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by geofft 5y ago
Er, doesn't that assume that the mp4 files on your hard drive can't genuinely be infected with viruses? Why is that assumption true?
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by geofft 5y ago
I think this depends on two things: 1) Quality of existing language/compiler. Some languages are more prone to turning carelessness into exploitable bugs than others. Some compilers are better at flagging questionable practices than ot
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by geofft 5y ago
Normally I'd say "Gestapo tactics" is an exaggeration for deleting a comment someone wrote on the internet, but given that the company in question has threatened someone with the specific brutality of the Chinese police, I th
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by geofft 5y ago
"Underrepresented" is in parentheses. So I'm interpreting this as saying that the policy is not specific to members of underrepresented groups, but was crafted with underrepresented groups in mind. I think it does matter whet
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by geofft 5y ago
If I'm reading right, it looks like a company can become a "recognised sponsor," which allows them to sponsor as many of their employees as they want for relocation, provided they meet salary requirements etc. It doesn't
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by geofft 5y ago
To be clear, I'm personally all in favor of Amazon choosing who they want or don't want to contract to. But the comment I was replying to was saying it's only okay (as in, good for society, I guess) for Amazon to kick off NSO
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by geofft 5y ago
Sure, and it "seems like" the extremist propaganda that Big Tech shut down was violating all sorts of other laws like incitement. Is "seems like" enough of a reason now for private companies to choose not to contract wit
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by geofft 5y ago
Isn't the line due process of law, though? If NSO is allegedly committing a crime, then we can punish them in courts of law that are empowered and qualified to investigate the allegations fully and decide whether to deprive them of the
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by geofft 5y ago
Assuming SQLite has any internal counters or indexes, let alone B-trees or anything fancy, then this approach won't work. It will work for a raw record format (CSV, JSON, Protobuf, an mmapped array, etc.), but the author wants to actua
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by geofft 5y ago
Also, because these rigs were apparently using stolen electricity, chances are that the only reason it was profitable for the owners to operate was that they weren't paying market rates for electricity. So there's no way to lega
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by geofft 5y ago
I suspect these opinions would be less likely to get downvoted if you could back them up with data, specifically: - Assuming you do have a test database in advance that's represented in a file, but for some reason not a SQLite file or
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by geofft 5y ago
Do you know Docker already? If not, that's a reason not to use it. There are clear advantages in having a production system that's expressed in terms of a text file that you can read instead of a bunch of stuff that's accumul
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by geofft 5y ago
Well, there's a difference between asset-poor and cashflow-poor. You might have a couple of valuables accumulated over generations - watches, silverware, etc. are good examples - but not liquid cash. Even in modern times, there are ple
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by geofft 5y ago
This is the one true way to do things, of course ( https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html ), but besides the "why not use bors/homu" question - what prevents GitHub or GitLab from building this in? I hope w
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by geofft 5y ago
The employee mentioned in the title was also fired, so that part doesn't seem like it was different in 2015. But as the victim, does it matter to you if a Facebook-employed stalker gets fired? They still have your data. The bulk of the
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by geofft 5y ago
This post criticizes a politician for having a former employee who was allegedly formerly a member of an IRC channel, other members of which did bad things. Is this not cancel culture?
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm surprised to see the claim that the "buzzword bingo" is somehow at odds with product and business execution after last year. We just experienced an extended period of time, longer than anyone expected in February 2020, wh
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by geofft 5y ago
Why are any of these proposals preferable to working from home?
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by geofft 5y ago
I use HTTPS on my blog, which is a static website with no comments, because my blog contains information that I want people to be able to trust, and so I don't want an MITM to be able to modify it. There are a whole bunch of says that
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow your argument, because, first, no major browser maker is in the business of selling their web browser software, and second, if you're using the browser maker's software to verify the server, you already
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by geofft 5y ago
In the past, there were messages that specified exactly what was different about the situation, and they were by no means "proper UI": https://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/guides/webguide/r2/en/h
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by geofft 5y ago
Name your internal services after some valid DNS domain that you own. Options include - use split DNS, where hostnames like "hr.example.com" resolve on your internal network but not externally - use split DNS for a subdomain, so e
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by geofft 5y ago
AD has a built-in certificate authority, and installs the root CA on domain-joined machines....
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by geofft 5y ago
Why is it so easy to believe that there are incompetent fools in power who encourage tech debt and bureaucracy even though it's obviously bad for the business, and so hard to believe there are incompetent fools in power who are suspici
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by geofft 5y ago
I have no context here, but from reading the post, it sounds like they did in fact pick a different name, but they picked one that let them reuse the same executable name for API compatibility. In the business world, picking a different nam
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by geofft 5y ago
To be fair, they haven't been free -riding. Credit cards force prices up by about 3% for a reason, and checking accounts don't give you market yields for a reason. But yes, for me personally, I much prefer deterministically losin
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by geofft 5y ago
Sure, but manuals are. Data has never been copyrightable. Copyright has only ever protected creative expression. Draw your own diagrams and write your own explanations and you're fine. (See iFixit, for instance.) It's just like ho
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by geofft 5y ago
But even without the DMCA, having unauthorized copies of copyrighted documents is still illegal, right? The DMCA creates a liability shield for sites that accept uploads and creates a procedure for takedowns. But without the DMCA, the compa
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by geofft 5y ago
Not that I disagree, but it's not just a danger of AI, it's a danger of complex self-optimizing systems in general. We've got a pretty robust complex self-optimizing system already, which goes by names like "society&qu
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by geofft 5y ago
But those are all examples of data collection working fine, though, and people not listening to the data because their anecdotes went the wrong way. FiveThirtyEight predicted a 28.6% chance of a Trump victory: https://projects.fi

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