Stranger things char?

I’m migrating millons of encrypted credit cards from one platform to another (it’s all in the same company, but different teams, different infra, etc).

I’m the one responsible for decrypting each card, preparing the data in a CSV, and encrypting that CSV for transit. Other guy is responsible for decrypting it, and loading it into the importer tool. The guy’s technical lead wanted me to generate the pair of keys and send him the private key, since that way I didn’t have to wait for the guy and “besides, it’s all in the same company, we’re like a family here”.

Of course I didn’t generate the key pair and told them that I didn’t want to ever have access to the private key, but wow. That made me lose a lot of respect for that tech lead.

Arch is very powerful and flexible, but definitely not newbie friendly. I only made the jump after 7 years of using Ubuntu and Debian, and I still had a learning curve.

When I first started learning how to code 9 months ago […]

These kind of forums don't store the plaintext password, they send an email while in memory, and hash them afterwards. Still bad security, but it's not storing it in plaintext.

I just think that lemmy.world tries really really hard to be reddit.

Yup. And with regional pricing, the discrepancy between a game’s price and hardware price is even greater.

For example, BG3 is around 15 dollars in Argentina, but a 2TB SSD is around 130 dollars.

What about knowledge-graph augmented LLM?

This is a good video about it: https://youtu.be/WqYBx2gB6vA

I want to try this project: https://github.com/jwzhanggy/Graph_Toolformer

The other day I saw a talk made by one of the wiki media guys, that talked about integrating LLM with knowledge graphs. It was very cool, I’ll try to find it again.

Edit: found it! https://youtu.be/WqYBx2gB6vA

You would hate Nocta lol

As you age, soft skills become way more important IMO. It’s almost impossible to keep up with the changing technology landscape, and while you could theoretically become an expert in some tech that never goes away (hello Cobol), eventually it will become obsolete and you’re left with no marketable skills.
And while some people are lifelong learners (I am), learning new programming languages over and over again gets old at some point. So transitioning into more of a people’s role (like management) it’s a good move when you get older.
And if AI keeps getting better at coding, some programming jobs could be in danger of automation, so it’s also a safety net for that scenario.