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by api 7y ago
I don't want a new native UI for Windows. I want a cross platform UI. I am NOT developing the same GUI N times for N different platforms. No way. Even very large companies like Slack are refusing to do that. They have the resources t
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by api 7y ago
Seems up at the moment. I'm sure there will be some outages as data centers are running with reduced staff and some companies don't know how to do teleworking well.
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by api 7y ago
We were looking for a good LAN video conference tool, since we (ZeroTier) could use it on virtual LANs for telework. The ideal would be something where you can do a conference call by just entering IPs or finding participants with mDNS. It
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by api 7y ago
Will they still require you to move to SF? If not, and if it works out well, I can imagine this being a nail in the coffin for the Bay Area bubble.
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by api 7y ago
Yep, UX is gonna get some love, especially desktop GUIs. The current ones are going to get led behind the barn for the Old Yeller treatment soon. We have generally been focusing on behind the scenes tech more than GUIs so far.
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by api 7y ago
I typically don't shill around here, but why isn't ZeroTier on that list? I suppose we don't have a giant marketing budget (yet). We do have a product used by hundreds of thousands for years and it has microsegmentation and o
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by api 7y ago
Really? In most deployments the firewall is only outward facing. Local isolation is possible but it breaks a ton of stuff and basically renders the LAN useless. My own opinion is: Secure. The. Endpoint. If your devices, OSes, etc. are not s
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by api 7y ago
Phishing is so popular because the meat sack behind the screen is usually the least secure part of the system. Unless you are running vulnerable unpatched or unprotected services, attacking people is usually easier than attacking systems.
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by api 7y ago
One of my biggest gripes with infosec is how un-empirical the field is. Best practices and advice are based on what security people think is the best strategy for preventing breaches, but rarely do I see that backed by actual data about how
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by api 7y ago
In non-authoritarian societies there are less disruptive mechanisms for change, such as party realignments and political (rather than violent) revolutions. These can be disruptive but nowhere near as much as being invaded or having a violen
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by api 7y ago
The standard issue answer is that corruption and incompetence in authoritarian societies is dealt with via Darwinian struggle between societies or by coups led by stronger factions within. They never mention the instability this creates or
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by api 7y ago
He was a subject of unethical human experiments while at Harvard for one. That may have influenced his opinion. His crusade against academic scientists may have been more personal than even he consciously realized.
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by api 7y ago
"There can't be life anywhere else... everywhere else is too cold for liquid iron, and iron is the only solvent with the unique properties required for..." :)
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by api 7y ago
Windows is the same way: absurd numbers of options. I would not be surprised if Windows 10 had over a million configuration settings between regular panels, policies, and the registry.
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by api 7y ago
Anecdotes aren't useful. She's not elderly or immune compromised, so for her it was probably like the flu. Some people in good health only get cold like symptoms, or none at all. The problem is that not only is it deadlier than mo
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by api 7y ago
If IBM is patent trolling now it means they're on death watch... this is a top indicator of a failing company.
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by api 7y ago
Mobile startups that don't have a substantial value add outside just what they do on the phone are just prototyping new features for the FAANG companies.
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by api 7y ago
We use Mattermost and are quite happy with it. It's free for the vast majority of use cases and open source. Runs great, rock solid stable, and has decent usable mobile apps.
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by api 7y ago
The issue is also when the fence was there for horrible reasons, e.g. "that fence is there to keep the underclass in their ghetto." Of course I suppose it still works in that case. You found the reason. The reason sucked. Therefor
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by api 7y ago
It's the community. Half the members of AA can't even name all the steps, but in AA they find kinship with other people with similar experiences and similar struggles. Humans are hyper-social. We live better, grow better, heal bet
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by api 7y ago
This is usually put forward as a conservative parable. I'm not sure it necessarily takes a position there. It does not assert that the fence should not be removed, just that one should make the effort of attempting to understand its co
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by api 7y ago
The MongoDB license they are picking on barely differs from the AGPL.
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by api 7y ago
There's a good chance Google wouldn't exist without it.
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by api 7y ago
This might be a good thing then. This has become a pet peeve of mine. At the last FOSDEM there was a talk on "open source under attack" claiming that anything other than permissive licensing represents an attack on open source: h
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by api 7y ago
Ever since cloud compute became an industry meme, I started telling people that the end-game was to get everything into someone else's mainframe and then apply various forms of lock-in that would include proprietary CPU extensions, pro
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by api 7y ago
This is the "let's hang a chlorine on some sugar" sweetener right? It always struck me as implausible that it would be biologically inery.
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by api 7y ago
The same is true in all political systems. A king must constantly play a social media game too or their rivals may gain the upper hand. A modern despot must constantly ensure that they never show weakness for the same reasons. There are alw
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by api 7y ago
This outbreak may put an end to this "post-truth world" nonsense. There is no such thing and never will be, or at least not for long. Eventually Darwin puts his foot down. Recognize reality or it recognizes you.
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by api 7y ago
The solution isn't more scanning, less encryption, or banning Tor or other apps. The solution is stronger penalties for the sexual abuse of children. Production should be a life sentence, no parole. Sale should be a minimum of 20 yea
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by api 7y ago
We are quite overdue. We have an economy that reliably produces catastrophic crashes every 8 years or so and it's been 12.

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