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by zentiggr 7y ago
> Yet they still expect these websites to exist. I for one certainly don't have that expectation. I understand sites have non-zero operating costs, and/or staffing and other expenses in order to create and serve interesting co
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by zentiggr 7y ago
This! ^^^ (I know I should have something substantial to add, so: Everybody hear this, this is the reason for HTTPS Everywhere, all communications encrypted by default in all possible channels 24/7/365.)
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by zentiggr 7y ago
First I've heard of the technique, that is amazing. Makes me consider getting back to lower level coding again, even just test code, just to see it in action.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Reread the part about the IFF - GSA gets paid a percentage of their contracts. So the bidding process gets corrupted, ignored, anything and everything the staff can do to inflate the contracts so they get more IFF back. That IFF honestly so
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by zentiggr 7y ago
> not for continuing treatments of the chronically ill So my rheumatologist gets nothing for continuing to monitor and advise and prescribe treatment for my arthritis? Which isn't exactly something I can willpower away... I don&#x2
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Ahh... welcome to the world. You are a cost center. You are a potential legal liability if anything you do could cause the company to have to defend itself. And you may also do great things, and help do awesome corporate projects. But fir
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I think the larger point is, for how long? If Google keeps restricting ad-blocking even further, maybe they'll drop even more privacy options, and dumb down more APIs. Google/Chrome/<all other services> simply do not h
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by zentiggr 7y ago
DuckDuckGo browser with Blockada on Android. Not just web ads, but most app-internal ads, all gone.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
> they could par that back without affecting their ability to operate Sure, but can they? Seems like an ever expanding cash sink, according to those financials...
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The problem becomes how deeply one needs to research before credible facts can be distinguished from agit-prop / disinformation. I can't think of many people I know who have the time to become investigative journalists, in effect.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I think on my sub, it was just assumed that everyone had a green sticker :)
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I'd just like to throw in that as a wargamer for decades, and military history buff in general, this blog is absolutely worth every post. The Gondor and Sparta collections that have been posted were both very illuminating and I look fo
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by zentiggr 7y ago
This is entirely backward from actual security principles. Any increase in the number of people involved in a security related decision multiplies the chance that bad decisions/compromises will happen. Cf the definition of compartmenta
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Maybe some very few, or 'a glass a day' type consumption, sure. I've seen alcoholic withdrawal and it's not pretty. Drying out from a real addiction can need medical attention.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I think the general sense of people's objections aren't to the medications themselves, it's to the repeated revelations of just how determinedly companies lied and bribed and incentivized the use of opioids. I for one would l
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by zentiggr 7y ago
And now I need to go check my blood pressure again. Worked in enough safety-necessary environments (military weapon handling, warehouses, shipyard) that the very idea of deliberately whitewashing a possible failure just makes me angry. Less
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by zentiggr 7y ago
LibreOffice.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
And then Equifax gets breached. When does infosec start to realize that it's not just about company costs/risks, but the lives of all those users who are going to get screwed when your 'low risk = cheap fix' mentalit
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I heard this morning one of the Reveal team staff interviewing on NPR. Hope this stays in the news.
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Should be almost irrelevant if the mentioned recording with the director is still around. Just play that on the evening news every day until Amazon pays full death benefits and punitive fines to the Terry family. Oh yeah, and arraign the di
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by zentiggr 7y ago
The underlying problem is the perceived benefits vs <s> just a small adjustment of facts </s>. Been going on since humans started businesses. This is why whistleblowers deserve protection above and beyond normal lawsuit si
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Gotcha - 'rearing their ugly heads'... I should slow down and think the thread through every now and then lol
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Old physics joke about using approximations to model a farming problem... "Start with a spherical cow in vacuum, ..."
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by zentiggr 7y ago
"Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler." I have a Google Sheet that lets me track items as calendared, with a priority increasing as the date approaches "done at this time", with a repeat timeframe, and again
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Of course not. The company uses the substandard paint to ensure that there's a future need thus future income. The fac t that the shorter lasting paint is cheaper just gives the company a leverage point in the bidding. Google 'ma
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Wash your mouth out with FROMs :)
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Pretty sure nobody was going to buying surplus/refurb Predators and flying them around the neighborhood. When the recreational/commercial models got range and mass enough to get in the way of aircraft, that's when the first r
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by zentiggr 7y ago
That sounds like white hat hacking from all I've heard of Comcast... Maybe that's how we drive their customer count and revenue down and put them out of business.
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If you don't have a gun, your hands are clearly visible, and you make no threatening actions, the worst they had better do is get you gently into a quiet room and arrange a psych eval. Which dovetails perfectly with the intent of the O
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I'd argue that the orignal sentence was using 'sounds' a bit symbolically, so the clearer interpretations would be closer to "there are no communications I can utter that are dangerous". His point being about the cr

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