Comment Re:Skype (Score 3, Interesting) 55
So he's using old handsets to control skype on their local computer. Tell me if this is somehow not what's going on.
That's not what is going on.
Comment nerdvittles + BulkVS rock! (Score 1) 55
This will be abused in a nanosecond and then he'll claim he doesn't understand why people are so terrible.
NPR isn't exactly news for tech nerds, so some technical details might be light. The article seems to address everything is a volunteer effort for the community, including refurbishing old pay phones while it doesn't address the cost of using the PSTN network, (or internet connection).
I just came here to say I was forced to leave my prior PSTN provider a year or two ago so I switched to BulkVS and I can see why this particular tech nerd doesn't mind something like a Netflix subscription cost to support and volunteer for his community.
Comment Re:Saturating in The Big Eight LLMs for Coding (Score 1) 10
I was paying $20/monthly for Claude, but now I pay the same price for Junie, a plug-in for Jetbrains IDEs because I find it to be superior for coding. Time permitting I'll try some of the other things on the short-list you detailed -- thanks!
I think it helps that I code with open-source stuff like Ansible, which manages to train the LLMs well with legit, well-documented code hosted on Github, etc.
Comment 94% of users cited "excellent" or "above average" (Score 4, Informative) 150
Nearly 300,000 filers used Direct File for the 2025 tax season, and 94% of users who completed an IRS survey rated their experience as “excellent” or “above average,” according to an internal IRS report obtained by Nextgov/FCW.
From the linked to article:
The IRS is reportedly ending the Direct File, but a report obtained via the Freedom of Information Act says that 94% of users rated their experience as “excellent” or “above average.”
TFA is light on details, but the article it links to is solid. And it makes me curse the currently corrupt GOP all the more.
Comment Re:How did they plant (Score 1) 54
The article glosses over the elephant in the room. How did the hackers get physical access to the bank to plant the pi.
A pen tester story goes like this: one side of a door is locked while the other side unlocks with motion detection. So the pen tester slides a blow-up sex doll under the door and starts inflating it until the door opens. I'm not saying this is what happened, yet it remains a possibility.
Comment Re:This is really troubling (Score 1) 159
Norway is a nice play to live, citizens are looked after. I doubt they care if they could be more efficient by making life worse for themselves.
How can we exploit labor if they feel too secure.
Bernie Sanders has something to say about us.
Comment Re:WHY??? (Score 1) 15
If you're going to go to all that trouble in Figma, you've actually *done* the development already, so what's the web developer for?
Mockups are supposed to be a *quick* way to let people see what things will look like and how the flow will work, before you start the difficult process of actualizing the UI.
That's your opinion. Some people sees things differently.
Also, I am not claiming mine is the best explanation to answer your initial question.
Comment Re:WHY??? (Score 1) 15
I have never understood why design teams like Figma. Its navigation and tools are not intuitive. Something as "simple" as sharing a link from the design team to the dev team, leaves developers wondering "What on earth am I supposed to be looking at?"
Is it more that designers don't know how to use the tool? Or is it the tool? Either way, it's the tool.
Speaking as a Drupal developer: Figma is great for designing Components, communicating and sharing code between teams. 'Everything' is Components for the last 5 years or so. A Component library developed in Figma by designers is directly transferable to theme code Drupal front-end developers can work with, as in copy-pasted html, css, js in a folder for each Component. Component Variations are similarly simple code differentiation.
A Component structure in the Drupal Radix theme is pretty much like a Component used on any other framework. Typically a Card Component, in the Components folder, will be a folder called Card and inside will be files called card.twig, card.js, card.scss, card.component.yml and anything else pertinent to the Card component. This example is very Drupal-specific and card.twig is a lot like HTML and card.scss is high-end CSS prior to being rendered for browser delivery.
If a shop chooses to ditch Drupal for something entirely different like Java Spring, the workload to convert the design Component investment itself is fairly light because of the structure I described.
Here's a Drupal theme's documentation for a Card Component along with its upstream Bootstrap source documentation with an actual rendered Card. As a Drupal developer I'm familiar working with technical documentation like that. But the in-house design teams work with Figma to get the colors, fonts, and general layout just right. Kinda like a functional, in-house Style Guide.
Comment Re:Welcome to Company Town! (Score 2) 46
Most major cities grew out geography first and foremost.
Also you cannot build a major city with detached housing alone, that's a very 20th America-brained type of thinking. I mean go to Europe and see the cities that have structure going back centuries, how much of it was detached? A minority to say the least, if thy had the means to build taller they would and did when they could.
Agreed on artificial growth boundaries and one of those is single-home-only zoning pretty much anywhere but especially in major cities around the city centers and transit locations.
San Jose is the tech capital of the US and most of it looks like a podunk Florida suburb, not a modern city by any stretch and then we all wonder "why are the houses so expensive" because you are only putting like 6 homes on every sq/km.
Most major cities grew out geography first and foremost.
Also you cannot build a major city with detached housing alone, that's a very 20th America-brained type of thinking. I mean go to Europe and see the cities that have structure going back centuries, how much of it was detached? A minority to say the least, if thy had the means to build taller they would and did when they could.
Agreed on artificial growth boundaries and one of those is single-home-only zoning pretty much anywhere but especially in major cities around the city centers and transit locations.
San Jose is the tech capital of the US and most of it looks like a podunk Florida suburb, not a modern city by any stretch and then we all wonder "why are the houses so expensive" because you are only putting like 6 homes on every sq/km.
I never expected or had plans to become somewhat obsessed with urban planning, however life's circumstances have very much made me aware of the discipline and resulting enhanced lifestyles, and the Not Just Bikes youtube channel has been a truly massive influence. I recommend everyone check it out.
Comment Obilgtory old joke still applies today: (Score 4, Funny) 83
Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Zero. Microsoft simply declares Darkness the new Standard.
Comment Re:Weird (Score 1) 105
I mean, mother fucking magnets? How do they work?
C'mon man, it's common sense. You see, the body needs lots of iron, especially for the blood. If that iron is all out of sync with the bodies natural magnetic field, it causes strain on the body. This leads to cancer. Magnets help get all that iron in alignment with the bodies natural magnetic field. It's a non-invasive process, but you need to keep up the treatment. Once a week should do it!
Seriously, for the love of god: SLASH-S
Wait, I heard from Tucker Carlson the best thing a man can do is tan his balls.
Comment Re:I got 100$ for this (Score 1) 29
I got a better deal. The Pixel 9a which normally sells for $499 is on sale right now for $249. With the $150 store credit and a trade-in of $80 on my Pixel 6a, I was able to upgrade to a new 9a for only $20. Now hopefully the 9a won't have battery issues.
I can't find this discount anywhere. Maybe it is over already.
Comment Re:Is it public by default? (Score 1) 18
Comment Identities of More Than 80 Americans Stolen for NK (Score 1) 1
The US Justice Department revealed the identity theft number along with one arrest and a crackdown on “laptop farms” that allegedly facilitate North Korean tech worker impersonators across the US.
Submission + - US Government Takes Down Major North Korean 'Remote IT Workers' Operation (techcrunch.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea’s money-making operations, which rely on undercover remote IT workers inside American tech companies to raise funds for the regime’s nuclear weapons program, as well as to steal data and cryptocurrency. As part of the DOJ’s multi-state effort, the government announced the arrest and indictment of U.S. national Zhenxing “Danny” Wang, who allegedly ran a years-long fraud scheme from New Jersey to sneak remote North Korean IT workers inside U.S. tech companies. According to the indictment, the scheme generated more than $5 million in revenue for the North Korean regime. [...]
From 2021 until 2024, the co-conspirators allegedly impersonated more than 80 U.S. individuals to get remote jobs at more than 100 American companies, causing $3 million in damages due to legal fees, data breach remediation efforts, and more. The group is said to have run laptop farms inside the United States, which the North Korean IT workers could essentially use as proxies to hide their provenance, according to the DOJ. At times, they used hardware devices known as keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switches, which allow one person to control multiple computers from a single keyboard and mouse. The group allegedly also ran shell companies inside the U.S. to make it seem like the North Korean IT workers were affiliated with legitimate local companies, and to receive money that would then be transferred abroad, the DOJ said.
The fraudulent scheme allegedly also involved the North Korean workers stealing sensitive data, such as source code, from the companies they were working for, such as from an unnamed California-based defense contractor “that develops artificial intelligence-powered equipment and technologies.”
From 2021 until 2024, the co-conspirators allegedly impersonated more than 80 U.S. individuals to get remote jobs at more than 100 American companies, causing $3 million in damages due to legal fees, data breach remediation efforts, and more. The group is said to have run laptop farms inside the United States, which the North Korean IT workers could essentially use as proxies to hide their provenance, according to the DOJ. At times, they used hardware devices known as keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switches, which allow one person to control multiple computers from a single keyboard and mouse. The group allegedly also ran shell companies inside the U.S. to make it seem like the North Korean IT workers were affiliated with legitimate local companies, and to receive money that would then be transferred abroad, the DOJ said.
The fraudulent scheme allegedly also involved the North Korean workers stealing sensitive data, such as source code, from the companies they were working for, such as from an unnamed California-based defense contractor “that develops artificial intelligence-powered equipment and technologies.”
Slashdot Top Deals
Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde
