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by rodgerd 5y ago
Depends whether the spyware ends up with you being cut to pieces with a hacksaw while a Saudi prince watches over a teleconference link, I guess. I'd rather be blown up.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> regardless of your allegiances and whether you like or dislike that they do this and whether it's objectively good or evil or somewhere in between, you have to admit that it's deeply technically impressiv Might as well praise
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Ideally, log4j should not have the ability to make "outgoing calls" right? If it's in the application execution context, it will have the same abilities. If your middleware needs to make calls to third-parties, and it us
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Yep. Being able to buy processors that don't trigger Oracle's core-count licensing (for example) but be able to vary cores on and repurpose them in the general VM farm is a thing that I have been very keen on in a past life. It&#x
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Why didn't older languages get this far? People are talking about Linus' opinions of some other languages, but more importantly the Rust folks have been prepared to put in a lot of work to meet Linus' concerns. You'
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> IT people and engineers get lazy. Companies do not change their whole strategy from a capex-driven traditional self-hosting environment to opex-driven cloud hosting because their IT people are lazy; it is typically an exec-level decisi
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by rodgerd 5y ago
HomeKit compatibility is a useful proxy for local API, since it's a hard requirement for HomeKit certification.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> If the C-suite can’t handle that, you’ll never be agile. My experience is that the problems are typically: 1. Finance. Market targets, multi-year budget projections, "you promised business benefits from project delivery in Q3.&quo
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by rodgerd 5y ago
You have a higher opinion of people than I do. I've had someone threaten to kill me because he was trying to barge through a zebra crossing while I was on it, and he felt the need to get out of his car and have a go in person because I
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> This man was a senior developer yet this quote sounds like it comes from a nine year-old. Tech has a contempt culture problem, and this can be one manifestation of it: feeling that being moderately bright about getting computers to do
731.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Every few years he retires, and then comes back. He won't really retire until he's dead, I suspect, or so ill he's no longer capable of working. He can't not tell stories.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Several people have tried on the scheduler front. Sometimes for more than a decade. What it gets them is relentless hostility, contempt, and eventually deciding that it's easier to give up. If you knew anything about Linux history you&
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Why not just do the cloud server instead? Having explored this previously in the context of this (which was mostly vapourware when I looked at it a couple of years back) and the Azure equivalent: 1. Regulatory requirements. 2. There ar
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Could it be possible to shove the linux kernel under the Haiku userland? One of the joys of the BeOS kernel is that it is optimised to be extremely responsive to interactive, graphical workloads. The Linux kernel is not.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Some also: 1. Scan the HDMI content and send information back to the mothership to help vendors know what you're watching. 2. Scan the local network for shares and look at media on them, again to send back to the mothership.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
That's part of the push for 5G - the idea that it becomes much easier to have many more devices, hence you can drop a modem anywhere.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Because then the company has a financial incentive to reduce call-outs and overtime.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Lots of other fields have on calls or out of work expectations. Yes, and in many of them there are call-out fees and overtime. Programmers and sysadmins have convinced themselves that, as "professionals" they are not aligned
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Is there ever going to be a movement towards these car companies going back to physical controls for this stuff? Mazda and Honda already are: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/honda-and-mazda-ditch-touchscre...
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Yes, and it shows how US[1] interpretations of the constitution and general lawmaking hasn't really evolved. It's one thing to say, "you're in public, deal with it" when (say) taking a photo of me and publishing it
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It would be interesting to send these things to whatever the equivalent to NZ's office of the privacy comissioner is, for example, which would probably lead to sound oversight (until pressure to replace privacy-focused staff with compl
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It makes it a nothingburger. Your Israeli barista has past involvement with the security forces. In and of itself it's basically a meaningless statement.
743.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Valid point - I was primarily talking to Israeli Jewish citizens from that perspective.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It appears that the Mozilla project is not just copying Chrome's look and feel for browser releases, but also copying Google's strategy of launching things and then abandoning them.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
NSO have started threating to release dirt on Israeli politicians because they are unhappy that the Israeli government isn't covering for them.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Well, that's one way of outing yourself as someone who knows literally nothing about modern computer security.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Every Israeli citizen, except religious extremists, serves in the IDF or equivalent; if you look useful to the intelligence apparatus, that's where you'll end up. You literally cannot find an Israeli company that isn't founde
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by rodgerd 5y ago
The cool kids who are a lot braver about their house burning down or local grid problems being blamed on them that I am.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
The biggest problem - across a lot of fronts - was that we abandoned the idea of consistency and rooting these things in research. The original success of the Mac interface was rooted in the HIG which provided rigorous, clear, and (at least
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by rodgerd 5y ago
This is built-in to Olympus cameras and has been for years.

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