Posts by Apprentice Human 58 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Mar 2015
As someone who left Amazon recently I laugh when that management principle is trotted out.
As an example I was RIF'ed (or made redundant, in the rest of the world) by a text message sent about 4:30am, telling me to check my email. Hardly the actions of any good employer. It was such a bad experience I would have thought it was handled by an AI process.
Err, the original series of Thunderbirds was from '64 to '66. And had many reruns, all well deserved.
The abysmal reboot "Thunderbirds are Go" was from '15 to '20.
While Artemis seems to resemble Thunderbird 1, is the reference to the '80s about a show, not being from the UK, I'm ignorant of?
Shouldn't you have expand the acronym 0-RTT to help your readers who are not into the network protocols?
0-RTT (Zero Round Trip Time) protocol.
As Bruce says, and reinforces, and can be seen as issue in a few other RFC, a full definition is missing. This leads to ambiguity, but is sometimes this is deliberate; to allow competing implementations to find the best solution.
But a great post that shows how hard it is to get security right, and how many people are working very hard to improve the protocols.
Both my wife and I have taken early retirement due to our teams being decimated or eliminated due to the AI craze.
I can say the results I see from Amazon searches are going downhill.
Managerial confidence on the results of AI are currently not based on results seen in reality resulting in massive lost of institutional knowledge.
Quality control? The myth from Redmond.
When I came across unix in '89 I realized how bad M$ was.
I keep up that unholy OS it as my wife likes her games.
1. M$ is the cutting edge of OSs of the 1960's.
2. Unix/linux is the cutting of OSs of the 1970's.
3. Err, can we do better?
I had my first run-in with Microsoft being an evil empire when posted to the Command & Staff College, Ford Queenscliff, in Victoria. I forget the time year but it had to be '88 or '89 and the company was Imagineering. Both C&SC and Imagineering are both long gone.
Microsoft, and any company representing them are doing the same thing now, as they did then.
After my issues with them I learnt about unix and never looked backed.
While Meta is worse, Micro$loth comes a close second in my opinion for really, really bad companies. (Never ask me about my 20 minute interview at Google with a drunken manager while he was at a party, and called 90 minutes late.).
This is needed when you want all people to have access to the same resources and you want to track their login/activity as separate activites.
Yes, this could all be handled by using chmod, groups, etc. but if you're from a Windows world (poor bastards) this is how they work.
I've didn't mind MS-DOS 3.x, but it all went downhill after that. Unix was always a better solution for everything but gaming. And now with Steam that's been fixed I see no reason to touch the OS that is the demon spawn of Redmond!
I left the toxic hell of X back in 2018. I joined BlueSky in the big November rush.
I've been enjoying it for following people like Paul Krugman (Nobel laureate economist) without the trolls.
However, I'm well aware that this is only temporary, and I'll bail when (rather than if) it degenerates.
So I do not consider it an echo chamber, at least not yet, while the trolls are few in numbers.
A great first story. And Apple will be a fun 2 sections, I had a job, so I was an Apple fanboy, in the Antipodes, in the late 70's and early 80's, saving up so I could get a uni degree.
I think but I'd love to see some coverage of the rise and demise of the mini-computer. I'm thinking of Pr1me (that I worked on), but also Wang, and many others, all chasing the business dollar (Sperry-Rand, and others that I forget).
And the comments have been great too.
I feel guilty using an ad blocker for The Reg, and a few other sites but it make the articles easier to read.
I don't have an ad blocker at work as the machines are managed elsewhere and installing plugins are frowned on. That means I see the ads on el Reg, and elsewhere. And most are so tuned to grab your attention that they are an obnoxious interference to point of making me cry. Between autoplay, colour saturation, and other techniques it makes me want to raze the ad mediation services.
And even with ad blockers we still have data exfiltration. Even with my custom rules in my firewall I still know, from what I'm presented with, that blocking is not perfect.
Alas, I do not see an end to this issue.
I left Oz for the USA in 2000, having finished three Y2K projects over the previous 2 years.
From my experience Australian managers are martinets; the worst sort of micro-managers who refuse to take responsibility and refuse to give any sort of guidance. And the pay is abysmal, as noted. While I have worked for several "evil empires", here in Silicon Valley, the jobs have been challenging, the pay great, and the teams have people who are highly competent. I would encourage anyone who has good IT skills to look at moving to the USA.
While I'll be heading back home for retirement, and I do miss a good meat pie, I'm under no illusion that management practices have improved in the last 2 decades. If anything, under conservative governments it's become worse with the employee having less rights, and less ways to redress unfair work issues.
Ok, the basic level is free, and that's clear from the article.
The Vivaldi website makes the tiers and extra functionality clear.
But nowhere does it talk about how much the extra tiers cost, or if the tier upgrades are device locked or are portable.
Still a great review. When I tried Vivaldi years ago, I was not impressed. The new version looks like it may get me to move over if the pricing and device portability was easier to find.
I got the MX Mini keyboard (TKL type) and the 3S mouse last week. They are brilliant to use BUT I was under the impression Logi Bolt would be like the Unify transceiver, in that you only need one to connect multiple devices.
Ouch: you need one transceiver per device if you want to use Logi Bolt for your connection. This would have been a deal breaker if I'd known before buying.
Caveat emptor.
No really....
The major users are the people that pay me. So data centers, cloud computing, etc.
But when will this turn up in the domestic equipment for gamers is the question I have. It's much more peaceful hearing my wife button-mash to "Fuck, fuck, fuck" that the angst of slow loading games.
I believe the US government would make a formal request to the Oz government to have Assange serve his time in his home country. That doesn't mean Australia has to agree and that would leave the man of the hour in the tender care of the USA.
It is possible for Australia to start the proceedings too, but I don't see why they would take the costs of caring for a second class hacker, should a custodial sentence be the final outcome... probably in 2026 or 2027 at this rate.
Gambling going on here? Err, is that movie on again? No, it's just the normal practice out of Redmond.
Look at how M$ are starting to tie the browser back into the OS. The corporate culture seems to be "We are Microsoft, we do what we want." and laws are for others.
This latest case is just another example of why I have never, and will never, applied to work for them.
"Was going to buy a spider from a pet shop, then realised I could pick one up on the web. Here all week"
The pain of this pun deserves an elephant stamp, and an elephant to stamp on the sub-editor that added it, or allowed it to go through!
As Johnathan Harris emoted: "The pain, the pain".
Hmm, sounds a lot like most of my previous roles:
Work to deadlines.
Daily reports, in depth monthly reports.
Cover a variety of technologies and give an in-depth report after investigation.
I think I'll stay where I am and retire in a few more years and leave this for a younger generation and continue to wonder what sort of masochist becomes a journalist. It makes the credo of alt.sysadmin.recovery look like a step up to easy street.
Quote: Lee lamented the “cancel culture mob who has actively infiltrated major FOSS projects"
Soon as I read the term "cancel culture" I take Lee to be an entitled, right-wing, USA based, Donald Trump supporter. So it's not surprising people left, or that his actions would make others, like me, consider him a fool.
Not that I've used FreeNode but I can see it now disappearing, not unlike the Titanic.
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