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I don’t think people truly understand how bad it is.

15 years ago I helped do a PCI/SOX compliance evaluation for a company looking to go public.

They had PWC in there with kids fresh out of college, no computer experience, and they would sit at the desk with the admins and say, “show me your Active Directory password policy”. Ok, looks good. CHECK

Why don’t you have this configured? I’d hear an alarming bullshit reason. Ok, we can exempt that. CHECK

I could go on and on and on with how bad it was.

And they bragged to potential investors. We are PCI/SOX complaint.

How does this add to the conversation?

The constant history lesson of what something was 80-90 years ago but they aren’t that way anymore but they were doesn’t advance the conversation especially when it has no impact on the actual topic.

I bet this is the guy on the call who has to correct someone who calls them SSL certs.

Excuse me, they are TLS certs.

Thanks Arialdomartini, as I was saying… we need to renew the SSL Certs

Oracle? Who is laying off people and bleeding money due to their over zealous AI spending?

SUSE, which made 50M in profits last year, is going to onboard 5K Software Engineers, develop build systems, cover infrastructure costs, and still make a profit?

So you do know, you just don’t want to admit it.

Many, many people are still in a state of denial.

IBM did this correctly.

IBM develops and sells Storage Products, so we are going to take the engineering teams that development and maintain those storage products because, you know, it just makes sense.

We maintain and develop Power, etc. so it only makes sense that we move all development for RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible, Satellite, etc on Power, etc to IBM because, you know, it makes sense.

Why do we have two HR, Legal, etc teams? Those teams are joining Red Hat Jan 1, because, you know, it makes sense.

And so on and so on, and many Red Hatters just said, "Yea that does make sense".

Suddenly, someone pointed out that in a year and half span, 1/4th of the company will move to Red Hat leaving Engineering, Sales, and Support and 1/3rd of Sales is moving as well and, only then, did the rest of Red Hat say, "Holy Shit!"

Then why don't they do it now?

SUSE cannot replace Red Hat. This is the irony of OpenELA. They are a scavenger that relies on the work Red Hat does. Suse, Oracle, CQI, etc are going to suddenly come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to replicate Red Hat's Engineering team to maintain and develop all of these packages?

No. And you know that.

If you are too dumb or too lazy to figure out what this guy has, then you are the problem and will be looked at as a relic.

Watching the AI slop my sales reps put in their emails is disgusting but the reply telling them how great of a job they are doing and how insightful their email was says differently.

Many people are laughing to the bank while you are still running `--help` to figure out how to run a complex command.

Typical FOSS hypocrite.

Mad that “free” software has to be paid by someone.

And that issue shows the problem with OSS.

Nothing is ever good enough.

> Please report this to your distribution

And the reply:

> but you could create your own .deb packages for each github release, which can be installed much quicker than downloading and compiling source code and all its dependencies.

This is why OSS maintainers have burn out. Always wanting more and more. Not even the source code is good enough.

> The Court ruled that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the detailed, comprehensive record of their movements that CSLI provides, even though they share it with their carriers. This decision limited the "third-party doctrine," which previously suggested no privacy rights in information shared with third parties, and established that the unique nature of cell phone data requires greater protection.

Additionally, the decision was narrow, applying specifically to historical CSLI.

The issue of buying location data from a 3rd party company as part of a service has not been argued.

> the FBI has confirmed it was buying access to people’s data collected from data brokers, who source much of their information — including location data — from ordinary consumer phone apps and games

This is completely different from CSLI, you are agreeing to provide your location to these apps and games, as most require it, and, finally, a majority of these EULA state that the data may be shared with 3rd parties.

SCOTUS makes narrow rulings all the time and this is one of them.

The argument that you are expressly providing your location information and agreeing that it can/will be shared with a 3rd party who can then do as they please with your data is not a violation of the 4th amendment and will be excluded from the 3rd party doctrine.

Many people won’t agree with this, and if ever argued in a court, they won’t agree with the ruling when it’s allowed to continue.

Requesting != Buying

When this goes back to the courts you can come back to this comment and still be angry you are wrong.

> Carpenter v. United States (2018) was a landmark Supreme Court case that held the government generally needs a warrant to access historical cell-site location information (CSLI) from cell phone carriers, as its acquisition constitutes a Fourth Amendment search

This is very different from buying your data from a company especially when the user consented to their location being tracked.

Too many people in these threads jumping to anti-Trump when the real issue is how quick we are to give up our our privacy to use technology and then quickly turn to shock in anger when it’s used against us.

This is an important question.

The tree outside of house is not 9 feet tall per. I have a 2 story house and it easily towers 10 feet higher than my house.

Additionally, there are several Royal Palms that are close to 50ft and they show as being only 15 feet.

Pushing their decisions? This is comical.

I guess Debian, SUSE, Canonical, etc get that email from Red Hat just go along with it. We better make the switch, we don’t want our ::checks notes:: competitor made at us.