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by motters 12y ago
What irked me about this article was the author's immediate need to declare his love of Marxism and "Marxist-powered technology". It's a reminder of how entrenched the current ideology is and how people feel they must a
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by motters 12y ago
If someone makes a spurious allegation against you then I think you should defend yourself as much as possible, including via tweets or any other communication channels. Refuse to go quietly into the night.
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by motters 12y ago
I had a similar experience on Wikipedia some years ago. I did some research for a couple of articles, but unfortunately it all got deleted, at which point I thought that further engagement wasn't worth the effort.
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Reclaiming The Jargon File(github.com)
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by motters 13y ago
The employer is not "sponsoring your learnings", they're purchasing your time and labour (if you're a regular employee). What you do outside of the scope of the contract of employment is your own.
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by motters 13y ago
My attitude towards complaints about open source projects is that if you think the errors are rudimentary then just submit some patches. If there is not enough test coverage then add one. This applies especially if you believe that the pr
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by motters 13y ago
Any of the free Dyn users which this affects: move to freedns.
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by motters 13y ago
I found it shocking when I first learned about it. Previously I had thought that articles featuring in the news were actual journalism, not just copy and pasted stuff from company press releases. It changed my view of what the news is.
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by motters 13y ago
Also see http://churnalism.com/ More news is really just crudely rehashed or verbatim press releases by particular companies than you might think.
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by motters 13y ago
That's surprising because at least in my case I discovered when I was a teenager that boozing and coding don't mix. Even small amounts of alcohol make it hard for me to concentrate on any amount of programming, and so that is why
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by motters 13y ago
I also liked the fact that this is hosted using Mediagoblin.
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by motters 13y ago
Why would anyone trust a public random source? It may be truly random, but it can also be completely recorded such that if anyone uses this as a random source and the timestamp is known then the encryption can be broken.
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by motters 13y ago
It's amusing and attractively concise, but I don't know if it would really be legally valid. It seems to me that there are two options. Either you want public software to remain public, in which case use a copyleft license, or y
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by motters 13y ago
Probably a more relevant poll would be a random sample of the US public. Here it's not at all surprising that the verdict will be overwhelmingly "hero".
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by motters 13y ago
Having been through recruitment processes in the recent past I totally agree that it's lousy. It can be hard for good people to get hired simply because of the hoops, nonsense and clueless HR processes.
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by motters 13y ago
The main problem here is ISPs as a bottleneck. Longer term we need to figure out how to bypass the bottlenecks, which seem to be increasingly acting as points of political control and surveillance. Such a project would need to have a lega
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by motters 13y ago
It soon begins to become infeasible. Unless you can identify when these quantum attacks are occurring and block them this is really more of a political problem than a technical one.
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by motters 13y ago
As outlined in the NSA recruitment audio, the term "adversary" includes everyone - not just terrorists. There is nobody who is not considered to be an "adversary", so that includes commercial rivals too.
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by motters 13y ago
For anyone interested in this the Eden Medina book provides some historical background. I think eventually that Cybersyn will be viewed as an early attempt at post-capitalist economics in which resources are efficiently managed in real tim
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by motters 13y ago
Yes. All of that usually happens when totalitarian regimes fall. These systems are made and run by people, so they can be remade or disbanded if they are no longer wanted. For now it's probably useful to concentrate upon emphasising
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by motters 13y ago
Having been a programmer in tech companies in the UK for a long time I agree about the low status, but I've only rarely encountered bad behavior by managers (mistakes and bad decisions, yes. Bullying not so much). My experience is tha
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by motters 13y ago
Unlike perhaps a decade ago I don't really care about Microsoft today. They're irrelevant to my life, and I don't use any of their software. If anyone recommended using a proprietary Microsoft system I'd respect their
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by motters 13y ago
Mass surveillance isn't inevitable, it's a political decision and a decision which is reversible. PRISM and Xkeyscore didn't invent themselves - they took money and manpower and above all political will to come to fruition.
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by motters 13y ago
You don't need to speculate because there already is a model for post-scarcity economics in the form of free and open source software. The free software economy is more like an economy of attention or allegiance. It has sometimes bee
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by motters 13y ago
Agree. Although a lot of the news is about NSA, and very American-centric, this is really a global problem. Not many people pay attention to blacked out web sites unless it's Google or Facebook.
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by motters 13y ago
I'm not sure that companies are the answer here, because companies suffer from The Levison Problem. Some goons show up with a gagging order and attach a "special box" to the server or implement some other kind of intercept i
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by motters 13y ago
Thanks for the information about this. I didn't know that md5 was quite that easy to fool. The hashes have been duly changed to using sha256sum. I'll file bug reports for any md5 hashes that I see in future.
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by motters 13y ago
I'd say the opposite about switching companies. If you want to make sure that you have no new ideas and increasing tunnel vision with regard to other aspects of life then stay in the same job for long periods of time doing the same th
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by motters 13y ago
Good points. Thanks. I used md5sum mainly because it was given on the original sites from which software was downloaded, but if sha256sum is more unique then I'll use that instead. Although there are some systems where I'm famil
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by motters 13y ago
The image probably needs to be smaller or the license text placed somewhere else.

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