It would be nice to have native ZFS encryption. I currently use ZFS on Linux on top of a LUKS container. I’m not quite bold enough to add in the encryption patches and use that on my primary data store yet. :)

Someone should make an equivalent that allows communicating with axolotls through your screen, Cortazar style.

There’s one on eBay for $10k without the monitor or software. There are no completed ones on eBay so who knows how much one of these would actually go for. I had never heard of this until now.

If I thought that the advertisers who keep trying to buy space on my blog (for link spam mostly) actually read my blog I might consider doing this.

I haven’t had ads on my blog in over a decade. I’ve been meaning to remove the Facebook Page/Twitter widgets too when I get around to my redesign, since I’m pretty much giving both companies free information with them.

If you feel paralyzed when an interviewer asks you how you see yourself in five years, remember she doesn’t want you to read the future, she wants to learn about your motivation and goals.

And yet, she doesn’t ask you “what’s your motivation and what are some goals?”. Also, she’s looking out for red-flags like “well, my mother-in-law is getting old and we might have to move back across the country next year to look after her, so I’m just looking for something in the interim”. Which is a totally, 100% legit (and compassionate, and honest) thing to tell the interviewer. But, let’s be honest: don’t tell the interviewer that, they all want to hear that you’re looking to make a long term impact working on whatever BS run-of-the-mill project/team/company they’re interviewing you for. Tell them the mother-in-law story and you won’t be making it to the next round.

Edit: Very little of this, to me, is “how to pretend you have social skills”. It covers some specific interactions with some people you might encounter in a software job, in situations that are highly-specific to software jobs and in particular (I think, from the article) junior developers.

Edit edit: I feel I have been a bit snarky. I don’t want to knock the post too hard: clearly effort and thought went into it. But I’m not sure what the takeaways are. Some of it’s “don’t be nervous in interviews”, some of it’s “I (the author) am a good interviewer”, some of it’s “understand the dynamics of working with the angry senior tech lead” (which is good advice). But… coulda been bullet points?

When I was in University, I remember our server room in the CS department had those massive/think books on X11 programming.

It’d be interesting to see a minimal X11 window manager vs a minimal Wayland composer. Although the compose is a lot more, correct? It’s not only the wm, but drawing/buffering to the screen right?

Thanks for painting the picture. I knew about the same bits and pieces of this problem but never really grasped it.

This should be fixable, no? I might hack at it this weekend. Or this evening because it’s bugging me now.

If you want secure and rather fast x86, look at Opterons 62xx and 63xx. They are still pretty fast and not vulnerable to many CVE’s. Coupled with Coreboot, they make for a nice desktop or a server.

If you want something faster, more secure and are not limited to x86, POWER9 with Talos II motherboard is a great choice.

I recently setup my own tt-rss instance after getting tired of the commercial natures of Newsblur and Feedly (I even had a Newsblur subscription at one point).

tt-rss is pretty nice and I even get all my YouTube channel subscriptions through it.

There’s also feed.json that serves the same purpose but using JSON instead of XML

https://jsonfeed.org

Isn’t ublock origin independent from ublock ?

Aren’t they two vastly different tools ?

This is just the most amazingly Sisyphean project I’ve ever encountered. They’re never, ever going to hit their goal; and yet, they keep cranking away.

Yeah, I know someone who runs a keyserver and they are getting absolutely sick of responding to the GDPR troll emails.

Love the idea to use activitypub (the same technology involved in mastadon) for keyservers. That’s really smart!

Huh. Why do people think open offices are meant to increase interaction? The only reason for open offices is a lack of floor real estate. I’ve been stuck in them for over six years because I’ve only really taken work in cities.

Do managers actually believe the lie that it makes people more productive? I use to hate the cube, so much, but open offices are a new layer of hell.

I really hate this as well. I still drive a 5spd … in America. I feel like that’s becoming incredibly rare. There is something that feels really good about using every appendage, and driving being a fully engaging experience.

My favorite in-dash units are probably the Pioneers. They have decent navigation and they have the most useful functions (volume, switch track) as physical buttons. A friend of mine had a Cherokee and her stock in-dash unit was awful. There is no fucking reason air-con and the heated seats should be in a touch screen interface. Those should be physical buttons you can reach for without fumbling.

I also hate the Audi climate controls … buttons to move the temperate up and down?! .. and you have to look down to watch it? Compare that to the Subaru’s where is’a physical dial you can adjust super fast once you’re use to it.

Any example of a situation in which creating commits like this helps?

I understand that this might be serious, but it seriously reads like a parody of techie gear-obsession. GUIs (including vi) were invented for a reason, and though you don’t need to like them, when I read that “the file system is likewise adequate for organizing ones work if the user works out a reasonable naming convention” I can’t help but think of someone who exclusively uses a typewriter or someone else who uses only paper and fountain pen saying the exact same thing. And of course such people do exist, which makes the entire idea of claiming something extremely high up on the ladder of relative complexity is “adequate if the user is reasonable” rather silly.

Here is the blog post on their main page:

https://gentoo.org/news/2018/06/28/Github-gentoo-org-hacked.html

Doesn’t seem like anything major was compromised for people who run Gentoo (like myself ^_^).

I worked in Identity Management for a University at one point in my life. There are several things wrong going on here.

Looks like he had a peaceful termination (contract just ended) so the systems locked him out slowly. That seems right, but the fact that this was irreversible is insane. Contractors came and went at the University, as well as associate professors, adjuncts, etc. We had a pretty complex system for ensuring no person got two accounts. If anyone left, the account is always disabled and always kept.

Even if they are just a student and graduated 8 years ago, so long as HR gets the same SSN and DOB as their old student account, we just reactivated their old student account (although it would have had student removed and alumni added) and add a staff or faculty role to it. If a new account had the same name and birthday of another account, but different SSN, it’d get flagged for us to look at it manually (we had rules for similar names, reversed months/days on birthdays and other rules to try to catch things). Sometimes we’d find someone got two accounts by accident and we’d have to go through the painful process of trying to merge them.

If someone was fired, we used a “kill bit,” which would lock them out of nearly everything in less than an hour. It was something we were very careful with, because if that happened, you lost your SIDs and all your roles on most of the systems. That was a bitch to reverse if we needed to, but it was still doable (although you’d probably be requesting all the permissions you needed for about a week).

We used Novell’s IDM to push things downstream, but all the actual identity management integrations and services we wrote ourselves, and we’d always be able to reverse a situation like this in less than a day.

I’m glad the author left that shop. Big companies have so much garbage like this; probably a bunch of off-the-shelf garbage where they handle none of the integration work and have no real IDM team to deal with accounts. There was no reason for this to happen. They should have paid him for those weeks off. He’d have a good case if he went to a labor lawyer. The company would probably just settle.