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The First Amendment in the age of disinformation(nytimes.com)
3 points by tytso 6y ago|2 comments
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by tytso 6y ago
Even for a democratic country, the problem is that sometimes it takes too long for "Truth to win out". We're seeing this more and more with social media and "anyone can publish" combined with the speed of the inte
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by tytso 6y ago
It's fine (and a good thing) for everyone to have a deep understanding about how the rules work and to have opinions about how the rules _should_ work. This is true whether you are talking about the current state of anti-trust laws a
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by tytso 6y ago
This is boilerplate which you'd also find at other companys as well. In fact, the language was almost identical to what I saw at IBM. General counsels at big companies share "best practices" at their own conferences dedica
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by tytso 6y ago
There are ways to raise issues related to product safety that don't potentially leave you in the very uncomfortable position of being a witness in a court proceeding. (Trust me, this is not going to be a pleasant experience, so if yo
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by tytso 6y ago
If you must leave a paper trail, you send it to the product counsel and to the technical lead with the heading that this is privileged communication for the purpose of getting legal advice. (At least in the US; the legal situation around
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by tytso 6y ago
Oh.... and if you are sure that your product has flaws that might cause people to get killed, or cause medical information to be inappropriately leaked, etc., the proper path is to schedule a meeting with your team lead and the product coun
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by tytso 6y ago
I don't see what the point of the article might be (except as click bait to get ad views, of course). I had exactly the same training when I worked at IBM, every year. "Never talk about dominating the market", yadda yadda
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by tytso 6y ago
This is not a new startup strategy. VA Linux Systems, which had the dubious honor of having the largest "pop" on its IPO day, and signalling the end of the dot.com boom, was selling x86 Linux servers to its customers (including
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by tytso 6y ago
One challenge about hiring new employees to work remotely. I think many tech companies have managed to make work from home work mostly (modulo issues with kids who can't go to school, etc.) have been successful because the team build
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by tytso 6y ago
The US Army leadership asked the Red Cross to start charging. The problem was the Red Cross was only giving free donuts to US soldiers, and this was causing the other nations' soliders fighting on the Allied side to be upset. Appar
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by tytso 6y ago
Well, he also said that the ad content also has to match the platform, and that can be very time dependant --- what didn't work 3 months ago might work now, and vice versa. So that argues for a huge number of iterative experiment, mea
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by tytso 7y ago
All of our meetings at Google are using GVC (aka Google Meet from gSuites), and while there are people who have reported problems (mostly in low bandwidth situations and/or using Firefox), my experience is that it is quite reliable. I
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by tytso 7y ago
That's not true; you can use "sudo" to get root access on gLinux desktops and servers.
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by tytso 7y ago
There's an assumption which this article makes which is not true; namely, that the only utilities which do (or should) use ioctl's are system programs like ipconfig which are shipped with the kernel. There are other programs, li
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by tytso 7y ago
Publishers front nearly all of the deelopment costs of the book --- e.g., the advance, the printing costs, whatever editing work that gets done, etc. Publishers don't have to pay all of these costs; they could make the authors front
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by tytso 7y ago
The FT article makes it much more clear: "But Alphabet decided the opportunity to greatly disrupt to energy sector had begun to dwindle. While Makani at first felt it could provide a competitive advantage by using its technology
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Bryan Cantrill on Engineering Performance Management(twitter.com)
28 points by tytso 7y ago|0 comments
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by tytso 7y ago
There was a time when some people thought that it was just fine to use MD5 and SHA1. Yarrow-160, a random number generator devised by Kelsey, Schineier, and Ferguson, used SHA1. Entropy tracking was used in the original versions of PGP b
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by tytso 7y ago
I actually thought that was a bit unfair. Is it a misuse to use three times as much concrete as is strictly necessary? That would make the Empire State Building a "misuse" of concrete. Even if you aren't doing Empire Sta
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by tytso 7y ago
Yes, and Linux has done it for years. The problem is whether or not RDRAND should be trusted in the absence of sufficient estimated entropy that it should be used to unblock the CRNG during the boot process. This is what CONFIG_RANDOM_TRU
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by tytso 7y ago
Hardly; the first version of this patch series was from August 2019 (which is before the brouhaha caused by ext4 getting optimized and causing boot-time hangs for some combinations of hardware plus some versions of systemd/udev), and t
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by tytso 7y ago
There may be good reasons to try going to another company rather than Google. If you've only been promoted once in six years, especially straight out of college --- that's not a normal career trajectory, and so it's probably
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by tytso 7y ago
The Acer C720 used a 3.8 Linux kernel, as documented at [1]. Updating to a new kernel would have required a full QA of the hardware to make sure that the device drivers in a newer kernel still worked correctly with that hardware. [1] https
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by tytso 7y ago
So if Google can't understand what is reputable site or not, how do you expect the average user to figure it out? I tell my parents they should never-never-never download random binaries from a web site. The last time my Dad did it,
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by tytso 7y ago
I'm not sure why people are so worried about the size of the executable file here. If the runtime.pclntab table is never[1] used then it won't be paged into memory, and disk space is mostly free these days. [1] Well, hardly _ever
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by tytso 7y ago
The article talks about "free and open source" software in its text, so it's clear that "free" is referring to FSF version of free. But then it talks about distributing binaries. Cry my a river; most FOSS can and
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by tytso 7y ago
Note that you get an e-mail either saying that your vote was accepted, or that your vote was rejected and why (bad GPG signature, unrecognized GPG key, mangled ballot, etc.) So if someone screws up, they know and can resend. Also, you'
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by tytso 7y ago
Linux has to support multiple architectures, and it's a pain in the tuckus to add conditional support for different CPU architectures which might or might have AES acceleration, using different CPU instructions. Linux does have support
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by tytso 7y ago
Sure, and that's why we still have the entropy pool in Linux. It's where we do the mixing. My apologies if I didn't understand the point you were making. And yes, I would love to see us adding more entropy sources in the f

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