thrwaway1985882

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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
> So much this. It's not news this is a thing, it's a problem of a cost -- if there is not way to remotely id a person, remote company has to pay for a flight ticket and is at disadvantage compared to competitor who hires local
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
Anybody can sue anybody, and this someone in your example would likely have standing, so why not? A single person self representing against a company that is essentially one of the largest law firms on the planet, and can outspend them tens
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
I'm bearish on introducing noise[0] to resist traffic analysis, and I'm exceptionally bearish when the only layer managing noise injection is "a for-profit entity that can be legally compelled to do things" But every lay
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
> That does not mean there aren't serious drawbacks that are more worth pointing out such as why bother with a very complex and noisy backdoor when you can just covertly create enough nodes to do traffic correlation. Winner winner c
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
Some of the prior works in this paper[0] address noise in anonymity networks, but in general: you either add noise at the link level which malicious nodes can identify & ignore, or you add noise by injecting fake chaff packets that are
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
Synchronous packet transfer only solves the problem if you build a truly constant rate network. Traffic monitoring works when variances exist; your flow has to be fully homogeneous to provably secure against it. That means in your model y
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
The threat actor most use to talk about this is a global passive adversary: a threat actor who can see all relevant traffic on the Internet but who can't decrypt or adjust the traffic. This adversary would have the ability to ingest
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
You did it, you posted the meme. https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
I've only recently started using AI, and have discovered my use or rejection of it is predicated on my feelings for the task. This argument of "authenticity" really resonates. I'm a manager, so when I'm sending ema
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
Squint enough and you'll see a cellphone consists of two primary chipsets: a main SOC/stack that runs the operating system, and a modem/software stack that pushes cell packets. Power the phone down and you (may) fully shut d
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
"Near a user" is also a big assumption. I'm ~200 miles to ORD and ~500 to IAD, but my ISP's peering & upstream arrangements mean Cloudflare serves my traffic 700 miles from DFW. But, at the same time: Cloudflare isn
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
The vast majority of underperformers I've managed are people who are less motivated to perform, less technically skilled, not aligned to the team, have different values, etc. Almost always the answer is to keep them around and try to
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
> However, deliberately keeping low performers around as a buffer becomes a self-own on a longer time horizon. Smart managers will negotiate hiring exceptions to replace a low performer now rather than keep that headcount occupied for sa
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
This is a great point. Toxicity is entirely orthogonal to performance. And you rarely have to worry about toxic low performers: if you're unlucky enough to hire them, they don't stay around for long. But toxic top performers are
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
> The second mistake they made is assume that companies would prioritize being lean and trimming the mediocre & bottom 5%. There are other considerations, combined productivity is more important than having individual superstars work
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
> the manager said there were some layoffs coming up and he would have been out with those but because of the way things worked it didn't make sense to let him go earlier. Incentives are fucked across the board right now. Move on a
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEDLISPRIPERSQUFEE10900 The median home in the Bethlehem, PA core based statistical area costs $200 per square foot in October 2024. In October 2019, it cost $120 per square foot. I&
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
The median price per square foot in the US is $226[0]. The insanely economically depressed rust belt area where I was born has a median price over $150 per square foot (you do _not_ want to live there). I suspect your mental model of ho
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
Funny enough, those 5 line items are almost precisely how my company manages performance. The only thing I'd highlight here is the importance of salary with scoring/calibration. As your salary changes, the distribution of scores
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
IANAL either, but from what I've read before the courts treat searches of your home with extra care under the 4th Amendment. At least one circuit has pushed back on applying private search cases to residences, and that was for a hote
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
I think it'll prove far more likely that the government creates incentives to lead Google/other providers to fully do the search on their behalf. The entire appeal seems to hinge on the fact that Google didn't actually view t
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
> Show that to someone with no understanding of Apple and it's products, or AI, and you'll have someone equally confused. Apple is selling a magical button that unprofessional idiots can press to be perceived as professional.
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
> I’ve watched that little animation several times, and they tell a better story in a minute twenty-five than all of Apple’s AI commercials combined. If I showed that video to someone who isn't steeped in decades of Linux, I suspect
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
For professional use, the idea of "opening up and upgrading a machine" feels wild . You're either given one by your employer or buying one yourself, and either way, it's on a 5 year deprecation schedule. It's a n
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
What makes a Polaroid any more "real" than an iPhone picture to you? Can any photo truly be real? (Deleuze has some interesting thoughts on the matter)
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
All my x509s for SAML signing are self-signed, and all my self-signed certs live for 9999 days and I plan to let someone else figure out the fallout from that as I'm going to be /retired/. No one has ever really complained.
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
> Let's just say my interaction with managing websites that used SAML was less than pleasant. My interactions supporting it as both the identity provider & the service provider have lead to me being the SAML person at work, and
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
> If you take a step back and look at the things you argue with your significant other about (or anyone else close to you), it's humbling to see how silly it often is. One piece of advice I got from an old family friend when getting
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
Replacing "downloading 2kb of text on a device with minimal technical specs" with "buying a top-end computer to download hundreds of megabytes of video & shove it into an LLM to mangle and hallucinate the message down int
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by thrwaway1985882 2y ago
> Well, tcpdump is explicitely not what you want to do in this case as Moxie points out Why's that? E: oh, if you aren't familiar with OpenBSD I might get the confusion – pflogd/the kernel (not me!) watches the actual netw

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