JoshuaRogers

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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
If we’re presuming that the end-user has not agreed to any term of service, then why are we assuming that they have the right to use the service in anyway whatsoever? It’s basically the definition of unauthorized use at that point.
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
I would suggest that as often as not, when the EU intervenes in technological affairs the result isn’t that things get massively better but rather that people are forced to deal with corporations finding ways to maliciously comply with the
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
If it was obviously bogus (think SLAPP territory) then that would make sense, but I don't think it is as likely to get their attention if the offending behavior can reasonably be classified as a potential violation of the CFAA. (Whethe
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
While we in the tech community are guilty of taking many things for granted as generally understood, I’m fairly certain that “consequences for past public statements” predates the bulk of our modern technology.
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
This mindset reminds me of the policies we use in the dev team at work. Any policy access that I suggest starts with the thought "If future me were to go rogue one day, how would present me stop me?"
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
Oh my goodness. Is that’s what’s been going on? I’ve noticed that when I open one particular browser on my desktop that the entire display freezes for roughly a second before it becomes responsive again.
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
I’ll be honest here, time got away from me. I had Node and Python in mind simply having forgot how old Python was (And Node not exactly being the new guy anymore.) :p
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
> What device did You use to write this comment? Actually? An old iPad on WiFi that is stationed on the other side of several walls. Honestly, a lot of people don’t mind waiting a second for actions to complete. (For some of us, it’s the
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
> Are you suggesting that maybe users (including you and me) should have to put up with painfully slow, stuttering software? I don’t see why his claim requires any justification - to my mind, it should be just as self evident as the fact
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
Admittedly, I stopped reading just over half way, but the crux of the argument appeared to be that software should be fast, though I don't recall any justification for that philosophy other than suggesting that it is basically a truth.
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
> If you believe in software freedoms, then there will never be any reason to need to relicense, nor would you want to. The Tivo-ization process of the 90s shows that while this might be frequently true, it isn’t without exception. From
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
I think it comes down to what we expect the second order effects to be. Those who argue that forcing Apple to open up their ecosystem is a good thing appear to believe that increased user freedom will lead to more option for all and increas
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
At work I've lovingly but sadly referred to Apache as the "Crazy Cat Lady of Software." From the outside it looks like they're willing to take on any project that someone wants to give away regardless of whether they hav
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
Hadn't heard of McKinsey. Genuinely thought it was a weird way to reference President McKinley in the same way you might hear "Reaganomics". I was waiting to hear how a long dead president was responsible for the food chain i
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
Agreed. To make any real inroads, there needs to be a generally accepted use case that the existing systems don’t handle sufficiently well that crypto excels at. That isn’t to say that the existing systems do things well, but the networking
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
That’s why I store all my code on Twitter.
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
https://joshuarogers.net I write as it strikes my fancy. I try to keep it about technology that I find interesting. I only post occasionally because I go through endless revising, but when I do, it’s quite the thrill for me.
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
Would you settle for Rodgers and Hammerstein provided that the piece is largely a series of musical numbers?
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
The browser cachable bit is critical here. By having visited the page before, even though the network won’t allow traffic yet, the cached page performs a redirect to an unsecured page that the local captive portal CAN intercept.
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by JoshuaRogers 3y ago
The context here was that it’s not free, as I understood it. So, moving logic to the database, might make it faster, but that doesn’t mean that it’s instantaneous or that I no longer have to think about the scaling concerns of it. So, perso
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by JoshuaRogers 4y ago
While this is an interesting idea and somewhat amusing (kudos on the beautiful creativity of it), it’s worth noting that one of the second-order effects of this approach, were it used heavily enough to actually impact interview styles, is t
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by JoshuaRogers 4y ago
As I was reading your comment, I couldn’t help but laugh as it reminded me of the quote “Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
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by JoshuaRogers 4y ago
Mainly because of "Login with Twitter". There isn't a proper way to tell downstream systems who have authenticated against Twitter that "The account JohnDoe is now a different user than they were." Basically the sam
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by JoshuaRogers 4y ago
One more thing I would like to add: I generally think that some form of regulation limiting the abuse of personal data was long overdue and I must respect your zeal and vigor. I simply note the cost as I think it is important that we realiz
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by JoshuaRogers 4y ago
> Don't sell user data left and right, and boom! Your poor small business is in the clear. It’s possible that I just misunderstand the landscape, I suppose. For my particular case though I work at a small business in the US that use
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by JoshuaRogers 4y ago
While that certainly covers some code on GitHub, much of the code on there is just mirrored from other locations by non-owners: you can find copies of the Linux kernel and SQLite on GitHub, for instance. The users who upload those to GitHub
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by JoshuaRogers 4y ago
While it can definitely be good for morale, it's worth remembering that all changes bear the possibility of unintended consequences. This amusing anecdote comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fsUAdlzwAs Bear