mexicocitinluez's comments

On: Users don't care about your tech stack

[mexicocitinluez]

> these maxims are not universal truths, and taking them as such is a mistake.

Amen.

On: Users don't care about your tech stack

[mexicocitinluez]

> , the reality is a bit more complex than aphorisms.

This is the entire tech blog, social media influencer, devx schtick though. Nuance doesn't sell. Saying "It depends" doesn't get clicks.

On: Users don't care about your tech stack

[mexicocitinluez]

This comments makes no sense.

The reason why people aren't sweating 200mb is because everything has gotten to be that big. Change that number to 2 terabytes.

Adn guess what? In 5 years time, someone will say "Nobody in the West is seating a 2 TB download" because it keeps increasing.

[kube-system → mexicocitinluez]

Yes, that's because you're all measuring the wrong factor for user satisfaction.

Users don't care about download size, they care about:

* will it fit on my storage device

* can I download it in a convenient amount of time

* does it run with acceptable performance

It really doesn't matter if it's a kilobyte or a petabyte.

[foxygen → mexicocitinluez]

Someone in the 80s, probably:

This comments makes no sense.

The reason why people aren't sweating 1mb is because everything has gotten to be that big. Change that number to 20mb.

And guess what? In 5 years time, someone will say "Nobody in the West is seating a 200mb download" because it keeps increasing.

[mexicocitinluez → foxygen]

The point obviously went over your head

On: Users don't care about your tech stack

[mexicocitinluez]

Throwaway article used to get ads.

Nobody is making the argument that users care about your tech stack. I've literally never heard a dev justify using a library because "users care about it". Nobody.

On: Users don't care about your tech stack

[mexicocitinluez]

Love this reply and learned a new term from it.

On: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

[mexicocitinluez]

It's surreal arguing with people like this. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93q625y04wo

On: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

[mexicocitinluez]

lol

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93q625y04wo

I already know the answer to this, but if Obama had George Soros hire a bunch of anti-white people to oversee the Doge systems, would you still be supporting it? Or it's okay because you're white and the people are in charge are white.

On: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

[mexicocitinluez]

It's not. But pseudo-intellects and idiots are still under Elon's spell.

On: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

[mexicocitinluez]

This is an idea you just made up to defend this BS.

Like, audit's require root access? What? Is this real life? Are people just making things up and saying whatever to defend someone who has no allegiance to this country getting the keys to the kingdom while also coincidentally making a fortune off of taxpayers through federal subsidies? Are you slow?

On: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

[mexicocitinluez]

This response is so funny to me.

You'll be on your knees begging for bureaucracy after all your info is sold to the highest bidder and you spend the next 20 years fighting identity theft.

[dionian → mexicocitinluez]

Is DOGE releasing private info?

[mexicocitinluez → dionian]

I don't know AND THAT'S THE POINT. No one knows. There is ZERO oversight except for a guy who just coincidentally made his billions on US government subsidies.

[hcurtiss → mexicocitinluez]

Neither was there before.

[mexicocitinluez → hcurtiss]

hWUT?

WTF are you talking about? What govt agency does haven't oversight the way DOGE does? Stop lying.

congress didn't create DOGE. no one is overseeing that goon running it. you're a child if you believe the words coming out of his mouth

[lesuorac → dionian]

Yes.

They're using public LLMs to analyze it. Every single LLM provider collects the data you put into it.

There's also the NRO incident recently where they publicly released the classified org chart.

[actionfromafar → dionian]

DOGE should not be even near private data without a clearance.

[mexicocitinluez → actionfromafar]

I think that ship has sailed.

His first term, he handed out security clearances to anyone who would ask. There is even less stopping him from just giving them out this term too.

[lucasRW → mexicocitinluez]

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/court-documents-shed-new-ligh...

"New court documents shed light on what a 25-year-old DOGE employee named Marko Elez did inside Treasury Department payment systems. They also provide extensive new details about which systems Elez accessed, the security precautions Treasury IT staff took to limit his access and activity, and what changes he made to the systems. The documents indicate that the situation at Treasury is more nuanced than previously reported."

(...)

"Additionally, he could only connect using a government-issued laptop that had "cybersecurity tools" installed on it to prevent him from accessing web sites or cloud-based storage services with the laptop or connecting a USB or other external storage device to it to copy large amounts of data from Treasury systems. "

[mexicocitinluez → lucasRW]

It's so funny you think quoting a newspaper that says some random staffer doesn't CURRENTLY have access is some sort of gotcha. Do you know how time works?

[lucasRW → mexicocitinluez]

Correction: - not quoting a newspaper, but court documents. - not a random staffer, but THE staffer you are so concerned about.

[mrguyorama → lucasRW]

No, you are quoting a newspaper "zetter-zeroday" which is talking about court documents. You are not quoting court documents.

Also, not all court documents are the same. You can make whatever claims you want in some of them.

[mexicocitinluez → lucasRW]

THE staffer? I don't remember singling anyone out so I have no clue what you're talking.

You're argument is "This document said this one dude isn't currently accessing the system" as if that somehow means they aren't going to in the future and or that other team members don't have access. What are you even talking about? No one is saying "It's all this guy"