TehPers

With how much shit PBS (and the former CPB) have taken these past two years, it’s shocking they could keep the data in any data center. Also, given that this is in a deep red state, I can’t imagine them getting a lot of support there.

This reads to me like a Ubiquiti ad that you might read from The Onion. Honestly, the vast majority of the complaint has nothing to do with Ubiquiti. The only part I’d be interested in is this:

It also alleges the company could have disrupted the pipeline and disabled devices used by Russia — including through geofencing, terminating distributors tied to sanctions-evasion routes, and building a remote-disable safety feature into airMAX firmware — but failed to do so.

In specific, only the part I bolded.

If they knowingly sold to distributors tied to sanctions-evasion routes, then that’s the only part of this that would actually be Ubiquiti doing something potentially bad, in my opinion.

Since I’ve been somewhat interested in getting security cameras, I’ve been looking at Ubiquiti as an option. If they built remote-disable malware into their hardware, I’d cross them off the list.

Work on open source projects, especially those that people use. Show that you can take user feedback and turn it into features. Show that you can work with others as a team on a large project.

Those will look the best.

As your southern neighbor, in skilled fields, the last thing you want is companies to outsource their skilled labor to other countries instead of bringing immigrants to your country to work there since they can create jobs, and if their position becomes vacant again, it’s still in your country. In unskilled jobs, when you decide to kick them out of your country, you’re left with a lot of vacant jobs that nobody wants to take.

The real issue is rampant exploitation of immigrants. With fair wages, you actually favor non-immigrants because of the additional costs associated with relocating someone from another country. When you’re unfairly exploiting them, the upfront cost becomes less relevant.

Anyway, I agree that getting into freelancing is going to be a nightmare. Trying to convince skilled devs that LLMs generate garbage in bulk is already difficult enough. Doing that to a non-dev manager is practically impossible.

You can block Facebook ads by blocking the Facebook domains. This is what I do, anyway.

Even if you get through the ads, there’s nothing of value there. At best, you’re maintaining superficial relationships while wading through AI slop and ragebait. If you haven’t actually talked to the person in years, consider whether there’s even a real connection there or if you’re just inflating each other’s egos by pressing a like button every couple weeks.

Sorry, forgot about a few. Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai… Honestly, it’d probably be easier to list the white cishet billionaires in tech than it would be to list the exceptions. There’s tons of them outside of tech, probably the majority tbh, but within tech it’s far too diverse.

Don’t forget about the other big players! Jensen Hwang, Lisa Su, Lip-Bu Tan, Satya Nadella, plus the memory cartel (Samsung, SK Hynix, etc.)

This particular war is a class war.

We are somewhat similar to contractors and directly help our customers write their code. Usually this means bringing in some kind of starting template, and it’s easier to do this with a permissively licensed template than make them sign another legal agreement.

They own the code once we’re done, and they don’t need to make it open source (companies naturally don’t like to open source their products). Our templates are open source and well-documented, though.

We’ve managed to convince our workplace to allow us to use MIT on a few projects. We mainly share that code directly with customers, and it’s easier to do that with permissively licensed code, plus we can make it public for an extra win (both at work and for the community).

There are definitely good uses for permissive licenses. In the same way that you should consider not using one, you should also consider whether one meets your specific needs.

“Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness,” the company added.

I don’t really know what else to write here because the quote is already enough. Anyway, if anyone still had any doubts about Meta for some reason, there you go.

There are a few tools out there that can recommend improvements to grammar. For example, a tool might suggest rewriting:

Benchmarks are a tool to validate a list of things, contrast, page load, images using modern formats, dead links, time to first paint, and semantic HTML, a <button> isn’t a <div>.

to:

Benchmarks are a tool to validate a list of things: contrast, page load, images use modern formats, dead links, time to first paint, and semantic HTML (i.e. a <button> isn’t a <div>).

Many of them are now LLM-based, so you could probably just ask a locally-running Qwen3.5 or something for advice as well. Just be careful if you do this to constrain it only to grammar suggestions and not allow it to rewrite your article (LLM-speak is easy to spot).

All feedback in the post is welcome.

Would it be rude to recommend a grammar checker? The topic and supporting arguments for the post are fine (if a little disorganized, but that’s common for blog posts). I just found the run-ons a bit distracting.

Otherwise, I agree that the internet is getting shittier. More ads, more walls to defend against scraping, less accessibility, etc. There’s no real metric for how well a page presents its contents, only metrics for specific things like load times, layout shift, and so on. I also suspect that, over time, page scoring will shift toward which sites present the data in ways that are more usable by LLMs.

The only cereal I’ll put water in is oatmeal. Also, calling oatmeal a cereal is blasphemous, but that’s how they categorize it for whatever reason.

What’s yours? Pay Anthropic $2k/mo to generate fake C&D letters and send them out to random businesses?

Unless you have a plan that doesn’t rely on the service-based models, then I don’t see where you’re going with this. Sure, you can use self-hosted models, assuming you’re fine paying for the GPUs (Jensen Huang? Lisa Su? Lip-Bu Tan if you’re feeling special?) and power to run them of course. But you’ll be “behind” the big cloud-based models, endlessly chasing after them.

Or, hear me out, don’t use them and do it all yourself and you won’t have to pay these companies and make their execs richer.

Did this need confirmation? Was this not already obvious? Are people in power really so stupid that this wasn’t self-evident to them?

Wait, don’t answer that last question.

I don’t know why it’s worth arguing (both of you) over the versioning scheme of a LLM-assisted/generated project that was posted by a new user with no other activity, but anyway…

PyPi (and Python) do not require semver, nor do all packages in the ecosystem use semver. However, Python tooling depends on packagers following a semver-esque versioning scheme while still allowing some freedom to maintainers to pick a scheme that works best for them.

Code shows signs of LLM use, in case anyone’s curious. Unless, of course, you normally type em dashes in your documentation I suppose.

Anyway, this feels to me like a small part of what is essentially a durable task framework. If you need atomicity and durability, consider one of those. If all you need is atomicity, a database guarantees it through so many methods, from inserts to locks*.

*Edit: and transactions, of course, but long running transactions aren’t usually a good idea.

With a saguaro.

To answer the question posed in the title: if you’re processing images given to you by strangers, you should normalize RGB values by 255.

The author isn’t advocating for you to do so. They are just exploring the two approaches. Even in the sentences following this one where they mention where 256 might work, they conclude with your colleagues breaking it all anyway by using 255.