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Alexander The 1st

@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
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He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now.

Even if I'm saying them in a mask.

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Joined December 17, 2022
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@phillmv @jneen Personally, not using LLMs in my experience, I prefer writing the implementation, then writing the automated tests to pass, and then check what I need to do to the automated test to cause it to fail. That way, I can confirm it passes for the right reasons, rather than I managed to make the code pass the test.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 6mo ago
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@ancientsounds @mmby @jonny @sushee Anthropic: "What else is there?"
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@wurzelmann Setting aside everything else for a second, it boggles the mind that so many companies seem fit to give LLMs the "Nendry treatment"; absent everything else, this could have been resolved by making the person in charge of the electrical fences not the same person in charge of the rest of the I.T. system. Like, what do you mean it was allowed to delete both the volume *and* the backup at the same time? Those should involve two different access requirements.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@kirakira @jneen This does remind me of, in a non-programming context, standardized testing [ https://youtu.be/J6lyURyVz7k?si=KW9Ub0JLAxazwQIq ]. Long story short, you can test for things well, but you can also test for things very poorly. As in "Pineapples lose races to hares because they don't have sleeves" bad.

Standardized Testing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 6mo ago
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@mmby @jonny @sushee Presumably all user languages are translated to English before this step in the toolchain.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
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@malwaretech The thing that gets me is - is the company being requested by the MLAT allowed to challenge their local government on the legality of the request? Like how Apple famously refused to make a program to automatically decrypt their iPhones to federal, state, or municipal authorities to be able to decrypt a terrorist's phone, and as I recall, that actually went to court on that? Could Proton not do the same with the request made of them?
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@CStamp@mastodon.social @harib_murshidi@mastodon.social @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz @AlSweigart@mastodon.social Only at the end of the articles. Does go to show that with LLMs, the warnings come after the "spells".
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@kkarhan@mastodon.social @saxnot@chaos.social @groxx@hachyderm.io @silberfuchs@social.edist.ro @Hex@kolektiva.social I take it you don't run multiple inputs into a single TV, without using an input splitter. If you have something that's HDMI 1, another on HDMI 2, and a third on DVI, and most of those devices are just in sleep mode most of the time (Or some are perpetually on.), then...it really sells the "Just go to one screen, and figure out which of the 5 services has the movie/show you want to watch.".
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@saxnot@chaos.social @kkarhan@mastodon.social @groxx@hachyderm.io @silberfuchs@social.edist.ro @Hex@kolektiva.social (And with respect to kids, people can babysit... without needing your laptop to have the kid watch the "Show/Movie of the month". Is screentime bad for kids' minds? Maybe, but it's good for babysitting damage control; "Sit here and watch Frozen again while I put to their crib." is...an amazing way to make babysitting multiple kids manageable as a single babysitter.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@foone @munin It is really weird that they bother with those instead of making sure their servers don't go down because of 201 parameters passed into production without testing it in a staging environment.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@phillmv @brib @jneen I think my biggest issue with "Write tests that fail first" is that, at the beginning of a project, *any* test is guaranteed to fail. Though I am also preferring Classical Testing over London Testing, because mocks make the opposite be a problem; a test can pass even if it actually shouldn't on actual stuff (I will admit I got there by starting with integration tests instead of unit tests.).
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @burnoutqueen@todon.nl @inthehands@hachyderm.io Also, and maybe this is just the Canadian in me spitballing here, but what about a White House Ballroom makes it less likely for "Man runs into ballroom with guns, hits a bullet proof vest, and is arrested" going to be a replacement for the headline? Like, if anything that seems more likely, because then everyone knows *where* the President is for any given event hosted there. Wouldn't even need to figure out if he was invited.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
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@lackthereof The technical difference is only partially why that stance was taken. As I understand it, they didn't even give away mail, they gave away the credit card processing token (Or the information outright), so that the credit card processing company could reveal more information. That is, Proton Mail made a point that they still cannot actually retrieve mail from their servers without doing the skeleton thing, and they aren't doing that. But they did hand over information similar to a journalist not giving away their source, but instead giving away where they met their source and who knew their source, on account of a warrant.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@zeborah@mastodon.nz @smutmag@mstdn.social It also is a bad argument from a historical standpoint; "A.I. is coming for us whether we like it or not" sounds a bit like telling non-German WW2 Europeans "Germany is coming for you whether you like it or not.". ...Incidentally, WW2 Germany was pushed back because the British took the position of "That doesn't mean we should be speaking German.". Also, the French, and the Russians. The countries that said "Might as well join up with Germany if they're coming for us whether we like it or not"...did not come out of WW2 looking good.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@tedmielczarek@mastodon.social @AlSweigart@mastodon.social Importantly, if they themselves wouldn't read what they claim to have written, why should anyone else?
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@foolishowl@social.coop @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk @iamada@tech.lgbt This definitely felt like a major problem with the shows, that it took a while to suspend disbelief on - like Gomez fights Death on a tightrope in one episode of the series I am most familiar with, and they *routinely* do fencing without safety equipment with the implications that it's to or beyond "First blood", and they have a severed hand as a family member; but their insistence of "Although we talk about death and causing death casually, we never *killed* anyone intentionally.". So they go from macabre to "We're basically like goth-y amusement park ride attendants - if someone dies around us, it was an accident, seriously, or it turned out to be someone else.".
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@brib @phillmv @jneen For me, it's less about how confusing the software can become, but more about "Is what I am testing for actually what I want?". I can more easily manually verify that it makes sense than I can automatically come up with the contracts I want, and the latter leads to...not finding out until later that I don't actually want to do it that way, and sunk cost fallacy kicks in (As opposed to saying "Well, okay, let's try something else then.".). I don't want green tests confirming that I did the wrong thing correctly; I'd rather they act as a "Your development is deviating from what you last thought was good; are you *sure* you wanted to make that update?".
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 3mo ago
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@jonny@neuromatch.social "Sir, this post on your forum is malware for including the text 'Delete System32 - it makes Windows run faster.'!"
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@kkarhan@mastodon.social @saxnot@chaos.social @groxx@hachyderm.io @silberfuchs@social.edist.ro @Hex@kolektiva.social Sure, but now you need *two* devices, and you have to always make sure the TV screen is set to the right input to accept the Kodi box, once it's turned on (It is on, right?). The benefit of a smart TV is that, as long as they aren't spying and telemetry harvesting your data, you get the best of both, but in one device.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@saxnot@chaos.social @kkarhan@mastodon.social @groxx@hachyderm.io @silberfuchs@social.edist.ro @Hex@kolektiva.social One example that comes to mind is that, when they have services like Netflix, Disney +, etc. preloaded onto the TV. Mostly useful if, say, you have kids, given that those services effectively replaced cable...sort of.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I also want the updates to spend more time in UAT/Staging instead of being pushed straight into production.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 6mo ago
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@brian_greenberg Alternatively, seeing this: "FedRAMP’s ruling—which included a kind of “buyer beware” notice to any federal agency considering GCC High—helped Microsoft expand a government business empire worth billions of dollars." ...That makes me think that we're about to find out that they "Put the warnings after the spells.".
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
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@ohir @malwaretech "Anyone on your packet way to the service will act to uncover you." The big detail is that it was the person *closest* the endpoint that did the uncovering that bothers people; had it been ProtonMail's ISP, it would be a different question. But the issue that people take issue with is that ProtonMail appears to have folded without *any* resistance, over something they claim they would not normally fold over. Hence the "It's not the same as them giving data directly to the FBI if they give it to the Swiss government who then gives it to the FBI." distinction they appear to be trying to make.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@MegaMichelle@a2mi.social @RevRhizicNatterjacks@discordian.social I mean, ideally you shouldn't have to wait decades if you're going to overthrow a fascist government. That is, apparently 9/11 only took 6-10 years of planning [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_of_the_September_11_attacks ], depending on how you count their planning? That's like the about a standard game development timetable. I'm not saying one should plan to be a terrorist or to do a terrorist attack, but I am saying that Al Qaeda apparently took less time than Duke Nukem Forever took to come out for their planning their attack.
en.wikipedia.org
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@MegaMichelle@a2mi.social @RevRhizicNatterjacks@discordian.social That may be a fair point - I was about to caveat my previous statement with "Now granted, you don't want to go in without a plan like Trump going to war with Iran, or Putin invading Ukraine, but...", and admittedly doing it on his own probably made it more difficult. Especially given the stage fright to memorize that one poem.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@calcifer@masto.hackers.town This reminds me of a "Reverse Metroidvania" style game idea, where it's that, but with Metroid style powerups being deposited.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@feld@friedcheese.us @encthenet@flyovercountry.social @stiiin@infosec.space Okay, I apparently got the '--no-preserve-root' part incorrectly memorized, but this was supposed to be a joke -
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @burnoutqueen@todon.nl @inthehands@hachyderm.io I suppose that is partially true, but do they not bring extra security to wherever the President goes via the Secret Service? That should be making it about as hard to attack the President at the WHCD hotel.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@futurebird The funniest part to me for this is that, it's gone so badly this early on. It reminds me of this Stack Exchange question where someone was asking what the end about exit strategies for Russia's invasion into Ukraine [ https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/73063/exit-strategies-for-the-ukraine-war?rq=1 ], and one of the answers is "Look; wars don't work on internet time - things are fluid at the moment, but this war could be here for a decade or more easily.". Like, the U.S war with Iran is already getting blowback...and it's not that far into how long the war historically is likely to continue for.
politics.stackexchange.com
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@Jourei @Two9A I presume you didn't mean it this way, but it now makes me wonder if Artemis 3 does a "Lander test" the same way Apollo 10 did, and does it at the original Apollo 11 site simply to prove that yes, there are indications that we landed there back in the day.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
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@iampytest1 Ah, so the caveat to the "Swiss privacy law is the strictest" part for Proton is that, if the Swiss judicial system thinks the MLAT request is above board, companies or related persons *can't* challenge it because the judge already ruled "Probable cause" on it, and they don't want to re-litigate it?
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
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@ohir @malwaretech Like, Uber doesn't make the claim that you can get privacy in Uber, but Proton *specifically* said this on that web site: "Strong privacy protections: Switzerland has a constitutional right to privacy and strict data protection laws. Unlike companies in other countries, Proton cannot be compelled by foreign or Swiss authorities to engage in bulk surveillance." That's a major reason they say "This is why we're Switzerland-based.". And here? Here they are "Loopholing" that whole statement.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
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@can @malwaretech Do they *need* Apple money to challenge the Swedish legal system? Justice should not just be for the rich; the Swedish government should have a vested interest in their own companies being able to challenge an MLAT request so it is not just a "Did they cross their 'i's and dot their 't's?" system of justice.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
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@malwaretech So they're skirting the government request *entirely* on money and lack of compliance? I am not saying that ProtonMail has to *win* their case, but it does feel like ProtonMail is just folding right out of the gate. Like how it has been pointed out that a Filibuster where you have to keep debating an issue in the House or the Senate to block it became suddenly a "If you threaten to filibuster it, then I guess we don't bother testing that you *can* filibuster this law - it's just dead.".
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago

So...

New Star Fox game: [ https://www.youtube.com/live/ePZeyh5q9R8?si=ObUclx1uJVGYQLiY ].

They shadow dropped an entire direct to announce it, so they may be more?

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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago

Economic Recession Indicator #567:

Your provincial Automobile Association that normally is meant to help you with your car needing a jump or a tow has branched into "Do you need to do a touch up [On the paint of your home]? Do you need your TV hung?".

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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago

Yeah, this was a wild race, and I'm surprised I won that, but I'll take it.

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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@feld@friedcheese.us @encthenet@flyovercountry.social @stiiin@infosec.space "And we really want to make sure 'rm -rf / --no-preserve-root' *is memory safe - I'm pretty sure we'll find there's a call to free() that causes it to break.".
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@phillmv@hachyderm.io @alwayscurious@infosec.exchange @brib@bribstodon.xyz @jneen@unstable.systems (Though to my last point, just about *everything* is a lot of work in Java; Hello World programs are a lot of work in Java.)
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
Dear Open Source Developers: can you stop changing how we use your libraries between version changes? It's really annoying having a lot of documentation for an older version say to do to solve a problem, only to find out it doesn't work because is no longer supported, you have to do it way instead...except doesn't work because you also need now.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@cwebber Also, I can't help but imagine a queuing process would help with this?
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
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@stefan_hessbrueggen @can @malwaretech Okay, that's a fair point. My answer then goes to both the Swiss *and* the Swedish governments. On the other hand, that makes the monetary issue seem less of a concern - aren't they infamous for having a *lot, of money?
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago
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@futurebird@sauropods.win @cabel@social.panic.com Notable too, her next line, "A few years ago, A.I. was not a factor in our lives" *does* get cheered, so they're clearly not out for the speaker themselves, but the specific message. As opposed to people who thought Conservatives were confused when they cheered when one of the Conservative speakers was say "Do you want impeachment?", and was not expecting the cheering then either...and figured they could point out that they were *supposed* to be opposed to another impeachment of Trump this recent year.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago

Come on now, companies; you can't call filling out a survey for 30 minutes and being paid $20 a job.

That's a survey, where you are compensating someone.

I sure hope you aren't doing it that way on LinkedIn to boost your "Jobs created" numbers.

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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 4mo ago

Right, so I'm currently in the process of applying for Income Assistance, and one of the things they need is the "Work Search Activity" sheet.

So, I went ahead and wrote a tool to pull down the job information for each of the job applications I have in LinkedIn Easy Apply, because it lists 467 job postings, and not in order of when I applied, and did some work to turn "Applied x seconds/hours/days/weeks/months/years ago" into "Applied ", so I could sort them by date and get the last 3 weeks of job search activity.

I originally thought "Okay, this is probably 1 job per day"...it averages to 4.47 jobs per day. That's not accounting for postings I looked at and did not apply to.

Anyways, I hope Income Assistance isn't *too* annoyed at 94 entries for the "3-week Work Search Activity" document (It's actually going to be more, because I also did non-LinkedIn job applications, and there may be some activity on one posting.).

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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 5mo ago
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@phillmv@hachyderm.io @alwayscurious@infosec.exchange @brib@bribstodon.xyz @jneen@unstable.systems In Java both an interface and an Abstract Class could satisfy the type, though an Abstract Class IIRC does need a concrete extension of it to construct it as an object to use. That said, the Abstract Class would allow you to say "There is a function I do implement, and there is a function I just define and it's up to classes extending this abstract class/inheriting this abstract class to define.". I think you are probably right though that one reason I also find myself disliking mocks is that it's a *lot* of work to do in Java.
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
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@ohir @malwaretech I mean, the first link I found indicated that it is negotiable [ https://www.getyourlawyer.ch/en/lawyer/fees/ ], but I find it surprising that ProtonMail isn't paying for lawyers just as a cost of business. Maybe they don't have trial lawyers that are more expensive, but they couldn't as a Non-Profit find a lawyer to do it pro bono? This would be an amazing case for them, whether they won or not.
getyourlawyer.ch
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Alexander The 1st @AT1ST@mstdn.ca
· 7mo ago
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@mattblaze @SteveBellovin Basically attempting 2021-01-06...-2: Electric Boogaloo?
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