Tharkun
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- February 11, 2011 (15y ago)
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Highly curious software engineer. I care deeply about human rights and privacy, and will occasionally get fired up when discussing those topics.
- Belgian court: IRS allowed to copy your data (translate.googleusercontent.com)
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I'm the lead software engineer at a company with about 10 other software engineers. Part of my job is coaching them on technical matters. We organize biweekly talks about various technical subjects. And while these are…
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Am considering taking on a new job which would involve 2 days/week of remote work. My apartment is pretty small, I don't really have room for a home office. Most of my out of office coding is done on the couch, but I…
- Migraine a 'risk factor' for cardiovascular disease (medicalnewstoday.com)
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I'm an engineer at a smallish company with 5 other engineers. Over the last 3 or so years, we've been focused on developing and selling our software to about ~20 large companies world wide. So far things have been…
- Knuth-Bendix Completion on Non-Abelian Group Theory (wvsant.blogspot.com)
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We've found a bit of a bug in our hiring process. Our latest addition is performing pretty well, but their English skills are seriously lacking. Especially in writing. This is a bit of a problem considering one of their…
- Commercialized CO2 capture (youtube.com)
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I've been doing this programming thing for ~16 years now. Every once in a while an old client will contact me asking for support for their decade old project. In some cases, I don't even have the source code anymore. In…
- Release Notes for SpiderOakONE 6.0 (spideroak.com)
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I'm looking for good ways to keep track of which software (and versions) I've installed on my customers' infrastructure. The purpose of which is to know which customers I need to visit after a vulnerability has been…
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I love writing code. But I really struggle with inspiration for side projects. Spending (even) more time at the day job is not an option -- I'm already getting comments along the line of "don't forget to go home!" or…
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I'm in the market for a couple of SSL certificates. With all this NSA news my natural paranoia is being amplified. I'd prefer to spend my money on a CA that's trustworthy on the one hand, and technically competent on…
- Data visualisation with gnuplot and awk (blog.lick-me.org)
- What bugs me on the web (2012) (blog.lick-me.org)
- SSH Gateway Shenanigans (blog.lick-me.org)
- Clueless EU Politicians Sign ACTA (osnews.com)
- Belgian ISPs to block The Pirate Bay (translate.google.com)
Pardon the very crappy Google translation. Brief English summary: A Belgian court of appeals has decided that ISPs should block access to the The Pitate Bay. It's a simple matter of DNS blocking, so it's pretty east to…
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Comodogate & the DigiNotar fiasco have left me wondering which root CAs I can still trust. The list in my browser (firefox) is pretty long, and some of the names don't particularly inspire trust (Türktrust, AS…
- On name & address madness (blog.lick-me.org)
A couple of reasons why it's difficult & silly to try and normalize names and addresses.
- France outlaws hashed passwords... (yro.slashdot.org)
Slightly dramatic, slashdot style, but it's an extremely disturbing development nonetheless. Especially considering data retention has already been ruled as being unconstitutional in a bunch of EU countries.