Actually, flock isn’t a camera company, their actual product is systems that link all available cameras and monitoring devices into a panopticon interface

So I’m almost certain these are flock cameras, or at least hook into the same system

It’s actually good UX practices to do this. You light up a path to get a result (pressing the start button to continue to the menu), and then a large segment of people will continue to press start, even if they’ve previously stumbled upon the fact that any button will work

It’s like picking a home server in the fediverse. You can tell them it doesn’t matter what they pick, but a lot of people will be intimidated and nervous about having to make the choice. It’s a major problem for adoption

You also don’t have to tell computer minded people inconsequential rules, they’ll figure it out themselves pretty quick

So by choosing an arbitrary button for the instruction, you remove a meaningless “choice” that genuinely lowers the friction for a large chuck of the population

There are also people who, if you tell them to press any key, they will happily mash the function keys and be confused and upset that unexpected things are happening

There’s even a select few who will physically look for the any key every time just to make sure it’s not suddenly been added to their keyboard, and there are even the special few that will hit the power button and get angry because they think you’ve caused them to break their computer

Some of these people have higher degrees too…I didn’t believe it until I saw it for myself

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What you’re saying is more consistent, but I don’t think it’s more readable

I’m fine with let or var…if the compiler is going to infer the type thats all well and good. But it’s a replacement for the type - why would you write both? It should be either or

And if the type is being inferred, the next thing I want to know is where it came from. That tells you the type and more, I don’t want to have to see a type name that may or may not be there

I’ve been waiting for someone to post the link, ty

Counter argument - putting the type first makes it easier to see where it is declared. Which is more important than the name or the type

It’s pressurized though. It’s basically sprayed upwards in a cooktop, it’s not going to rise but it’ll mix into to the air for a good while

I don’t think so. I think it’s going to fragment a la cyberpunk… It’s beginning already through a mixture of government controls and profiteering. Large enough platforms will still exist everywhere, but I think we’re going to end up with more regional networks

I think youll still be able to route a package across the world, but the age where you could access the same Internet from everywhere is ending

I meant the Internet doesn’t have a future, it’s already half dead

What future?

The government job is to reign in out of control elements, like companies releasing products bad for mental health

This isn’t about parenting because the goal is not about children. It’s about surveillance and control, not even for the government but for a class of technocrats who found a way to subvert democracy

People want cheap products in a general sense, they don’t like off shoring, it was hugely disruptive to jobs and the quality nose dives (at least for a time, sometimes permanently). They didn’t ask for or choose it, they’re the low information side of the system

Of course they’re upset at things being tariffed, they don’t want prices going up. They likely have some preference to buy things made locally, or by a country with a reputation

None of this is a choice made by consumers, it’s a generalized set of incentives and pressures created by the market

It’s like planned obsolescence… People hate it, it’s being sold to them

The first two are debt related, and the third is off shoring

People didn’t ask for any of that… It was sold to them for profit

Good job boing

…Isn’t that what we’re talking about though? Or did I misunderstand the OP?

The post said they were neon database creds, so I would think those would live on the production system in .env

Rereading it, it seems that they probably set their local build to point at the prod database… Which is like halfway developing (with AI) in prod (which I think we’d agree is not ideal)

I do absolutely agree with what you’re saying though, not everyone should have access to the prod system for sure… Especially not an AI on a loose leash

I’d split the difference and say we’re both right

How do you bounce the system? How do you auto restart the service if it fails? At the end of the day, a lot of creds have to essentially be stored in plain text somewhere

And to be clear, to me production creds mean creds that live on the production system, not creds that give access to the production system

The crazier thing here is why was an AI working on or pushing to prod

Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Our democracy has been hacked and dismantled, if we want it back it must be rebuilt

She’s a way better writer than she is a person

She is a pretty shit writer though

Well, suspended except when it’s a criminal warrant. Which is how it always was

It’s good to repeat it: immigration is a civil matter. It’s a matter of paperwork. Do you know who goes after the murderers and rapists? The fucking police

Better than hard coded… Ideally we use tokens+fingerprint or something to avoid storing the creds directly (if possible), but putting them in environment variables is pretty common

It’s not the worst thing, it’s very convenient (so people won’t go around it) and usually not the weak point in security (although AI being able to easily see it is an interesting twist)