ageofwant (u/ageofwant)

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ageofwant commented on US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago bbc.com/news/articles/c4g... · Posted by u/niuzeta

scarab92 · 10 months ago

A grudge?

They've just been put into a strong negotiating position, because now both parties acknowledge that these are key employees.

ageofwant · 10 months ago

Yes good, and now because their value is appreciated they can be paid what they will be paid in the private sector, perhaps ~180k/y instead of 60k/y. So if you fire 2/3 of the workforce and pay those that remain what they are "worth", you have saved exactly what ?

ageofwant commented on US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago bbc.com/news/articles/c4g... · Posted by u/niuzeta

ageofwant · 10 months ago

You have clearly never worked in any sizeable workforce, and I can assure you your basic presumption that large private sector workforces does not have broken processes is childishly naive. The "problem" is you, making assumptions of waste where there is none to speak off, unless you can provide some actual data to back that up. The average federal employee earns about $60k/y, they are not there for the money. Firing all federal employees will same about 7h of borrowing.

I'm sorry but the narrative you have invested in so deeply is not founded in reality, not that I expect anyone explaining facts to you will make any appreciable difference.

Enjoy the pain you elected to bring upon yourself, you deserve the government you got.

ageofwant commented on Htmx, Rust and Shuttle: A New Rapid Prototyping Stack shuttle.rs/blog/2023/10/2... · Posted by u/openquery

ageofwant · 2 years ago

Rust is many things, "rapid development" is not one of those things.

ageofwant commented on PyPI Security talkpython.fm/episodes/sh... · Posted by u/SethMLarson

andersa · 2 years ago

Because it installs like 100,000 python scripts of mystery origin that run with full privileges. Even if the maintainers are unlikely to be malicious on purpose, it only takes one person accidentally putting a typo in a dependencies file in one of the hundreds of packages it imports... many of which not commonly used ones.

ageofwant · 2 years ago

no it doesn't

ageofwant commented on The Bvp47 - a Top-tier Backdoor [sic] of US NSA Equation Group pangulab.cn/en/post/the_b... · Posted by u/l0new0lf-G

oDot · 2 years ago

Don't the others OS have varying levels of app sandboxing while Linux has basically none?

ageofwant · 2 years ago

'app sandboxing' is one part, of a small part, of a subsection of a general thread model, why would you pick that when you talk about 'secure'? And LOL no, Linux has SELinux, apparmor, firejail, flatpak, snap, docker, lxc, and various hypervisors for 'app sandboxing', Linux does not have 'basically none', it has arguably to many.

ageofwant commented on Hyprland Is a Toxic Community drewdevault.com/2023/09/1... · Posted by u/Tomte

justusw · 2 years ago

I really appreciate Drew stepping up against harassment in open source communities.

Deciding on a CoC is such a low effort issue, just get it over with!

ageofwant · 2 years ago

They did decide. They decided they did not need one. Please respect the decision.

ageofwant commented on The Bvp47 - a Top-tier Backdoor [sic] of US NSA Equation Group pangulab.cn/en/post/the_b... · Posted by u/l0new0lf-G

l0new0lf-G · 2 years ago

Is this the reason why it got flagged?

ageofwant · 2 years ago

I flagged it because your silly clickbait title is a misinterpretation of both the contents of the article and narrates a enormous jump to a ridiculous conclusion. Its fake tiktok gosh-wow horseshit and does not belong on hacker news.

ageofwant commented on The Bvp47 - a Top-tier Backdoor [sic] of US NSA Equation Group pangulab.cn/en/post/the_b... · Posted by u/l0new0lf-G

oDot · 2 years ago

Aren't the popular Linux distros, with default configuration, much less secure than the other OS like macOS, Windows and surely Android and iOS?

I thought this was the working assumption.

ageofwant · 2 years ago

No, popular Linux distros, with default configuration, is considerably more secure than Windows, and probably more secure than MacOS. This is universally accepted and basic infosec ken. You thought very wrong, fix your ken.

ageofwant commented on The Bvp47 - a Top-tier Backdoor [sic] of US NSA Equation Group pangulab.cn/en/post/the_b... · Posted by u/l0new0lf-G

l0new0lf-G · 2 years ago

It is striking that such a backdoor in seemingly safe OSs like Linux and FreeBSD, is nearly completely unknown one year after the revelation. No social media outcries, no mention on the TV, no debates, no comments from people like Torvalds and Stallman (though I by no means imply they were direcly involved).

The reason why is remains a "secret" is that the whole matter is deeply, deeply political.

We are amidst a new Cold War -this time between the US and China. The sole purpose of this backdoor could be exactly to spy on the Chinese government or corporations.

Yet we all know that the NSA would not limit the use of the backdoor to that.

ageofwant · 2 years ago

No what is striking is that you don't understand what a "backdoor" is. The article does not describe what everybody agrees a "backdoor" is.

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