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Very common in Italy as well - search Images or Youtube for "finestra tapparelle" for an idea. The sound of tapparelle is super ingrained in many european minds, i.e. https://italybeyondtheobvious.com/taparelle/

They are also good for deflecting debris :)

No worries. Just wanted to make sure I understood.

> More that govt's, in general, have a habit of leaking personal information for their own benefit.

I 100% agree with this.

Cheers!

If you'd like to make an argument that my work led to the publication of personal records, please make it more explicitly. I'd love to hear it fully articulated. Otherwise it's hard for me to read it as anything beyond a swipe.

We are assuming James posted such details to a public twitter feed. That does not account for the others who did not. The issue in Meryem's case is that obtaining birth records is not guaranteed (especially from a foreign country), and that birth location isn't the same as genetic ancestry. Regarding Alex:

> except for all the illegitimate children

That is part of my point. If my absent parent were actually some famous politician, I would personally not want to have that information leaked. Some might not care - that's great. My point is a simple one - just because having private medical info exfiltrated is not really a big deal for many people, doesn't mean that it's ok to give a pass to the parties responsible for the exfiltration.

Yes, my background is in publishing open government data, such as budgets, election results, environmental info, economic data, and government program accountability studies. Not personal information. And yes, I do have strong opinions on how data is to be responsibly managed, hence my participation in this conversation. So, I'm curious if you have additional thoughts on the matter.

I feel this is a straw man. The risk profile posed by this leak is not the same as someone going around and collecting people's DNA off the street. The leaked database is a highly concentrated artifact, complete with likely-correct PII across a million people.

If people were regularly surreptitiously collecting DNA samples from "the wild" at similar scale, this would be a different conversation.

And we now (hypothetically, in the context of leaking genetic info) know Meryem is Uyghur, James is trans, and Alex is related to a deeply divisive political figure.

That's great, feel free to do that. Many others would rather keep their ancestry or genetic attributes out of the public eye. Maybe it's a source of pain for them, or is required for personal safety reasons. And just because something is illegal doesn't mean it won't happen. Legal "workarounds" are a thing. How watertight is the legislation and practice around preventing employers from taking a peek? Or having someone else take a peek for them?

A concrete example: What could the consequences in today's USA political climate be of having a massive database be with columns: Firstname, Lastname, y_chromosome_present.

Your link is broken.

Such accusations should be backed up with facts and examples.

Also cool, but that ain't Linux.

For him, the reward of those activities possibly justifies the risk in his mind.

I sometimes also mask in public, because it bothers me approximately zero.

I see, thanks. If that's the case I wish they'd just say they're not willing to give out their name, but so it goes.

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Counterpoint, I don't disagree with the advice given but I wasn't put off too much by this. I think that if I ran across this resume with no additional context I'd think it's a bit silly and make a note to evaluate professionalism and willingness to set aside the jokes when needed. I certainly don't have a visceral reaction, but I understand people's reaction. It's getting quite negative in here.

Once I pulled all my data off my stricken phone in my hotel room using nothing but the veggie sausages I'd stashed in the mini fridge as a cold sink. Failed at just the wrong moment the evening before an important event, of course. No time to find enough bandwidth to restore my backups...

- Being asked to twerk at work. - Being denied basic equipment for her work, vindictively. - Being bait-and-switched with additional contracts _after_ moving to a new country for the job. - Being forced to manage an OnlyFans against her wishes, including being forced to witness adult content. - Enduring slurs. - Being asked about details of her sex life.

None of these are acceptable, regardless of an individual's suitability for a job.

You're not alone. Just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should. We waste at our own peril.

Unfortunately, I don't think the last sentence holds if one looks beyond money. Everyone ends up paying for it eventually, in the form of the resources that went into growing the cotton, burning the fuel for electricity and transportation, etc, just to take the end product very nearly directly into the trash heap. It's shameful.

Unfortunately there isn't a true, affordable (for an individual or small group) circular solution that I've found. I've taken to gathering all my scraps in a bucket (not mixing plastic types) then occasionally having a "recycling day" to melt them down into bars, rods, or sheets, which are then used for other things using more traditional manufacturing techniques. I made some very pretty swirly vases on the lathe, for example. It's not ideal.

I bought a carpet cleaner "new" from target via curb pickup. It was clearly used (presumably once), there was water in the plumbing, the bottle of cleaner was opened, and the cord was not machine wrapped. Never used curbside pickup after that. I did keep the machine though, for better or for worse.

Why is a blockchain better here, vs a normal database?

I suppose that's a tangible benefit to hiring well- you don't have to ask your team basic questions like these. Presumably the engineer well knows to check licenses.

That makes sense and is much closer to how I understood things. Parent comment made it sound to me like there is a whole subsystem dedicated to plane DRM.

Heh. If there's anything worse than an open office in my mind, it's being locked in a small room with someone else. At least the pervasive need to self monitor due to constant surveillance is somewhat diffuse in an open office. In a small room, nothing can escape attention.

Agree. I was born way after the C64 came on scene and never touched one until I bought one ten years ago. I'm in it for the perspective it brings (and I like fixing things).

You're telling me that there are devices built into civilian airplanes that are able to disable or hobble the engines based on the whims of _business agreements_? It seems beyond reason that a pilot would be denied an engine's full design thrust, especially in a contingency that requires as much performance as possible (terrain avoidance, wind shear, aerodynamic surface failures, engine flameouts, on-ground emergencies after takeoff decision speed, go-arounds, etc...) Can you expand a bit on how this system works? Do you know what prevents a mistyped lease expiry date from causing dangerous incidents?

I hope it's fully airgapped at the very least...!

Given this info, the pilot could prepare for brake failure.

There are links to further pages with some of the information you mention. Though, Wikipedia lays it out in a more digestible format.

It's useful for some practical conversions like fuel efficiency calculations. I think in USD per mile and it's handy to be able to directly take CAD/liter and l/km for my trips to Canada.

I unlocked a whole extra gallon on my i3's fuel tank (just about doubling its capacity) just by poking it with a computer, there's definitely people around willing to pay for this service.