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Do we care that the bug here was a horizontal scrollbar showing and the fix after all this insane tool writing was to add a very obvious overflow-x: hidden to the element?

We dont mind because its so fast a writing these tools and tricks but step back and if a human tool took this path i would seriously question thief gras of fundamentals.

Edit: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/insights/leveraging-gmail-...

Shows you how to use googles thing if you are a sender to know if @gmail folks are reporting you. It doesnt address what to do if someone's @gmail is doing this to you (a workspace custom domain yes)... @gmail are rate-limited to a few 1000s per day per gmail address but this is still a lot obviously

I did some tiny digging because I remembered that there is a way to report individual messages in a structured machine readable way to abuse@ for these things --- i suspect that this is technically supported by gmail (if not given a lot of signal weight)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_Reporting_Format

How to bulk do this is interesting too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback_loop_(email) says that gmail has a bulk format and that sendgrid is seeing some success.

Not defending just trying to see what a technical solution looks like

PostgresSQL

"crosstab ( source_sql text, category_sql text ) → setof record"

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tablefunc.html

VIA https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/blog/how-to-pivot-in-postgres... as a current googlable reference/guide

If this code is real and complete then there are no callers of those methods other than a logger line

Good memories of the open source world. I couldn't find my commits in either repo and i'm afraid i might have been shy to upstream them and just did them in a fork. it was tiny, There was some issue in some less number formatting variation involving currencies in multiple locales. we needed xlsx for its ability to do some nice formatting etc but i really wanted to have a need for things like generating charts, embedding scripts etc just for the sheer nerdiness

I wonder, can we not turn all threads into a "when will AI do this creative thing better than humans".

Humans need basic income (or at least resources) and to have culturally valuable work to do. Art and craft esp as a form of human expression seems like we should ASSUME that humans want to do this, that we as a society value the human energy that goes into it.

I would love to see alternatives of educational code that implements these things in a "compliant" way.

Security does not come from Compliance (sometimes they are at odds) but as someone who is not an academically trained security professional but who has read NIST* in detail, implements such code and has passed a number of code reviews from security professionals. And who has been asked to do things like STRIDE risk assessment on products I write code for I do appreciate the references and links along side actual code of any kind.

Now to be fair, I have not yet looked at any of the code here, it's commit history or its level of AI-induced fantasy confidence in the validity of the specific solutions. That could be good or bad but the intent of this is really on point for me.

Edit: I looked at some code:

This is missing a lot from NIST SP 800-63B

Looking at https://github.com/vhscom/private-landing/blob/main/packages...

    - the db select runs before the password has so you can detect if the account exists with timing attacks
    - there is no enforced minimum nor maximum length on the stored secret (e..g para 5.1.1.1 and 5.1.1.2 recommend length range of 8 to 64 unicode printable chars normalized to some form i forget)

    - there is no enforced min max length on the account identifier (in this case email) and no normalization

Marginally better for sure but in this case the path would also have been "leaked" to the sentry instance owned by developers of the the NAS device phoning home. This can happen in zillions of ways and is a good reason to use relatively opaque urls in generally and not "friendly ids" and generally being careful abou putting secrets in URLs.

Yeah, as a salty greybeard i tried to tell our FE tech-lead to just render the proper HTTP Cache-Control headers in the Next.js site we recently built. He tried and then linked me to https://nextjs.org/docs/app/guides/caching and various version of their docs on when you can and cannot set Cache-Control headers (e.g. https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/config/next-config...) and I got several hours of head-ache before calling it a problem for another day. That site is not high traffic enough to care but this is not the first time that i've gotten the "not the Next.js way" talk and was not happy.

I obviously can be done but clearly is not the intended solution which really bothers me

this too...

I feel the same, 72 million monthly page views is about 8 pages per second even if in a single timezone (72e6 / 8h * 30d * 3600h/s) - even with today's heavy weight pages we are talking under well under 1000 req/s. Assuming they are not super image/asset heavy i would expect this to comfortably be served by a couple of reasonable old school ngnix servers[1]. If each page was a full megabyte of uncached content we are < 10Gbits/sec. Probably under 1

The build logic to decide which things to rebuild of course is probably the interesting bits but we dont need all these services... </grey-beard-rant>

[1] https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/nginx&eval=c18b8feaeca...

edit: to be less ranty they are more or less building static sites out of their Next.js codebase but on-demand updated etc which is indeed interesting but none of this needs cloudflare/hyerscaler tech

Not sure how many customers/sites they have. Perhaps they don't want to spend CPU regenerating all sites on every deployment? They do describe a content-driven pre-warmer but I'm still unclear why this couldn't be a content-driven static site generator running on some build machine

Does it? I watched this video and the explanation of how they (mostly Bill in Vermont) did it had barely enough room for the song data. I think the line graphics might have been some good story telling

One of my first legit independent contractor jobs was a background job for coldfusion-based website that needed to get partners to update their data periodically. The business had figured out that their building supply partners were more responsive to faxes than emails and had a desktop window machine with a fax-modem used for that. A quick "micro-service" in classic asp to bridge the website to the desktop machine and they made it through the last few years of common usage of faxing for these kinds of things.

Does a good job of showing how completely unparsable ToS are:

https://tosdr.org/en/service/1448 says both:

"You maintain ownership of your data: This service does not claim ownership over user-generated content or materials, and the user * doesn't need to waive any moral rights* by posting owned content."

and

"You waive your moral rights"

Edit: I have no energy for figuring out which of these statements is more true.

Yeah, not a candidate for the list. I thought it wasn't because the list was about > 2 different spellings that sound "identical" but mean different things.

I agree with you and when I (a non-linguist) first learned about this it did occur to me that there was probably some infinite recursive version and it took *some* of the fun out of it. Its' still fun as is this list.

I also suspect there are lots of good examples of whatever a word with multiple meanings with different parts of speech is called. So it should be possible to find...use many "Buffalo buffalo buffalo..."

"database" in legal/business speak (AFAIK) is the more general "organized collection of data" - not the more software engineer focused relational/object/graph- implementations of such.

This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...

Edit: It's not on the list because its using multiple meanings of the same spelling...

Wasn't fintech but was fin something. Several weeks into trying to port a Excel workbook with a zillion tabs, some VBscript from stackoverflow and other nastiness and being unable to replicate the results. I discovered the "consultant" who help them create this insane thing had turned on the "allow circular references"[1] option and choosen a number of iterations that "Seemed to make it work"

Yay! for non-deterministic financial modeling.

Also was really fun trying to explain to the folks who hired me why I couldnt get the results they wanted to see.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/remove-or-allow-a...

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3927

"Microsoft Windows 98 (and later) and Mac OS 8.5 (and later) already support this capability."

And https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/win-98-fails...

I expected the layout, head size, expression etc rules to be more or less standard across countries. More than a decade a go our dual citizen baby got both passports at once and I thought I could use one of the US duplicates for the other country... an hour of fiddly standards checking, measuring, reprinting, cropping and I got something that would pass on the application but got a scolding that it was not quite right.

And an IDE would also fail to find references for most of the cases described in the article: name composition/manipulation, naming consistency across language barriers, and flat namespaces in serialization. And file/path folder naming seems to be irrelevant to the smart IDE argument. "Naming things is hard"

Nope but "handle confusion" safety perhpas?

It wasn't the only language browsers (vbscript was allowed client side in early ie) supported and also isn't anymore with wasm

Overall good points but don't forget that pre-approval processes resulted in asking for resources that exceeded the near term needs and once approved ongoing costs were rarely fully reviewed. I have personal experience with "enterprise" clients making a huge months long process to get server resources, reminding us that changes would take 30+ days. when the project was over and we did everything we could to let them know that the servers could be spun down or put to other uses we got back a "ok thanks!" only to find them still running our project code YEARS later. This is infra that was costing them about 1 engineer FTE per year, not even a 10$/mo toy env

I wonder if this is just them aligning themselves with the new EU AI Act at the same time that they are rolling out a EU region[1]. From my understanding that act, soon to take affect makes it a requirement to explicitly explain the use cases for AI in your use of data in TOS. Before this law you didn't really have to say if you used AI

[1] https://blog.sentry.io/sentrys-eu-data-region-now-in-early-a...

I suspect the article is about returning the contributing tables in a join as multiple relations... while not possible in SQL proper this is possible with stored procedures (at least in T-SQL)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40013747/return-multiple...

I dont know about open source. But back back around 2000 it was fairly common to implement a "VBA host". It was also easy, a few dev days to scaffold and minutes to hours of dev time to expose functions. We did it with a suite of related applications (used internally by a early ebook punlisher) that interacted a lot with Office. Introspection, auto-complete and integrated help documentation all worked and technically minded editor staff could automate lots of thier work with Visual Studio provided IDE and debuggers etc

AND a several orders of magnitude larger investment in tech writers, and manual "How can my customer break this software" testing.

When I worked in shrink-wrapped software back in dark ages the documentation writing team and a very extensive manual QA department where each the same size as the development department. Think people trying for DAYS to find out why out of 100s of thousands of active users, a few dozen reported being able to launch 2 instances of the main window when that should not be allowed. (Fix: Race condition in the "double click" handling code with a window of a few milliseconds)

I have, in my life as a web developer, had multiple "academics" urgently demand that i remove error bands, bars, notes about outliers, confidence intervals etc from graphics at the last minute so people are not "confused"

Its depressing