For a few minutes today the package "fs" was unpublished from the registry in response to a user report that it was spam. It has been restored. This was a human error on my (@seldo's) part; I failed to properly follow our written internal process for checking if an unpublish is safe. My apologies to the users and builds we disrupted.
More detail: the "fs" package is a non-functional package. It simply logs the word "I am fs" and exits. There is no reason it should be included in any modules. However, something like 1000 packages do mistakenly depend on "fs"
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NPM package that does nothing accidentally removed, breaks shit AGAIN
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Silicon Valley’s $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze
TL;DR $400 internet-connected juicer that only lets you use their custom juice packet things is crappy. Silicon Valley invests $120M. Thing is still crappy.
One of the most lavishly funded gadget startups in Silicon Valley last year was Juicero Inc. It makes a juice machine. The product was an unlikely pick for top technology investors, but they were drawn to the idea of an internet-connected device that transforms single-serving packets of chopped fruits and vegetables into a refreshing and healthy beverage.
Juicer + IoT = ???
Doug Evans, the company’s founder, would compare himself with Steve Jobs in his pursuit of juicing perfection. He declared that his juice press wields four tons of force—“enough to lift two Teslas,” he said.
Everyone in the Bay drives Teslas. Y'know, the Bay.
Google’s venture capital arm and other backers poured about $120 million into the startup.
Proof that the tech industry has too much money in its hands
Bloomberg performed its own press test, pitting a Juicero machine against a reporter’s grip. The experiment found that squeezing the bag yields nearly the same amount of juice just as quickly—and in some cases, faster—than using the device.
A person close to the company said Juicero is aware the packs can be squeezed by hand but that most people would prefer to use the machine because the process is more consistent and less messy. The device also reads a QR code printed on the back of each produce pack and checks the source against an online database to ensure the contents haven’t expired or been recalled, the person said. The expiration date is also printed on the pack.
This is what really upset me -- instead of just putting a machine-readable expiry date on the pack they check against an online DB to verify that the pack hasn't expired. This sums up most of the IoT bullshit I see these days:
- take existing appliance/product
- add internet capability
- remove all old capabilities
- force internet connectivity
The end result is a buggy, unsupported, crippled POS that turns into a paperweight the moment the company's servers go offline.
And this is what the valley is investing in. bloody hell.
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RE: Sonos bricking devices intentionally
@the_quiet_one said in Sonos bricking devices intentionally:
Time to check the audiophile forums
You can actually hear the difference between audio over HTTP and HTTPS. HTTPS encrypts the data to make it look random, so the sound actually has a very small amount of random noise in the background. If you don't hear it, then I suggest comparing the two with a high quality DAC and headphone amp.
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RE: Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it
I swear mom, I don't know who ordered it! It must have been a bug on amazon!
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RE: Blockchain Tomato
all these crypto people talk about salts and hash browns, seems to me that this can only be unhealthy for us and should be banned
Latest posts made by bb36e
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RE: Do people actually like poor quality user interfaces?
@Zenith said in Do people actually like poor quality user interfaces?:
These are all easily solved problems. Yet, somehow, they persist. Does somebody out there like it this way or what?
the market doesn't care enough
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RE: WTDWTF Fitness Group
Status: wrist is mostly healed so the doctor said I could ride again
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
If they allowed just anyone to publish whatever... It's not that hard to imagine.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@hungrier bummer, try it with the root domain:
http://ai./
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RE: In which millenials realize maintaining open source stuff is hard
@_P_ said in In which millenials realize maintaining open source stuff is hard:
You must think that nobody was predicting global warming back in 1997.
How can someone predict a lie?