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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> ... European countries are complicit ... don't think many deserve being painted as a victim of this situation This is not a dichotomy. Very often victims are made complicit to keep them quiet (e.g. in bribery, extortion...). Not m
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> It tends to be a fabrication of people miscalculating No: salaries are obviously higher. Cost of living can be also higher and quality of life depends on that and many other things. Incidentally, I know a number of engineers who turn d
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
I fully agree that companies should not have this power. But this was not my point: I wrote "societies". Downvoters: care to explain?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Not so fast. All societies need to draw a line on where speech constitute offense, libel, or even death threats.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> a single private company having a near-monopoly on various public communication channels > The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this. Financial, political, religious entities controlling newspapers and book publishers is a
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
...and yet they are choke full of spyware. In the context of a proprietary phone, secure boot and all of that is the new tivoization.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Graphviz is even better: you can generate SVGs and PNGs that can be displayed without jabbascript
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Why the obsession with product names and logos? Having a Python class for a specific product is not necessary. ...and then people talk about CV-driven development...
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Graphviz is way more flexible.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
You are describing a good engineer.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Please. Commercial phones "security model" is to protect themselves from the user, and that's about it. The baseband itself is the main backdoor.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
You are confusing cynicism with expressing criticism. They are 100% orthogonal.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Meta: countless fiscal policy changes are made in weeks. But for UBI, decades of experiments and data-driven validation seem to be required. Why is it acceptable that UBI requires such huge burden of proof? Don't tell me that it's
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
I have plenty of evidence. Most companies keep logs and make the available to law enforcement. In countries different than the user accessing the data. On top of that, the Snowden revelations.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
You can do the same easily with push.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Anyone who avoids frameworks is going to be in for a world of hurt when they have to explain to their boss "I know the project is 3 months late but I saved 100kb in bundle size" Perhaps they failed to educate management on th
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
In the country with the highest percentage of prison population. And the highest number of killings by police (per capita) by far.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> For an entirely static website, I can't see any reason not to host content in cloud storage and serve through a CDN Caring about the privacy of your readers.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
In both monitoring and config management, the majority is right. Monitoring: you don't want to have all your applications and even scripts run a thread to listen on a dedicated port to allow pulling. It's bad for security, code co
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
"nobody gets fired for buying IBM"
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Facebook (and Cambridge Analytica) is another example. > If Microsoft manages to eliminate the competition, they'll lose the incentive to build good stuff, just like they have in the past. Typical strategy. You provide a good and ch
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> dashboards for managers with all sort of stats on developers: code quality with arbitrary rules, productivity (number of lines of codes) ...down to number of keystrokes. Microsoft has a 25+ years history of spying on users. > being
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Microsoft has been adopting standards to then extend them and lock-in users for two decades. > Microsoft has been providing some amazing tools completely free of charge Yes, and they are the opposite of a no-profit. This are just the fir
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> In the best case food was mediocre (mostly bread or porridge or similar) > The local nobles took every liberty with peasants: robbery, beatings as sport, rape, murder. The roads between towns were plagued with bandits. You are cherr
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I was drawn to programming, science, technology and science fiction ever since I was a little kid. I can't say it's because I wanted to make the world a better place. One of the main sources of burnout if feeling that your wo
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Instead it has to use fashionable technology and be extremely complicated so other programmers can see how incredibly clever they are! You are describing "CV-driven development", where people want to use heavily marketed tech
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> However, the CSS was generated. From YAML. The YAML was generated from JSON. the JSON was pulled from mongo. The Mongo was updated through a strictly validated XSLT that had an enumeration of colors. I thought you were exaggerating to
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Use firejail. It comes with hundreds of ready-made profiles for userspace applications. Avoid snap, flatpack and so on as most of them are not really security-oriented.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
It's way better than container runtimes. It's proper security sandboxing and it comes by default on most Linux distributions.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> can you not just avoid using the features you don't like No: people cat take a moral stance against things that look sleazy like asking for uploading private keys or trying to sell cryptocurrencies. > can you not just avoid &qu

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