Not related to the PHP thing. It's e-mudhra incident. They were (yes, they voluntarily shutdown their business) a Certificate Authority (Who sell SSL certificates like Cloudflare or Let's Encrypt). They generated 8 security keys that were something like 4, 8, ... Which can be guessed easily. In effect when you go to your bank's website, how do you know the website is actually your bank and not some scammer pretending to be? Based on the SSL certificate. Usually to prove this, websites use a 384-digit number that cannot be guessed easily by anybody else. '4' is easy to guess and can be used by other people to pretend to be your bank.

India. Lots of people use Facebook. AND probably other high population countries except China.

the grand unifying architecture of the fronted is either wrapping a 40x inside a 200; or for everything.

^/s^

Edit: But on a serious note, yes that's how I have always simplified webdev for myself. I have been reluctant to enter the js ecosystem only dipping my toes into react frontend as recently as two months ago.

My goto backend is python + flask. Naturally I started with jinja templates for the frontend. I have now gravitated away from fully relying on templates into having a partially REST API with JSON payloads and asynchronous requests. This is nicely fits with the three layering transformation that this blog endorses and is optimal from a manageability perspective.

Modern society is built on destruction and cruelty. Doesn't mean I can advice somebody to give up living in society and sound smart.

To suggest that "compromising on ideals for practicality" is the same as "roll-over and accept it" is dishonest and only done by people who want to win the argument by attrition so they get what they want.

I feel like you're describing the people who are crazy about AI right now.

Somehow you consider even a little pushback crazy but won't listen to people when they ask you not to jump into AI madness headfirst wearing blinders?

I think you're trying to solve a NP Complete problem (Boolean Satisfiability) via brute force. It's expected you will hit this wall. Try to use heuristics/guess work.

My setup is pyenv + venv + requirements.txt/pyproject.toml

good usecase for find ... -delete. Test it out on a trial directory and it's should work. You can set -maxdepth if you are concerned about sumlinks... but i bet there is an option to not follow symlinks

Huh.. I was trying to make a joke like people usually do at the expense of emacs but I came across some humourless accounts. (And this is my alt... don't be weirded out)

Replying from my alt:

I was trying to make a joke but seems it rubbed off the wrong way. Although I do think there's a philosophical discussion of complexity to be had here.

The problem with thinking "We have now simplified xyz software" is software developers have this bad habit of often assuming that the world updates to the latest and greatest version of software the moment they deploy it and they erase any semblence of past versions, shortcomings, or even workarounds that others may have deployed and trained their muscle memories on.

Complexity actually goes up the more versions of software that are released in the world.

You now have neovim <= 0.12, <= 0.13, 0.13 to keep in your head if someone comes to you for advice on how to setup this cool editor on their distro and they may or may not be able to upgrade to the latest version.

if the US can enter the middle east at their own will and bomb the civilians there then yes those same people should be allowed to enter the US for free. You want powers but not the consequences?