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olliej

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About olliej

Security engineer, compiler engineer, formerly browser engineer.

Technically responsible for `for(of)` in JS for better of worse (syntax wise I mean, the feature is clearly good but maybe I should have pushed harder for other syntax)

I'm on mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@ohunt but I try to avoid work-adjacent topics.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #42745996

    The Supreme Court ruled already that there does not need to be a victim, or even any real people at all in its justification to permit refusal of service to lgbt people. So I’m uns…

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    Comment #42745945

    I mean there have already been people reported to police or having all accounts cancelled for the kind of images most families have of their children growing up. This entirely igno…

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    Comment #42716736

    Um, literally days after one drone flying idiot took out an actual fire fighting plane? "Cool" Are we going to require drone pilots to have insurance that covers all potential dama…

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    Comment #42716698

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42687501

    Again, DEI does not mean "hire less qualified people from group X", it mean "don't bias your hiring of less or equally competent candidates in favor of men". It is not "sexist/raci…

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    Comment #42680207

    "Bay Area progressive politics" - you mean "don't bias your hiring in favor of male employees"? or do you mean "don't bias your hiring in favor of straight people?" Maybe we should…

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    Comment #42674821

    Why is this flagged?

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    Comment #42670822

    So it’s wage theft then? Gotta love the “disruptive” tech industry. Such innovation.

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    Comment #42668670

    The privacy problems were catastrophic - the Google CDN fed directly into Google’s pervasive tracking infrastructure. Most other CDNs similarly support tracking services. As the ar…

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    Comment #42659264

    Flying drones during wildfires is a violation of federal law for this exact reason, every one of these absolute cunts should be charged, they're posting the videos so can be traced…

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    Comment #42617612

    Filing a take down requires a sworn statement of good faith belief the claim is false, so this would appear to be perjury.

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    Comment #42603783

    But … he didn’t found any of those companies?

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    Comment #42564618

    doesn't include search?

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    Comment #42555286

    I think my favorite introduction to just how insane the pipelines, predictors, and other insanity in "modern" (more than a decade ago now) was trying to improve `Math.sqrt()` perfo…

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    Comment #42511679

    So there are multiple factors here - I used to work on browsers so have some experience here :D First off, there are legitimate security concerns with the kind of functionality req…

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    Comment #42511599

    I just use Safari and 1Blocker and everything works fine for me :D

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    Comment #42491514

    This is basically the same scam the Brave does

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    Comment #42226141

    Alternatively the Supreme Court wants to issue an ruling that says invading people's privacy for profit, or to provide it to political parties, is legal and therefore not subject t…

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    Comment #42192074

    That's nice of them (esp given their track record of shittiness). It's always seemed absurd to me how companies refuse to just make old games that they no longer sell available for…

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    Comment #42163948

    You started this thread with "I don't agree to forced arbitration", and we're discussing that you clearly have done so, for something as trivial as commenting. The whole point is t…

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    Comment #42151652

    Regarding the template make function, there’s a c++ proposal I’ve been working on: https://wg21.link/p2719 This provides the type being allocated to the operator new implementation…

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    Comment #42096888

    But you're literally using one now, with a forced arbitration agreement that you agreed to, is hackers new commenting literally more important to you than the other services you sk…

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    Comment #42083120

    I mean I’ve not had any problems with whatever the macOS built in one is, but document recognition is a a tiny part of the industry and isn’t involved in the hype bubble at all. Th…

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    Comment #42083032

    Yup. I think it’s more easy to consider when you think about what is in the bill. Like do you really want them invoicing the company that hit you with “reconstructing their wiener”…

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    Comment #42083016

    This is not quite true - if your insurance policy does not cover the full amount you can be on the hook. Of course if you don’t have insurance you’re kind of screwed, or your insur…