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I especially appreciate this on the assumption that it will be pulled in as input for AI training.

Fathom takes privacy pretty seriously - they're still somewhat early stage in terms of functionality, but a great place to start.

My company relies on DynamoDB, so we're totally down. edit: partly down; it's sporadically failing

Nah. Java applets involved running an actual JVM on every client computer, which meant basically doubling the risk surface of the browser... plus you had a completely different UI …

100% yes. It's also about the entire internet & its users, not just threat models on specific sites. We can't ask the general public to consider threat models and evaluate what sit…

I did not get the sense that this is a balanced perspective. The author does have a point that not sterilizing your pet will likely lead to criticism, even though it's a more nuanc…

Both using LetsEncrypt. A few maybe-useful thoughts: * setting up LE & an auto-renewing cert isn't too hard, and it feels smarter than paying for a cert the old way, but if you're …

Patients Know Best, REMOTE-only (no physical office). Full-time, with occasional exceptions. Core working hours: within a few hours of GMT -- current IRL span: Costa Rica to Bangal…

This is the reason. It's abstractly difficult to inform a person that their close family member has died, potentially from violent causes, possibly very suddenly. But come down thi…

TL;DR... so how did they get it?

Hi Emil, apologies, we're due for another dive into applications. We do try to reply to everyone, but at present we're small enough (and busy enough) that we run through applicatio…

Patients Know Best, REMOTE-only. Full-time, with occasional exceptions. Core working hours: within a few hours of GMT (current IRL span: Costa Rica to Bangalore). See my other post…

I started writing Java with no IDE; and mostly just used * imports; that worked pretty well (and I don't remember it being a headache at all). In IDE land (since, uh, I guess the f…

I have no trouble believing this of Facebook; that said, I find it frustrating that he could very easily be seriously misrepresenting what triggered this block, and still be "hones…

This is how my wife & I moved to France, in 2006; we each got a "Titre de sejour", a 1-year, renewable, long-stay visitor visa. It's not a regular tourist visa (and in fact if you'…

It's worth emphasizing... the paper trail must show you're doing everything you can to warn the company that this project is currently on track to fail, and (as much as you can ill…

I do think "they" will prevail, certainly more easily than than xe or thon or other invented options. So I actually use it, though there's still a part of my brain that flashes a r…

It's just an alternative to using "he" (or "they", which still feels a bit awkward) to describe a hypothetical person. Either flip a coin to choose their gender, or always use "she…

A few different people are trying to politely show you a way you're undercutting yourself.

Is this something only for people who want to start writing, and need to start building the habit to put in time every day? Or can it also be useful for people who already write? T…

A few other minor typos I noticed (since this seems to be the typo thread!): for today(the green circle) (missing space) On you profile page (your)

Yes, but if they're already downloaded the last decade of your email history... well, I'm not sure how much it helps that you're blocking them from further access. What if they sta…

Note to self: if I renounce my US citizenship, do NOT check the box saying "I'm doing this for tax reasons". Seriously, this is apparently real law, but according to a "citation ne…

What's your reasoning here, actually? There are still fairly few expats who go to the trouble to renounce their citizenship... so "good riddance" to them? It's perhaps worth pointi…