itsibitzi

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by itsibitzi 1mo ago
He was repeatedly at the top of the Guardian's website at least. I can't think of a single other instance of academic fraud being pushed to the top of any news site for several days running.
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by itsibitzi 1y ago
What tool or ecosystem does this well, in your opinion?
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by itsibitzi 1y ago
SecureDrop is great and we still will be using it at the Guardian for the foreseeable future. At the very least just to support sources who want to blow the whistle but don't use our app. In terms of how it's different. We attain
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by itsibitzi 1y ago
On spam: We’ve got some basic filtering for full on DoS type attacks already. The difficulty here is that a user can produce a reasonable amount of spam from a spread of IP addresses which would be disruptive to our journalist users but bel
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by itsibitzi 1y ago
I agree, it should certainly be front-and-centre, either the landing page or the on-boarding carousel. I'll see if we can get something together before the next app release. Thanks again!
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by itsibitzi 1y ago
Tech lead on the project here. I would certainly recommend that readers not use a work phone, not only for the reasons you've stated but also that a lot of work devices use mobile device management software which is functionally spywar
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by itsibitzi 1y ago
Project lead here, the Secure Messaging part of the app is accessible without a subscription through the main menu.
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by itsibitzi 1y ago
Out of interest, how did you stream the video data to the frontend?
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by itsibitzi 2y ago
The elite Silicon Valley venture capitalist class has made it pretty clear which side they're on.
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by itsibitzi 2y ago
I think people really don't understand the effort, care and risk that goes into producing quality reporting. I work with investigative reporters on stories that take many months to produce. Every time we receive a leak there is an exte
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by itsibitzi 2y ago
As someone who works in the news industry I find it pretty sad that we've just capitulated to big tech on this one. There are countless examples of AI summaries getting things catastrophically wrong, but I guess Google has long since d
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by itsibitzi 2y ago
I think we can be pretty confident that he wasn't shot because an AI product wasn't accurate.
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by itsibitzi 2y ago
I would agree and expand on this and say such hyper-luddites tend to make picking up new technology a self-fulfilling bad idea. Even if you can present a fantastic business case for something they don't want to learn new things so if y
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by itsibitzi 3y ago
Disclosure: I'm an engineer working at the Guardian on investigations tools. In your opinion, what can newspapers and their technology teams do to improve the process of whistleblowing. Any perspective is really interesting!
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by itsibitzi 3y ago
As a software engineer in the UK I'm very much in the same bubble. It's almost unreal to me how much Windows has managed to enshittify. It's hard to know at what point (if ever) they'll turn the ship around and make an O
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by itsibitzi 3y ago
Is this role open to remote workers from the UK?
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by itsibitzi 3y ago
In case you're not aware, Signal has a chat called "Notes to Self" that should be more or less the same thing, except without having to create a group.
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by itsibitzi 3y ago
This tracks. I live very close to several HS2 construction sites in London and frequently see dozens of people just stood around doing nothing.
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by itsibitzi 3y ago
One thing that drove me mad about Oblivion was the level scaling of items which meant it sometimes made sense to be strategic about when you completed a quest in order to best optimise/metagame the mechanic. I really love it when a gam
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by itsibitzi 3y ago
You can jump straight to search using {Cmd,Ctrl}-L the same as a web browser, but for folks who're not used to key commands the decision to hide the search bar is absolutely deranged.
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by itsibitzi 4y ago
It's literally a quote in the article hence the quotation marks.
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by itsibitzi 5y ago
Saying 10x programmers are a myth because it's crazy that someone could do in 1 day what another could do in 1 week makes the assumption that both programmers in the example have the same amount of context, background understanding, an
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by itsibitzi 5y ago
It allows you to put double quotes in the string without escaping them, which is pretty nice.
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by itsibitzi 5y ago
I've read that some people use a pre-paid credit card with a $1 spending limit when setting up their playground accounts. Seems like a reasonable approach.
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by itsibitzi 5y ago
Lack of access to public services, in this case broadband, is absolutely a political issue.
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by itsibitzi 7y ago
It comes down to the fact that the military (and associated industrial complex) doesn't exist to win wars.