Kalium

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by Kalium 4y ago
Yes, because that's the sort of thing that's easily automated and can be done for you by a setup script. Or by following a stepwise tutorial. People don't have to understand what they're doing to use a tool. Sometimes, l
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by Kalium 4y ago
If you're unfamiliar with the nuances of good development practices or basic security, this is an obvious thing to do. It lets you iterate and work on it until you're ready. It doesn't even occur to a lot of people that this
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by Kalium 5y ago
It's been my experience that default-to-no is what happens when groups like security try a reasonable process... and find that marketing and similar enablement-first groups handle this by ignoring and bypassing it. This tends to set
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by Kalium 5y ago
Long story short, you don't . No competent security organization taking their responsibilities seriously is going to issue a blanket approval of something as broad as Zapier. What you can do is get an enterprise relationship in place,
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by Kalium 5y ago
The specific concerns identified here can be thought of as symptoms. I invite you to contemplate what cause they might share. Addressing specific issues around telemetry, openness, and logins without fixing the underlying organizational con
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by Kalium 5y ago
Yes, I am. You're absolutely right. I'm doing so in order to illustrate what it is about mature closed-source enterprise software offerings that makes them acceptable to use. Otherwise it amounts to using a random binary blob and
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by Kalium 5y ago
Enterprise contracts also include clauses spelling out financial consequences of major screwups. If Jetbrains screws up and a customer's passwords go everywhere, I'd bet the contract makes Jetbrains at least a bit liable. I doubt
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by Kalium 5y ago
Not to mince words, but so far you've made a very basic series of unforced errors on both privacy and security. This is perhaps to be expected, as glancing at your About page, you don't seem to have any security or privacy special
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by Kalium 5y ago
I think I'll reserve judgment for when Warp puts its GitHub repository where its canned HN comment is. If you want to be taken seriously as a security and privacy focused product that can be trusted to handle sensitive data and underta
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by Kalium 5y ago
That's a fascinating idea! So let's dig in a bit. A lot of places experience the procession of the equinoxes. You wind up with the sun coming up after typical daytime working hours start and often setting after they end for part o
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by Kalium 5y ago
You're absolutely right. People do unquestionably want security! They want privacy too! The issue that the parent is alluding to is that the same users who want these things seem unwilling to make decisions or change behavior to get
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by Kalium 5y ago
> I would argue that monoculture and food homogenization engineered to maximize calories out per $ in have come at the cost of diversity. I think the problem with this isn't that you come across as hand-waving. The problem with this
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by Kalium 5y ago
I would think that 200-300k€/yr is low for this. At that budget for security you've maybe got two or three people, a bunch of software, and you're still building out monitoring and alerting systems. You haven't even begu
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by Kalium 5y ago
You're absolutely right. The key idea that's badly needed here is to build secure systems by design, building in security-critical features and design aspects from the start. As you correctly say, this is the best way to do this a
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by Kalium 5y ago
As I understand it, Sumerian culture had drinking establishments. Though they don't seem to have been freestanding business establishments, and were often part of some larger organization (like a temple). So "bar" would be an
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by Kalium 5y ago
I've found that very few companies in the third category understand that they are. As a result, they are unable to admit it and a security person only finds out when a need to bid for resources arises. Then they learn that the company
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by Kalium 5y ago
If you are someone junior and ambitious and looking to build your career, it's worth asking yourself if the first real incident will lead to leadership learning and adapting or you becoming the Chief Sacrificial/Scapegoat Officer.
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by Kalium 5y ago
I've found that "Do not be Chicken Little" is far and away the most difficult thing to do in startups. This is because the CEO, the Product org, and similar are often deeply invested in the idea that they just need a little
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by Kalium 5y ago
I understood the point. My counterpoint is that if a union doesn't use the leverage of collective bargaining to deliver when it's in a good position to do so, it rather weakens the argument that the same union will decide to use i
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by Kalium 5y ago
Oh, I get the idea . We're just talking about a situation described by the commenter above where the union is already formed . It is apparently unable to provide any substantial benefit except the hope that it might be useful at a fu
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by Kalium 5y ago
If a union formed when you have leverage doesn't deliver when you do , why would you expect it to deliver when you don't ?
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by Kalium 5y ago
This also describes an environment where the union doesn't seem to be offering any significant benefits to developers. If unionizing doesn't improve your working conditions, what's the point of the union?
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by Kalium 5y ago
"A Modest Proposal" is the name of famous satirical essay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal It involved selling children for cannibalism. As Wikipedia notes: > In English writing, the phrase
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by Kalium 5y ago
Also "good behavior" is a proxy for a healthy home life, which is to a great extent a measure of social and economic class.
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by Kalium 5y ago
I'm legitimately uncertain if this is a bad idea presented as satire or a sincere idea.
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by Kalium 5y ago
> Doesn't that get past all the big systemic cost problems? You would think so! Unfortunately, this is not the case. In SF, some of the systemic issues are planning processes voted into the city charter decades ago, so the city doe
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by Kalium 5y ago
San Francisco had a similar problem in recent years, where trying to build housing for the unhoused was running a cost of about a million a pop. It's perhaps possible that this isn't a deliberate display of incompetence, but a set
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by Kalium 5y ago
Sooner or later, one person's subtle easter egg becomes another's mission-critical behavior. Speaking solely and strictly for myself, I do not enjoy having to support niche undefined behavior because someone thought it was cute.
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by Kalium 5y ago
For a lot of businesses, the overhead that comes with handling cash isn't worth it. Especially smaller businesses that would really rather not deal with the risk of being robbed or having a staffer mugged for the nightly drop. Credit c
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by Kalium 5y ago
> But that part wasn't my point, my point was is it good for society. I believe the point might be that it's perhaps not so simple as "good for society" or "bad for society". Water is good for a human right

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