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techslave··on PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN
it already has. ref: arab spring.

perhaps social media was not the proximate cause but it certainly was enabling.

even civil war in the US was a good thing. whose to say a next civil war won’t also be.

techslave··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
you are mistakenly judging g suite on the individual product requirements. eg how a spreadsheet should function. that’s not what g suite is.

all features are MVP and the main selling point is being collaborative.

techslave··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
outlook. everything is looks good but littered with bugs and exceptionally weak dev teams behind it.
techslave··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
1 git

2 jira

techslave··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
google drive isn’t hierarchical and the folders are just a decoration
techslave··on KeePassXC 2.6.0 Released
eh? what OTP scheme is asymmetric?
techslave··on Zoom Zero-Day Allows RCE, Patch on the Way
credit card number is always safe to give out. you have zero liability, and the fraud detection in the backend is far far far better than what fly by night app of the day does.
techslave··on Sampler for Mac Touchbars
the emoji selector, yes. everything else you’ve said is downright wrong. all of those are better with keyboard shortcuts and fn keys are better than the touchbar for that.

i specifically want to call out moving between tabs. in absolutely no way is the touchbar better than keyboard shortcuts. there is one app where it might be better: safari. because they chose such poor shortcut for switching tabs.

i guess there is one more good use case. if you allocated rarely used and hard to locate MS word buttons to the toolbar, that might be perhaps better than monkeying with the ribbon.

i have a streamdeck i use for IDE shortcuts. it’s far far better than the touchbar.

techslave··on Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
also have you seen what passes for software in the hardware world? i’m talking about EDA. i haven’t used cadence etc but altium is an trash fire and it’s $5k/seat. below that level the tools are even more atrocious. i’m mystified why someone doesn’t come in and disrupt that space.
techslave··on Why I’m Writing a Book on Cryptography
> OpenSSL [...] What a clusterfuck of a library

lol. truer words have never been spoken. my introduction to openssl, i mean after trying to make sense of it on my own, was a website still up today, “flingpoo!”. hard to believe so much of the internet depends on this library.

techslave··on Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns
can APIs be selectively disabled in chromium based browsers? if not disabled, replaced with stubs via the extension mechanism? or other method.
techslave··on Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave
thanks for not saying ‘begs’.

no, the secure enclave is not available to the user as such. a few crypto primitives are exported. that’s what this uses. there have been any number of such “agents” over the last few years.

techslave··on Apple WWDC Keynote
“having to”? Edge is nice, actually.
techslave··on Getting the most out of YubiKeys for your business
did you not read the question? it’s 5 ppl and either outside IT or random joe employee 1-2 hrs per week. they are not managing AD and CA infrastructure.
techslave··on Getting the most out of YubiKeys for your business
in california, if your employer requires you to have a phone for 2FA or other purposes, they must reimburse you at least partially. yubikeys are cheaper.

as to being clunky, it’s because your employer doesn’t care about it, so you have the clunky (and much cheaper) yubikeys.

lack of verification of who is using it is simply not an important part of the threat model.

techslave··on First U.S. woman to walk in space dives to deepest point in the ocean
wow. haven’t heard ‘heroine’ in forever. sounds like actress or stewardess. ‘hero’ is probably a better, non-gendered choice.
techslave··on Uber and Lyft drivers are employees, California regulatory agency finds
> What other employment requires you to front the boss $25k for the privilege of earning starvation wages?

Well, traditional taxi driver, for one.

techslave··on Create diagrams with code using Graphviz
i love graohviz. thank you for all the hard work over the years.
techslave··on Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
> But after I opened one, it really helped my career. I found my last two jobs through it.

Selection bias. You may very well have found the same exact, or even better, jobs outside of LI.

techslave··on The nightmare that is selling on eBay
what is this, reddit? come on
techslave··on Ask HN: Have you ever gone without a computer or phone for an extended period?
i forgot to bring my phone to the toilet yesterday
techslave··on Stanford lab envisions delivery drones that save energy by taking the bus
it would be better to catapult packages. it would be easy to code up. most packages can survive it.

not having to stop the truck would be a huge carbon saver, would it not?

techslave··on US schools lay off hundreds of thousands
and the stock market is still on a tear...
techslave··on CA Root expired on 30 May 2020
it’s more like blue m&m’s than an actual requirement
techslave··on Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019)
water is far too cheap for this to work
techslave··on A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”
slack notifications are beyond broken as well, so no competition there
techslave··on Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home
it’s called hoteling and has been around for at least a decade if not 2, not just a couple of years ago.
techslave··on Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home
> This eliminates a big chunk of fixed costs... as most are shifted to the employees.

That’s an unfair treatment. Most if not all of those are sunk costs for the remote employee.

techslave··on Two capacitor paradox
the birthday paradox is also not a paradox. the namers of such things just like to use the word ‘paradox’ for some reason. it probably sounds more puzzling to initiates.
techslave··on Employers are rethinking open-plan office design
lol. open office existed before startups were ever a thing.

https://k2space.co.uk/knowledge/history-of-office-design/

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