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That is not a level of power I officially possess, but it is a level of power that I am able to unofficially implement for the people who solely report to me. I am also able to tailor their roles and responsibilities to whatever causes them the least pain because their job titles are extremely non-specific, which is very helpful for both of us.

Both manager and non-managers are economically coerced into providing our time and energy. I try my best to reduce that burden for as many people as I can without being noticed by the people who are willing to suck the life out of others for personal gain.

The people who are marginalised by the process are the ones who will be doing the real suffering.

Hobbies indicate interest and aptitude. Someone who collects things might enjoy jobs and tasks related to organisation but not necessarily enjoy highly collaborative work that requires many meetings, whereas someone who enjoys team sports might enjoy the more collaborative social meeting type work instead of solo detailed organisation etc.

It is far from the first thing I would use as a hiring choice, but it does give me an idea of questions I might ask someone to figure out what would make them happiest.

Can we… see them?

Edit: some quick math, the minimum recommended space between trees is 3m, 200 million of those is 600km² / 148k ac , which would make the space required bigger than 17 countries (larger than Andorra but very slightly smaller than Saint Lucia). They have a blog with their tree planting updates but I wish there were more photos.

For sure. Which is one reason I expect house arrest is so likely. All it takes is for one of the major multiglobals to be in some scheme that the government has decided to crack down on, and there’s your leverage in sentencing negotiation. It’s why I’ve given up on the concept of rich people going to prison, there’s always another fish they can offer up for frying, because billionaire social circles are tiny.

Fair point, but maybe he’s another one of these people who will get special considerations for information about larger companies that a government needs for evidence.

Who knows? I ought to stop cynically speculating, but the world is making it hard not to.

I do hope he’s another Shkreli though, who annoyed the old money boomers with his ostentatious nouveau riche antics enough to become their poster-manchild for their “See? Bad things do (sometimes) happen to bad rich people!” campaigns.

I’ll be very annoyed when he’s probably just sentenced to mansion house arrest, but for now I’ll accept this good news.

Yeah, I hear you, fair point. I can’t recall CVE numbers off the top of my head either.
Heartbleed was also a great name, whereas iLeakage is… a choice.

I’ll probably be referring to it as ‘the latest Safari security failure’, hopefully they can ensure that description stays relevant for a few weeks.

Cha-ching! Good for those researchers, get that bag. It’s much better than finding out the other way.

I’m still not calling it iLeakage though. They’ll have to make do with the well-deserved cash.

Because Apple are pieces of shit which force Safari to underpin any Web interaction on those devices, which wouldn’t be such a problem if mobile Safari were worth a damn.

But you’re right and it’s a valid point. I did miss that sentence on initial read and had forgotten about that problem. Thanks for the reminder!

Title

can force MacOS and IOS browser_s_

First paragraph

forces Safari

Of course it’s fucking Safari. Yes it is the default browser and wrapper that apps will leverage, but Safari is not plural. Be better, ars tech.

iLeakage

No. I’m not calling it that. Stop trying to force catchy names, researchers. Because historically, you suck at it as a profession.

Because they were making Reddit 2.0, with all the same flaws.

Perhaps think of it more as knowledge decentralization as a form of resiliency for unplanned network outages. Sometimes the library of Alexandria just happens to catch fire, and it might be nobody’s fault at all.

Besides, plenty of people grew up in families with a basic encyclopaedia or dictionary or a repair manual. This is essentially the same thing, just with less paper.

Mostly due to previous physical constraints, I would argue. Thankfully there are fewer chances your hard drive is going to decompose into vinegar while sitting in your cupboard, and even if it does, it’s likely not the only copy.

They’re also more limited for current data because they’re harder to parse and convert into other usable formats, but thankfully that will get better over time too.

I still preference text-first data for various reasons, but let’s not dismiss the leagues of potential video has for communication and archival value, both intentional and unintentional.

Excellent, thankyou! I was just going to throw ubuntu at it unless I really needed something else because of the potato specs, so hopefully drivers are already sorted.

especially the WiFi/Bluetooth chipset

Noted. I would be pissed to not have that working.

Don’t try anything fancy

No chance, I’ve been burnt by my unix arrogance enough times to not want to try it on proprietary hardware. Until now I assumed even getting Linux on there was too fancy, I still remember other people fighting for weeks with their hackintosh a decade ago.

Thanks, I appreciate it! I’m happy for a dual boot and for no camera, so here’s hoping for the rest.

I have a late 2011 that I might be interested in doing this to. Any practical advice on avoiding your suffering?

I appreciate the responses, I know they’re not simple questions that lend themselves to quick answers.

As a follow-up:

• What would you say and do if I told you your websites currently employ some techniques that are considered hostile to users with some disabilities?
• What would be your process in addressing that, or is it not a concern/priority to you?
• If there are relatively technically simple changes that can be implemented, but they are not ones you consider aesthetically pleasing or enjoyable, would that affect your stance?

suggests Principle 5: Tolerance for Error is most applicable to Software Engineering

I would say they all apply in different ways, but it’s clear you come from a backend architecture perspective, so I’m not surprised Universal Design isn’t a concept you have run into previously. No hate, just interdisciplinary acknowledgement that some topics never get traction in other areas.

I purposely put out an OpenBSD honeypot to see which entities would try to compromise it! Results: Fair.

Now that is also intriguing! I… won’t get into asking how you were able to attribute parties to that, even if I am very tempted.

What am I saying is Corporate dominance is think-tanking and policy making. Data selection is inherently profit focused instead of Humanity Progression focused.

Yep, I’m on board with that. One of my personal areas of interest is how we shift that focus, hence my interest in your approach.

EFF and UN are wholly ineffective

Mmm, as an enforcement system, yes, but I’m unsure they ever really were designed for that. I think they still have some very important things to contribute to ethical engineering. But that’s another topic altogether too.

Ok, color me intrigued. I’ve got some general questions

• What is your stance on Universal Design as it applies to ethical engineering?
• Also, your site indicates you’re a fan of >1 level thinking. What risks have you anticipated in developing/providing these resources?
• Also, Is there any thinking around how you might measure or address bias in data and source selection, or engineering decisions?

Thanks for the math! Here’s hoping we can fling the records of our civilisation far enough out for another civilisation to learn about our demise. And not, like, just accidentally flinging it into a burning star or space imperialist Klingons or something. Even though that would be poetically appropriate too.