyGems.org, a platform for sharing Ruby code and libraries, asserted control over several GitHub repositories for Ruby Gems as well as other critical Ruby open source projects that the rest of the Ruby development community relies on.

    Uhm, so how does this happen? If some people create Ruby Gems and host them under their own github account, how would Ruby Central suddenly assert control over them?

  • RonSijmtoAI - Artificial intelligence•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    6 months ago

    My suspicion is that this essay is marketing. It would be bad for Microsoft if people thought its product could be sentient

    Why would it be bad if people thought it could be sentient? If people are using AI for an “AI Girlfriend” or therapist or something - people would probably prefer to believe they’re chatting with something sentient

  • RonSijmtoTechnology•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    6 months ago

    instead of giving you the real IP, it points you to one of their proxy servers located in a country without the ID requirement.

    Sounds a bit weird, if it’s just pure dns. Because if your dns server gives you a random proxy server instead, it sounds like this would break https right?

  • RonSijmtoTechnology•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    7 months ago

    This sounds like a good way to combat AIs…

    Like instead of a Cloudflare blocking AI requests, it would be funnier if the website can detect that an AI is “searching the web” as they do - and then just inject an answer of “Yea to solve that issue, run sudo rm -rf /”