Yes, this is standard in the forgery business - dust and speckle filter, drop the res, ensure the light is balanced, and maybe blur if you can get away with it.

These general techniques are weak against specific detection models that understand how the original image should’ve been generated. Another example is camera noise modeling since the injected noise won’t be consistent with how a phone camera etc actually behaves, or an ML model for image depth might see that it's at the wrong distance somehow.

Scaling the image down seems like one of the best tricks if you can get away with it. Another cheap one would be shifting the image 4 pixels over to break up the DCT artifact grid.

> the injected noise won’t be consistent

With a good forgery it will be. Even then, the fact that it's noise means that you won't ever be sure about this.

The thing that changes this is good public transport. Not buses - buses have a mindset issue. Subways, light rail, and bikes for the last mile.

Busses don't have to have a mindset issue. They don't where I live. You'll just take the bus if it's faster than the tram or goes closer to where you want to be, that's the only consideration involved.

I would think the build system would only build the binaries or other compiled source. The CI pipeline would build and test.

Which build tools don’t also run tests? That seems very common with Java, Scala, Bazel users, npm, etc.

BGP and DNS survive due to relative obscurity, despite everyone using it in some way. Web devs do not give a shit about BGP (sadly.)

It's not "hopeless to manage", learn some networking and be forever rewarded. Same with learning to manage devices, servers, etc. I develop now but I'd be much less valiable without that background.

Amen. I find generic scripts to be way more mangemaable. You can still use them with docker, but you can also just buy any Linux VM and go.

Also, easy to backup.

It's 1000% worth it. The skills bleed over onto Mac, and now Windows. Best skills of my tech life, almost.

Just firewall off all management interfaces and allow via IP as needed. It's still possible your webserver will get become vulnerable, but you'll prob here about it here if it is.

Isn't it so relieving now that the pendulum is swinging back?

I'm so glad I moved into C# and non-web dev/management and got out of that rat race. Tech always swings back and forth, but I'm so very happy to have made it past SPAs being the end all be all.