Klox

I had heard of them before but thought it had some bandwidth limits. A brief search right now makes me think I had the wrong impression. I will consider giving them a try. Thanks!

I’m interested in running ipv6 for my home but my ISP doesn’t support ipv6 yet heh. Maybe I’ll send them this graph.

Can someone tell him Iran is also fighting climate change? Maybe he’ll be willing to fight it too.

Lmfao, the guy knows a thing or two about illegal taxation extortion.

Can you even imagine what Harris would have done?! Whew we really dodged a nuke.

Strongest card to get nuked? Wut…

God fucking damnit, so fucking frustrating. Another 30+ years of “terrorists” because people will avenge war crimes committed by the US. This is maddening.

Personally I think we’ll continue to have problems if misinformation is never found culpable of the deaths that they cause. There’s no way this person decided to drink unpasteurized milk alone. Who was her community and why aren’t they being held accountable? I have the same concerns with the head of the HHS, and previous cases of stochastic terrorism. Our system of justice (or what it once was…) is just illprepared for this.

I am wondering if this is presented better in different UIs. I’m regularly using the Summit Android app and there’s at least a button to see cross-posted communities with a comment counter to see if there’s more action traction somewhere else. It might be nice if it had some indicator that there’s a more active thread than the one I am currently on. I am not sure how other front ends handle it.

Or maybe the issue is dual posted content that isn’t cross-linked because it was submitted independently. Not sure of a solution to that that isn’t a lot of work.

I think the problem is her not properly informing the judge WHY she is being stonewalled or ignored by her company. The judge holding her in contempt is probably not going to do anything because ICE doesn’t give a fuck. So she should name names who WILL give a fuck so that they will be held in contempt.

The judicial branch could do something, include holding federal employees in contempt.

I don’t understand how the federal government gets a pass breaking all these fucking laws. It was ALREADY the law! Where are the consequences? Rule of law my fucking ass. Are the officers that arrested Representative LaMonica McIver and Mayor Ras Baraka facing ANY consequences?

I took a voluntary layoff from Google last year. It’s probably self-rationalizing, but IMO I had an excellent role at the company for the last 5 years of my time. I helped design a system that locks down and redacts server logs across many of Google’s services. Only on-call engineers with an emergency backed by a post mortem review could get temporary access to original server logs. The system doesn’t delete all data but it can enforce codified contracts, country/state regulations, make certain privacy gurantees, and surface problems for auditing.

Google has made and continues to make poor business decisions, but from my experience they are one of the best big companies managing user privacy. I can’t speak for all of Google’s business units (well I can’t speak for the company at all, heh), but the privacy zeitgeist says the opposite which I’ve found misleading, but could never really speak to while being employed.

User data is taken extremely seriously at Google, and I worked with hundreds of people that would gladly get fired if asked to do anything unethical with user data. They audit and lock down access, build systems for guaranteeing anonymization (systems in place long before I worked there), report compliance, and most importantly they work independently from the employees that use the data. Every business unit had committees to consult and review privacy specifically. I was also an expert consultant for several privacy incidents and the number of people involved and the seriousness taken was personally impressive for even minor incidents.

IMO it’s still one of the best companies to work for, but there’s many legitimate reasons to cut them out. My opinion switched when Google had their first layoff in January 2023. The company had issues (I am sure there are plenty of legit lawsuits that I know nothing about that can be fixed with money and internal/external controls and improvements), but in that moment I realized it’s not the company I thought I knew. Rough ordering of reasons for my exit:

1. Government contracts supporting fascism (Israel, CBP, ICE, face tracking, etc.).
2. The layoffs.
3. Pichai going to inauguration and capitulating. GOP donations.
4. 180 on remote culture.
5. AI slop.

There’s probably more if I reflected longer. Maybe I should have resigned sooner, idk. I’m glad I made the choice that I could.

Google was good to me for the years I was there. I got up to L6 and saved enough for my family to exit on my own terms and find a better environment. I’m still looking heh.

Happy to answer some questions (culture, privacy, SWE/SRE, oncall, etc.) if there are any. The company is massive and I saw only a small slice.

Awesome. I’m back to PC gaming after a lonnggg hiatus. I’ve been playing on Switch 1 so wasn’t completely in the dark about games, but I’ve recently played through Half-Life 1+2+episodes, Star Wars Outlaws, Jedi Fallen Order + Survivor, SW Squadrons, KOTOR 1 + mod packs replay, RV there yet, Schedule I, Deep Rock Galactic, and couple rogue lites. Also playing Ark for the first time.

My immediate queue is HL Alyx in VR, Star Wars Squadron replay in VR, and KOTOR 2 replay + mods.

I got the Master Chief collection and am going to go through the games chronologically starting with Reach. I’ve already played 1-3 on Xbox when they came out.

My backlog is Fallout games, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Subnautica 1+2, Cyber Punk 2077, Arkham Trilogy. I’m on the fence about Mass Effect Legendary edition replay (I played the 3 games what they came out). There are a lot more that I’m not committed to yet: Eden Ring, Baulders Gate, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Elder Scrolls Oblivion remaster. I should add Max Payne and The Last of Us to that list.

If there’s any obvious ones I’m missing please let me know! I’m also getting my young kids into PC gaming, so will be revisiting some classics.

100%. Same for Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Chicago. The guy tried driving away from an illegal stop and they executed him.

They are recording so that they can dox and harass protestors later, e.g. the bullshit they pulled with Charlie Kirk.

I’m so disappointed in Illinois over Silverio Villegas Gonzalez’s murder. They have a lot of video too but AFAIK not “the shot” moment. DHS acted illegally and shot him while he was driving away. The state has done nothing. NOTHING. We’ve abandoned justice and I have a hard time coming to terms with that. I hope Minnesota does better.