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by geofft 6y ago
Can you explain how, exactly, for three IBM employees, it's their paid job, and for a fourth IBM employee, it's a hobby (but until recently it was also their paid job)?
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by geofft 6y ago
We have no evidence that the first thing wasn't attempted. Furthermore, from the phrasing of the message (refuting the idea that one can contribute to one's employer's project as a hobby), we have some evidence that there wa
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by geofft 6y ago
No, they pay you to go home at the end of the day. That's part of your contract. If you instead go to another job at the end of your eight hours, they'll fire you. If you even go to your secret other home you haven't told the
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by geofft 6y ago
Reminds me of the Stanford marshmallow experiment. Researchers offered children one marshmallow, but if they didn't eat it, they promised a second marshmallow later. The children who had the "willpower" to wait for the second
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by geofft 6y ago
If there was no actual spying, then there's no victim. If someone gets pickpocketed on the subway, saying "You should have protected yourself better" is victim blaming, sure. But if someone doesn't get pickpocketed and t
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by geofft 6y ago
Are you saying it's worse for China to (be granted sufficient access by the Netherlands that, in theory, if they wished to abuse that access, they could) spy on communications in the Netherlands than for the US to spy on communications
847.
by geofft 6y ago
You shouldn't trust any provider under the jurisdiction of an anti-liberty nation-state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A Not sure why Huawei is unique here.
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by geofft 6y ago
> Paired with transient units and user escalation performable remotely, this can mean that if you house VPS instances somewhere, your hosting provider has means and tools to spy, modify, delete any kind of content you store there ... t
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by geofft 6y ago
The first one seems most likely to be the relevant answer to how this was tracked: https://adwords.googleblog.com/2017/05/powering-ads-and-anal... > Google’s third-party partnerships ... capture approximately
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by geofft 6y ago
https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs is in progress, but I believe it works enough to be worth playing with. Note that it doesn't implement the borrow checker - the plan is to reuse rustc's borrow checker as a c
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by geofft 6y ago
> GNU maintainers already have full control over their projects. This is untrue: https://lwn.net/Articles/753646/ "As the head of the GNU Project, I am in charge of what we publish in GNU manuals. I dec
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by geofft 6y ago
It sounds like OP's employment history consists entirely of 2-month-ish stints, and so leaving short stints off would mean having no professional experience on the resume. Now, that might actually be the right answer in this case (yo
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by geofft 6y ago
I dunno, OP seems to have realized (according to other comments) that it was a bad move, and "I randomly decided to give up a job that in retrospect I could have put up with" does sort of seem like a personal emergency. :) To be c
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by geofft 6y ago
"Overqualified" in concert with your employment record of very short stints means they're worried you won't be happy at the job and you'll leave for something else. Which, bluntly, they're right to be worried a
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by geofft 6y ago
What do you have to offer the companies you've applied for? It's deeply unjust we live in a society where simply being a person isn't enough to merit having a home and medical care, but that problem isn't going to be sol
856.
by geofft 6y ago
Almost no company has the internal processes to adjust someone's compensation within two months. If you don't feel like your compensation at signing is appropriate, you need to figure it out then. Otherwise, your best shot is when
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by geofft 6y ago
Yes, but somewhat separate from the current news and reactions about RMS's return to the FSF - the mailing list has been around for over a year, according to the archives, and many GNU project maintainers have been unhappy with RMS&#x2
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by geofft 6y ago
If you're willing to assume glibc, a reasonably clean approach is to write your own nss_fly module that returns results for .internal. The downside is that Go code will drop to cgo for all resolutions (because it will see something it
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by geofft 6y ago
Looks like https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity , which has a lot of references and side notes more relevant to this story than to Death Note per se, e.g., > The researchers generalized their Netflix work to fin
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by geofft 6y ago
I've read almost no Marx, but the argument doesn't really rely on it, I think - the "working class" / "proletariat" in Marx's sense are the people whose economic power comes from the actual labor they
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by geofft 6y ago
Yeah, it's possible to write a disciplined form of C++ that abides by those rules, but I think it's important that the idiomatic form of error handling in Rust is returning Result types instead of unwinding, the standard library
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by geofft 6y ago
The phrase "corporatist class" is a pretty ludicrous confusion between the ideas of "corporations," entities with significant power, and their employees (or as Marx would call them, the "working class"), with m
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by geofft 6y ago
Frankly, one of the best things we could do to help this hypothetical future language be adopted is to have precedent for Linux using another language. We're really trying two things here - getting Linux to use some Rust, and getting L
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by geofft 6y ago
Check out out slides 20-21 from Linux Security Summit 2019 - there are specific reasons why Linux didn't like C++ that don't apply to Rust. https://ldpreload.com/p/kernel-modules-in-rust-lssna2019.pdf Basical
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by geofft 6y ago
OK, I have what is probably a silly question: Why is it a good thing for this wallet to be non-custodial? As far as I can tell, this massively changes the user experience around the security properties of using Signal. For Signal chats, I h
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by geofft 6y ago
Isn't the allegation that they made changes to the deployed version of their production server that were not pushed to the GitHub project? (i.e., that they stopped updating the server repository for around a year, but not just implausi
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by geofft 6y ago
If you take the assumption that the user device is actively user-hostile, there's a simpler approach: just add another microchip whose purpose is to run non-free code (or at least non-GPLv3 code) to report on what you're doing.
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by geofft 6y ago
My entire point relies on Apple being an openly user-hostile company, yes! It was a great victory for the FSF that they were able to get Apple to release code and build on a free-software compiler, wasn't it? And it's actually a l
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by geofft 6y ago
> But at the moment at least, there is definitely something they share in common that distinguishes them. What retailer starts AWS? What car maker is run by someone who also has a rocket company? If you went back a century and tried to
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by geofft 6y ago
That was sort of the opposite of competent: - Because it was a new license, it necessarily resulted in license fragmentation, which is an ongoing headache for the free software community. It's worth doing if there's a serious need

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