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by rodgerd 6y ago
> If there's a security fix, I'd love to have `apt update` apply that fix for everything, and not worry about verifying that everything that might have statically linked it gets updated too. Although ideally the latter would be
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by rodgerd 6y ago
It only took him a decade to acknowledge that calling for porn in business presentations was a bad idea, so perhaps he'll have changed his opinion in the 2030s.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
Professionalism like... mocking customers' names? On company time? Using company assets to do so?
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by rodgerd 6y ago
> There's a long list of things that would have you packing your desk if you discussed them at any other company. Yeah, like pulling extracts of customer names to circulate and make fun of them. That mis-use of customer data, and t
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by rodgerd 6y ago
The Rails trademark is entirely and exclusively owned by DHH, so whatever you may think, it is in fact, entirely his toy.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
They've lost their iOS development team, but kept the employees who think that spending their work hours pulling customer names from their production environment to make fun of them is a good use of their day. So much winning!
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by rodgerd 6y ago
"Cool, we need to you visit a client site in a country which will murder you for your sexual orientation" is about as political as it gets.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
There is something amusing that the kernel maintainer most outraged by the whole thing is the guy who spends time changing the kernel to cripple OpenZFS.
969.
by rodgerd 6y ago
UML only scratches the surface of how useful PlantUML is. I use it a bunch, both as a Confluence plug-in and in VS Code.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
The Indian government's position is perfectly in line with so-called free speech defenders: they are shutting down illegal content, not applying their own judgement.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
COVID is a catastrophe in India because the government's core is religious extremism and other forms of bigotry, and those have driven its response, including cabinet members promoting folk remedies above vaccines and encouraging lar
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by rodgerd 6y ago
> Official contact tracing in the US is a complete dud and had negligible impact on the spread. People informing their fiends/family “hey I just got Covid you should probably test/isolate” was what practically can make a differ
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by rodgerd 6y ago
It's not defamation if it hasn't been judged so in a court of law.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
Innocent victim of mob justice, Jimmy Saville. Innocent victim of mob justice, Jeff Epstein.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
The standard is "reasonable doubt", not "absolute certainty".
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by rodgerd 6y ago
Yes, I'm sure they'll treat it with the seriousness that they treat the decades-long ignored pile of rape kits.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept" applies here. When a good community permits bad actors, it is no longer a good community.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
Capital gains in the markets I'm familiar with - and this is an international problem - dwarf any rental income. In Auckland, New Zealand, average capital gains exceed $40,000 per month. Land banking is incredibly lucrative.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
> The systemic problem is that investors are buying up residential property inventory, because there is a massive amount of near 0% cash available to a thin slice of the population. This is absolutely a global problem: New Zealand, Austr
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Markingson case: University of Minnesota can't regain trust (2015)(startribune.com)
4 points by rodgerd 6y ago|0 comments
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by rodgerd 6y ago
Because I have zero interest in running attack software.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
Signal is going to start attacking third-party tools once it's installed on your phone. It's as though Theo decided that OpenSSH should respond to portscanners by trying to pwn the source systems.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
> It makes a thinly-veiled threat that any random Signal user's data may actively attempt to exploit their software in the future and demonstrates that it's trivial to do so. That does not make me feel good about Signal.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
The University and researchers involved are now default-banned from submitting. So yes.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
Dunking on individual maintainers for academic bragging rights seems pretty unfair, too.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
This, I think is the bigger story: "Facebook has been under fire not just for providing the means for these massive collections of data, but also the way it actively tries to promote the idea they pose minimal harm to Facebook users. A
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by rodgerd 6y ago
Perhaps Google can give themselves an "Ethics in AI" award, while they're at it.
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by rodgerd 6y ago
For me it's the simple irritation that if I have an AppleTV autoplaying my sleepytime music to my room, or the radio to the kitchen in the morning, and someone else starts using it to watch TV, it replaces all those audio streams. C&#x
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by rodgerd 6y ago
Seems like a sensible choice - one of the things that as cause me to look askance at some of the anti-serverisation (urgh) licenses has been companies trying to bespoke something when the AGPL has always been right there to solve the proble
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by rodgerd 6y ago
If only he were Oprah. More like "Gwyneth Paltrow for bros".

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