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abwizzon We always end up with waterfall

Look, we already catered to your "corrections" of the full spec here, here, there and then. surely this is work on our side that comes on top of the work we agreed upon. thing is, we already built the x, y and z features that your current solution is lacking, which already saves you top dollar on your business workflows. that's how good we are.

abwizzon Fairphone 5

counterpoint from a euro, born around when linux came out.

using an iphone for 5y+ and have never recieved or sent an imessage.

abwizzon Fairphone 5

> You can't reasonably change or revoke your PIN.

i can, have, and will

> Your device is likely covered in your fingerprints.

true, fingerprints are not (a) secret

abwizzon Fairphone 5

not really

i know a handful of ppl that have phones above 500euros, but most don't because they have other priorities or kids that might wreck it

abwizzon Fairphone 5

i call bs

headphone jack can be made watertight no problem

abwizzon Fairphone 5

it's subject to interference, uses more battery and will just not work if you really need it.

anecdote: had a ten year old premium car with "bluetooth" but could not manage to pair it with anything - supposedly the used bt-standard is outdated or something

abwizzon Fairphone 5

> It's almost twice of what I deemed to be a reasonable limit for a phone.

true. and it's not like 100g smartphones weren't possible ten years ago

abwizzon FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

now that's a relief

abwizzon Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)

> I'm totally shocked this has not been previously address.

same same

i rekon there is more going on

abwizzon Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)

> Most terminal applications use buffered I/O for password entry

does the existance of this patch implicate that openssh does not behave that way?

abwizzon Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness

not sure about your requirements, but pretty happy over here that nowadays i can just mount sshfs within wsl and access this from windows explorer without any special hacks.

abwizzon HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

imho rhel is a close second, but bsd's being vastly less complex inherently means less assumptions and changes and more robustness

abwizzon HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

seconded

process list and mount table on oldschool unixes "fit's in head" conveying familiarity and trust while laying a foundation for security

abwizzon Common mistakes in salary negotiation

thx

abwizzon The EU's war on behavioral advertising

i think parent was refering to growing wealth inequality. the average might be fine.

abwizzon The EU's war on behavioral advertising

exactly

and top is complaining that his industry was instead given unholy ammounts of money to agrue that it isn't.

abwizzon FreeBSD on Firecracker

althou it came with linux binary compat (of unknown quality) i think the solaris thing was just too off putting for most customers and the company did not do very well

abwizzon FreeBSD on Firecracker

i read it like "military grade" meaning it's on the side of over-provisioned/-engineered and will not break in obvious ways

abwizzon Crypto has ‘amplified financial risks’ in emerging markets, central banks warn

don't discount the lucky 10k so easily

https://xkcd.com/1053/

abwizzon No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy

no turn it around

your phone just broke/stolen/lost, do you forfeit your right to enter these places and use their services some of which might be "essential"?

abwizzon SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017)

https://sci-hub.st/

you're welcome

abwizzon Unix is both a technology and an idea

the nature of a thing does not change with the perspective

abwizzon Common mistakes in salary negotiation

> This kind of strategy seems a bizarre one for a company. "Let's figure out how to systematically pay our employees less than they're really worth."

so we established that the revenue of the company belongs to the employees that worked for it, but the company has to skimm at least the operating costs before payout as otherwise it would make a loss.

but most companies have an obligation to make profit, so there is no other way than to pay the employees less than what they're worth (because increasing revenue would also increase the value of employees accordingly)

please tell me where i'm wrong

abwizzon Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts

lol'd there

once the code gets more elaborate, syntax highlighting and the likes do indeed make ones life easier

abwizzon Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts

iirc ahk has a recording mode too; it's the feature of modifying what was recorded to make more robust and useful

abwizzon Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

hmmm, ok

dunno whats going on there but an iphone photo with 12MP (3024x4032) is clocking in at 2-3MB.

iirc windows started compressing screenshots by default with 98SE

abwizzon Transactions in a Microservice World

probably most

abwizzon Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

50MB screenshot sounds excessive

abwizzon Unix is both a technology and an idea

yet the existance of these api's serves as an example as to why android can be classified as a unix

abwizzon uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox

because the operating system can't see what's going on inside the connection or even know about the semantics of individual elements, the user-agent does that.

the value of dns/ip level blocking is diminishing as resource density per host increases due to ipv4 shortage and should be completely inpractical with ipv6 due to adress space size.