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Yes my bad, I meant it implements that algorithm, but that’s not quite right either, it’s like RE2 but slightly different, with the same results. I read the code to see what was actually under the hood and it’s pretty cool.

OAuth for all 28 days ago

OAuth is pretty simple, just read the spec.

Your go to a third party web site. They send you to your OAuth provider, like cloudflare. Cloudflare asks you to login if you’re not logged in, then asks if you want to give that party certain permissions. You say yes or no and then click approve and then you get redirected back to the third party site. They get a secure token and can use that to access the services with permissions you approved. If you don’t trust the third party then don’t approve it.

It is like an API key but you never have to touch it. The third party can encrypt it and store it securely and it never has to be copied and pasted. You can use this on backend services that need to access things too. I recently wrote an OAuth client for MCP servers for something I’m building (not gonna advertise here because that’s rude) and it’s very nice once you read the spec.

OAuth for all 28 days ago

Yea and if you need to use that service then an API key does the same thing. People were giving these services the API keys which isn’t great. You can argue that third party services aren’t a good idea, but then why are you using cloudflare? I don’t understand why you think this is a security issue, if you don’t trust a third party service don’t use it. You have to approve the permissions, they don’t just steal them.

Sorry if I was rude earlier but saying OAuth is some security flaw made me think that you didn’t understand what it was about; it’s just a way to grant permissions to a third party you trust. If you do then I’m curious why you think it’s flawed.

OAuth for all 28 days ago

Do you understand what OAuth is? It’s like an API key but less likely to be abused. This is a good thing. It helps security in many ways and makes security flows more safe than carrying around a token.

You haven’t said anything, or at least I haven’t seen it. There’s no inbox here and I don’t always read old comments. If you have pointed it out before I don’t care, I haven’t seen it. If you want to point something out, then maybe email me about it the just time you see it, otherwise I’m not trolling through my old threads that often so you’ll have to accept that this is the first I’ve seen you ask.

I’m respect your wishes but you can’t say you have told me anything if I didn’t see it here, sorry Dan but that’s only fair since there’s no way for me to see your message unless I randomly go back.

If you want to ensure people see these messages, then that’s a feature you’ll need to add. I’m fine with you using the email on my account for this purpose, too, but I’m not fine with getting a single message from you here and you expecting me to have seen anything else you’ve said in the past. As far as I’m concerned this is the first I’ve seen you ask me about this.

There’s no flame bait here just some swearing and rough language. I’ll cut back because you asked (once, I’ve not seen your responses other than this one), but I don’t think I’m out of line.

Also if people were downvoting my comments it’d be different but it’s just you for a frw recent ones down modding then, because before you get here they were up or even. Moderators should focus on those truly displaying bad behavior, I’m just swearing and saying relevant things.

I have a very long history of good comments here, arguing otherwise seems suspect, honestly.

I’ll back off like you say but I don’t agree at all. I’ve read the guidelines and tend to follow them.

Edit: I see like 3-4 questionable comments from me, two of who’ve are barely questionable. I get what you’re saying about the language but it’s really amazing you’ve targeted me here today, this us such low hanging fruit here, don’t you have better things to deal with? I’ll write better comments but I’m just really annoyed at your characterization of my behavior, it is very unfair in my eyes. I’ve done very good comments for ages and emotional language like this is rare for me. I expect better from mods here.

The problem with visual only loot boxes is that people will pay for rare skins and so everyone still gambles on that stuff. I don’t know if they solved that, used to be you’d buy the keys to unlock them and hope to profit from selling a skin. Adults should also be protected against dark patterns like this.

My wife calls it sim sickness, because she can’t do any POV type games like racing or fps, too. She can play WoW or third person games if they’re zoomed out enough.

She also got motion sickness until she turned on the Apple dots.

Waymo Premier 1 month ago

The company isn’t using the travel miles. You’re basically saying, “I’ll take away a small perk from people who are forced to travel.” It’s not like they’re stealing from the company, the company sent them somewhere else and they just got a tiny bonus for it.

The proper thing to so is stop those managers who travel too much.

Would you say, “Automobile run amok in crowd, killing 22”? I think you’d say, “Person drives car into crowd, killing 12” instead. This is a similar case. Also, you don’t blame a gun for killing, but the person who pulled the trigger. The question is still out as to whether we as humans should wield any of those three things.

Edit: let’s not get into ideological arguments about gun control, automobiles, etc here; I meant that you can’t blame an object when a human has to take an action, not get into a political battle.

Siri AI 1 month ago

My number one question is can I turn this shit off? I don’t want AI infecting and having access to my whole fucking life. They don’t say anything on this marketing page.

At least when I write an autistic info dump people know I wrote it. Why give your voice over to a corpo slop factory?

Heck, I use LLM assistance for coding and I’ve even coded up whole features with the clankers, but giving it the right to speak for me is too much.

I should also add that I read and understand every line of clanker output that I publish for others, so I’m not a vibe coder either, just adhd.

The LLM is also training on or reading your emails; my wife was emailing a client and it produced absolute garbage and in that garbage was information the clanker shouldn’t have known unless it read the other emails. That’s probably not a surprise but the implications are staggering.

The opposite end of that spectrum is everyone here who thinks we should just ignore nature and where we came from since we’ve conquered it, or something. I’m not sure what you all are arguing here. We’re still a part of nature, we’ll discover that quickly if society collapses.