Septimaeus

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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 23 minutes ago

Employee owned co-ops don’t have much of a marketing R&D budget. If you’ve been in a Costco and are impressed by warehouse management’s clever sales tactics, many people here have a bridge to sell you.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

I’ve seen that scenario play out multiple times now.

In every case management’s paranoia was a result of their inability to comprehend employee departure as anything short of personal betrayal and thus, drama ensued. Cringe-o-rama

Practical takeaways (tips for non-IT knowledge workers)

While avoiding toxic management in the first place is great, ultimately the best advice is to protect yourself in every case by learning better habits/hygiene: if possible, use only personal equipment for anything personal; otherwise, learn how to encapsulate personal activity/traffic effectively.

Effective methods include portable or web-based encrypted remote to a home PC, lightweight virtual machine with a killswitched VPN that you run exclusively from an encrypted drive that travels with you, and so forth.

Mistakes include:

  1. Any personal web browsing — trackable in enough ways that it’s best to just assume no countermeasure offers complete privacy.
  2. Storing personal data on disk — outside of security and privacy concerns, this has often been used by companies to claim employee IP as their own.
  3. Personal use of workstation/client software — least problematic, but much of this is trackable at the system and network level.
[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Which is an even bigger let-down, because that means its entire purpose is to approximate quantum computing slightly better than other classical simulators, all of which are fundamentally incapable of quantum simulation.

Background: ML can lend a higher degree of realism to QC simulation, which can be useful for experiment development due to the expense of real quantum compute time but with a lot of asterisks relating to accuracy.

Ultimately since real QC is non-negotiable for modern quantum chemistry, this super computer was likely built as a cost-saving measure that would only be justified by a lack of funding and/or affordable access to QC.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago

Dumb. People often hack old cars because they can’t afford new ones but if they hack emissions specifically it’s because they can’t even afford repairs.

Going after a developer because hackers use their software is like prosecuting a clothing company because burglars use their ski masks.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

First southern state

While NoVA drives most of these progressive policies, and is why northern and southern yanks alike make distinctions between the South and “the South,” I still believe that once southerners burn out on their grandparents’ race and culture wars and rediscover the labor-centric politics of generations prior, the ever-troubled North American South East really will become a textbook example of what’s possible when workers unite.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

gulitions

That's overkill. Hunter-killer squadrons of unarmed gulls would suffice.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 36 points 1 week ago

This is easy. Thank him for his advice that helped you get “a big raise,” then work him.

Your coworker is an ass.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago

Moreover, contrary to popular belief, unenforced regulations are worse than nothing and should be repealed by any responsible governance, because they effectively institutionalize the abuse they claim to prevent by concealing the abuse and increasing the competitive advantage the abuse offers. This is why indexes often use them as a proxy gauging regulatory capture.

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