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by ygjb 5y ago
Some of us still live in functioning democracies. Also, it's worth pointing out that relying on privately owned or publicly traded corporations is not an effective strategy for preserving freedom; those businesses will only do that as
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I will point out that in Canada, many of our telecoms were run by privately operated, publicly owned organizations (Crown Corporations) that operated at arms length. Until they were sold for pennies on the dollar by governments looking to
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Your first two sentences are at odds. It is not mild for everyone if it's dangerous for people who have not been vaccinated.
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Not really. Natural immunity is what anyone who gets vaccinated or infected acquires, assuming that the immune response is successful. Immunity acquired from infection is more regularly referred to as convalescent or infection-induced immun
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There is an ocean of difference between "it's mild because I am vaccinated" and "it's mild", and the bridge across it is being built on the mental and physical well being of our health care providers around the
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It doesn't. The refrain that Omicron is "mild" is being parroted by people who don't understand what they are talking about. In fact, the Omicron variant (like other COVID variants) is relatively mild among individuals
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And that's a reasonable decision for an adult to make, and if they were targeting an adult developer community. I don't think anyone objects to adults making that choice over say, using Unity or Unreal, and targeting other platfor
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That's a fair assessment, but I can tell you that if you run an Acrobat from 7 years ago, you are gonna have a bad time from a security perspective :) I hate subscription models too, but maintaining software takes time and money.
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Congratulations! log4j is to feature rich to satisfy the requirements of your limited experience! The JNDI string expansion and lookups was a pants on head stupid feature, but having highly configurable logging is super helpful when buildi
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I think you are probably misremembering the ease of play with older editions. I have been playing D&D in various iterations, and have older books going back to the original AD&D 1st edition and BECMI box sets and 5e was far easier
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As a D&D player i don't mind paying for physical media, and I don't mind paying for electronic versions of the media that are integrated with D&D Beyond or Roll20. What I find galling is that I have to buy the same content
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2-3 days labour to buy an outdated device that will stop receiving updates most likely in 2022. Sounds alot like Captain Vimes' boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness. Some people are just too poor to be able to buy a pair of good b
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You do realize that is a win from a customer service and reputation perspective? Jetbrains listened to their customers, and amended their model. That is the kind of responsiveness I would appreciate in a vendor, especially if it's
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Depends on how the organization grew, and if they have unified processes across department. AFAIK the IT security folks at a financial institution that I used to work at are living in hell at the moment. That organization grew internationa
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It doesn't hurt actually. During major incidents in my non-remote roles I was expected to be in the office and available for the duration of the active incident, even if I wasn't able to actively contribute (contrary to what folk
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> 99% of these people running around with their hair on fire could have just wrote to a log file with three lines of code. Instead they mvn a whole fucking library for no reason The fact that you think there is "no reason" to
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> With so many large scale hacks, 0-days, and breaches happening these days, are cybersecurity professionals ok? As an industry? We are getting better. Better recognition for neurodiversity, and the needs and capabilities for each othe
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No, they are managing the teams patching things and helping with prioritization. If the stakeholders participating in the call on Monday are not the people working on patching, managing, or prioritizing, then having the call earlier than
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First, the employees don't subsidize shit. If employees have to do extra work to accommodate a colleague who is on leave, whether that leave is due to vacation time, medical leave, parental leave, bereavement leave, or any other reaso
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No. The stakeholders are busy patching their shit. Pulling folks into meetings shouldn't be the priority when teams around the world in virtually every tech organizations are in firefighting mode. This type of a call would likely be
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> The fact is that Microsoft has continuously improved its process for the past fifteen years while being the most exposed company in IT. It's not just that they have continuously improved process, they have also made enormous contr
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Uh, using Adobe as an argument in favour of C++ as a reliable programming language from a memory safety perspective is not a good argument. Just looking at the CVE count tells a story that cuts across their entire product line, and then we
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I mean, it's been a minute (well, actually a bit more than a decade) since I worked in finance, but I don't think I would characterize banks as having top grade security. More like 'barely meets the threshold for compliance w
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I can't speak specifically to IBM as a whole, but in my experience, there are parts of IBM that are old and stodgy (professional services around finance and government that I interacted with when I worked in those industries). There a
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In a walled garden, the ability to for the user to do what they want, where they want is perceived as innovation.
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Now I know Amazon is more stable that most other streaming services, but so far, my Canadian experience has been to have digital purchases of movies I have made be shuffled from one service to another as they fold, or are acquired, with dif
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We know it's a distributor/rights problem, but the core of that problem is the drive to extract as much value as possible. Casual piracy of content drops off a cliff when there is an opportunity to cheaply, and easily access cont
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you might want to loosen that tinfoil hat. Private sector does really well in a lot of spaces, but despite being public infrastructure, most highways and roadworks built in Canada are already built by private sector employees working unde
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I'm sorry, I didn't realize that the EU was impacted by a massive critical infrastructure failure induced by a natural disaster. Like I said, this isn't a discussion or debate about COVID restrictions, and while it sucks that
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The overall tone of the thread is about logistics in a port city that is the main port of entry to Canada. Individually, the testing requirements are very disruptive, but it's one less issue that may have impacted supply chains within

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