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devnullbyte··on TPM–Fail: TPM Meets Timing and Lattice Attacks
The researchers used the intel tpm2-tss stack.
devnullbyte··on Google spent ten years researching what makes the 'perfect' manager
It sounds like you're lucky enough to have not experienced micro management, but instead close support.

Micromanagement plays out as a constant barrage of needing to be updated on every single detail that you work on. It's immensely tiring, and essentially comes from the manager not really trusting you and exercising too much control. They need to know about every action you take and how long is it taking (and why is it taking X long). It's horrible and drives people to look elsewhere. Project managers also fail badly at this. They badly manage the customer and try always be a 'yes' man to every whim they have, and end up driving the engineers crazy by wanting constant updates hour by hour.

devnullbyte··on Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
I hope it crashes and burns. It's the opposite of what crypto was meant to achieve. No central control.
devnullbyte··on Why aren’t more companies remote-first?
I don't spend 8 hours in isolation. I lunch with my wife, pick the kids up from school and walk my dogs. I also get to go run on my local trails (as I can just work later / earlier from home to make up for it). As long as my work is done, the company does not care where / or how long I sit at a desk for. I don't have a big brother monitor making sure I stay isolated at my desk for 8 hours a day.
devnullbyte··on Why aren’t more companies remote-first?
I think its a case of argue for your limitations, and there yours to have. All of the bullet points you list can easily be solved with the many tools that are freely available.

"Some pro-remote people also say "I don't need the social interaction"

I think this is a good point. It's important to meet people in person and then you learn the niches of their character and won't find yourself trying to find translate the intent of someone typing in slack ("is that sarcasm or are they really upset?"). My engineering remote team resolves this by us having twice yearly meet ups, where we all spend a week together eating, drinking and discussing strategy.

For me this is the biggest plus of being on my own: https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt... I am in full control of interuptions .

devnullbyte··on Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool
"dstat is a widely regarded and mature tool. Looking at its repo for 'activity' without context - maybe nothing needs to be changed and its working as designed - is completely disingenious."

Its based on a entire language which is about to go EOL (Python 2)

devnullbyte··on Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool
I disagree, they were right to use the same namespace and its questionable how you conflate that to stealing. If something is abandoned, how can you steal it? The project was dead, PR's and issues were ignored and the lack of Python 3 support was a huge issue (which the developer pathetically tried to shut down discussion over by releasing a python 3 port just hours before closing the project).

Changing the name space would have been problematic, as so many people use automation tools now to install package dependencies, rather than break their work because someone has zero intention of maintaining a project, they did the right thing and used the same namespace.

Had this been a case of RH disagreed with the developers direction or any factor around an active project, it would have been a shitty move, but considering the developer ignored any offers to help and let the project to fall into a stale un-maintained state, I don't see any grounds for him to throw his rattle out of the pram and blame RH here.

devnullbyte··on Fitness influencers are full of shit
I have actually had a good experience with CBD. I am an awful sleeper, made worse by being a long distance runner (which results in too much cortisol building up). Something was going to go wrong, as the lack of sleep and heavy training load was going to result in me burning out. I acquired some CBD and found it relaxed me noticeably and gave me the sort of deep sleep I have not had since my twenties. Just taking 4-5 drops before bed, means I feel like I could have a nice lay in if I wanted to, whereas before I would get out of bed tired feeling like I never had enough, but no way was I getting any more.
devnullbyte··on Fitness influencers are full of shit
I have no idea which yoga you tried, but yoga is very strengthening to the core muscle groups when performed correctly.
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