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by geofft 5y ago
Don't embed the tweet, which also prevents Twitter from tracking your users, and just copy-paste the text of the tweet and include a link for those who want to see?
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by geofft 5y ago
Finance pays at least as well as FAANGs (anecdote: in 2017 I had an offer from a FAANG and a finance company, the finance offer was slightly higher, and the FAANG flat-out refused to negotiate a finance offer), and also my sense is that sal
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by geofft 5y ago
Why do you want to adopt IPv6 faster? Personally I think the only realistic move is to advocate for an IPv7, which is backwards-compatible with IPv4 (keep ARP, keep classless addressing, keep DHCPv4, keep seeing NAT as acceptable, don'
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by geofft 5y ago
That's not how words work. The entire point of using words is that they are well-known abstractions used when communicating to other people .
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by geofft 5y ago
> a bunch of non-programming members of the community and one programming member That doesn't look accurate to me? The article has bullet points listing five people who left, all of whom are programmers.
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm an occasional Debian contributor and to be honest I think that's the right policy these days. It is effectively what we do at my employer. At my last employer, we ran Debian stable, and we told people to use versions of softwa
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by geofft 5y ago
You can disable automatic updates with enterprise policy. https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6350036#turnoffup...
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by geofft 5y ago
"Attention all employees: Chrome is the only approved browser for accessing HR websites. Please DO NOT use Firefox for accessing HR websites."
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by geofft 5y ago
A human did this. See the screenshots on the post - there's a screenshot of the home page, followed by a screenshot of the donation page, followed by a screenshot of PayPal. Quoting TFA: > That's right; someone at Google revie
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by geofft 5y ago
Yes! I'm not sure how that changes what I'm saying. If you don't trust the server, it can give you a malicious ISO, too. Or are you saying that you audit the bits of the ISO yourself before burning it?
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by geofft 5y ago
What sort of Android? Normal Google-provided Android, which contains closed-source components? Or do you have an open-source alternative in mind? Where do I self-host NextCloud?
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by geofft 5y ago
Piping the output of curl to bash is not "bad practice" any more that downloading an application from your browser and clicking on it or downloading a distro CD/USB image and booting it up "bad practice." You have t
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by geofft 5y ago
I would guess that " in my password manager " immediately puts you into the minority of GitHub users. (Maybe not the minority of power users or high-profile software maintainers, to be fair, but they care about security for the si
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by geofft 5y ago
Er, do you have a recommendation for non-cloud services that provide me with automatic backups of everything I do if something happens to my apartment, or open-source services that are free of all security flaws allowing hackers to compromi
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by geofft 5y ago
If there's a managed server you don't trust, it's unsafe to put anything that authenticates you to GitHub there, because it can (e.g.) modify the git command to push malicious code. For a semi-trusted machine (e.g., you wan
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by geofft 5y ago
LSP is definitely an open standard and you can make that work just fine. What I mean is that the components of VS Code itself that do remote execution are not open source, so if it's VS Code that you're running, you're a bit
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by geofft 5y ago
I understand how EEE is supposed to work. My claim is that it doesn't actually work, at least not for this use case. So for my argument, SourceSafe vs. Git is a great example. :-) You simply can't keep up with a proprietary to
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by geofft 5y ago
What are they embracing, how are they extending it, and how do they plan to extinguish it? My understanding of EEE is that it involves taking some competitive product/standard, making a cool MS version of it, and then killing off the s
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by geofft 5y ago
I mean, probably for the actual Azure usage, but that's not different from billing yourself for development VMs or Mac laptops or whatever (i.e., they'd be doing that independent of this approach). I assume the Codespaces team is
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by geofft 5y ago
There's two things happening in this post: 1. Development environments are running on Kubernetes, and VS Code is remoting into them. You don't have to pay a monthly subscription for that. VS Code remoting is free-as-in-beer and Ku
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by geofft 5y ago
I assume a huge part of why GitHub is okay with this is that VS Code / Codespaces and Azure are both products from the same company. :) I do think there's a serious autonomy question here, and I think companies do actually care a
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by geofft 5y ago
They appear to all be cynical takes. :) I think one way of reading the comment above is that it's the effect of business incentives / Conway's law on various approaches to staffing the non-developer parts of your organizati
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by geofft 5y ago
The comment I'm replying to is asking where, if at all, society should be structured to prevent people from spreading bad thoughts, and it's clearly leaning towards the angle that nothing should prevent people from spreading bad t
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by geofft 5y ago
But this article isn't complaining about Mailchimp shutting people down for thinking things in their own mind, it's complaining about Mailchimp shutting people down for publishing and advocating those thoughts. What is the argumen
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by geofft 5y ago
No one is disputing it's within their rights . It's within their rights to add a feature to the library that blasts "Caramelldansen" through the nearest Chromecast device when you import it, too. What they're sayin
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by geofft 5y ago
OK, but, we already have social/legal/cultural norms for deciding what thoughts are bad and what thoughts are good. Here are some things I can't do via Mailchimp for either legal or cultural reasons (see also https:/&#x
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by geofft 5y ago
There is a simple, straightforward answer here - prevent companies from amassing such power in the first place. It is far more obvious to me that there is an inherent right to choose whom you do business with and whom you don't than th
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by geofft 5y ago
This is an Elsevier journal. Due to a mistake by Elsevier, these papers were published without review. University libraries who continue to pay Elsevier should know that they are propping up scammers and grifters.
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by geofft 5y ago
You find a number of ships fleeing from a small space station. You hail them, asking what's wrong: "Help! We're being overrun by some sort of giant alien spiders!"
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by geofft 5y ago
How can you possibly be a good architect if you're a bad manager? Every skill of a good manager - having good working relationships and pleasant interpersonal relations, understanding conflicting needs from different teams, building tr

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