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I'm PL, full-time indie hacking since last September!

Today I'm releasing a free viral tweet generator so everyone can become Justin Welsh!

It's free, requires no sign-up or subscription, feel free to share it to your friends who wants to get famous haha.

Technically, it's a mix of OpenAI APIs and prompt engineering + my experience on growing on X from 0 to 2.5k followers in a few weeks!

Hope you'll enjoy it!

(as always, any feedback highly appreciated!)
Smoking indoors is illegal in most of the EU already. I personally find the smell of cannabis smoke lingers a lot longer than tobacco.
We're going to make really damn good paintbrushes, not automate the creation of the art that people want.
Yeah from the video I believe it was a few days of work.
Counter-point: owning a stick shift is a great anti-theft mechanism. :)
video game industry - zenimax, activision blizzard

AI/speech recognition - nuance communications (the stuff behind apple's siri)

side note: does linkedIn count?
Oh, ok. I thought this was just a place holder for blog/article content eventually.
Signals are used in every framework except React. Observables weren't. That's a huge difference.
Yeah my wife and I were chuckling at that too.
Please, don't be giving Hollywood ideas.
The relevant number is not so much how many people are born outside the country which can include 90 year olds who came to the country in WW2. But rather the YoY population growth from immigration, which is a more accurate measure of recent influx.

Canada welcomed 471,550 new permanent residents in 2023 and had an increase of roughly 550,000 temporary residents. That's a net influx of over 1M people for a country of over 40M. Most of Europe takes in about 1% of population in immigration not 2.5%. Australia targeted 195,000 permanent places and a total of 548,000 places across permanent and temporary programs. For a country of 26M that's 2.1% which is still extremely large but well below 2.5%.

Also even if we use your numbers, Canada mostly accelerated immigration in 2023 and 2024 but already by 2021 our immigration percentage was up to 23% according to our census so your numbers are badly out of date for measuring recent immigration. In terms of reaching 30% with a net influx of over 1M immigrants a year over those two years, Canada could be as high as 27% immigrant now. Which even if it is lower than the raw total in Australia I'm sure we can acknowledge is a very rapid change that puts major strain on services.
Havana Syndrome investigation finds new evidence
Have you considered defusing SSH from the likes of xz backdoors?
I don't think a tavern is a place one goes to to make movies
Can you point one out?
The efforts of foreign governments to misinform and deceive the American public are tiny compared to the domestic efforts.
it's only ruined w/o the support; which usually is way cheaper than the alternatives.

think "too big to fail"
Common confusion. It isn't the kernel driver that has problems. Not their userland "drivers". It's their firmware inside the GPU's.
Antitrust has almost never been applied to big tech, in part because antitrust enforcement in general is only given lip service for many decades. This environment means it's also very difficult for antitrust enforcers to win even if they wanted to. This has been changing recently though. https://www.thebignewsletter.com is a great resource on these things.
Wasn't Quartz GPU accelerated?
Without regard to the philisophical aspects of the extent of state welfare, such a clause would be unworkable. How could you fairly determine the cause of health issues? If one gets completely drunk, stumbles onto a road and is hit by a car, you could say that intoxication caused the accident. Would you refuse to treat that person's injuries - which are themselves nothing to do with alcohol - due to that? What about if there was a very bad unmarked pothole which caused the person to trip, a hazard that exists regardless of intoxication?

All these questions could be resolved with litigation using many of the same processes that the courts already have. However, I would wager that the state would spend as much additional money on the judiciary as they would simply providing an unconditional paramedic service in the first place! This also applies to financial situations, because it's hard to, say, confidently ascribe the failure of someone's life savings on a supposedly poor choice they made while under the influence of a drug. I personally think it would be inhumane not to provide a safety net, but it would also be considerably cheaper to!
I’m in the exact same boat as solardev (non-traditional student, taking precalculus, relying on LLMs, getting good grades but not having any true understanding) and I came here to recommend this same book.

It’s a great supplement because it gives you a chance to understand the ‘why’ of things and not just the ‘how’. The writing style is neither too dry nor too watered-down. It feels like the piece that was missing from K-12 education.

On a side note, I’ve found the LLMs to be terrible at math, but insanely good at writing LaTeX. I’ve been using GitHub Copilot to speed up the rewriting of my class notes and I’m just gobsmacked at how accurately it can print out the steps to some calculation after feeding in the original problem.
I'v read this thread and there are soo many rants on teams.

What specifically are teh workflow issues people have with teams?

My experience is that someone books an online meeting, i get a teams link. When the meeting comes I click the link, everyeone's face shows up, we have the meeting and then close teams.

I've never had any issue with teams, not even once.

What are the issues people have with teams because there are a lot of rants about teams but no specific issues are mentioned.

As a meeting tool its perfect, its there, just works and then goes away.

Are the rants directed to it as a chat app? or a company wide messaging app?

Because I use teams4-5 times a week and cant' think of a single time its failed me or crashed or slowed down during a meeting.

its the definition of a tool that just works and then goes away until I need it again.

What is making everyone so angry at the tool?
I know it because I live in one (Nigeria). My country of 200 million+ is not under any threat from a violent dictator. The issue is terrible corruption and a culture that values irrational tribalism over democratic dialogue and cooperation.

There's a reason the Middle East has no successful democracy except Israel, and that's because Israel's culture is largely Western-oriented and fit for democracy.
I don't know about that case at all, so I wouldn't know what to advocate for without going deeper into this.

In any case if there's zoning changes that were not planned or communicated in advance when purchase decision was made then the damage to the property value from those should be compensated.
No, you are likely still vulnerable if you have this versio of this library and a typical sshd instance, I believe it's about the linking rather than the init system.
Look at legend-state, it's most definitely not Redux (in a good way IMO).
Yes, but it is often a sad reality of trying to run projects mainly written for glibc on musl. Not many people write portable C these days.
> I mean, for the majority of people, does this really give us something good?

I think it clearly does the world a whole lot of good. It would be disastrous if a single company leveraged it's monopoly over a platform to force-feed the world their own instant communication service just because they can deploy an email client bundled with a spreadsheet, word processor, and misc office productivity software.

Put yourself in the position of a company such as Slack. It is beyond any doubt a far superior service than Microsoft Teams. Yet, forcing Teams to be bundled with Word, Excel, and specially Outlook ends up forcing Teams upon people in spite of being a clearly inferior alternative. If any person in the world was forced to choose between the two, I assure you that no one would pick Teams ever if not for Outlook.

So, how exactly is forcing Teams upon the world anything other than abuse of a de facto monopoly and anti-competitive business practices?
Our tools shape our selves
Yeah, this is like curated Instagram feed for designers or anyone that are interested in UI design. Over time I have accumulated a lot of bookmarks from design sites, and I just thought it would be cool to make them public.
> I think people underestimate the risk that generative AI will, ultimately, also underwhelm

That’s the true danger of AI.
I’m guessing that uncut stone was around $40,000, but he never says because he clearly doesn’t want to reveal his margins.
Who knows, but it would be much easier to find if big tech did not exist. In that case, medium-sized organizations would have many more opportunities to try things and make a modest profit. As long as big tech exists, your ideal point will never be found.
So while everyone thinks this backdoor was caught early, its purpose might have been achieved already. Especially if those targets were developers who used rolling release distros, like Kali and Debian.
That was my guess too - around $40k.
More personal observations:

8. Consumers are naive, yes. But the software industry itself is naive about the security threat.

9. The social exploit is part of the code exploit.

10. The FOSS axiom "More Eyes On The Code" works, but only if the "eyes" are educated. FOSS needs material support from industry. A MSFT engineer caught this exploit, but it still was released to G.A. in Fedora 41, openSUSE, and Kali.

11. The dev toolchain and testing process were never conceived to test for security. (edit: Also see Solarwinds [1] )

= = =

[1] _ https://www.wired.com/story/the-untold-story-of-solarwinds-t...
>but there is a big difference between "ids of what shows you watched yesterday" and "compressed audio clips from 20 minutes ago".

If they do voice recognition first then send the recognized text, that cuts down on the required bandwdith significantly.
This seems kinda deluded given that spam prevention teams have been identifying domain clusters for sender reputation management since at least 1998 to my earliest direct knowledge and probably earlier. Maybe it works for a little while, but don't bet your company on it.
Yeah regulated in terms of amount you can grow, sell, how much you can sell at a time, how much you can have in edibles, inside one package and etc. It was very weird in the beginning since the production didn't catch up with the demand, so was very expensive and sounded like quality was sub-par, making the regulars to rely on black market. Now, well, I guess you can still go with black market, but everyone I know that has been dabbling with it for the past 20+ years have switched to legal cannabis.

Keep in mind, nobody would have ever arrested you for smoking cannabis for ages especially in the west coast Canada. Sure it was illegal, but everyone has a friend who has been smoking for years.
Absolutely. The old "Dark Hoodie" stereotype is starting to get old.

However, I know that some of the Russian/East European teams were/are composed of a bunch of nerdy types that are rather loosely associated with state sponsors.

It's entirely possible that "Jia Tan" is a contractor that is hired to do the work, so even if we figured out who they were, we might never know who was pulling the puppet strings.
I agree, which is why I said I believe in antitrust. But my point was that the good it does is an incremental movement to a local maximum, which is in a series of descending local maxima that is leading to a worse world.

So while you are correct that it does do good (and I acknowledged that), the good it does is merely the movement to the next in a long line of shrinking islands in a poisonous sea.
Do you think company knows or cares?
If you apply this system to software all progress will halt.

We’d still be using MS-DOS.
They are not so bad as you are making out, tbh.

And privacy is a good enough reason to use local LLMs over commercial ones.
It is unfortunate that Lasse Collin has been silent about what he knows about him
This might be possible. I picked up some SSH traffic earlier in the week, and didn't think much of it at the time. Of course, this could also be a red herring. https://www.nubi-network.com/news.php?id=21
Are we ever going to figure out who Satoshi is? Probably not anytime soon but we can look for clues. Jia was obviously interested in OSS security and fuzzing[0] but my wild guess is that s/he is not a state actor. I would rather assume s/he is a hobbyist opportunistic hacker who got trigged by the thought "If I can exploit this, why not?". I assume he intended to build a botnet and do whatever s/he came up with. The initial motivation could've been like I said opportunism and perhaps technical challenge of exploiting the software.

[0] https://github.com/JiaT75/oss-fuzz
I believe the rants are directed at its crappy performance as yet another bloated web app masquerading as a native program.
yea, nobody at the time bought it either.
If you know, you know. =)
I think Teams is the best “all ‘round” for chat and video and screen sharing.

Slack is best in class for chat though.

Teams chat sucks in a few ways:

* Posts? Why can’t messages be more lightweight.

* No custom emojis like party parrot.

* Total crapshoot whether it converts my three backticks into a code block.

* Please fuck off with trying to offer me apps every time I paste a link.
Am I the only one reading this thinking that this is an April Fools joke (given the date)?!?
Before the social media mega companies we had all sorts of weird conspiracy theory nuts, but it was a lot easier to be skeptical when you only hear about it from the one guy who always has those nutty ideas (we all have that one uncle). But his ramblings can masquerade as credible when they are backed by larger groups people regurgitating the same talking points in unison on social media, filled with ai images and any other tool they can use to appear more credible.

IMO we need to go back to email lists. No more algorithmic feeds controlled by mega companies… for the same reason that our government in the USA suffered as a result of senators no longer moving their whole families to Washington during their term - those of us that are consuming content from feed algorithms are only seeing what triggers them to want to scroll more, not a balanced assortment of info from everyone.
Since his only appearance outside of github and git repos is on some Taiwanese blogs, can we please change all occurances of China to Taiwan please?

And some others hints at Eastern Europe, comparing the timezones. Taiwan ist still the strongest hint though.
Check out Julia (https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-julia-and-lisp/25119)
I said this days ago, but re timezones - they are meaningless as even GCHQ and NSA etc will place false flags in code which has any kind of risk of exposure. I first learned about those techniques from all the high profile intelligence agency leaks from the USA who were performing those themselves.
The matrix standard is the closest competitor. Synapse/Dendrite and Element are all probably the most popular and are under various open source licenses.

There was always an alternative with IRC
Application of Locality Sensitive Hashing to audio fingerprinting
Companies are infiltrated all the time [0]

However the incentives even if a company detected the infiltration is to keep quiet about it. Lets say that a closed source "accessd" was backdoored, a database admin notices the new version (accessd 2024.6 SAAS version model 2.0+ with GPT!) is slower than the previous version, they put it down to enshittificaiton. Or they contact the company who has no incentive to spend money to look into it. There's no way the database admin (or whoever) can look into the git commit chain and see where the problem happened.

[0] https://rigor-mortis.nmrc.org/@simplenomad/11218486968142017...
My impression is Nitro isn't making them enough money.

Why?

My impression of Nitro is "incessant spamvertisement". I've never bought Nitro, spamming that shit in front of my face every chance it gets is not going to make me buy. The only reason they keep spamming me is because they want (read: need) me to buy.
this is just a matter of time
An Awk Implementation in C99
Which to me is a very carefully orchestrated thing. You don't just spend 2 years of your life doing that. No loner would pre-plan this to such an extent and create sockpuppet accounts for all this.
LLM gibberish.
What? I know at least 2 Hans who are native german, and are no older than 40. And I lived in Germany only for 4 years.
In my case is: Having anonymous accounts give me “freedom of erasure”. So, if I want to quit platform Z, for me it’s as easy as doing nothing: I don’t mind the (anon) posts I wrote, I don’t mind the email I signed up with (used exclusively for anon purposes); all that stuff is not linked to me, so I don’t mind what happens with it. On the other side, if all that stuff is linked to my name, I need to care of making sure it gets deleted by platform Z and all the other places where the stuff has been replicated (which is almost impossible nowadays).

I dont want people to
know what I wrote 15 years ago in some place of the internet. That’s not me anymore.
Gentle Intro to Type-Level Recursion in Rust: From Zero to HList Sculpting
Doesn't the machine pay the bills in the future? Isn't that why we're building them?
> Scanning the working set is still cheaper than tracking all references constantly.

that is why you need to be careful not to needlessly update your reference count for temporaries. managing memory is not free. generational garbage collection avoids a lot of thought but it demands more memory.
Once I finally actually deleted all of the social media apps from my phone, it suddenly became a really pleasant and useful tool again. I have even started to read ebooks again.

Social media is so much the problem.
The EU has data portability obligations and anti gatekeeper laws. I think from a legal point of view, the EU is fine. More enforcement would be welcome, though.

That said: you can't expect a free service to handle your streaming and file uploads without some kind of revenue stream. In my opinion, services giving away free stuff with their billions of investment should be fined, because no real company with a normal profit margin can ever compete. This approach has destroyed every market it's been successful in, from ride sharing to food delivery, yet nobody seems to care when it comes to internet hosting services, probably because the majority of users benefit from the free stuff until there is no serious competition left.

Any law against adding ads to generate revenue once a critical user base has been attained would likely turn into every website requiring a subscription, or every free tier coming with ads from the get-go. I'm not sure if the people who are mad about this will accept either.
Tools
SDKMan!
JetBrains Toolbox & IntelliJ CE
Git
GitHub Desktop/Sourcetree/GitKraken/TortoiseGit
Spring Initializr / Code Quarkus app
Spring Boot CLI / Quarkus CLI
JBang
JHipster
Docker
Testcontainers Desktop
OpenRewrite/Moderne
Gatling
Java Microbenchmark Harness (JMH)
VisualVM
Java Flight Recorder (JFR)
Digma Continuous Feedback (CF)
IDE Plugins
Libraries
Stripe is refunding 62K – going into dept, please HELP:(
I run a startup for pet toys and accessories, we are a mission driven company specializing in pet safety.. However yesterday night I got an email from Stripe saying they will start start issuing refunds for "unauthorized charges" which is absurd, since we literally have 0 chargebacks.

They are going to REFUND $62,000 from shipped orders - I put my all into this business and need the money to continue running it.

We have 0 disputes, 0 complaints, nothing.

We use Shopify checkout where they have to manually enter their card details and pass a CVV verification, zip verification, IP match etc.. It's not possible to have the unauthorized charges.

Please, for the love of God, if you are seeing this, help me!

I have already contacted Stripe but they aren't responding besides saying its in review. If its in review for a few more days my money is gone forever, for no reason!

Thank you for sharing this!
You need to read more than just the first sentence of a comment. They only said that part so the reader would know that they have never used an LLM for coding, so they would have more context for the question:

> So genuine question: is that answer representative of the output quality of these things?
Spiritual AI: An AI for spiritual tasks
I was responding to the line "if it is only the laws that are keeping people from killing each other, we are in big trouble". My point is that clearly it's not only the laws (and the parent commenter never claimed so), but they do help.

Sure you can replace the current system of laws & law enforcement with something else. (And if you tore down the state, something would certainly fill that power vacuum.) But then you have to grapple with basically all the same problems.
Redis vs. the Trillion-Dollar Cabals
> Why not just "adopt" the golden child/golden standard NVIDIA now for your usecase, reverse that (if needed) and move on?

Oh oh, I will answer you with the business side of the thing: because Nvidia sells exactly the same thing as Tinycorp. Also, Nvidia has shown that they will crush you if they get a whiff that you are doing something they don't like, for example, speaking with a competitor. With a business partner that gets you by the balls like that, it is not sound business strategy not to depend on them.
TL;DR - what date is today?
Makes my brain tingle in weird ways, reading different snippets of this article. Where it talks about "A:" being the floppy drive, suddenly I'm an early 90s kid again, learning the basics of my first home computer (an Olivetti 286 with MS-DOS and a green screen). Where it talks about proxying SSL with Caddy, fast-forward to being a 2010s web dev.

And I like the screenshot showing "Bad command or file name". I saw that message plenty of times, although now it seems like a lifetime ago!
You can try giving me a different reason why they keep incessantly spamveritising Nitro at me when I've never once bought it since I started using Discord.
We already do this in The Netherlands. We can use our drivers license or newer id cards to activate a digital identity app from the government, by scanning the nfc chip in it. Works great honestly.
I believe many services you log into then do not store much personal information, only what’s needed to connect to your id and of course whatever is needed for the service itself.
What about "new" people? I, personally, don't care if new people try it. It doesn't seem to have extreme societal impact like very hard drugs (fentanyl and etc.) we see in Vancouver. I'm still against those, but for lighter things like cannabis, I'll treat it as alcohol - let others freely enjoy it as long as they're not causing problems for their surroundings. As long as people understand their limits and deal with their addictions, it's not my place to limit people on their consumption behaviours.

And well, I was a kid once as well, and trying alcohol for the first time, drinking with friends, getting into shenanigans. Wouldn't trade those memories for anything. That'll happen whether you want it or not.

Still against smoking in small public places though, as my jacket gets to smell like weed.
Teams was a rushed Slack clone MS pushed during the lockdowns. VSCode didn't have the same incentives.

I was working for a large company using Office 365 back then. Our teams were using either Slack or Skype. The company pushed everyone towards Teams because it was included in 365 only to eventually backpedal and move everyone to Slack because Teams was an unfinished software.
What's surprising to me is that they have had a few years to improve Teams yet its UX is still far behind Slack.