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aloso , to technology in The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse

“secure” is relative. They may not be e2e encrypted, but they are still encrypted via TLS, like any HTTPS traffic. It’s the same encryption used for online banking. If you care about your instance admin being able to read your messages, you should use Signal or a Matrix client though.

But remember that only a few years ago, almost nobody used e2e encryption, and it wasn’t much of an issue.

aloso , to programmer_humor in When IT insists on autogenerated email addresses…

Oh, didn’t the domain somesoftwarecorp.com give it away?

aloso , to auai in Which AI have you replaced StackOverflow with?

I do not use AI to solve programming problems.

First, LLMs like ChatGPT often produce incorrect answers to particularly difficult questions, but still seem completely confident in their answer. I don’t trust software that would rather make something up than admit that it doesn’t know the answer. People can make mistakes, too, but StackOverflow usually pushes the correct answer to the top through community upvotes.

Second, I rarely ask questions on StackOverflow. Most of the time, if I search for a few related keywords, Google will find an SO thread with the answer. This is much faster than writing a SO question and waiting for people to answer it; and it is also faster than explaining the question to ChatGPT.

Third, I’m familiar enough with the languages I use that I don’t need help with simple questions anymore, like “how to iterate over a hashmap” or “how to randomly shuffle an array”. The situations where I could use help are often so complicated that an LLM would probably be useless. Especially for large code bases, where the relevant code is spread across many files or even multiple repositories (e.g. a backend and a frontend), debugging the problem myself is more efficient than asking for help, be it an online community or a language model.

aloso , (edited ) to technology in Meta being fined $100k a day for personalized ads in Norway

You confused revenue and profit. You must subtract expenses to calculate the profit. For example, if you buy something for $20 and sell it for $21, your revenue is $21, but your profit is only $1.

Facebook reported a profit of $39 billion in 2021 and $23 billion in 2022. This takes their expenses (salaries, offices, data centres, etc.) into account.

aloso , to programmer_humor in Creating a password in 2023 be like

obligatory XKCD

xkcd

aloso , to programmer_humor in Too close to home

We have pointers in Rust, too :) see documentation

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