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worklogin··on I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American and failed
Immigration is broken. But you cannot have open borders and a welfare system. It is completely unsustainable.
worklogin··on Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule
Dangit, I didn't read the second paragraph. For GA, they will have the cross-sign. It's just for the EA that they don't.
worklogin··on Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule
Do Chrome and Mozilla have Let's Encrypt in their Root stores? I don't see them.
worklogin··on Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk
What I'm hearing is that ignorance is bliss.
worklogin··on Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk
Perhaps to get other people to realize the impact of online-all-the-time shopping has on brick and mortar retail and the people it employs, and the human contact lost.

I might have said the same thing, with no malice.

worklogin··on An update on IPv6
It's not just a matter of implementing "enable_ipv6 = yes" on a cisco router.

Here's an enterprise perspective:

It's IP address management. it's massive reconfiguration of every node and network endpoint. It's auditing and completely redeploying security measures that are network based. It's training every IT employee on network basics from the ground up.

It's millions upon millions of dollars in man-hours and infrastructure and tooling for something that might have marginal benefit on an internal network. I agree the new world will be better with larger subnets and many of the features of IPv6, but it's more complex.

Fiber-optic and hardware level upgrades touch a lot fewer devices, and are transparent to users and applications.

worklogin··on FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’
It's an important one to know when the blank is something already ubiquitous or easy to obtain, like guns, drugs, and encryption (in the US).
worklogin··on WikiLeaks offers $100k for details of Obama’s trade deal
> Only those with tremendous conscientious, like Snowden or Manning, step up in the face of odds like that.

Good. Look how beneficial Snowden's leaks have been to the cause of civil liberties in the past two years, and because he went Hong Kong and Moscow, many think he MUST be a traitor.

Now imagine if Snowden said "Eh, I wouldn't have done it, but $100,000 was nice."

> Financial compensation shifts the balance to make conscientious disclosure more self-interested.

That's bad; now you've eroded the moral grounds. Even offering legal funds up to $100k would be more ethical than cash payouts.

worklogin··on Getting Fucked by Stripe
>Substances designed to mimic illegal drugs

Substances that are legal but feel too good are prohibited?

worklogin··on Go channels, goroutines and GC available in Nim
Calling something a superset usually means it's actually an expansion of something... kind of like C++11 might be a superset of C++03 (not sure if that's accurate).
worklogin··on Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
From the articles I've read, this was not part of the sentencing.
worklogin··on Why aren't you using GitHub?
No, if you read the exact sentence you quoted, it should be avoided because those value-adds are lock-ins that are hard to move to a new service.
worklogin··on Why I Sold My Company and Didn't Tell Anyone for a Year
I know some people can find a picture of a kitten offensive. Are there legitimate reasons to feel that way?
worklogin··on GIMP-Win project wasn’t hijacked, just abandoned
I also notice this isn't covered by Slashdot, who is owned by DHI, who owns Sourceforge.
worklogin··on Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger
They know who you are. Rather, they know that someone exists with your cultural, political and social preferences, and with all the people with whom you're friends.

And then people tag you in their photos. So Facebook may not strictly know your name, but any agency (of course, never in America!) who backdoors or coerces Facebook could learn everything about you.

worklogin··on The State of Go
Golang could host a PPA.
worklogin··on Downloading PuTTY Safely Is Nearly Impossible (2014)
But Moba isn't selling support. They're giving out crippleware and charging money for a professional version based on the core. How are the modifications that make the pro version not required to be open source?
worklogin··on Downloading PuTTY Safely Is Nearly Impossible (2014)
Moba feels slow sometimes; I don't like its custom UI; I don't understand how it's FOSS /and/ has a pro-only version.

Its built-in SSH server is great for moving files to and from my workstation quickly when I need it.

worklogin··on “I'm wiping this repository away”
52 minutes, 74 upvotes, and no context or discussion?

Any context would be appreciated.

worklogin··on Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
>This piece is written by a lawyer. Do not expect it to fairly talk about all of the options. It's invective; well-written, emotional, powerful invective. The goal is to make you turn off your brain and feel a certain way. Treat it as such.

>Invective: Denunciatory or abusive expression or discourse

I vehemently disagree and think you insult the paper. It's well written, attempts to describe logical inconsistencies in how we approach our reasons for punishments, and what the legal profession might be able to do to fix it. It turned my brain up, not down, and it makes me think more about logical underpinnings of our justice system. I haven't been spoon-fed, and you also insult readers who might feel they got something honest out of the paper.

worklogin··on Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
Like others, I believe that that is one solution, but that a rigorous, objective analysis of policies and the reasons behind why we do things is necessary, and this article presents the problems very well. To shrug off the philosophical roots of the broken system is not ideal.
worklogin··on Announcing Rust 1.0
Steve, wouldn't it be good for the homepage of Rust to have a small news banner/sidebar, so people landing there would be presented with big news?

I do like the homepage for its simplicity, but no-one would know the significance without digging into the 'community' links. If that doesn't seem like an issue, then nevermind. Just a thought.

edit to explain: I'm at work and can't hop into IRC to chat about it.

worklogin··on Introducing Windows 10 Editions
BYOD for mobile isn't entirely new, but most people doing that have MDM software that MITM's secure connections (potentially) and keeps all office-related software in a sandbox.

Attaching a desktop to an office network rarely has those same mechanisms.

worklogin··on Introducing Windows 10 Editions
This is against so many IT security best practices, you're probably breaking a regulation if you're in an industry not dealing with selling jewelry on Etsy.
worklogin··on How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime
Likewise, I'd never go to Russia, because unlike in the US, I might get swept up and accused of being a spy, or have my hotel room turned over when they use hidden cameras to determine I'm out of the room.

Another example would be to see how long someone could shout obscenities at Putin in front of the Kremlin without getting thrown in the back of a truck. In the US, we have the freedom of press to put out articles like this.

I'm sure the everyday life of a Russian isn't totally miserable, and the US has its major issues, but I can't think of a single civil-rights issue where Russia is a leader.

worklogin··on Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B
>if low wage, and probably lower skilled workers can take your job, you probably suck

Or the company is short-sighted, undervalues the skill and experience of onshore jobs and overvalues the $$ they're saving on paper. I bet a buffalo nickel you've never personally seen how offshoring affects a team/department.

worklogin··on Keurig CEO Blames Coffee Pod DRM for Falling Sales
This is a very self-righteous post. Do you ever eat out? Get coffee or drinks from restaurants? Use mayo/mustard packets? Eat frozen foods?

They are all analogous. They're all conveniences that use disposable containers. And no-one is calling people a holes for eating Hungry Man.

worklogin··on I have something to hide
It's not ridiculous at all. Would you? Would you allow a stranger (not a friend, but LEO) to just "poke around" to make sure everything is up and up, and to look through your phone to see if you've taken illegal pictures? Called anyone suspicious?

It's absolutely the exact same thing, and you are incorrect, sir/ma'am.

worklogin··on A Quick Introduction to LXD
>Image based (no more distribution templates, only good, trusted images) - the LXD website

So instead of "lxc create -t ubuntu -n container1", I'll load a container from an image (just a monolithic template of sorts)?

worklogin··on Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer
I imagine it's similar to drinking from a mother. One way or another they're twisting their heads or looking up.
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