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> At 4:58 pm, he wiped out a Department of Homeland Security database using the command “DROP DATABASE dhsproddb.”

This article is hilarious. The two bickering brothers remind me of the guys in the Oceans movies played by Casey Affleck and Scott Caan. It’s amazing they got this close to sensitive data.


Those two in the movies were always a highlight for me, especially when the one joins the other in the Mexican factory riot.

I’m having flashbacks to Windows 7 gadgets. I can already imagine some developer marketplace for creating cursor prompts.

Is this for GMail only or just Google accounts? A while ago I was able to signup for a Google account with an iCloud relay email, and it _seemed_ like I had to give my phone number or use Google Authenticator… but I worked around it by using Chrome Devtools to create a virtual WebAuthN device, after which I was able to scan a QR code for 2FA with 1Password.

If you’re American living in the UK you get double the number of weekends freaking out thinking you missed it. Those signs go up in February…

It is nothing. This whole fiasco is being blown way out of proportion when there are a hundred other issues with Chrome that we could be complaining about.

They also enjoy 15% tax, through some arrangement I’m still not convinced is legal for IT contractors…

But yeah, some of the most skilled and passionate engineers I’ve worked with have been from Poland and the surrounding countries like Czechia.


12% for software development, 8.5% for design/management. The caveat being, you can't deduct anything from tax, only VAT(under some assumptions). If you have actual expenses it's 12/32% progressive or 19% linear tax. Of course all of those are assuming you own a one man company and work B2B. Most devs here do. Otherwise regular contract of employment is progressive 12/32% tax, plus Healthcare and employer payments. Much less beneficial to both sides hence why it's not preferred by most.

15%? With some legal footwork you can get to 10 or 5%, depending if you count general medical I surance as a tax or not.

So called 'IP BOX', but it's very rare, as most people consider it risky and it requires a lot of paperwork. It's also frowned upon a lot.

This misses the obligatory health tax and pension fund contributions.

The pension fund is usually not considered a tax formally, but most people I know assume with our demographics and pension system we are just paying for current retirees (and our 'savings' will be impacted by inflation when it becomes impossible to maintain), so practically it's a tax.

Than there is 23% VAT (ofc much less than 23% because both the IT company and the contractor pass it to client and subtract some cost; so only a piece of it affects the contractor; it's a convoluted thing and I don't really know if I should treat it as ~22.9% or 2.3% tax on a contractor and it's client).


I just don’t read this crap. The problem solves itself since anyone sending me that isn’t going to bother to follow up about it anyway.

Unfortunately, there is pressure to treat this stuff in good faith. Maybe the PR author really did write all this. Maybe they really did spend 6 hours writing this document.

So, I approach it in good faith, but I do get upset when people say "I'll ask claude". You need to be the intermediary, I can also prompt claude and read back the result. If you are going to hire an employee to do work on your behalf, you are responsible for their performance at the end of the day. And that's what an AI assistant is. The buck stops with you. But I don't think people understand that and that they don't understand they aren't adding value. At some point, you have to use your brain to decide if the AI is making sense, that's not really my job as the code/doc reviewer. I want to have a conversation with you, not your tooling, basically.


> I do get upset when people say "I'll ask claude"

The dude is just acting like a manager with a technical employee (agent) who does the hands-on work. If you are upset about this you should be hopping mad about the whole manager-director-VP-SVP hierarchy above this dude.


As long as each part of the hierarchy understands what they need to know at their level and what they produce, I have no problem with "the whole hierarchy".

You're saying this as if it's some rebuttal ad absurdum, when it's absolutely the case: when the higher layers don't understand what they do, we have a problem with that too, and that's been true since forever. Remember Dilbert and Office Space, and making fun of the ignorant middle managers and execs?

In this case, what we're complaining about is coders not understanding the code they ship (because some AI wrote it and they don't bother to review it or guide the AI fully).


> If you are going to hire an employee to do work on your behalf, you are responsible for their performance at the end of the day.

So, what you are saying is that I should fire the bottom N% of underperforming agent instances?

You know, like employers do as opposed to taking any responsibility?


They likely haven’t read it either, so they’ll never know you didn’t as well.

I just stopped reading my work emails and the announcement channels. Everything that actually matters either ends up DMed to me or shows up in my calendar.

For remote installation, use the `docker context` command. You create a context with a named SSH host and then it connects via SSH to that host (as configured in your local ssh_config) and uses its docker daemon. Everything works flawlessly apart from local bind mounts (for obvious reasons).

If you remember `docker machine`, this is basically the modern version of that.


That's fair; good solution.

This is early 1990s capitalism.

1980s even. It takes a while to siphon off all the value built up by multiple generations.

The hidden truth about economics in my lifetime.

Article is ad-walled and is blogspam of the original source from Citizen Lab: https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exp...

Yes, I just changed the URL from https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-0... to the report it references. We'll leave the link to the submitted URL in the toptext.

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