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BeefySwain

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BeefySwain··on An SPA Alternative
Can you be specific about what exactly an exploit taking advantage of this in HTMX would look like?
BeefySwain··on Soft deletion probably isn't worth it
Could someone take a stab at an example of what this would look like? Sounds really interesting.
BeefySwain··on Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates
> And I loved the stories when the government introduced a new land registry (based on reality) and the chaos the ensured

Could you provide some links expanding on this? Or a phrase to Google? Sounds fascinating.

BeefySwain··on Permissive forwarding rule leads to unintentional exposure of containers (2021)
Yeah it's nuts. The best solution I've found is some kind of cloud firewall, whether that be an off the self service that you use with whatever cloud provider you are using, or rolling your own by routing all traffic through another host that doesn't have Docker nuking all your firewall rules every time it restarts.
BeefySwain··on Enabling Developer Mode on a Device
Can someone summarize how this compares to how things were prior (if there is even any change at all)? Does this make it easier or harder to sideload apps, for instance?
BeefySwain··on Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
> Open kernel modules support all Ampere and Turing GPUs. Datacenter GPUs are supported for production, and support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs is alpha quality.

Sounds like this is not going to be what I game on for at least a little bit?

BeefySwain··on Running Arduino Firmware on a GOJO LTX-7 Soap Dispenser
Huh.. any idea if this would work on an LTX-12? I happen to have a couple (few?) hundred of them lying around..
BeefySwain··on The Uber Bubble
Same. The language they use for that feature (on both apps) is extremely misleading, if not just straight up false. They clearly want you to believe that you are guaranteed a ride when you schedule ahead.
BeefySwain··on Accidentally making a language, for an engine, for a game
Speaking of making a language for an engine for a game...
BeefySwain··on Strype, a Python frame-based editor
Is this open-source? Couldn't find anything about that anywhere.

Would be awesome to integrate this with some other libraries made for beginners.

BeefySwain··on Strict Python function parameters
> One thing to note about it is tiangolo is pretty content to maintain singular control over his projects which means the project only really advances when he has the time or interest to work on that specific project.

Yes, he recently responded to some criticism of this basically saying that he has no real intention to increase the bus factor or permit more community control to his projects, which is obviously his right, but is also something that people should consider when deciding whether or not to go with them.

BeefySwain··on I’m a public school teacher – the kids aren’t alright
Universal N95 and at-home rapid test distribution
BeefySwain··on Balcony solar panels – one-year results
Wait until you hear about the state of oil and gas subsidies.
BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
The report tells you in the last 24 months who has looked at this info, so you could check that.
BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Good catch, I'll add that.
BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Hijacking here to say, literally all you need to get access to someones employment + salary history is their SSN and birthdate.

edit: and a past employer that used this system

Birthdays are extremely easy to get (public record), and I seem to recall a specific large organization leaking a bunch of SSN's not too long ago.......

BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
It appears to be even more restrictive then that: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

> An employer shall not rely on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in determining whether to offer employment to an applicant or what salary to offer an applicant.

That being said, how do you enforce a provision like that in the face of every company having all information on every candidate, seeing that mind reading hasn't been invented yet.

BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Right now? Probably not possible unless you are also sharing information on your own employees.

In 6 months after the inevitable breach? Free for everyone.

BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Would I personally? No. But then I would not ask the requisite question of "what was your prior salary" in the first place.

Fact of the matter is that this tool makes it trivial for medium and large employers to suppress wages.

BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Great idea!
BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
NOTE: It is possible to freeze access to your employment data here: https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze

That being said, it doesn't stop employers from continuing to hand Equifax your data on a gold platter, and therefore does nothing to protect you from the inevitable data breach that will result in Equifax being required to give everyone affected $0.36 or one year of free credit monitoring.

BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Employers provide it. Obviously they could report incorrectly, but it's not like Equifax is just guessing.
BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
I checked earlier today and yep, my employer is selling my data and future earnings potential to the company that is infamous for poor data security.

A confounding factor is that as a hiring manager, and at least for all the hiring decisions I have been involved in, I know we did not use this to check candidates. So what's the upside?

EDIT: ADP Workforcenow appears to do this automatically. I'm curious to find out if anyone in our company even knows it is happening. I will find out soon enough, as this is definitely a hill to die on.

BeefySwain··on Employment Data Report
Use this website to see what data of yours (potentially including salary history) Equifax is selling to prospective employers.
BeefySwain··on New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads
> for a big group of people
BeefySwain··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2022)
Your linkedin url is dead, FYI
BeefySwain··on Polis – Large Scale Discussions
I thought this looked really cool, but couldn't find a way to browse existing discussions/polls, so I created one:

Topic: ZFS in Mainline

https://pol.is/3h8kkbfdme

BeefySwain··on Reporter who told Missouri officials of website flaw did 'nothing out of line'
I understand your point, but what's the alternative? The answer can't be roll over and ignore people negligently/dangerously ignorant people in positions of power.

If your premise is true (that the harder those who understand this push against it, the harder he will push back, and the voters of his state like him for that) then there is no winning strategy here.

BeefySwain··on Microsoft .NET Devs Anonymously Responds to Microsoft .NET Leadership
Is there some context available or can someone provide some background?
BeefySwain··on Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
Did you appeal? Or reach out to the ACLU or EFF? I'll admit I'm somewhat skeptical of your account, but if true I would expect a post demonstrating so would be on the front page of this site quite quickly.
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