WirelessGigabit (u/WirelessGigabit)

WirelessGigabit commented on The Most Dangerous Email (to my career) I've Sent notyourlanguage.com/post/... · Posted by u/dnoberon

WirelessGigabit · a year ago

I was in this position. Either advance to Staff Engineer (with 0% coding) or leave the group. The group I was a part of did not realize that not all good developers make good managers.

I've always firmly believed that I am not good in a people leading position, and that I excel as an IC.

I never ended up finding a new group in the company, as a company-wide layoff of software engineers ended my relationship with them.

I just found a new role as an IC, and I couldn't be happier.

WirelessGigabit commented on Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019) medium.com/javascript-sce... · Posted by u/agomez314

chimp_brain · a year ago

Feels like someone completely ignores incompetence of those who wrote the requirements

WirelessGigabit · a year ago

But if you present your badly written requirements to a person who has the culture to ask questions, you at least have that safeguard. After all, it's a collaboration.

And when you work with an offshore team, quite often as contractors, you have the issue that you don't get top quality.

The in-between company will do its very best to hire low to maximize profit.

The good quality developers work either on local grown software, or leave the country for better opportunity.

And you are now working with a group of developers whose livelihood depends on saying 'yes' or not saying 'no.

And because of this you will not know whether there is an issue in the requirements until x time later and the plane goes down.

WirelessGigabit commented on Thunderbird.net Has a New Look blog.thunderbird.net/2024... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch

saagarjha · 2 years ago

Pretty sure iOS Mail supports this

WirelessGigabit · 2 years ago

I cannot set a random outgoing From: address when sending an email in iOS. In many ways I understand applications not wanting this feature. Non-technical people will see it and wonder: What if I put in someone else's email address here?

WirelessGigabit commented on Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter nondeterministic.computer... · Posted by u/ColinWright

ethbr1 · 2 years ago

In my experience, the vast majority of corporate mail filters ban certain file types based on name extensions.

Fewer, but some, inspect files to deduce their type.

None care about encrypted zips with the file renamed to a common extension (encrypted zip manifests are unencrypted, so the file names are still visible).

WirelessGigabit · 2 years ago

This reminds me of working at a company in Brussels during eBays heydays. Their URLs looked like http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...

And the filter saw .dll and denied my request.

WirelessGigabit commented on Google opens up its smart home to everyone and will make Google TVs home hubs theverge.com/2024/5/15/24... · Posted by u/rntn

WirelessGigabit · 2 years ago

Does that mean I can talk with my Nest Thermostat without paying $5?

Edit: yes, seemingly. Good, now I can get rid of my Honeywell/Resideo thermostats that came with the house.

If you ever had a Nest (one that learns how long it takes to heat up a room and preemptively shuts down heating) you'll never want a dumb one afterwards.

WirelessGigabit commented on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content dexerto.com/tech/romance-... · Posted by u/airhangerf15

WirelessGigabit · 2 years ago

Hold on. She's not locked out. She couldn't share it with someone else . Completely different.

WirelessGigabit commented on Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript rouninmedia.github.io/pro... · Posted by u/FrostKiwi

xyst · 2 years ago

this used to be a problem in the early 00s. I don’t think spam filtering was as good back then so protecting your public email from spam was necessary.

Also this was a time when mail boxes were often allocated 10-25 megabytes. So spam bots could easily flood your email.

WirelessGigabit · 2 years ago

When I signed up for Hotmail it was 2MB.

Then on April 1st, 2004 Google launched wasn't an April 1st joke... GMail with 1GB! I remember getting a beta invite and inviting others.

WirelessGigabit commented on Jellyfin 10.9.0 jellyfin.org/posts/jellyf... · Posted by u/thunderbong

Hock88sdx · 2 years ago

Why not upgrade Ubuntu instead? Surely you can get the benefits of new security latches and other software updated as well? Indirectly then uou get this version of Jellyfin?

WirelessGigabit · 2 years ago

The problem I find is that whatever comes after 24.04 and before 26.04 will not be supported by Jellyfin.

WirelessGigabit commented on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/quibuss

jacob019 · 2 years ago

It seems that this is only an issue if there is a malicious actor present on the remote network. I've always considered VPN services to be snakeoil, and this doesn't really seem like a problem with VPN technology at all. If you are connecting to an untrusted network, then you are at risk. This has always been true. From the VPN service providers perspective, can't this be mitigated by blocking direct traffic between clients?

WirelessGigabit · 2 years ago

But VPNs are sold as the solution for when you are on an untrusted network, like at Starbucks.

But, because of this someone can have a Pineapple with a Starbucks SSID, push option 121 and capture a WHOLE bunch of traffic, even though the person using it has configured NordVPN on their iPhone with the killswitch on.

WirelessGigabit commented on Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news... · Posted by u/ople

dahart · 2 years ago

> brew temp and serving temp are orthogonal

Yes!!! I’m biting my tongue a little on how infuriating the process has been to ask cafes for warmed cold brews, but you’re spot on and exactly right. I’m baffled that so many people who sell coffee for a living, think they know a lot about it, and act like coffee snobs, don’t seem to understand what cold brew even is. (Or, in a few cases in my sampling I’m certain it was willful ignorance, laziness, because it takes a little more work and more space to cold brew.)

I will say that one of my local cafes understood completely and they’re happy to make hot cold-brewed coffee, and made me feel welcome for asking for it. One or two others were very good about it, but hands down the majority of cafes were a bad experience when asking for a warmed cold brew. Good luck to them, they’ve lost my business.

WirelessGigabit · 2 years ago

> I’m baffled that so many people who sell coffee for a living, think they know a lot about it, and act like coffee snobs, don’t seem to understand what cold brew even is.

Anecdotally, this is something I've experienced in the USA more than in Europe. When I ask a question in store a lot of times I get the feeling that the person answering considers themselves an expert and quickly make claims that I know for a fact are false.

It's like in the USA saying "I don't know, but let me get someone who does" isn't allowed.