egh5oon

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by egh5oon 6y ago
> Why should an engineer be paid that value they produce when they assume none of the risk? Engineers are never fired? Not even when the company shuts down? > If the company goes bankrupt, will the engineer be willing to bail the comp
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by egh5oon 6y ago
> the bad to good ratio is pretty high but due to the population size This is not how ratios work.
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by egh5oon 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics Politics permeates society, and by design. Also this thread is about employment and moving jobs across countries, which is an extremely politically changed topic.
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by egh5oon 6y ago
That does very little for security, if it's not a net negative at all. Most attacks aim at executing arbitrary code in the process space of the application being targeted. The lack of user-land does not help.
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by egh5oon 6y ago
> Courts don't operate on technicalities. The intent is pretty much all that matters, as long as you prove that someone intended to pirate stuff, doesn't matter what rube goldberg machine they use to actually pull it off. You a
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by egh5oon 9y ago
Mould? I've seen mushrooms growing. It baffles me how this stuff can be legal.
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by egh5oon 9y ago
What? Ireland has terrible isolation and building quality in general compared most of EU.
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by egh5oon 9y ago
Life and the universe don't owe us anything. This concepts of "deserve" comes from some monotheistic religions and it's been called Just World Fallacy. > I seriously doubt that most people today would feel like someon
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by egh5oon 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation The last thing this world needs is more people, by far. If anything, adopt kids. Also, how's the marriage required?
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by egh5oon 9y ago
Are you serious? It's the very opposite.
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by egh5oon 10y ago
> It's letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. We are talking activists facing state-sponsored attackers, where "good" security is not enough.
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by egh5oon 10y ago
Spot on. Many companies pushing "secure" applications conveniently forget to warn users about the false sense of security. The cryptography might be flawless, but everything else...
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Hype Driven Development(blog.daftcode.pl)
3 points by egh5oon 10y ago|0 comments
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by egh5oon 10y ago
Stallman keeps being right about everything yet people want to call him an extremist. Stallman is flexible enough to accept using closed hardware, closed firmware shipped with a device, non-GPL licenses. On the other hand, patent and copyri
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by egh5oon 10y ago
For the HN definition of hackers, maybe.
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by egh5oon 10y ago
No mention of Tor and its Onion Services?
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by egh5oon 10y ago
> having the sense of being needed and being useful Often, it can be the opposite. Many people would describe their daily tasks as useless or marginally useful for humanity, while finding meaning in unpaid volunteering.
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by egh5oon 10y ago
No, they are not just.
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by egh5oon 10y ago
DNSCrypt still leaks your DNS queries to the legitimate resolvers. DNSCrypt over Tor helps (unless all your traffic is sent only over Tor) but I'm not seeing tools to do this around.
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by egh5oon 10y ago
Firejail is one of the most underrated: https://firejail.wordpress.com/
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by egh5oon 10y ago
There is a third option: that 1B Chinese are given uncensored access to FB. By implementing censorship FB will make such option even less likely to happen in future.
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by egh5oon 10y ago
A camera/mic switch should be required by law on every laptop and phone. Please don tell me a 5c switch is too expensive for a $300 phone.
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by egh5oon 10y ago
HA!
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by egh5oon 10y ago
Intellectual "property" is a form of turf war, and the same pattern applies. First the "pioneering" phase, aka land grabbing, then the walled gardens.
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by egh5oon 10y ago
Share the link with your colleagues for extra fun.