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I don’t think you're wrong to be worried, and you certainly don’t have to justify yourself to me. Achieving security and privacy (not just online) is possible, but I believe it com…

It’s obvious that they want privacy, but it’s not obvious why they want that level of privacy. I want privacy too but I don’t own several burner phones that I paid for with cash.

Right, it starts to raise questions for me when someone goes out of their way to choose less popular, more encrypted options. There are certainly contexts where I think that makes …

A paradox in my own life is that I think people should have a right to use encryption for their personal data and communication, but I’m often suspicious of people who do so withou…

I think coding tests can be done in a way that’s useful, but on the other hand I’ve never been fooled by a candidate who was an “impostor” during a non-technical screening. Everyon…

Anecdotally, I was in a fraternity many years ago and we were warned that forcing new recruits to perform tasks that aren’t the responsibilities of being a full-member could be vie…

Wow! I didn’t even realize heroku was still around. Made my first web apps there back before the big cloud providers became ubiquitous.

One thing I’ve observed is that outside the main tech job markets (bay area, nyc, etc), many remote jobs offer higher salaries than similar in-person roles.

OpenTofu PR’d a feature in response to a request to do what Terraform had done under a different license. Hashicorp would be foolish not to look into it.

The argument OpenTofu and their lawyers are making is that they didn’t copy the “removed” statement, which is under the new BUSL license, they looked at the “moved” statement (lice…