Tharkun

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Pardon my typos. Touchscreens and fat fingers don't mix well.

Highly curious software engineer. I care deeply about human rights and privacy, and will occasionally get fired up when discussing those topics.

  1. Belgian court: IRS allowed to copy your data (translate.googleusercontent.com)
  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. 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…

  9. 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…

  10. SSH Gateway Shenanigans (blog.lick-me.org)
  11. 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…

  12. 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…

  13. On name & address madness (blog.lick-me.org)

    A couple of reasons why it's difficult & silly to try and normalize names and addresses.

  14. 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.