I got asked the same. I simply pointed out the test is a reproduction of last week’s bug that took down prod at 2am and got paged to fix, and is therefore as realistic as it gets of what they’ll need to be able to handle.

It’s always DNS, everyone should know that.

I went through hiring several times at several companies, being on the interviewer side.

Typically it’s not the talent pool as much as what the company has to offer and how much they’re willing to pay. I referred top notch engineer friends, and they never made it past HR. A couple were rejected without interview because they asked too high of a salary, despite asking under market average. The rest didn’t pass HR on personnality or not having all the “requirements”, because the really good engineers are socially awkward and demand flexibility and are honest on the résumé/CV, or are self taught and barely have high-school graduation on there (just like me).

I’ve literally seen the case of: they want to hire another me, but ended up in a situation where: I wouldn’t apply for the position myself, and even if I did, I wouldn’t make it to the interview stage where I’d talk to myself and hire myself.

Naturally the candidates that did make it to me weren’t great. Those are the people that do the bare minimum, have studied every test question (without understanding), vibe code everything, typically on the younger and very junior side. They’re very good at passing HR, and very bad at their actual job.

It’s not the technology, it’s the companies that hire that ultimately steers the market and what people study for. Job requirements are ridiculous, HR hires engineers on personnality like they’re shopping for yet another sales associate, now it takes 6 rounds of interviews for an entry level position at a startup. VC startups continue to pay wildly inflated wages to snatch all the top talent while established companies are laying off as much IT staff as possible to maximize profits.

At the very least I hope it’s hosted by someone outside the US so it’s out of reach to the authorities.

Gotta condition americans to the norm of guilty until proven innocent early!

And hopefully ad blockers too.

It depends on your overall energy use but generally that would be negligible when compared to heating and hot water, especially during winter when the furnace runs 24/7.

In particular, during the winter, all excess energy from the oven is heat the furnace doesn’t have to provide so it’s basically free: you’d use that energy anyway.

Generally the economy of scale should technically favor the prebaked bread, at least before the store slaps its value added surcharge for it. The store still needs to pay for the energy (but probably gets it cheaper than you), but also needs to pay to maintain a factory, equipment, employees. So you kinda need to factor in the price of your oven too and its wear and tear.

I just buy the loaf because one thing I know for sure is if I factor in the value of my time, it’s way better and easier to work an hour than spend an hour baking a loaf of bread. The time to bake the bread costs more than if I used that time to work the equivalent time and buy 5 loaves of bread with the money.

It was made back when Facebook had that old style UI, in 2010. And then interest in Facebook’s format kinda died, and so did the interest in the project.

It doesn’t solve Safety Net/Play Integrity, at all. My bank is the kind that just warns you and then lets you in anyway. I just live without Google Pay, I just put the card in the phone case to the same effect. The point I was making there is that most apps don’t care, Google isn’t “pushing” it, but it is made available to developers, so really it’s the app developers’ choice to check or not.

Pixels are just less fiddling because flashing it is supported. It is not endorsed by Google, and you don’t pass Play Integrity at all, but it is supported and doesn’t void your warranty. They just allow you to install whatever you want on your hardware without a fuss, and get the full performance you’d expect and all, and even make use of the security chip. But, they only trust their code and their ROM for the purposes of Play Integrity, which is kinda fair game.

That’s why it is quite ironically the device of choice for GrapheneOS. It’s not a hack, it’s a fully supported use case even though you lose Play Integrity certification, so they can implement all the security features Google has access to. The TEE will happily sign a unique and verifiable integrity attestation… for GrapheneOS’s ROM signature. You can make an app that only works on genuine official GrapheneOS the same other apps do with Play Integrity. You can have a custom ROM and properly enroll it in some enterprise MDM and all that stuff, and only allow your builds of that custom ROM to enroll. But, no Play Integrity because it’s not their official certified build.

It’s like PC, you can turn off secure boot, you can secure boot with your own OS keys and get all the security benefits. But Valorant will still refuse to let you play if you haven’t booted with secure boot into an official unmodified copy of Windows where they can ensure their kernel anti-cheat can trust the kernel about what drivers and processes are loaded. Microsoft isn’t forcing their OS on you, but the developers will only trust you if you do. You’re still perfectly free to put Linux on it, and it won’t affect you otherwise.

If you’re buying something to mod I’d recommend a Pixel, unless you’re getting an older OnePlus for cheap.

It’s a OnePlus 8T, but I think any OnePlus before I think the OnePlus 11 have excellent custom ROM support.

AFAIK I got lucky and the 8T is the last model from their “being nice to developers” era. OnePlus was born originally to be developer friendly, it was based on CyanogenMod out of the box, they even sent phones to developers.

Mine launched with OxygenOS 11, and then OOS12 was completely rebuilt on Oppo’s ColorOS and they threw everything out the window. Took them forever to drop sources, and it just went downhill from there.

Google bought Widevine in 2010, so in my opinion they were already concerned about big corp’s interests above the users well before. I think SafetyNet is the natural evolution of that.

I think SafetyNet came with Google Pay for contactless payments, most likely at the request of the banks. They had to work with the banks for that, that’s when they got the leverage. If they didn’t they’d just go partner with Samsung instead, who already had Knox, and I did see Samsung Pay on my phone before Google Pay was available at all.

They also had to increasingly deal with shitty root detection libraries that were getting popular and excluding legitimate users because the latest Android changed things enough it looked modded to the apps. They probably saw it as a lesser evil to just take it in their hands.

You don’t need that much leverage to put enough pressure that there’s enough demands for a feature for the feature to get added. Android was dealing with a lot of fragmentation, piracy and quality problems already, Google needed people to see Android as not just the shitty budget option, they wanted to compete with the iPhone proper.

The entheusiast market only gets you so far. You need entheusiast buy-in at first, but then you have to pivot to end user “premium” experience, which is why brands like OnePlus eventually turn their back to the users that propped the company up. Regular users would rather pick the walled garden than the open world if it means their apps work better in the walled garden. The walled garden is a better experience for the average moron.

Because I have a OnePlus.

Google outright lets you unlock your bootloader on Pixels, and relock it with your custom keys, and even tells you how to do all that in the docs. You lose Play Integrity certification which is where things are getting a bit messy.

But for that you have to blame Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Disney, a lot of banks, a lot of games for using what is basically DRM for apps. It’s the developers that want those features, so you can’t mod their APKs and take the ads out, make sure you download the official version from Google Play because dumb users getting scammed and all that stuff.

I run LineageOS on my phone, I’m not doing anything whatsoever to hide it, and pretty much everything works perfectly except Google Pay. Which I guess is fair game, I hate it but there’s a reasonable argument to be made there.

The rest is the same DRM woes I deal with on Linux, I value my rights and freedoms more than running an app.

The graph suggests it started declining well before AI became mainstream. I’m sure it accelerates it, but it had already long peaked.

Maybe, just maybe, most of the big questions have been asked and answered already.

These days when I look something up it’s been answered like 8 years ago, and the answer is still valid. And they aggressively mark questions as dupes, so people aren’t opening too many repeat questions.

If you don’t want to be monogamous, don’t, just be polyamorous and date other polyamorous people. It’s a really bad excuse for cheating when there’s plenty of relationship arrangements where this isn’t a problem. There’s no need to deceive unwilling people and cheat on them when you can find partners who think the same as you and you don’t need to cheat on in the first place. You’re still dealing with other people with feelings on the end.

I’d have to really go out of my way to cheat on my wife when the only rule is to have safe sex (or be safe in general).

I think P2P has stood the test of time. Torrents scale extremely well, any large scale video would have so many peers the server wouldn’t have to participate at all. These days most torrents easily saturate my gigabit connection no problem with just a handful of peers. Torrents tends to spread like wildfire.

The main issue would be storage space, but I think a lot of YouTubers would be perfectly okay with spending $5-10 a month to pay for the storage costs with all the benefits you get from not being tied to YouTube’s ToS and policies. It’s a drop in the bucket compared to the earnings from sponsor spots.

You can return multiple A/AAAA records for the root, the TLD delegates the whole thing to your nameservers and it’s free to return whatever you want. Registrars actually do let you set records on the TLD’s zone, it’s called glue records and they’re typically used to solve the nameserver chicken and egg problem where you might want to be your own nameservers. Mine’s set that way:

~ $ drill NS max-p.me
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 32318
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; max-p.me.    IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
max-p.me.       3600    IN      NS      ns2.max-p.me.
max-p.me.       3600    IN      NS      ns1.max-p.me.

The me registrar will give you the IP for those two so you can then ask my server for where max-p.me really is.

The bigger issue is usually there’s a bunch of stuff under your root domain like MX records, TXT records, potentially subdomains. That’s a huge problem if you need to CNAME the root to a hosting provider, as the CNAME will forward the entire domain including MX and TXT records. Cloudflare sort of works around that with server side flattening of CNAMEs, but that’s not standard. But if you have a www subdomain, then it’s a complete non-issue. And really, do you want to delegate your MX records to WP Engine?

The main reason people went without the www is the good old “it looks cooler and shorter” while ignoring all the technical challenges its brings, and that’s probably why browsers now hide the www so that website designers don’t have to do this atrocity.

I feel about the same. I don’t particularly care about it, but it’s nice to know how many I helped. It was intentionally removed, I believe so it doesn’t incentivise karma farms. If karma exists it will be used and there will be reasons to farm it.

Nothing a quick Postgres query can’t fix though :p

Yes but OP took the string representation of the IPv4 and base64’d it, I was addressing that part specifically.