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Comment Re:WHY??? (Score 1) 15

If you're going to go to all that trouble in Figma, you've actually *done* the development already, so what's the web developer for?

...and now Figma is having a multi-billion dollar IPO, after Biden's FTC/Lina Kahn wouldn't approve a merger with Adobe.

Mockups are supposed to be a *quick* way to let people see what things will look like and how the flow will work, before you start the difficult process of actualizing the UI.

That's your opinion. Some people sees things differently.

Also, I am not claiming mine is the best explanation to answer your initial question.

Comment Re:WHY??? (Score 1) 15

I have never understood why design teams like Figma. Its navigation and tools are not intuitive. Something as "simple" as sharing a link from the design team to the dev team, leaves developers wondering "What on earth am I supposed to be looking at?"

Is it more that designers don't know how to use the tool? Or is it the tool? Either way, it's the tool.

Speaking as a Drupal developer: Figma is great for designing Components, communicating and sharing code between teams. 'Everything' is Components for the last 5 years or so. A Component library developed in Figma by designers is directly transferable to theme code Drupal front-end developers can work with, as in copy-pasted html, css, js in a folder for each Component. Component Variations are similarly simple code differentiation.

A Component structure in the Drupal Radix theme is pretty much like a Component used on any other framework. Typically a Card Component, in the Components folder, will be a folder called Card and inside will be files called card.twig, card.js, card.scss, card.component.yml and anything else pertinent to the Card component. This example is very Drupal-specific and card.twig is a lot like HTML and card.scss is high-end CSS prior to being rendered for browser delivery.

If a shop chooses to ditch Drupal for something entirely different like Java Spring, the workload to convert the design Component investment itself is fairly light because of the structure I described.

Here's a Drupal theme's documentation for a Card Component along with its upstream Bootstrap source documentation with an actual rendered Card. As a Drupal developer I'm familiar working with technical documentation like that. But the in-house design teams work with Figma to get the colors, fonts, and general layout just right. Kinda like a functional, in-house Style Guide.

Comment Re:Welcome to Company Town! (Score 2) 46

Most major cities grew out geography first and foremost.

Also you cannot build a major city with detached housing alone, that's a very 20th America-brained type of thinking. I mean go to Europe and see the cities that have structure going back centuries, how much of it was detached? A minority to say the least, if thy had the means to build taller they would and did when they could.

Agreed on artificial growth boundaries and one of those is single-home-only zoning pretty much anywhere but especially in major cities around the city centers and transit locations.

San Jose is the tech capital of the US and most of it looks like a podunk Florida suburb, not a modern city by any stretch and then we all wonder "why are the houses so expensive" because you are only putting like 6 homes on every sq/km.

Most major cities grew out geography first and foremost.

Also you cannot build a major city with detached housing alone, that's a very 20th America-brained type of thinking. I mean go to Europe and see the cities that have structure going back centuries, how much of it was detached? A minority to say the least, if thy had the means to build taller they would and did when they could.

Agreed on artificial growth boundaries and one of those is single-home-only zoning pretty much anywhere but especially in major cities around the city centers and transit locations.

San Jose is the tech capital of the US and most of it looks like a podunk Florida suburb, not a modern city by any stretch and then we all wonder "why are the houses so expensive" because you are only putting like 6 homes on every sq/km.

I never expected or had plans to become somewhat obsessed with urban planning, however life's circumstances have very much made me aware of the discipline and resulting enhanced lifestyles, and the Not Just Bikes youtube channel has been a truly massive influence. I recommend everyone check it out.

Comment Re:Weird (Score 1) 105

I mean, mother fucking magnets? How do they work?

C'mon man, it's common sense. You see, the body needs lots of iron, especially for the blood. If that iron is all out of sync with the bodies natural magnetic field, it causes strain on the body. This leads to cancer. Magnets help get all that iron in alignment with the bodies natural magnetic field. It's a non-invasive process, but you need to keep up the treatment. Once a week should do it! /s

Seriously, for the love of god: SLASH-S

Wait, I heard from Tucker Carlson the best thing a man can do is tan his balls.

Comment Re:I got 100$ for this (Score 1) 29

I got a better deal. The Pixel 9a which normally sells for $499 is on sale right now for $249. With the $150 store credit and a trade-in of $80 on my Pixel 6a, I was able to upgrade to a new 9a for only $20. Now hopefully the 9a won't have battery issues.

I can't find this discount anywhere. Maybe it is over already.

Submission + - US Government Takes Down Major North Korean 'Remote IT Workers' Operation (techcrunch.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea’s money-making operations, which rely on undercover remote IT workers inside American tech companies to raise funds for the regime’s nuclear weapons program, as well as to steal data and cryptocurrency. As part of the DOJ’s multi-state effort, the government announced the arrest and indictment of U.S. national Zhenxing “Danny” Wang, who allegedly ran a years-long fraud scheme from New Jersey to sneak remote North Korean IT workers inside U.S. tech companies. According to the indictment, the scheme generated more than $5 million in revenue for the North Korean regime. [...]

From 2021 until 2024, the co-conspirators allegedly impersonated more than 80 U.S. individuals to get remote jobs at more than 100 American companies, causing $3 million in damages due to legal fees, data breach remediation efforts, and more. The group is said to have run laptop farms inside the United States, which the North Korean IT workers could essentially use as proxies to hide their provenance, according to the DOJ. At times, they used hardware devices known as keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switches, which allow one person to control multiple computers from a single keyboard and mouse. The group allegedly also ran shell companies inside the U.S. to make it seem like the North Korean IT workers were affiliated with legitimate local companies, and to receive money that would then be transferred abroad, the DOJ said.

The fraudulent scheme allegedly also involved the North Korean workers stealing sensitive data, such as source code, from the companies they were working for, such as from an unnamed California-based defense contractor “that develops artificial intelligence-powered equipment and technologies.”

Submission + - FBI Was Ordered to Destroy Evidence of China's 2020 Election Plot to Help Biden (justthenews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel handed Congress an intelligence report exposing a Chinese plot to interfere in the 2020 election. The report details how Chinese operatives mass-produced fake U.S. driver’s licenses to flood the system with fraudulent mail-in ballots, which helped Joe Biden in the process. However, the intel wasn’t investigated, corroborated, or acted on. In fact, it was quietly pulled from intelligence agencies even as then-FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress there were “no known plots” of foreign interference.

The report was sent out on Aug. 24, 2020, but was abruptly recalled by the FBI with a vague excuse about needing to “re-interview” the source. But it didn’t stop there. The bureau didn’t just recall the report; it ordered its destruction.

According to the recall notice, intelligence agencies weren’t just asked to disregard the report — they were ordered to “destroy all copies” and “remove the original report from all computer holdings.” This wasn’t routine bureaucratic cleanup. It was a deliberate effort to wipe damning evidence from existence. The FBI didn’t just bury credible intelligence about Chinese election interference; it tried to scrub it from history.

According to the report, the Chinese government had secretly produced and exported a large batch of fraudulent U.S. driver’s licenses in late August 2020. The goal? To enable tens of thousands of ineligible Chinese nationals — particularly students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party — to vote for Biden using mail-in ballots.

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