smorgusofborg

Left out matrix as an alternative?

Matrix is even more overwhelming than slack in the same sense that email is more overwhelming than lotus notes. Maybe overwhelming is fine if the use for the tech isn't siloed to solving communication in only one part of their life.

Whenever you file a DMCA appeal with GitHub/etc you would have the option to file a takedown on the jack ass. Some projects doing it occasionally would trigger the right conservative fears at corporations to reduce the market.

The CC licenses should probably be adjusted to make a DMCA attempt a permanent revocation of license. That way DMCAs can flow in the opposite direction and people can learn things.

Ah, you are too optimistic about the desktop in general. Landlines and desktops failed in the developing world first. It is contracting back to workstation users of old (STEM academia, IT, graphics) and maybe Adobe will do their hold out again like refusing to properly support windows when Mac was in the hole but they should get pretty desperate as the gateway platforms to their products become unwanted by the general population.

This isn't really a coherent statement. The DoD's rules do prevent this; the NSA refuses to follow DoD rules.

Reading the article of December 2nd it seems accurate to me. Ubiquiti was wrong about the scope, that the incident was external. It says the suspect was pretending to be a whistleblower. It sounds to me like the suspect wasn't a liar when whistleblowing so what would Krebs retract?

There are two main hurdles in consulting:

1. Sales time is free. Even with established clients they are likely to work project by project and expect detailed quotes/estimates and initial discussions that take a lot of time, then there's billing and general business handling..

2. There is a forever war between large generalist consultants and niche consultants. Working ~alone you will probably have to be an expert in a niche and there is always business pressure to use a large consultant for everything even if their work is sub-par. (Accounts payable, etc, don't care about quality of consultants but about number of tasks.)

Planning for these factors is important, and combined with having no one to bill for more general maintenance hours and attempts of various orgs to get their "standard discount" for volume, being a startup, or being an NGO it is important to make sure you ask for a high enough rate. With contracting, seeking 1.5-2x is a minimum in most tax systems, with consulting at least 3x your intended income from an equivalent full time job.

Making OSes or browsers you are in a market share competition whether you like it or not because that dictates a lot about changes to how the environment deals with you in the future. One can ignore the least engaged/satisfied/likely-to-contribute users and their perceptions at one's peril.

Cool, it is a lot to start researching but you sound like you use a very similar style to things I am used to in other languages.

On guice/gwizard/maven, if I understand correctly I would be defining new guice DI for something like a message broker (and gwizard's solutions for similar modules might serve as a template) while probably just using direct dependencies in maven for something that doesn't need to be mocked in unit tests or replaceable in production?

What's the use of being a shill for civilisation ending environmental policy? I think Dr. Strangelove himself demonstrates the character profile..

If the world is going to stick to a sanctions plan it needs to destroy all those pipelines now and sanction Russian Oil, shutting down only the parts of Russia's economy that don't reinforce Putin's power is only going to work if it has been done early enough and it has been over 2 decades, so probably it is not.

I wonder if this will reawaken Vatican banker death investigations.

s/pro-Russian/pro-Putin? IMO pro Russian trolls are very cool but usually get imprisoned by Putin.

I'm not really seeing that difference in requirements. Most of the forums were trivial to find in all sorts of Google searches, allowing thousands of people to create a new unique account, and then get banned for violating the pinned rules about asking a question by one of the <100 users that could be recognized as being a repeated chat mate on the one forum. Many of those obsessives on one forum would never be findable somewhere else where they might not have been an expert.

I find it a bit sad that thousands of people are on FB using their real names and turning person who says stupid things about several different hobbies into a permanent part of their own fairly permanent identity and I don't actually see how it helps anything. But maybe people who don't find it creepy see something I don't.