Reddit was knowingly ruined by google. Once google pushed reddit to the top of search results, they created massive incentives to game reddit and fill it with disguised advertising and/or slop.
> Reddit was knowingly ruined by google. Once google pushed reddit to the top of search results
Ehhhhh I agree and yet also disagree (it's fun though).
Yes they were ruined by being promoted by algo changes, but do I blame google directly? For me, no.
It's exactly as we stated before, it's because it was so trustworthy. Individual people's personal experience with X or Y many times with good details. That earned a lot of strong backlinks, blogs, etc. The domain became authoritative especially on esoteric searches. Then algo changes came (remember pandas?) and pushed them even further. I mean that's the point of search systems right? Get you to trustworthy information that you're looking for.
Then the money grabbers showed up.
So it's just like Harvey Dent said - either you die a trusted niche community or live long enough to see yourself become weaponized for money. He was so smart, that Harvey Dent.
So then why haven’t the higher credibility people in each niche set up an alternative?
Why let reddit drag down the credibility of well everyone in their niche by association. Even if it’s only a tiny bit per year, that adds up over time.
... could we get webauthn / yubikeys prioritized for fly? afaik (don't want to disable 2fa to find out), it only supports totp.
For everyone reading though, you should try fly. Unaffiliated except for being a happy customer. 50 lines of toml is so so much better than 1k+ lines of cloudformation.
We don't like TOTP, at all, for reasons even more obvious now, but our standard answer for advanced MFA has been OIDC, which is what most people should do rather than setting up bespoke U2F/FIDO2/Passkeys.
> Fly.io supports Google and GitHub as Identity Providers[1]
How about you just support SAML like a real enterprise vendor, so IdP-specific support isn't your problem anymore? I get it, SAML is hard, but it's really the One True Path when it comes to this stuff.
SAML is awful, maybe the worst cryptographic protocol ever devised, and we won't implement it unless we absolutely have to. OIDC is the future.
I'm not exaggerating; you can use the search bar and find longer comments from me on SAML and XMLDSIG. You might just as well ask when we're going to implement DNSSEC.
I certainly see you whining a lot about SAML in your history. This lines up with my "SAML is hard" comment above -- SAML is filled with footguns and various perils, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad. OIDC is certainly better in a few aspects (note trading XML parsing for JSON parsing is not one of them), but the killer SAML feature that you (and by you, I mean fly.io, to be clear) is missing is being IdP-agnostic. You cannot reasonably expect that those two vendors will cover even half of your potential enterprise user base; and yes, for anyone working in an even remotely regulated industry, not being compatible with our SSO ensures you get dropped even before the evaluation phase.
My favourite slop-generator summarizes this as "While SAML is significantly more complex to implement than OIDC, its design for robust enterprise federation and its maturity have resulted in vendors converging on a more uniform interpretation of its detailed specification, reducing the relative frequency of non-standard implementation quirks when dealing with core B2B SSO scenarios." That being said, if your org is more B2C, maybe it makes sense you haven't prioritized this yet. You'll get there one day :)
"SAML is filled with footguns and various perils" is in fact why it's bad. You don't look at an archaic cryptosystem full of design flaws and go "skills issue". The "skills issue" would be using it at all. Sorry, SAML is dead.
Of course it is -- if you tout investments, that means previously you didn't invest. Whereas any competent business would be looking at demand, the head counts, ages, and doing some quick math.
And eg
> There’s incredible dignity in emergency services, and people can have wonderful careers.
Not really. Ask anyone who does it; you'll hear minimum wage or not much above, and piles of transport of fat people. ie huge risks to the joint health for the people stuck moving them.
And of course, dignity ain't cash. This The whole thing is an extended whinge that rounds to I don't want to pay more.
Plus the implicit idea that society is responsible for preparing employees for Ford, not Ford.
André is working on a combination of rbenv/asdf, bundler, and gem that I think is interesting. Not that they're wildly broken, but I'd rather have fewer tools and it always seemed a bit odd that they're separate when they're notionally managing the environment in which your ruby code executes.
Given the rise in supply chain attacks, I'd also like a private rubygem instance where I can whitelist gems and even versions for my company in a way that doesn't let anything else install. I'm not sure if they're taking that on or not, but I'd like it.
You're trying to have a serious discussion with someone convinced he can build deep domain knowledge in eg banks and their needs, how to sell to them, plus the associated network, in a year while also writing code. Oh, and just assumes "early customers", ie you're also going to learn how to sell. Because how hard can it be :rolleyes:
Mind sharing why you think that (genuinely curious)?
I think Ed hit some broad points, mostly (i) there were some breathless predictions (human level intelligence) that aren't panning out; (ii) oh wow they burn a ton of cash. A ton; (iii) and they're very Musky: lots of hype, way less product. Buttressed with lots of people saying that if AI did a thing, then that would be super useful; much less showing of the thing being done or evidence that it's likely to happen soon.
None of which says these tools aren't super useful for coding. But I'm missing the link between super useful for coding and a business making $100B / year or more which is what these investments need. And my experience is more like... a 20% speed improvement? Which, again, yes please... but not a fundamental rewriting of software economics.
Yeah; if this ends up as “some people and companies find this to be a useful programming tool and will pay a moderate amount for it”, then you have essentially recreated Borland, or Jetbrains, business-model-wise. The current valuations are based on something else altogether.
Or what various advertising companies (and the advertisers) would pay to know where you shop.
Connect what gas you buy, what grocery or gym you go to, what restaurants you eat at with your name, address, and probably ip. And note this is significantly facilitated if they have a direct billing relationship with the driver: that's how they're getting clean phone, name, ip (gotta login to put that card in), etc.
I've had the same experience -- employees who do the minimum and then whine when (one case) asked for a raise or he'd quit and I said sgtm; and (a different person) I chose to mentor and promote other people on the team. Some people can't wrap their minds around the idea that our interests aren't always aligned, but sometimes they are and also why would I invest in someone who doesn't invest here. Mentoring and promoting people is one of the best pieces of my job, but my time is finite and I want to also spend it productively :shrug:
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