btasker

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by btasker 3mo ago
>they should have stood firm or offer up the 'Oh no we couldn't possibly figure out how to do that, it's entirely too complicated, you wouldn't understand.' excuse all other tech companies put out whenever they a
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by btasker 6mo ago
> than you are to find any EU-based product used widely in the United States. Spotify? If you don't mind including companies that offer multiple things: Accenture, Amadeus, Capgemini, Mistral, SAP I'm also assuming there that y
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by btasker 8mo ago
Personally, I think this is the answer too - rather than mandating it across all platforms, they could have created a service which provides scanning so that there was an additional app people could choose to install (and would, presumably,
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by btasker 8mo ago
All of what you said could be true and it'd *still* be wrong for Grok to be allowed to generate it. All Musk actually needed to say was "oh fuck, we'll fix that". Instead, he responded with laughing emojiis and nothing&#
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by btasker 8mo ago
> We have small claims courts in every jurisdiction in the US. It costs $50 to file, and you do not need an attorney. This particular example is in the UK though. It's even easier here! You can issue a Statutory Demand ( https:&#x2F
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by btasker 1y ago
> His "don't move off 22 for ssh" is also just opinion. He argues "you will be found" Worse than that, that post misunderstands it's own statement: "Sure, you will see fewer attacks than before, but mos
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by btasker 1y ago
> The author also make it feel like the only option is to use cloudflare DoH on Firefox In fairness, the date on the post is 2018 - when Firefox first launched this, Cloudflare was the only option
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by btasker 1y ago
Yes. DoH requests go to /dns-query so you only need that path to proxy onto your DoH handler. Some DoH clients will also allow you to specify a custom path, so you can also obfuscate the path by configuring client and server to use &#x
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by btasker 1y ago
They all default to ISO sizes for me. If I format the page size, Libreoffice does offer "Letter" and "Legal". GIMP shows them as "US Letter" and "US Legal" but again they're not the default. It w
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by btasker 2y ago
> At some point people know if you don't care about them. If you cannot care about them why would they "follow you into battle?" That's true, but it also works both ways. If the "problem" person is impacting
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by btasker 2y ago
GDPR (including the UK GDPR) is extra-territorial by design. It applies _by design_ to anyone or anywhere processing the data of an EU or UK citizen. I suspect that you and I would agree about the wrongs of any law being extra-territorial,
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by btasker 2y ago
dotorg being run by a private citizen who receives no payments does not exempt it from GDPR, because GDPR doesn't make that distinction. There _is_ an exemption for household processing (recital 18) - which means that I don't ne
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by btasker 2y ago
> I don't think No, you just act and screw everyone else. There's no justification for this whatsoever - it was your actions which meant that the ACF team couldn't manage the plugin on dotorg, and the issue you fixed was u
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by btasker 2y ago
Yep, that's exactly my view on it.
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by btasker 2y ago
I can't say for sure that it directly led to jobs, but my website has been brought up in a positive light during the recruitment process more than a few times. Because I write about technical things a lot, it's often been viewed a
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by btasker 2y ago
Much earlier in my career, I was in the UK public sector. Internal interviews within the department were conducted using something that mixed STAR with a set of core competencies (external candidates were given a bit more leeway). So as the
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by btasker 2y ago
First, let's be fair, Germany really is an awful example if you're going to then try to apply it to the rest of Europe. > It’s impossible to fire an employee for performance reason after the probation period in Germany. This
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by btasker 2y ago
Having an employment contract is more common over here, but that's not the same as what we'd call being a contractor. As a full-time employee of the company you're working for (i.e. not simply contracted in), you still have a
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by btasker 2y ago
No, it's the result of that poster's mindset - there's absolutely no need to do any of that. In fact, that type of behavior is against the law in a lot of countries and will leave the employer likely liable. If someone's
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by btasker 2y ago
> how are you taking this guy's word for shit without even thinking? For starters: * Because it's been confirmed and demonstrated by other people too? * Because Total Recall ( https://github.com/xaitax/Tota
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by btasker 2y ago
I'm not sure that using a browser integration rather than having credentials pass through the clipboard really counts as an edge-case. In fact, I'd go further and say it's exactly the use-case that should be being encourage
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by btasker 2y ago
> I’ll admit it is not in the UK, but I doubt they have a significantly less professional police force. Ah, that explains a point that I'd didn't bother to pull you up on. Carrying ID is not a routine thing here in the way that
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by btasker 2y ago
Easy answer: yes it'd be better. TFA says that it has a failure rate of 1:33,000. That's a "do not ship" rating for almost anything else. > immediately stopping you the only thing you have to do is pull out your ID? S
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by btasker 2y ago
> Telling someone wrongly that they are a thief, in public, seems like libel Slander. Libel is published, Slander is spoken. If they put a picture of her on a sheet that said "shoplifter" and posted in on the wall (or the net),
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by btasker 2y ago
I didn't have the same luck. I gave it a photo from inside a house, you can see a person on the bed, and the white wall behind - that's it. Obviously I wasn't expecting an accurate location, but > This photo was taken in L
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by btasker 2y ago
> most CDNs will send every single request in that period through. I don't think this is true. It certainly isn't for any CDN that I've worked for or on. Cloudflare don't do this either - they use a cache lock - the f
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by btasker 3y ago
> I see forced purchases of insurance for people with nothing to insure as similar to debtor's prison That's probably because you're looking at it entirely wrong. The third-party cover in insurance is not for you (the driv
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by btasker 3y ago
Apple reported 30bn net sales in Europe in the last quarter: the second biggest region after the US. Although some of that'll be driven by non iOS stuff, we know that's the main earnings driver. In a future where Apple have withdr
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by btasker 3y ago
> And finally, tests enable new contributors to work confidently from day one. Exactly this. If I run into an issue when using OSS, I tend to try and look at contributing a fix back. The projects where this is most successful are those w
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by btasker 3y ago
Hey, OP here. Figured I'd reply once, at the current bottom of the thread. > Since I have over the decades made several insurance claims that were paid out I assume that either wasn't for this situation, or you are not in the U

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