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by bostik 1y ago
> apocalyptic Bingo. Wars are already expanding, and the world is preparing for more. With food production suffering from climate change impacts, we are witnessing famine gaining ground in real time. The breed of politicians in power a
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by bostik 1y ago
I think I am technically self-taught, originally. I only learned about the theory after I had already applied the principles in practice. Started in the 80's with a C64, then progressed through computers and time until began my studies
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by bostik 1y ago
Yes. It has been long known as "lawfare" In practice it means that we are pretty close to how ancient Greeks (in the city state of Athens) defined democracry: ~3% of the population decided - by voting - how the remaining 97% would
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by bostik 1y ago
> The distribution is heavily lopsided with a long tail. You'll see this in any properly active online system. Back in the previous job we had to drill it to teams that mean() was never an acceptable latency measurement. For that
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by bostik 1y ago
Some of the history between the two companies is covered in a book, "Paypal Wars.[0] Among other things it happens to spotlight Musk's fascination with having "X" as the company name, especially for a bank. 0: https:&#x
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by bostik 1y ago
In my previous job I repeatedly told people that "git grep is a superpower". Especially in a monorepo, but works well in any big repository, really. To this day I think the same. With the addition that knowing about "git log
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by bostik 1y ago
Bell Labs was good for the industry despite of AT&T monopoly. The research they did was fundamental and has been feeding into further development over decades. It doesn't make Ma Bell or their ilk any less awful.
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by bostik 1y ago
I know - absolutely know - that this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I believe it deserves to be said: > People know that the system only caters to the whims of billionaires and tells the rest of us to eat shit. Things will no
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by bostik 1y ago
> 30 milligrams of high explosive is enough to open your daughter's skull, or, more relevantly, your commanding officer's daughter's skull, and there are a thousand ways to deliver it While we are talking about flying dr
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by bostik 1y ago
This was the bit that I spotted as potentially conflicting as well. Having managed (and sanitised!) tech&security policies at a small tech company, the fail-open vs. fail-closed decisions are rarely clear cut. What makes it worse is tha
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by bostik 1y ago
> Your argument seems to be that it's fine to break the law if the net outcome for society is positive. In any other context, this would be known as "civil disobediance". It's generally considered something to appla
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by bostik 1y ago
> You really shouldn't need CN (but it's convenient for humans) Is this finally the case now? About 5 years back IIS would fail to load a certificate without a CN, despite the field being deprecated since 2000. And who would
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by bostik 1y ago
That second trick is neat, I'll need to remember that. I also really wish I had known about it back in 2015, when we had to massage an inconveniently big (at the time) PG database and started to carve it out into smaller, purpose-speci
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by bostik 1y ago
That is also why so much of the security[tm] software is so bad. Usability and fitness for purpose are not box-tickers. The industry term in play is "risk transfer". Most security software does not do what it advertises, because
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by bostik 2y ago
Some kind of additional leverage and/or connections were certainly used. The open dirty secret of infosec is that outside of authentication systems, the products and services sold do not actually work. Usability and real world functi
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by bostik 2y ago
Tim Berners-Lee has been elevated to many things, but an ascension to deity must be a new reach.
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by bostik 2y ago
I can provide an example where cloud, despite its vastly higher unit costs, makes sense. Analytics in high finance (note: not HFT). Disclosure: my employer provides systems for that. A fair number of our clients routinely spin up workload
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by bostik 2y ago
Chinese companies have one massive advantage in aggregate: they know that from 2028 onwards they will be competing for a captive domestic market of >1.3B people. The CCP have declared as their industrial [service] policy that by the end
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by bostik 2y ago
> Not OP, but UX also matters a lot. That is particularly true for anything dealing with security. I evaluated both BitWarden and 1Password when we wanted to migrate away from LastPass. My recommendation was to eventually go with BW. I
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by bostik 2y ago
> Ofcom have strongly hinted that this is primarily aimed at services with millions of users but haven't (yet) actually clarified [...] This has echoes of the Snooper's Charter and Apple's decision to withdraw ADP from a
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by bostik 2y ago
> The US population is aging, which means that 36% slice is going to naturally grow. What do you think should be cut, and how? The callous, cynical and on-brand answer to that question is: "the number of elderly, in the cruellest
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by bostik 2y ago
> Why were people not mad then? Oh, we were. I am in the crowd who had been asking for generally used encryption since 1995. After all, we were already using SSH for our shell connections. The first introduction to SSL outside of int
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by bostik 2y ago
Let's put the whole thing in context. This bill is intended to prevent foreign governments[0] demanding that companies headquartered in US[1] modify their products and introduce backdoors. The top bullet point in the press release make
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by bostik 2y ago
> * suppose that the UK wants to go their usual "lighter touch regulation" than the EU route to attract investment.* Not just that. A speaker in a conference I attended about a month ago mentioned that UK is actively drifting a
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by bostik 2y ago
Correct. I was indeed. Although this particular round fell somewhere inbetween "passport mughots at Snappy Snaps" and a full "subject all dolled up" session. IIRC the photo session was about 20 minutes and a week later I
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by bostik 2y ago
I am surprised that "professional headshot" would be a task that can be outsourced to an AI. Even with the various filters available these days, how do you work around the need to actually have a professional grade kit? At a min
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by bostik 2y ago
Hm, we may be using the word in slightly different tones then. For me accountability is more than just appointing blame, it's also about how you got to the result you brought out. On the other hand, I absolutely agree with this: >
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by bostik 2y ago
Not quality. Accountability. I work in (okay, adjacent to) finance. Any communications that are sent / made available to people outside your own organisation are subject to being interpreted as legally binding to various degrees. Prove
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by bostik 2y ago
Author seems to have buried the lede, because the real meat of the problem is described only in the last third of post. It's not about technology, it's about the scope and intent. Or if we had to distill the opening premise of the
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by bostik 2y ago
That was a big source of contention, but admittedly there was plenty of skunkworks going around internally to experiment with the officially forbidden material. I was probably one of the first people to ever possess[ß] a Nokia device runnin

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