Kalium

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by Kalium 6y ago
It's exceptionally common. I've encountered what seems like a wildly unreasonable number of otherwise smart, competent, capable devs possessed of the bizarre belief that having a firewall or NACLs means they don't have to:
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by Kalium 6y ago
Personally, I'm not big on accepting personal blame for fifty years of bad urban planning decisions made by other people, almost entirely before I could vote. But I understand that that's not a helpful, satisfactory, or emotionall
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by Kalium 6y ago
I'm afraid I don't understand. In what way does contextualizing and centering human agency and humanity change how these questions are asked and considered in ways unavailable to us today? Wouldn't we also need to weight the
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by Kalium 6y ago
I stopped trying that after it was turned into a series of direct and personal accusations of how I am the evil techie gentrifier. My experience has been the opposite of yours - showing awareness comes with the expectation that you accept
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by Kalium 6y ago
Now we're talking about humans doing data labor to help enable computer systems tell cats from dogs in imagines in a rigorous way. Now that we've rejected the AI philosophy and refuse to use the AI way of thinking and remember and
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by Kalium 6y ago
You make it sound like Jaron views AI as fundamentally unethical, for reasons that are at best not communicated clearly.
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by Kalium 6y ago
It's not as true as it's talked up to be, but there is definitely an "Eww, techies " sentiment found among a non-trivial chunk of those that identify as "natives". You run into it a few times and you learn to
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by Kalium 6y ago
> As always: if I do everything in accordance with the way Cloudflare says, and my company suffers a loss due to Cloudflare screwing up, to what extent is Cloudflare liable? The real answer is always "What does your contract with Cl
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by Kalium 6y ago
> I like some of your points, and H1B desperately needs a revamp. However, a direct unadjusted salary based auction is a non-starter for the following reasons: <snip> In both cases, the obvious response is that they need to pony u
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Why is that? If our ideas are good, don't we want the most number of people to know them? Do you think the tools for broad communication and peer practitioner communication could be very different because they have different aims?
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by Kalium 6y ago
Once upon a time, an employer of mine was happy to work with people who had criminal records. Provided they were honest and willing to discuss the matter. It became a problem when we hired someone with a record of fraud... who had not dis
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by Kalium 6y ago
I agree. It's such a pain when one cannot simply sit athwart the world and command "Stop!". I find the world can be a very inconvenient places at times. From where I'm sitting, the best option on offer for coping with th
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by Kalium 6y ago
You can always pin to an older version for both your runtime and your libs. That seems, naively, like it would produce exactly what you're looking for. Perhaps I'm mistaken. Though this will tend to come at the cost of making upgr
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by Kalium 6y ago
How would you go about helping small businesses who don't know any better do things correctly in a way that would be easy for those with sharply limited technical resources to implement?
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by Kalium 6y ago
If your machines started exhibiting behavior you didn't expect or intend from a configuration you believe to be proper, then something has gone wrong. It may be the system, it may be the configuration, and it may be your understanding
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by Kalium 6y ago
Tinder doesn't sell sex. It sells access to a Skinner box with intermittent positive reinforcement and frequent negative reinforcement where the reward is human connection. Way, way more psychologically toxic.
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by Kalium 6y ago
I agree. I think if there was a better standardized process for getting all the same information, I would use it preferentially in a heartbeat. From experience, trying to replicate all that info-gathering process manually is not a good answ
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by Kalium 6y ago
I am not someone who does not care. Please accept my deepest apologies for my repeated failures to communicate clearly. Please do not hesitate to ask for further clarification if it would be in any way helpful for you. I fear you have mista
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by Kalium 6y ago
You're absolutely right. New entrants, new technologies, and new people in a space are critical for the health of a market. I just think it's possible that when procuring a tool for a given purpose, a company's chief concern
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by Kalium 6y ago
You're right. You do need that person. IMO, it's a lot easier to accept their feedback when you understand that using a functional language offers you no significant security gains by virtue of being functional. In my limited and
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by Kalium 6y ago
I worked in a Haskell shop, and later in a Clojure shop. In both cases, engineers were happy-go-lucky about every security or privacy concern under the sun. Often they seemed to believe that being functional saved from having to worry about
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by Kalium 6y ago
That sort of division assumes you can be completely sure about how a system will be used in the future. I've definitely seen internal systems deployed in a public-facing capacity because someone found a useful reason to do it. How are
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by Kalium 6y ago
Being a security person myself, I've found plenty of value in reading SOC2 reports. They're one of the few relatively standardized ways to address the laundry list of vendor due diligence questions. Is it a good experience for sma
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by Kalium 6y ago
You're absolutely right! There are potentially a great many readers with exactly the same question, and any response should bear that in mind. At the same time, Stackoverflow and similar public fora are doubly dangerous for the issue I
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by Kalium 6y ago
When responding with an XY problem with the answer up front, it's always worth bearing in mind that there's a very good chance that whatever you say after that will be blathering into the void. The consequences of this, especially
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by Kalium 6y ago
I think there's a quite strong argument that "I don't like it when the outcome doesn't favor me" is one of the worst available reasons to make major structural changes to a system of government. Major changes can ea
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by Kalium 6y ago
It's been my experience that a system's complexity (basic or complex) is less an intrinsic trait and more a matter of subjective perception, familiarity, and experience. Your experience is clearly different.
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by Kalium 6y ago
Not to be That Guy, but what I'm reading is that you have the wonderful opportunity before you to learn about VPNs until they fail in boring ways!
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by Kalium 6y ago
> I don't know why this is such a frequent screw up in comparisons by people complaining about security. I have a suspicion that many, many engineers don't conceive of networked systems as participants in a human-driven adversa
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by Kalium 6y ago
> [1]: Police violence in the news in the United States. How common it is is very debatable, the worst news bubbles to the top and catches the media's attention. For every police shooting there are probably 100+ stops with no shooti

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