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mjg59

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security at https://aurora.tech, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu. Blog: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org. He/him.

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Getting to ride in a self-driving Waymo with the Phoenix Wright soundtrack is certainly an experience

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Twitter rolled out half-assed encrypted DMs and people are angry that Bluesky didn't?

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Recruiters! If the first paragraph on your site talks about your defence contracting work, it is not going to be a good fit

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I'm still curious whether the Free Software Definition's choice to require the ability to use free software for any purpose is entirely deliberate - is there any writing on why free software must permit being used to restrict people's ability to exercise the four freedoms?

(I agree with the argument that it would be extremely difficult to write a license that enshrined this without restricting legitimate use cases, but if someone were able to do so, /should/ it be free software?)

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@abe no, only if you actually do use it to take the freedom away

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My @emf talk will be at 4:40PM on the Friday, and I'll be talking about how the XZ backdor was implemented, deployed, and discovered: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/409-the-xz-backdoor-what-why-and-how

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@michaelguntsche there should be

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Beowulf cluster of iPad Pros.

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@Migueldeicaza a six-pack of iPad Pros would have more compute than 90s us could ever imagine

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@jwz @Migueldeicaza maybe that's what actually happened

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Heading home from the cabin and the contrast between the industrial wasteland between the rail line and the water and the beauty of everything behind it never ceases to amaze me

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Why does my IdP have two entirely different flows for MFA auth depending on how you're hitting it

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User freedom is obviously the most important aspect of free software but the economic cost of staring at wire dumps to figure out a transaction flow instead of just being able to read the implementation should not be understated

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Yeah Twitter is fine

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