The planets are just grains of sand in a vast empty space.

yes-as-a-service might be a compliance liability due to popularity with authoritarian leaders.

A few points I find interesting:

- in 2022 a decision was made to abolish leap seconds by 2035, by allowing UTC to drift from the time as defined by Earth's rotation (UT1)

- negative leap seconds, while established, were never actually used

- ice melting caused by climate change has a slowing down effect on rotation of the planet, delaying a need for a negative leap second until 2029, otherwise forecasted in 2026

I've tried to use macOS with case sensitive filesystem for some time (before APFS). Works mostly fine but there're applications that break (Steam and Intellij IDEA are the two I remember).

Adobe apps are another known candidate for breakage on case-sensitive filesystems.

I've no problems with IntelliJ in recent versions. Steam remains broken, I have to run that from a separate volume.

There's a plugin for U2F support[1]. I use a Yubikey at work daily without issues.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/u2f-support-a...

Many sites, including Google, specifically check the UA instead of checking for U2F support, so won’t work with this.

I'm supper happy about Wire taking this step. Has someone done a security analysis/review of Wire yet? It would be interesting to read.

Probably worth mentioning this is a paid report for one library they use, not the Wire app.

The post states that the app level review is coming. As a comparison afaik Signal only has protocol review available, no implementation review.

Edit: typo

I'd be a fashion designer. Oftentimes I feel like software engineering doesn't give me an opportunity to fully realize my creative self. Mostly because of people, not because of technology. Creativity is not valued for its own sake in software development and you cannot just say "that's the way I see". I feel it narrows down my life perspective too much.

It seems to me like most of the problems of modern tech are related to quality yet everyone is rushing for new features and quantitative "improvements".

I cannot read a blog post without seeing who of my fiends is online. Now, this is progress!

I had the same feeling. I often want to keep facebook apart from my hacker reading, for some reason.

I went to DuckDuckGo to check out what yarn is. The front page makes no mention of JavaScript at all (at least on mobile). Accordingly to DuckDuckGo the whole site mentions "JavaScript" only three times. The same is true about the GitHub readme: no mentions of JavaScript at all. Before praising something, makes sense to tell people what it is.

/rant

Thanks for the highlight, I use npm solely for global installs, will give yarn a try.

I used DDG too, Generally, one would search for something like "yarn npm" in which case it is like the second link is the yarn homepage and the first link is a npm vs yarn post. DDG isn't as good as Google in figuring out context because it doesn't assume you are a programmer because it doesn't track or bubble you.

>I went to DuckDuckGo to check out what yarn is.

And DuckDuckGo (mentioned twice in the comment) is relevant because?

Because DuckDuckGo's index of the yarn's website could be screwed or out of date. Also, because people communicate using language, not axioms.

>Because DuckDuckGo's index of the yarn's website could be screwed or out of date.

And why should we know about DDG's index info about Yarn?

Just visit Yarn's actual project site (which is what you're supposed to be criticizing), and focus your critique on what's actually there now.

>Also, because people communicate using language, not axioms.

So? How does that justify adding off-topic/redundant information on one's critique?

> Before praising something, makes sense to tell people what it is.

I don't know where you've been but anyone who is even remotely invested in the npm ecosystem probably knows what Yarn is at this point.

This is irrelevant. You may be just a new comer, or not a professional developer, and still want to use yarn. A clear website seems a basic requirement to me for any project.

>A clear website seems a basic requirement to me for any project.

Well, you can't always depend on that, and in the end of the day, nothing beats actually researching and asking around.

The GNU tools have some of the worst webpages -- and yet they are some of the most useful, and commonly used, packages.

Let's take a look at GNU tar [1] and GNU social [2] webpages as examples. The first thing they tell a user is what the project is. I would say, both of them are order of magnitude better than the yarn homepage.

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ 2. https://gnu.io/social/

>GNU Tar provides the ability to create tar archives

Really descriptive.

Not everyone reads news all the time.