I’d be hard pressed to open a cold emailed PDF. Out of curiosity does anyone have a good way to inspect them prior to downloading?
Would opening them in the browser be "more" secure than opening then in a regular PDF viewer program?
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lmarcos commented on Ask HN: If client side scanning on devices becomes mandatory, what would you do? · Posted by u/rdm_blackhole
It could potentially be rolled out to MacOS and Windows as well.
This is just my opinion and what I've always done but I'd keep 'em separated. By weird coincidence I've been following some PCI standards for my home gear before the PCI standard existed. Linux for daily driver. A throw-away Windows machine for watching streaming videos that come with my Amazon Prime and to make the governments and their corporate 3rd party buddies happy that they can see some things I do. Another Linux machine for protecting financial data. Another Linux machine for managing devices. All except Windows are configured to be in a hostile network. I leave the Windows machine leaking like it is expected to be.
What would you do then?
If something required an app to be installed I would not use it. If something ever requires WEI [1] I would not use it. If a video game requires some anti-cheat daemon running with higher privs I get a refund and so on. Given the internet is entirely optional for me and everyone else too there is no way I could be required to install something.
My cell phone is used for Texting neighbors, family and voice. It will soon be launched from a skeet launcher and replaced with a IP68 tough dumb phone that will be powered off most of the time. I do not trust centralized services for sensitive chat even if one of their founders used to be kindof cool. This stodgy cranky ol' troglodyte will use self hosted IRCD, SSH chat, uMurmur, open source tinc vpn meshes. They are higher friction and I love it. It keeps people with leaky pipes off my stuff. Maybe AI can help me make a song, "Crank up the friction!"
[1] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-s...
Doesn't your bank require a mobile app to do "2FA"?
If not, what would you do? Change bank?
"Bring a side project, show us how it works."
Can people in the industry stop this please? You have to be mentally sick to ask people to code review their side projects. It doesn't make any sense.
"Average developer tenure is two years, company is three years old." Got it. I don't think this statement says what you think it does.
Agree. Interviews taken into account side projects are biased towards:
- people who have free time to work on side projects (usually young people have more free time than people with families)
- people who don't mind sharing their code with others
- people who work on interesting side projects. If your side project is boring, that will probably bore your interviewers -> no offer
- people who work on side projects on regular basis. If I get to work on one side project every year, well, chances are I may have forgotten the hell I did on that project (depending when the interview takes place). If I work on side projects constantly, I have no trouble picking up a fresh one to talk about
> 7. Background checks start in parallel with on-boarding. First week is spent with business unit teams to learn what the company actually, really does.
Yikes!!! I’ve never heard of a potential employer giving offers before background check. Do you tell candidates this before they quit their current jobs?
As someone not familiarized with background checks, why is it weird to do bg checks after handing the offer?
If the employer does the bg check before handing the offer, that means the candidate hasn't resigned yet from their current job. So wouldn't the bg check expose the candidate? (E.g., my boss would know I'm thinking about leaving)
I'm the only one still listening mp3s? I have a sandisk mp3 player (size similar to the classic ipod shuffle) and I use yandex to get the mp3s. And I transferred all my old CDs to mp3 format as well.
I don't use my smartphone to listen to music because it's too big/heavy (running with it is so uncomfortable).
lmarcos commented on Ask HN: Should I climb the software engineering Ladder or build a side hustle? · Posted by u/AdityaSanthosh
Why not both? Keep getting money from employer X, and experiment with your ideas until one works out.
Why only the french market then? Shouldn't they withdraw from all EU markets?
They tried that, but they couldn't because:
- my contract says the place of work is city X
- they don't have an office in city X
- they cannot unilaterally change the contract (Europe)
They asked me if I would be willing to relocate to a city in which they have an office. I declined. I'm still working from home. The company is big, so they don't care much about isolated cases like mine.
lmarcos commented on Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie... · Posted by u/tokai
Here's an interesting tidbit about Jorge Luis Borges that may have inspired him to write that story. First, some backstory:
"Under his grandmother's tutelage, Borges learned to read English before he could read Spanish. [...] In Borges's autobiographical essay, he recalled reading even the great Spanish masterpiece, Cervantes's Don Quixote, in English before reading it in Spanish."
For Spanish speakers who know English, reading Don Quixote in English is probably easier (and more pleasant). The Spanish one is full of words that even though a native speaker can understand (with footnotes sometimes), it's just not as pleasant as reading modern Spanish.