Readit NewsBogusIKnow commented on Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages gist.github.com/ligurio/f... · Posted by u/protomyth
I think being able to "unpledge" would defeat the purpose of pledge. Instead, I think the better way would be to have your app run by a parent, and when you lose connectivity to your db server, you crash your app on purpose and whenever your app crashes, parent restarts it. Problem solved, I think.
Thanks!
BogusIKnow commented on Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages gist.github.com/ligurio/f... · Posted by u/protomyth
Idea looks really really nice.
Not sure how some edge cases (?) are handled. For example if a database server goes down, my app that uses pledge needs to open another socket to another server. Reload of changed configurations?
"Unpledge" then pledge again? Whitepaths?
BogusIKnow commented on Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages gist.github.com/ligurio/f... · Posted by u/protomyth
Here's Theo de Raadt explaining how pledge(2) works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7S1eqKsFk
Content starts at around 14:30 minutes if you want to jump over the bashing of others and self-adulation by Theo.
BogusIKnow commented on Congratulations You’ve Been Fired mobile.nytimes.com/2016/0... · Posted by u/dcschelt
"She was 35, had been with the company for four years, and was told without explanation by her 28-year-old manager"
What's the fuzz about the ages? Age discrimination by NYT author?
BogusIKnow commented on Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak craigmurray.org.uk/archiv... · Posted by u/kushti
"There is no mention at all of use of Mossack Fonseca by massive western corporations or western billionaires – the main customers."
Such as strong claim ('main customers') would be nice to be substantiated.
Also the author needs to show the data is there.
If this is the map (linked in another comment), and it main customers were not cut out, then it doesn't look as it has a lot of e.g. US content.
https://briankilmartin.cartodb.com/viz/54ddb5c0-f80e-11e5-9a...
BogusIKnow commented on Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak craigmurray.org.uk/archiv... · Posted by u/kushti
On CNN, top news is about some soccer star charged with DUI.
And nothing about this Panama thing on the home page.
The soccer star is from the Panama leaks.
BogusIKnow commented on Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak craigmurray.org.uk/archiv... · Posted by u/kushti
>That article is bullshit.
I found the article useful actually.
I mistakenly assumed, very naively, that these people handling the leaks were wikileaks kind of people and not these other kind of people:
>The leak is being managed by the grandly but laughably named “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists”, which is funded and organised entirely by the USA’s Center for Public Integrity. Their funders include
>Ford Foundation >Carnegie Endowment >Rockefeller Family Fund >W K Kellogg Foundation >Open Society Foundation (Soros)
If you quote these, then why not the more completly:
"CPI reports receiving foundation support from a number of foundations, including the Sunlight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Open Society Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.[31] The Barbra Streisand Foundation reports that it has funded CPI." -Wikipedia
And from their website: "Recent ICIJ funders include: Adessium Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Fritt Ord Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Ford Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and Waterloo Foundation."
From the reporting:
- Fat Cat Hotel: How Democratic High-Rollers Are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House.
- Windfalls of War, a report arguing that campaign contributions to George W. Bush affected the allocation of reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq
- CPI's report, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?,[45] looking at the roots of the global financial crisis
- Tobacco Underground, an ongoing project tracing the global trade in smuggled cigarettes
(All from Wikipedia)
It is funny how in your head, one image of a company is replace by another over time. It does not happen instantly, but with more and more actions by the company (open source .NET, Ubuntu on Windows,...) the image changes over time. I found that fascinating watching myself change the image of MS in my head.
BogusIKnow commented on My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT blog.pinboard.in/2016/03/... · Posted by u/firloop
I am the CEO over at IFTTT. I apologize for any misunderstanding our communications today have caused. I built the Pinboard Channel on IFTTT and have maintained it for years. I am also a paying customer of Pinboard! I’ve built for hundreds of platforms and any changes to those platforms by default suck. At IFTTT, we've been on the receiving end of platform changes too many times to count. I want to make sure we do it better. Pinboard is a beloved service. Every service is, on IFTTT or not. We care about the people who use them and build them. The changes we are asking for are indeed more work, but we know they will lead to a better Pinboard Channel on IFTTT in the long term. I'd love to see Pinboard stay on IFTTT and am willing to give them the time they need and even come over to help myself!
"we've been on the receiving end of platform changes too many times to count."
But this is the value you provide, this is your raison d'etre.