“The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts...” tmblr.co/Z7nwWy215A4QO

Ooof, that's a tough one 🥴

HEB hired this VP that was fired from Walmart for skimming an extra $30k a day from wage kickbacks off a 1,000 of his H1Bs. ctol.digital/news/walmart-fi…

‼️ Someone’s Bluetooth headphones kept refusing to hand audio back to their phone. He discovered the cause was an open AliExpress tab that was generating a tone you purposefully never hear, to secretly track you. Alibaba's anti-abuse scripts use a fingerprinting technique with a hidden audio graph on the homepage — a sawtooth tone pushed through the browser's audio engine, then measured on the way out. CPU, OS and browser each process it slightly differently, and that variation results in a fingerprint they can track you with. Gain is set to zero, so nothing is audible. But the audio graph stays wired to the system audio output, so the browser keeps processing live audio. Tab mute can't stop it, there's no media element to mute. Some browsers like Firefox have already flattened the fingerprint itself. For example 99.24% of Firefox users return one of just three values. It doesn't stop the audio graph from running though.

meta gave their AI support agent the ability to modify your instagram account. no identity verification. people figured this out and accounts are being taken over right now

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Plenty of PERM market tests from Uber in the Bay area in last Sunday's print version of the Mercury News. Unfortunately 5 of the 13 apply links redirect you to a 404 page. Is this a good-faith effort to hire an American? Sr Technical Program Manager $264,514 – $317,417 tinyurl.com/jtp4nsbv (page not found) Software Engineer (BI) $264,514 – $317,417 tinyurl.com/yxahbx6a (page not found) Sr Software Engineer (Android Maps) $264,514 – $317,417 tinyurl.com/2mx8nef9 (page not found) Software Engineer $189,000 – $204,000 tinyurl.com/53ny8p4v (page not found) Software Engineer $226,138 – $271,356 tinyurl.com/mpt7pkut Manager, Engineering $388,918 – $466,702 tinyurl.com/mryf7p4y Manager II, Engineering $388,918 – $466,702 tinyurl.com/3j2a5789 Software Engineer $187,741 – $225,289 tinyurl.com/y3tx9pkx (page not found) Software Engineer $187,741 – $225,289 tinyurl.com/4yshr73x Software Engineer $232,000 – $284,000 tinyurl.com/396auyth Software Engineer $232,000 – $284,000 tinyurl.com/4tj54vr8 Software Engineer I $150,000 – $166,000 tinyurl.com/w58vjpvy Sr Software Engineer (Advertising) $264,514 – $317,417 tinyurl.com/858e8cmz

This is why 64GB of RAM is $1000 x.com/shitpost_2049/status/2…

"I'm a crypto investor"

God I hate this.

British comedian Pat Smith brilliantly points out the hypocrisy surrounding the subject of mass migration in the UK.

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create C. C creates good times. Good times create Python programmers. Python programmers create AI. AI creates vibe coders. Vibe coders create weak men. Weak men create hard times.

He got quiet real quick. Lol

Big moment for Postgres! AI coding tools have been surprisingly bad at writing Postgres code. Not because the models are dumb, but because of how they learned SQL in the first place. LLMs are trained on the internet, which is full of outdated Stack Overflow answers and quick-fix tutorials. So when you ask an AI to generate a schema, it gives you something that technically runs but misses decades of Postgres evolution, like: - No GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (added in PG10) - No expression or partial indexes - No NULLS NOT DISTINCT (PG15) - Missing CHECK constraints and proper foreign keys - Generic naming that tells you nothing But this is actually a solvable problem. You can teach AI tools to write better Postgres by giving them access to the right documentation at inference time. This exact solution is actually implemented in the newly released pg-aiguide by @TigerDatabase, which is an open-source MCP server that provides coding tools access to 35 years of Postgres expertise. In a gist, the MCP server enables: - Semantic search over the official PostgreSQL manual (version-aware, so it knows PG14 vs PG17 differences) - Curated skills with opinionated best practices for schema design, indexing, and constraints. I ran an experiment with Claude Code to see how well this works, and worked with the team to put this together. Prompt: "Generate a schema for an e-commerce site twice, one with the MCP server disabled, one with it enabled. Finally, run an assessment to compare the generated schemas." The run with the MCP server led to: - 420% more indexes (including partial and expression indexes) - 235% more constraints - 60% more tables (proper normalization) - 11 automation functions and triggers - Modern PG17 patterns throughout The MCP-assisted schema had proper data integrity, performance optimizations baked in, and followed naming conventions that actually make sense in production. pg-aiguide works with Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP-compatible tool. It's free and fully open source. I have shared the repo in the replies!

“Government shuts down… and suddenly the 90s-style clouds from my childhood are back? Coincidence? I think not. 👀”

One of the most hard hitting videos you’ll ever see in your entire life. 🫡

Liberal Goes Back In Time To Kill Hitler

The voices on the Left who have been the bullhorn behind the battering ram are terrified now of what they have unleashed from a silent Right just trying to live their lives in peace with a bunch of unhinged lunatics who refused to let them.

Self-control, discipline, morals, courtesy. None of these cost a money to teach, learn, or apply to one's self.