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mynameislegion··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
LWN | remote | full-time

LWN are hiring an editor, more info on their site:

https://lwn.net/Articles/696258/ https://lwn.net/Articles/696017/

mynameislegion··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Software Heritage | Paris, France, EU | Full-time | onsite

Software Heritage are hiring a front-end web developer, more details on their website:

https://www.softwareheritage.org/2016/09/13/job-opportunity-...

mynameislegion··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
FSF | Boston | Full-time | onsite

The Free Software foundation is hiring a senior GNU/Linux Systems Administrator, more details on their website:

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-job-opportunity-senior-gnu-linu...

mynameislegion··on Exfiltrating files with BusyBox
busybox also has wget and a httpd
mynameislegion··on A list of all Android permissions
Intents are the best permissions system.
mynameislegion··on Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
I call that source code publication or public source code.
mynameislegion··on Tup – A file-based build system for Linux, OS X, and Windows
fanotify replaces inotify
mynameislegion··on Opus codec available now in Asterisk
If so, Oracle did too:

> Transcoding the Opus codec requires a special license as it is subject to a royalty agreement.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E61547_01/doc/esbc_ecz730_mainten...

mynameislegion··on Opus codec available now in Asterisk
I wonder if they got shook down by a patent troll?
mynameislegion··on Tup – A file-based build system for Linux, OS X, and Windows
The very last part of this page explains it quite well:

http://gittup.org/tup/ex_a_first_tupfile.html

mynameislegion··on When world leaders thought you shouldn't need passports or visas
Even in modern times, international air tickets are more expensive and worldwide wages lower than you imagine.
mynameislegion··on Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
NC licenses aren't considered "Open Source":

http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd

mynameislegion··on Campaign in Oakland pushing for greater control of police surveillance
Better mental health services?
mynameislegion··on “Why do you work in security instead of something more lasting?”
Open source!
mynameislegion··on Introducing the Open Images Dataset
http://voxforge.org/
mynameislegion··on A Neural Network for Machine Translation, at Production Scale
Apertium is another one

http://apertium.org/

mynameislegion··on On Phone Numbers and Identity
Using diceware strings as the secret questions/answers is good because they are then readable and pronounceable over the phone if you ever actually have to use them.
mynameislegion··on The Simpsons by the Data
I demand now an analysis of the gender bias in Gilmore girls, Gossip girl and Pretty litte liars.
mynameislegion··on Not Just Any Old Geek
How is 35 considered old?
mynameislegion··on YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers
More tools along the same lines: cclive get-flash-videos iview-cli nomnom pafy svtplay-dl quvi nicovideo-dl WWW::YouTube::Download
mynameislegion··on Ask HN: Motivation
Do some open source stuff, go to some open source conferences and make friends with open source people. Eventually the community will be a major motivator. Eventually you'll find a job doing open source things.
mynameislegion··on Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS
https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
mynameislegion··on Ask HN: What do you use for remote access?
I obviously wasn't suggesting that.
mynameislegion··on Ask HN: What do you use for remote access?
Untrue, there are options to set a key so that no-one who doesn't have the key can even contact the onion service.
mynameislegion··on Ask HN: What do you use for remote access?
Port forwarding, reverse SSH tunnel or Tor onion service. All three for more reliability.
mynameislegion··on A Rare Tour of Microsoft’s Hyperscale Datacenters
Whats the green card?
mynameislegion··on After New York Attack, Congress Wants TSA to Secure Amtrak, Buses
Still not an excuse:

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

mynameislegion··on After New York Attack, Congress Wants TSA to Secure Amtrak, Buses
You could drive instead of taking the train.
mynameislegion··on After New York Attack, Congress Wants TSA to Secure Amtrak, Buses
Running from the USA would mean you run to another country which probably has the same proportion (or worse) of people that mindcrime is complaining about.
mynameislegion··on Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff
Especially certain electronics companies.
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