I wrote my side projects with as little AI as possible. You can still do it in VSCode AFAIK. But this is just for fun.

I intuitively agree. Some of my good ideas come from sprint walking...and sitting on the toilet.

This is so annoying. I tried to see what passkey is, and tried to sign in, and MSFT always tried to ask me to use authenticator, and when I clicked other ways to sign in, somehow it went to "Reset password", and I clicked cancel, and now I can't sign in any more.

The whole fucking security thing has nothing fucking to do with my security, but with their apps and control. I had enough with this. gonna delete everything MSFT from my world. Fuck them.

Passkey is not unique to Microsoft, Apple supports it with their Password manager built-in to iOS and macOS, I can authenticate with my passkey on my Macs and on my iPhone with ease. BitWarden supports it as well, but I rather not use BitWarden if I can just use my phone or laptop.

Google, Microsoft, Apple etc everyone supports Passkey its a known spec that was drafted and implemented a while ago. Point being you don't need any special Microsoft to use Passkey, I would be shocked if Android doesn't have it baked in.

Just in case you/others reading this didn't know, yoh don't have to use Microsoft Authenticator. They hide the option away, but there is a button to click to use your own authenticator app and it gives you the QC code/numbers to input into Bitwarden/KeePass/etc.

I actually agree with him, but maybe they will lower the salary further because of that, to make US workers more "competitive".

I prefer linux laptops but maybe MacOS is not too bad comparing to Windows at least.

Can relate. A lot of the times it is the process that is slowing people down, and it is unrealistic for any corporation to do security audition for everything developers need on time, so unfortunately rules have to be bent.

Some big corps resort to a different tactics: they ONLY allow in-house tools. IDEs, communication tools, everything you need on a daily basis, they make in-house tools for that. It costs a lot of money but they care about security.

Worse, is when the "team" doing the auditing is one guy, and that guy leaves with no replacement... and you need to explain to mgt that their new product release hasn't gone out for 3 months because you can't get the new versions of modules cleared and into the internal repo for production apps.

Actually happened at one of the largest banks in the world when I was contracting there. And that was mostly just a license/legal audit, not even a full source/security audit.

That's one of the perks of being a global empire.

I probably wouldn't believe that "shredding". Also there will be legal consequences I think?

counter intuitively criminal ransomware gangs operate on trust. They have to ensure that we believe they really will shred it, otherwise no victim will ever pay a ransom ever again.

Therefore one way to weaken these criminals would be to weaken this trust factor. In a way therefore comments like "can we actually believe they will really shred it" goes towards this aim.

I have to wonder what criminal hacking gangs that do not operate on trust would do. Would it be like the replacement of organized crime (mafia) with the arguably wider damaging unorganized violent drug gangs?

And if the company doesn’t pay it they would therefore have to go through with their threat to publish it.

More than likely they will just claim that the company paid the ransom and never release the code (or at least not immediately).

Yeah. So many people drinking the cool-aid dreaming oneself to be the 10%.

A lot of people in tech are probably in the 10%. But, the real problem is that AI doesn't even really help those in the top 10%. Maybe just barely, if you already accumulated your wealth. It's really closer to the top 5% who won't be particularly negatively affected.

Kinda top 0.1%, and all those who are directly integrating AI into the companies' workflow, so that they get richer temporarily.

It's more like "I'm Holy and All, bow before me. Why don't you like me? I don't understand" type.

I mean at least Jesus gave free wine and bread.

> I mean at least Jesus gave free wine and bread

And flogged those that tried to do commerce in a sacred place. And hanged out with prostitutes and poor. And stated that those focusing on hoarding money without concerns for other stuff won't enter his kingdom.

I mean, whatever you think about Christian doctrines, Jesus himself was based AF.