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by altacc 4y ago
Often called "USB condoms" they only have the power connected, no data. You can make a DIY version by cutting open a cable and cutting the data wires.
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by altacc 4y ago
Going back through my history, it's actually an episode of the Criminal podcast: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-211-crazy-eddie-3-17-2023...
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by altacc 4y ago
In about 2006, I ‘bombed’ an interview by telling the CTO that they were going to miss out if they ignored mobile. I’d been involved in building some early mobile sites and thought that this was something that was going to be truly signific
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by altacc 4y ago
I listened to a documentary about the Crazy Eddie electronic chain, which was fraudulent to the core but passed audits. The ex-CFO made an interesting comment: when large accounting firms do an audit, they're checking what the business
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by altacc 4y ago
Yep, Salesforce grows by acquisition and that really shows when you start implementing it, especially if you want to do anything more complex that use Marketing Cloud. Then you realise that it is a poorly integrated collection of distinct a
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by altacc 4y ago
Ah, lobbying, the democratic practice of one dollar, one vote.
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by altacc 4y ago
Not PP but I've been employed & self employed in Norway, with a similar system, and being self employed was a bit more work throughout the year, keeping up with invoices & receipts. You have to keep up to date for that as you h
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by altacc 4y ago
The UK has the IOPC (Independent Office for Police Conduct) which is the latest version of oversight that has only existed for about 20 years, once it became increasingly clear how bias, corrupt and insular policing was. No system is perfec
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by altacc 4y ago
> there's voice commands for everything Voice commands fail the universal design principle. I haven't tried Tesla's but I hate using voice commands and it's not an option for everyone. Not every language is supported
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by altacc 4y ago
I once heard somebody describe cycling after a few drinks as the closest thing humans can get to flying.
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by altacc 4y ago
Massive false equivalence and poor understanding of the concepts of equality, socialism and associated regimes, which were never equal. You also seem to subscribe to the idea that human nature is inherently purely selfish, which it has been
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by altacc 4y ago
You're going to need a massive bucket of evidence to back that claim. The current layoffs are most definitely not due to diversity hires, they are largely driven by a skittish market, active shareholders being more critical of cashflow
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by altacc 4y ago
Except gods and devils have never and will never exist but AI might. Although I think it incredibly unlikely that AI will ever be in a position to create a human exterminating Skynet totality and the discussions should be more about how hum
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by altacc 4y ago
This reads to me like very blinkered & elitist thinking. Repetition makes things easy, we are good at what we practice doing. A normal computer user rarely needs to do something that might be more efficient in markdown, command line, wh
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by altacc 4y ago
Historically (and currently) there are many companies that directly or indirectly working to limit freedoms, either alone or complicit with governments. Corporations are powerful and in many places have as much power over people as governme
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by altacc 4y ago
You raise a good point. I can read COBOL to get an idea of what it is doing and how it is structured takes a little getting used to, but so do most languages. However, in my company (insurance) we have 3 COBOL systems (thanks to mergers) an
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by altacc 4y ago
It would be much better if everyone had a better income and work/life balance in order to be able to feed, house, clothe and raise their children well but that is not the reality of the situation or where the current political and econ
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by altacc 4y ago
I moved out of London about 15 years ago but continued to visit and work there and the difference in such a short amount of time is shocking. The income disparity and cost of living was bad when I lived there and seems to have gotten signif
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by altacc 4y ago
This is politics, so not really HN content, but it is great news and should be nation wide and more common across the globe. Studies, including the UK government's own study (from the last government) showed that there was significant
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by altacc 4y ago
Actually it points to the opposite, given the continued press coverage of this (in some media), the lack of confidence in him and the rising likelihood that he will have to resign. In a truly corrupt country everyone knows what happened bu
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by altacc 4y ago
Big difference in that Sunak & his wife's wealth is regularly mentioned in the UK, including on BBC programs, and media daily publishes criticism of Sunak and the government he leads, whereas criticism of Modi is suppressed or drow
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by altacc 4y ago
This is familiar to those of us who went through the dot com bubble burst. We're not at the same scale of industry specific recession but there are similarities with an economic slow down, more cautious spending, reduction in VC money
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by altacc 4y ago
It is not necessary to have to propose a solution before highlighting flaws or having an opinion about some thing. This is arguing in bad faith. Besides, you only have to read any article like this to find examples of other healthcare syste
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by altacc 4y ago
Seems to me it's ideology and profit. The US isn't the only country with a partisan, ideological driven political landscape but it is probably the loudest. Ideologues on the right are able to pander to their base by equating any h
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by altacc 4y ago
I think that's nothing more than a pipe dream. It seems that Twitter is bordering dysfunctional internally and is hemorrhaging money at the worst possible time (massive debts to support, slowing economy, less accessible loans). I think
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by altacc 4y ago
I'd add to your list: being aware of how this data is used and thinking before interacting with algorithmic content & advertising. Having worked in advertising during a younger & less jaded period of my life, knowing the aims a
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by altacc 4y ago
There's quite a few of these circus outreach projects (off the top of my head I know performers without borders and the flying seagull project, but there are lots more) and they all seem to be small, scrappy, run by one or two long ter
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by altacc 4y ago
"robbing Peter to pay Paul" is an idiom used to express that causing one person harm to benefit another is not a good thing. When an investor forces a company to lay off staff, merge with another, sell off divisions, etc... (all a
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by altacc 4y ago
Activist investors pressure management to deliver more profits to investors. That's a narrow definition of "improvement". Doesn't matter who they represent, robbing Peter to pay Paul doesn't make you right.
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by altacc 4y ago
Whilst not good, this seems to be bad news for some GoTo products but not specifically Lastpass: > a threat actor exfiltrated encrypted backups from a third-party cloud storage service related to the following products: Central, Pro, jo

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