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squiffsquiff··on Asian faiths try to save swastika symbol corrupted by Hitler
I think you're shooting at the wrong target. There's a profound and unfortunate association with the swastika in the western world. It doesn't really matter if there are 'good intentions', there are plenty of people still using it today as hate symbol
squiffsquiff··on Asian faiths try to save swastika symbol corrupted by Hitler
You seem to be under the misapprehensions that:

- Anyone can re/claim any symbol - No other symbols have been banned

You may not like or agree with it, but symbols do have owners and they do matter. Look at today's news around the USA football team and the Iranian flag today for an example.

squiffsquiff··on Ask HN: Can we delete our accounts?
Whilst the intention may be admirable, it doesn't look like this would be compliant with the GDPR right to be forgotten which applies to any natural person who can be identified.
squiffsquiff··on I spent $3k on a Samsung Smart TV and all I got were ads and unwanted content
This has been discussed previously and one of the major issues is that many devices require internet connectivity to complete initial setup before they can be used.
squiffsquiff··on Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?
Sounds like you haven't worked in an environment where this happens. You get regarded as 'the expert to deliver a good outcome' sure. But you're ALSO expected to deliver an aggressive roadmap of a while load of other stuff that people already committed to. Someone's something's got to give
squiffsquiff··on IR35 reform to be repealed; workers will determine employment status
That's not how it's been used:

You set up an umbrella company with yourself as a shareholder

You pay yourself minimum wage, thus paying little income tax and national insurance

You then pay yourself and any other shareholders a dividend based on profits but this is taxed at a much lower rate than employee income and without national insurance

Advanced players set up their umbrella company in another country where the company taxes are even lower

squiffsquiff··on Poll of Wikipedians concludes: Wikimedia fundraising emails are misleading
Probably originated using speech to text recognition rather than a keyboard
squiffsquiff··on Saying goodbye to my parents’ library
The thing is that without some form of search cataloguing, even if there were useful information in there, you would have to already know about it in order to look for the details and the information would then lack context, e.g. subsequent developments in that area.

Contrast with Google or a specialist electronic service

squiffsquiff··on Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
It's the xps13 plus. A different model with a hidden trackpad and a keyboard very reminiscent of Apple's butterfly keyboard together with touchbar
squiffsquiff··on Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)
There's also the manufacturers' side of this equation. If you have lifetime purchase versions, users will expect a period of support that will probably be longer than the cadence between new releases. As a result you wind up supporting multiple versions of your software, as famously happened with Microsoft's Windows and office franchises
squiffsquiff··on The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton
Sure it's fantastic in a corporate environment. Not so fantastic for personal devices. Basically this: https://youtu.be/XgFbqSYdNK4
squiffsquiff··on Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals
Not poster you asked but:

With Uber you don't pay the driver directly. The price is set by a third party and so is the recommended route. Tricky to swindle the rate, route or tips. In areas where drivers have to be licensed, that is enforced so passenger and driver identity has some verification

squiffsquiff··on I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
There's also the issue of signing in or applying a licence file on a system owned by someone else. In some environments this simply isn't allowed.
squiffsquiff··on BBC to close BBC Four and children's network CBBC, move content online
It's not zero sum.

"Some 74 per cent of the 114,000 convictions for licence fee dodging in 2019 were for women" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/decriminalis...

TV licence prosecutions are more than 1 in 10 UK court cases https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10256679/...

So hundreds of thousands of people a year are being criminally prosecuted and convicted in service of this funding model, at the tax payer's expense.

We wouldn't stand for this for any other media organisation because it's fundamentally wrong. No amount of PR puff about the BBC changes that.

squiffsquiff··on Terraform should have remained stateless
As TFA article mentions, we already have Ansible and friends. You can use Ansible with AWS https://www.ansible.com/integrations/cloud/amazon-web-servic... if you want to
squiffsquiff··on Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
So why describe him as a "greybeard" then? It are you claiming to have met many younger and/or female 'greybeards'?

If your answer is that 'it's just part of the story'. Well that's precisely the complaint.

squiffsquiff··on Dokku – Free Heroku Alternative
They're just begging for it to be called 'Dooku' when it breaks, aren't they?
squiffsquiff··on “Long term support” Unixes and versions of software in them
What hasn't changed? There are many projects based on not following Mozilla's breaking changes https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/waterfox_firefox_fork...
squiffsquiff··on Florida says it rejected math textbooks for referring to critical race theory
Probably stands for

Circumference Radius Tangent

In that context, but 'CRT is banned'

squiffsquiff··on Okta: “We made a mistake” delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure
I think this take is a little bit naive given that a lot of the customers using Okta are themselves regulated by things like healthcare records legislation, financial services regulations, GDPR, and similar. It isn't an option to not use effective security or to claim that it's somebody else's responsibility when you were holding data that has been exfiltrated illegitimately
squiffsquiff··on On the Weaponisation of Open Source
I hate to burst your bubble, but Anton Babenko's terraform modules are extremely popular. The difference here is that he added a input with a default value to a specific release version. Generally, if you're using terraform professionally you'd either fork or mirror the module and pin to a specific version. In such case this change would not affect you. If you had e.g. something in development calling 'latest' version of an impacted module you again would not see this. It's an optional argument that defaults to a value causing no outward change in behaviour.
squiffsquiff··on LibreTube main devs account has been suspended by GitHub without any reasons
Seems pretty obvious why the account has been suspended- user created a wilfully offensive user name and email domain
squiffsquiff··on My path to CS and opinions on CS Education
Whilst that may be true, it's common in many fields for women to get paid less than men doing the same jobs. This has become such an issue that in some places organisations and now required to report on their gender pay disparity, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/29/gender-pay-gap...
squiffsquiff··on Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions
It's a formal capability of the device and a design goal- see

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/android-12-the-ars-t...

Private Compute Core—Running AI code in a virtual machine?

squiffsquiff··on Ask HN: Who's sick of remote work?
You forgot to include long walks to and queues for oversubscribed W.C.s
squiffsquiff··on Ask HN: Why do companies issue crappy machines to developers?
You're thinking here of front-end developers. Everyone else: Platform Back end Mobile Etc

Is not targeting median consumer grade laptops

At my org the PO's had to upgrade from MacBook air to MacBook Pro in order to be able to screenshare Jira via Ms Teams with slack and outlook open

squiffsquiff··on Children's Risk of Serious Illness from Covid-19 Is as Low as It Is for the Flu
There's a significant precedent in this area: Rubella. Vaccinations are typically provided at 3-4 months of age (e.g. in UK). Rubella is typically a relatively mild disease with the exception of pregnancy when it can have severe effects on the foetus. The principal beneficiaries are those becoming pregnant many years later and the unvaccinated in the general population. This isn't contentious. Why is a similar position regarding COVID vaccination?
squiffsquiff··on Your Next Mac
> 'I imagine'...

Yeah, you missed the part where I'm zoning out on reddit and checking my phone during the boring bits of video calls, didn't you? The real world isn't imaginary and I don't want my entire reality susbsumed in my employer's walled garden. Also f*k packing everything in a bag. I work from home 99% of the time. The other 1% external monitors are provided but I'm not doing any proper workstation-based work.

squiffsquiff··on Your Next Mac
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squiffsquiff··on “The Matrix Resurrections” is an excellent movie
Mmm, so... Crazy amount of people sitting down and talking for an action movie, almost like a black and white French film. Anyway... I remember how people said at the time how the previous sequels 'Matrix Revolutions' and 'Matrix reloaded' were not as good as the original. 'Resurrection' is like a sequel to them...
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