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by spondyl 3y ago
https://github.blog/2023-05-16-addressing-githubs-recent-ava...
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by spondyl 3y ago
I work at a place that has unlimited PTO. I quite enjoy my job and have a nice amount of balance. That said, I definitely still have the mindset of "I'll save all of my ammo for the final boss" which is dumb because it's
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by spondyl 3y ago
Every time this pops up, I'm reminded of the day that the NPM registry started returning 418 responses for users accessing it via corporate HTTP proxies. I remember being at a training course that day and my manager asking me what we c
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by spondyl 4y ago
> Can a company go to prison or get the death penalty? In theory, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution
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by spondyl 4y ago
Anxiously, I would almost say "No one important cares"? In my experience, the further up the org chart you are, the less likely you are to use Slack directly, instead deferring to assistants or at least only posting announcements
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by spondyl 4y ago
> Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt appearing on CNBC once said "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." It's always funny when Eric Schmidt say
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by spondyl 4y ago
My parents are in the same boat. Revoking it assumes the user even has a mental model of what a notification is. That is: Something that you can opt out of or even necessarily that they gave permission in the first place. I suppose it'
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by spondyl 4y ago
> These are not the people anyone in their right mind, or HR container, would want to fire. I'm being facetious here but this is in line with what I would expect from an organisation that continually reaches for automation over huma
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by spondyl 4y ago
The URL parameter for seeing a time seems to be hardcoded assuming you're in America? If I put in the suggested placeholder time of 11:38am (it is 2:12pm NZT at the time of writing), the timer tells me that the starting time is actuall
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by spondyl 4y ago
I believe $54k is for salaries in general across all industries. Mercedes is not a tech company so no reason to assume the discussion is about software salaries
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by spondyl 4y ago
The commenter is referring to the following talk by the same author as the document: https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/ Slime molds are a type of organism that can expand quickly as each entity within the mold is indepe
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by spondyl 4y ago
> as far as I can tell I assumed we were non-compliant as nothing had changed like no accounts or license keys. It turns out it's more of a cover license where you purchase seats but from a developer PoV, nothing visibly changes. Pr
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by spondyl 4y ago
A fairly interesting paper is "Transparency is Surveillance" which argues that transparency is not inherently good and that for expertise to flourish, it needs some level of privacy. The author presented the same findings as a tal
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Tell HN: Travis CI is seemingly compromised (once again)
160 points by spondyl 4y ago|53 comments
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by spondyl 4y ago
Your content is federated but your account is not so in order to actually perform actions, you need to make calls back to your home instance. In a literal sense, your username and password / authentication tokens live on that server an
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by spondyl 4y ago
So as I understand it, Mastodon is a Ruby on Rails web server that speaks to other instances using the ActivityPub protocol in a technical sense. You register with a given Mastodon instance which speaks ActivityPub to other servers which ma
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by spondyl 4y ago
> Most metric systems include tags, which allows you to have infinite dimensions of data correlation at your finger tips. Unfortunately with most SaaS metric services, your credit card does not scale to support infinite dimensions of dat
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by spondyl 4y ago
There's a lot of nutty stuff under the hood like ensuring that covers are sized optimally for each device, which often have their own aspect ratios, DPIs and what not. It also does a lot of database management ie; for Kobo, inserting t
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by spondyl 4y ago
Ironically I worked for Mercedes-Benz without a drivers license. One of the perks was that you could lease a vehicle at a high discount, which I never did of course.
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by spondyl 4y ago
> Is part of the story missing on how google eventually accepted the fake dmca requests? There isn't really a story here. YouTube just kind of blindly accepts any and all DMCAs regardless of whether the claimant has legitimate owner
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by spondyl 4y ago
Does anyone else have any other interesting court case filings to share, off the top of their head, that documents the evidence trail used to unmask litigants?
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by spondyl 4y ago
> If we really want to make products that users are happy with, we need to teach executives how to achieve it, not SREs. SREs shouldn't be driving the bus from the back row. They should be rotating the tires and checking the fuel an
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Do demo iPads have a canonical owner?(utf9k.net)
2 points by spondyl 4y ago|0 comments
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by spondyl 4y ago
A reminder that the idea of a carbon footprint originated from BP as a way to shift blame to the consumer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint > The use of household carbon footprint calculators originate
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by spondyl 4y ago
As someone who works at a company that used Heroku (I shut down our relatively dormant account) and Travis CI, this was a fun exercise. This is not exactly related to the topic but in the course of this wider fiasco, we actually uncovered a
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by spondyl 4y ago
The saying "Cheap is expensive" comes to mind
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by spondyl 4y ago
Presumably they were created some time ago and/or Github created them internally. They're hardcoded links that appear as comments in the actions yml file template and have probably existed for quite some time.
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by spondyl 4y ago
Annoyingly, the CodeQL analysis github actions make use of git.io as a short link to relevant documentation inside action comments. Even right now, the action is still using git.io so regardless of this advisory, that seems like something t
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by spondyl 5y ago
I'm guilty of this, as I have my prompt set to a single > character. I'd be interested to know where the $ as a representation for user input suggestion originated from. I didn't know about # indicating that a command shou
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by spondyl 5y ago
The short history is that Evernote spent the early part of the 2010s expanding its portfolio into products that didn't really serve its core offering such as Evernote Food and Evernote Hello as well as other distractions. They should h

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