None of this is surprising, YC is as incestuous as the rest of the industry. Still, it’s worth calling out. This submission will likely be nuked, too.

If you do something stupid in a block marked "unsafe", it's probably on you, my guy.

Posting this from a green account is just pathetic, my guy. Go outside, touch some grass.

You understand that key rotation can and should be automated, right?

It adds complexity, more points of failure, and ensures that more legacy services will go offline needlessly. While almost certainly not actually improving the actual security issues the average user experience. Lack of a valid tls certificate is usually not the reason people are victims of crime online.

the fat controller laughed, “you are wrong”.

* https://youtu.be/040ejWnFkj0

* https://youtu.be/2DOd4RLNeT4

Slightly disappointed that neither of these videos are about Thomas the Tank Engine.

this is almost certainly ai slop

what “work” are you doing, you parasitic hack?

i used protobuffers a lot at $previous_job and i agree with the entire article. i feel the author’s pain in my bones. protobuffers are so awful i can’t imagine google associating itself with such an amateur, ad hoc, ill-defined, user hostile, time wasting piece of shit.

the fact that protobuffers wasn’t immediately relegated to the dustbin shows just how low the bar is for serialization formats.

What do you use?