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Clearly misread the tone of the comment 😃 nvm

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Well there are billionaires that do pump and dump. He just seem a decent human being 😃

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I never felt so close to try NetBSD as after reading this 😃

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If you don’t have to reencode but only concatenate the streams it can be done for your request specifically because it’s not meaningfully more expensive than just serving the content

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The position and length can be randomized, for sure you can throw ai at it… but ai is stupidly expensive… companies that offer AI systems are all operating that business at loss… and no big company would engage in something like this… distilled model on client? Sure… but who trains it? My point is… things can get worse and worse

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Training a combat pilot used to cost (in early 2000, not sure now) 10M€ for a NATO member.

Find me a modern jet that costs so little. Regardless of what politicians say, human life has a price… and it is waaaay below a jet (even including the training)

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Confidentially incorrect: at Google there is no clock in and no clock out (for employees, contractors is different). At Google you can work 1h per day or 20h per day you earn the same. Performances are assessed on the output not on the hour worked.

So, no, find another reason for which Google is right.
Popular topic is “they disrupt other people work by making noise” (of course people can work on a laptop in another place because there is generally no special equipment at the desk but details) or “they destroyed properties… you cannot see in the picture but they destroyed millions of precious bacteria on the floor”

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As far as I heard (but I am not too familiar) the CEO is essentially never in the office.

Also, according to the video, the office is in California. People were arrested (and fired) in NY as well (where there is no such an office).

Yes, insubordination is the key point. But it’s also the key point of a protest. The take away is that Google doesn’t accept a protest (any more?)

Re trespassing: in the Google offices everyone can pretty much go to any office. They realistically didn’t break into but, sure, they were in an office that wasn’t theirs

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A milder version of this is what there is in Switzerland. In Switzerland a person cannot rent an house/apartment that costs more than 1/3 of what they earn.

While clearly there are more and less expensive areas, it kills the race to unreasonable prices (like, let's say, NY or London or... everywhere) and allows essentially everyone to have an house (and who cannot still afford there are social helps but that is for another post)

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I am not Swiss but I have lived here long enough to realise they don’t do that out of simple generosity.

They realise that desperate people do desperate things.

And this jeopardise things that the Swiss value like quietness, not having to worry about crime, etc.

In the end nobody is an island and if someone is desperate the whole society is impacted a bit by that single desperate… a lot of desperate people and the society is impacted a lot by it

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This is funny but not funny. In my 20s this happened to me... I installed herinux but she wasn't happy and I couldn't figure out why 🤷

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Can't remember but at the time I wasn't drinking alcohol... I was a real celebrity at parties 😂😂

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What year is this? 2008?!? Now we have Netflix and piracy is not a problem, right? Oooohhhh right they decided to kill the golden egg chicken but they still want the eggs

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)

Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it....

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Nope, because Facebook app is not a VPN service so it cannot intercept traffic.

What it is unclear from the article is how they circumvented the certificate check on the app side. Probably (given this was many years ago, maybe these apps weren't setupping certificate pinning/HPKP)

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While I see what you are seeing, I think people will just move to the next startup.

Also by Occam’s razor, don’t explain with malice what you can explain with stupidity

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To the part that they were bribed.

I think they are simply in the pipe dream that they will become the new LinkedIn

Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, as internal dissent mounts (www.cnbc.com)

During a keynote speech in New York on Monday from the managing director of Google’s Israel business, an employee in the company’s cloud division protested publicly, proclaiming “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.”...

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Regev then told the crowd, “Part of the privilege of working in a company, which represents democratic values is giving the stage for different opinions.”

Followed by:

A Google spokesperson said the employee was fired

Do I miss any logical step or a managing director just said that Google doesn’t represent democratic values? 🤔🤔

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Except if the severance package is BS and they don’t find enough volunteers (but hey! They tried!) and people get volunteered

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Problem is the amount of money in the fine. The fine is up to 10% of the global turnover for the first time (that is relevant).
But if they get 1% they may just try in keeping in playing chicken with the EU

I don’t think the EU will be fine with this because it would be a precedent for every other big company for all future regulations

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver (www.cbsnews.com)

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

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At least in Europe, passengers jets are new because more fuel efficient at the "normal" speed. These old jets are then transformed in cargo where they go very slow so fuel efficiency goes up by other means (and the old jet is way cheaper).

This was a passenger plane so i doubt it was anywhere close to 50 years old

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Like what? They have servers in Switzerland, they seem competent.

Anything that is based in the US is not privacy friendly by law (at least for not-US citizens, see why US will never be an equivalent country for GDPR)

Anything that is implemented/maintained by incompetent is not privacy friendly by NSA/hackers/you name it

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This! Encrypt at rest with the key handed off to the provider every single time you login is just a PR stunt

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Here we are talking of very debatable definitions of “making sense” tbh

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That's called science... You know the thing that you publish on scientific paper. Nothing to do with lobbying... You know... Giving "donations"

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If you stop putting fuel in your car, the first few miles are very cheap i must say....

U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried | Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting worker... (www.vice.com)

U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried | Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting worker...::Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumers—the NLRB and...

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I hear the general sentiment against billionaire and corporations but from game theory point of view what they are doing is the rational behavior.

The problem is not them doing this, the problem is that the system (judiciary system in this case) is not neutral as it is supposed to be.

The problem, though, is that it's short sighted.
If the workers are abused less and less business opportunities there are.
In other words on the short term the corporations win, on the long term everyone loses.

A single billionaire, overall, can spend less than 1000 millionaires that can spend less than 10 ppl that make 100k/y

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My first not embedded OS! Actually not... It wasn't the hipster "warp"... Boy i am old 😅

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There is a net effect in browsers and in rendering engines especially.

The more people use chrome engine (that is pretty much everyone except Firefox) the more web developers support only Chrome because... Cost/layoffs.

For this reason i make a point in using only FF (except for websites that already don't work with Geko).

Monopolies are not good for anyone (especially with current Google attitude)

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Not the commenter but it seems like the parameters of the HTTP Get/Post weren't protected/checked. The API was likely something like:
Email to reset: string(email account to reset)
But it accepted something like: [string(email account to reset), string (email to which the reset mail is sent to)]

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Bobby table, this, buffer overflow... Are all similar in spirit.

Bobby table is a way for hiding the malicious SQL query after a normal query (in that case after the select with "Bobby" you inject the malicious drop table)

In this case after the normal email (that normally would serve for both identifying the user and for the mail to send the recovering mail), the attacker sends two mails, the first is fo identifying the user the second to send the recovering mail

In the case of buffer overflow you inject malicious code after normal(-ish) data

It's not an XHR attack since for the mail recovery workflow you don't need an authenticated session.

To be a bit more compassionate to the developers, this is probably some dynamic typing problem. Probably ruby is "smart" into understand that an array can contain strings after all... So an array of strings is as good as a string... But here we go into static vs dynamic typing.... And it's a bit of religious war (fun fact in 2011 i was advocating with Guido Van Rossum in having at least an optional static typing check in Python - at the time the discussion was how to make python faster/compiled - and he was borderline mocking me 😅 and few years after pytypes but still no compilation at horizon 😂)

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And the cost to own apple hardware (that is not exactly cheap, even 2nd hand)

'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)

'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers...

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How much I would love if EU pulled a USB-C on printer ink/toner.

“All printers must be compatible with one of these X possible formats of ink/toner. Lockdown is forbidden too”

Sure the printers would be more expensive but I am sure we would see an incredible improvement in quality and decrease in ink/toner cost

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The famous Marxist customer protection

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And Russia. Funny how sometimes you need a small nudge from a military/strategic threat for doing the right thing 🤷

Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. (lemmy.world)

People often ask why I contribute to open source projects or otherwise work on building automated tooling. They see me spending hours to automate a task or fix a bug that take seconds to do or avoid manually, in a way that the original XKCD comic says won't pay off. The disconnect seems to be that the comic and those people only...

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This! The point of automation is rarely saving time.
The point of automation is increasing quality.

It can be a data quality, it can be mitigating a production risk, can be avoiding regression.

Heck even unit tests are automation (you may just manually test your code once and call the day).

I am not saying that automation is always good, but the evaluation should be

  1. what is the cost of production/data quality/regression gone wild? (Possibly in€/$/¥)
  2. what is the cost of the person/team performing the task over 1 Year (Again, £€$¥)
  3. what is the expected cost of the person/team implementing automation?

Then you do (3)*3 - (1) *3 - (2). Is it positive? You do, is it negative you? You don’t. The more it’s positive the higher the priority of doing.

Why the *3?
The first because the expected cost of automation is always massively underestimated
The second because it takes multiple times something goes wrong till the decision is reconsidered 🙂

Why 1 year? Because generally the task to automatize changes or disappear

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This article is totally not sponsored by Apple 🙄🙄🙄

So many BS points

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I am here with my popcorn to see how well this will play for those CEOs.

We are in an age in which getting to a power position is a reality show. You don’t need to know how to do anything, really. It’s enough that you have charisma and trigger emotions (possibly negative emotions, they work better)

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Penalties for DMA is 10% of global turnover for first offense and 20% of global turnover for subsequent offenses and, eventually, further penalties like the prevention to acquire companies.

DMA is not a joke (and I <3 EU, DMA is a very balanced law aggressive on the big player and not impacting small players)

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EU always escalate slowly. Eventually it enforces though (e.g., USB-C, GDPR).

Given the companies are almost all US based and US historically have been very defensive of their businesses (not only in IT) this seems a pretty reasonable approach for avoiding diplomacy escalations.

IMO DMA will be fully enforced in 3-4 years (and collecting some Billions here and there in the process).
First in line for the few initial billions: Meta and Microsoft. We’ll see what comes next

Am I running the risk of getting my Google account banned for logging into the Aurora Store or a custom rom like GrapheneOS?

I guess there is no need to introduce what a Degoogled phone is (or a custom ROM without google services, like GrapheneOS is) and the Aurora Store is basically said in a crude way the Google Playstore but without the need to log in to your Google account, quite useful in my opinion....

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The question is not what Google does now but what it will do in 1month, 1quarter, 1year.

It has been years that more and more petty measures have been taken.

FWIW I would make a spare account

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Next step: “we are a nation of smokers and millions of us smoke daily. We are making the life of these people easier. Stop to the No Smoking areas. If a pregnant woman is present she can go eff herself. Stop to taxes on tobacco.

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