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by mocko 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES. I'm a senior/lead DevOps with 15 years experience tuning & hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for the next challenge. I work closely with develope
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UK Security Agencies Unlawfully Collected Data for Decade(theguardian.com)
64 points by mocko 10y ago|4 comments
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by mocko 10y ago
I work as a contract DevOps guy (mostly out of disgust at the agency recruitment model now prevalent in Britain) and hunt down all my own work. I'd say it's 50% word-of-mouth, 50% HN. IMO the single best thing you can do to attra
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by mocko 10y ago
I can only speak for the UK, but for tax & legal reasons any contractor ought to be working through a company. Most find it efficient to run a small business of their own (an accountant will handle 99% of the paperwork) but others - for
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by mocko 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES. I'm a senior/lead DevOps with 15 years experience tuning & hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for the next challenge. I work closely with develope
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by mocko 10y ago
I'm a UK-based DevOps consultant and often do work for overseas clients. So long as your freelancer is working through their own company it should be easy for them to invoice a client overseas. Agree beforehand (like, when you ink the
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I want to remotely disable Londoners' cars, says Met's top cop(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by mocko 10y ago|0 comments
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The Rewritable Minidisc System (1994)(minidisc.org)
2 points by mocko 10y ago|0 comments
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by mocko 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES. I'm a senior/lead DevOps with 15 years experience tuning & hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for the next challenge. I work closely with develope
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by mocko 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES. Available September 5th. I'm a senior/lead DevOps with 15 years experience tuning & hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for the next adventure. I w
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by mocko 10y ago
I just tried to submit https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/15/turkey-co... and rather than upvoting an existing submission like usual, HN tells me "Message Sorry, that story was pre
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by mocko 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES. I'm a senior/lead DevOps with 15 years experience tuning & hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for something new. I work closely with developers th
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UK Labour Party Taking a Close Look at Universal Basic Income(theguardian.com)
3 points by mocko 10y ago|1 comments
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by mocko 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES. I'm a senior/lead DevOps with 15 years experience tuning & hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for something new. I work closely with developers th
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by mocko 10y ago
It has - see https://hn.algolia.com/?query=seeking%20freelancer&sort=byDa... But sadly it hasn't made the front page in a while. It seems to be posted around 14:00 UTC - search around then and upvote once it appea
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by mocko 10y ago
In the UK there's something seriously wrong with the IT jobs market. On the job sites (TotalJobs is my go-to example) literally 99% of DevOps positions on any given day are being advertised through recruitment agencies. I was forced
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by mocko 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES. I'm a senior/lead DevOps with 15 years experience tuning & hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for something new. I work closely with developers th
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How people 'of no security interest' are keystrokes away in UK's spy databases(theregister.co.uk)
65 points by mocko 10y ago|6 comments
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US congressman calls for investigation into phone network vulnerability(theguardian.com)
1 points by mocko 10y ago|0 comments
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by mocko 10y ago
Trust issues with the founders (Skype hardly had a great privacy record); inability to build own APK (because only the crypto is open source) means you can't be sure the code on GitHub is what you're really running.
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by mocko 10y ago
I figured someone would say that. I want actual cross-device, not Signal's weird "link your phone up to your MacBook" solution. So not Signal as it presently stands. Also (last time I checked; maybe it has improved) Signal&
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by mocko 10y ago
Telegram user here. I'm not anti-bot but puh-lease, spend this money on audited open-source crypto and secret-by-default chats rather than gimmicks like 'stickers' (yuk) and rewards for promising bots. I want a messaging app
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by mocko 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Consultancy, London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES. I'm a DevOps consultant with 15 years experience hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for interesting new projects. I work closely with develope
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by mocko 11y ago
What we see here is (or should be) darwinism in action. Companies that become balkanized, politicized and resistant to change are infficient, prone to catastrophes and easily disrupted by (hi HN!) the startup crowd. In the past I've h
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Snoopers' Charter – A History(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by mocko 11y ago|0 comments
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UK Snoopers' Charter Crashes Through Critics into the Next Level(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by mocko 11y ago|0 comments
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UK Investigatory Powers Bill Second Reading – Streaming from 12:00 UTC(parliamentlive.tv)
4 points by mocko 11y ago|0 comments
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The IP Bill: A Letter to My MP(mocko.org.uk)
5 points by mocko 11y ago|2 comments
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by mocko 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Consultancy, London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES. I'm a DevOps consultant with 15 years experience hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for interesting new projects. I work closely with develope
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by mocko 11y ago
Yes, patching your OS (e.g. an apt-get update + apt-get upgrade) then rebooting once the vendor has released patches should be sufficient.

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