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by bostik 5y ago
Great. Clickbait meeting announcements, just the thing we need to reach the next level in this game of Corporate Dystopia.
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by bostik 5y ago
> ads should be entirely disallowed from everywhere, except for catalogues, printed and online. I've been saying this for a few years now, but that's only part of a Terminal Solution[tm]. I wouldn't disallow online ads
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by bostik 5y ago
Well, countries are already using Interpol as a weapon to make dissidents' lives miserable across the world. The next logical step is to start demanding extraditions.
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by bostik 5y ago
> From what I understand, all this started with SecDB at Goldman, which was a the prototype for all these systems but wasn't Python based. Correct. SecDB has its own language, S-lang, which you could probably best describe as a &q
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by bostik 5y ago
IIRC there's even an old saying about that, coming from military : "Amateurs think strategy. Professionals think logistics."
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by bostik 5y ago
I must be a weird outlier. While I can agree with the article's opening ("Close to 100% of people who take antidepressants experience some form of sexual side effects") I can't, at least from personal experience, subscri
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by bostik 5y ago
If you ignore Netflix, you can get a pretty close approximation what this is all about.
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by bostik 5y ago
And you'll get the same "works for me" results as you would from SO. I put my thoughts down a while back: https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/minimum-viable-copy...
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by bostik 5y ago
> I don't know if it's been studied or written Yes, it has been written. And you almost certain will have heard the condensed version. You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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by bostik 5y ago
> How about 16 yr olds? 15? 13? 10? 7? Should we draw a line for "dipping their toe anonymously in adult activities" somewhere [...]? Age of consent differs across countries. So yes, different countries and jurisdictions alr
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by bostik 5y ago
Whoops, not freezer. Fridge. Thanks for spotting it.
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by bostik 5y ago
Or they want a cushy, well-paid job in the industry they are supposedly regulating. See also: revolving door policy making.
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by bostik 5y ago
> If the law allowed drug trafficking and kidnappings, the biggest corp [anywhere] would be ... History proves you right. The entire British empire, a fabulously wealthy system, was founded on slave trade (think: kidnapping, traffickin
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by bostik 5y ago
My favourite is ox tail. Takes hours to cook through, but once you can grab a piece with tongs and get all the meat fall off with a slight shake, gives an absolutely gorgeous flavour to a slow simmer meat dish. Bonus: you can drain the li
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by bostik 5y ago
> Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a must Yeah, my read from the article was that someone had found McGee's tome and grabbed the section on meat cooking. For a simpler and less heavy reading, Cooking for Geeks is a surpr
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by bostik 5y ago
This is known as "purple teaming". You have security team segments actively trying to attack your own systems, using both established tooling/techniques, but also developing bespoke attacks that are specific to your systems.
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by bostik 5y ago
I used to wear the DPO hat, so this comes from a vantage point of having been in the weeds: ignorance is no excuse for incompetence. "Doing GDPR" badly because you don't know any better? Then don't even try to walk that
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by bostik 5y ago
Funny. In any other industry hijacking a business's name and trademark for payment would be considered facilitating fraud. But in marketing, it's somehow fair game?
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by bostik 5y ago
Governments don't generally pimp you to the highest bidder.[ß] They flog you to the current Don, calculated to be replaced by a new Don every few years. ß: Bribery notwithstanding.
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by bostik 5y ago
> It’s a site run by a private company that you send content to, they analyze it, then they decide what to publish and in what order. In other words, they are a syndicator. In the physical world, syndicators remain accountable for what
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by bostik 5y ago
Let's put that number in context. USD 1.5T is 2/3 (or 3/4) of the total cost US spent on their forever war in Afghanistan.[0,1] Clearly doable for a dedicated nation, given that US lost the war, lost the 20 years, and wit
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by bostik 5y ago
We don't need to imagine, someone already did. Just search for "Slaughterbots".
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by bostik 5y ago
The word you're looking for is "appliance".
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by bostik 5y ago
For doing LDAP lookups against the corporate directory? Oh wait, LDAP configuration of course depends on DNS and DNS is kaputt...
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by bostik 5y ago
> 72 of them, or 75%, have shown a profit three months later. That is surprisingly close to the number Matt Levine reported on some time ago. A group was trading almost exclusively on insider information, and (IIRC) 77% of their trades
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by bostik 5y ago
> This means that a 1500kg car is forced to pack an additional 540kg to be able to store energy. I think this is the wrong angle to look at the issue. A 2100kg EV requires 25% of its total mass to support the energy storage, generation
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by bostik 5y ago
Yes. You need NFC chipped phone and and NFC model YubiKey. That also solves a major usability issue: instead of trying to juggle between a mobile application and a TOTP authenticator (on the same device!), or plugging in a USB adapter for a
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by bostik 5y ago
What they should be doing, is to subsidise YubiKeys to their high-value customers. Not just to lock down the logins to Coinbase, but to also secure their customers' email, Twitter accounts, and as many other online systems as would s
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by bostik 5y ago
Or to paraphrase a Finnish saying: a looming disaster has not been confirmed until it has been officially denied.
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by bostik 5y ago
Master distillers definitely do. Not necessarily every single day, but for every single run of the stills, yes. Distillery staff will also occasionally test that the caskets being matured are doing okay. Source: visited 5 out of 7 distiller

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