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New comment by goatinaboat in "Pinterest bans all weight loss ads"

goatinaboat — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:37:51 +0000

It is also the number one factor in Covid mortality, once you discount old age which is non-discretionary.

New comment by goatinaboat in "Change.org workers form a union"

goatinaboat — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:09:53 +0000

they only had 13 employees and now they have something like 500

They are not all engineers. I’ll bet most are account managers looking after big advertising spenders.

New comment by goatinaboat in "Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense"

goatinaboat — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 20:50:46 +0000

The one sort of surveillance schools need is live webcams so parents can monitor lesson content

New comment by goatinaboat in "WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted"

goatinaboat — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 10:48:13 +0000

I am sure there are Windows NT machines still in service. I think my Dad has one in his basement. Should Windows forever support NT?

If they were offering an online service, then yes. These devices were compromised by WD’s online file sharing tool.

New comment by goatinaboat in "WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted"

goatinaboat — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 04:28:52 +0000

I would agree if't s a non-EoL products. This, not so much.

A company should not be permitted to just declare something “EoL” if it is still in widespread usage. They made it, they support it as long as any customer still has it.

New comment by goatinaboat in "Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage"

goatinaboat — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:42:53 +0000

When I containerized MongoDB, Docker helpfully inserted an allow rule into iptables, opening up MongoDB to the world.

This is crazy. Your network should have been on a private IP address space behind a firewall running static NAT exposing only ports 80 and 443 on a routable IP address. This is network architecture 101.

New comment by goatinaboat in "The inventor of the black box was told to drop the idea"

goatinaboat — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 11:48:11 +0000

It is such an obvious development, if not to replace so to complement. But perhaps there are challenges around it that are not obvious?

You might be surprised how scant and expensive bandwidth becomes once you are out of sight of land

New comment by goatinaboat in "Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture"

goatinaboat — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 06:34:53 +0000

AFAIK, the "defund the police" chant was supposed to be in response to American police forces buying army vehicles and gear. That is not a thing in Canada

In the UK they scream “don’t shoot” at unarmed police, whom they call “Feds”. It’s surreal, like they don’t even know what country they’re in.

New comment by goatinaboat in "Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture"

goatinaboat — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 06:30:18 +0000

The reason it cannot be discussed is because the us president decided to politicize the issue front and center. That inevitably forces the heavy hand censorship

Flip that around: hundreds of thousands died because it was more important for the media to attack Trump than to report truthfully. We weren’t even supposed to discuss HCQ for example, because Trump suggested it, despite all the mountains of scientific evidence about its effectiveness.

New comment by goatinaboat in "Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’"

goatinaboat — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 08:57:10 +0000

low-intelligence people

mainly from the college educated

What would you call going $200,000 into debt for a non-STEM degree?

College education is no sign of intelligence, it’s often the opposite.

New comment by goatinaboat in "UK and EU launch antitrust probes into Facebook"

goatinaboat — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:13:24 +0000

Probe, probe, probe, that’s all they ever do. But they know and Facebook knows that no action will ever be taken

New comment by goatinaboat in "Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’"

goatinaboat — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 08:13:52 +0000

That doesn't sound like an unbiased removal of politics from the workplace to me. I think I would be out of the door, too.

Why, do you "assume bad intent" and "make unsubstantiated accusations"? Do you want to, or do you want to work with people that do? I don't think anyone who quits because those "behaviours are not tolerated" will be missed by their former colleagues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule

New comment by goatinaboat in "Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces"

goatinaboat — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:24:25 +0000

This is the only instance relating to offensive social media I've ever heard of where someone got reassigned and not fired

Yes it's very strange isn't it, I wonder what the reason could be

New comment by goatinaboat in "Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B"

goatinaboat — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:09:49 +0000

I always thought Microsoft would be a natural buyer given the tech stack and Microsoft's support for developers.

The heyday of SO is long over and all the serious Q+A takes place on GitHub, which MS already owns.

New comment by goatinaboat in "Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed"

goatinaboat — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 06:05:48 +0000

When you are a consultant or contractor, you still have assess to kiss and jerks to take orders from. You actually have to work a lot harder at keeping the folks in charge happy. And worse, they can fire you in two weeks instead of 6 months

You can choose between the illusion of security or the illusion of freedom, that’s the choice

New comment by goatinaboat in "One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack"

goatinaboat — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:59:39 +0000

Although not a cyberattack it reminds me of the massive supply disruption and culling that occurred in the UK because of the mad cow disease

Still a form of information warfare attack, perpetuated by none other than Neil Ferguson, operating in plain sight. If he was a hacker he would be in prison but he does incalculable damage again and again and gets away Scot free every time!

New comment by goatinaboat in "One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack"

goatinaboat — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:58:16 +0000

remember back in the 90's that there was talk about building out a business focused Internet.

They exist. Radianz, BPIPE and several more.

New comment by goatinaboat in "Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this"

goatinaboat — Sun, 30 May 2021 22:02:15 +0000

Maybe 80% of the people that opine on this subject are in category 3)

Category 3 is actually “what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander”

New comment by goatinaboat in "Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this"

goatinaboat — Sun, 30 May 2021 21:58:53 +0000

my impression is that those threatened boycotts won't really cause much damage to companies

It still boggles my mind to see multi-billion dollar multinational companies cowering in terror from what is probably no more than a few dozen Twitter users in each case, none of whom were customers anyway, they just have too much time on their hands

New comment by goatinaboat in "Overkill objects for everyday life"

goatinaboat — Sun, 30 May 2021 19:41:11 +0000

“Military grade” means “made by the lowest bidder” in reality