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What’s he a whistleblower of? He didn’t work at JS, so it’s not there.

This report seems off. From other more trustworthy sources (eg BBG/Levine) JS were trading the illiquid stock market to move options prices. This says large options volumes were moving options markets. Even if manipulated, and that’s not clear, he has it backwards.

Well that took me back.

For some reason no friends or family took me seriously when I brought it up at the time.

We did this when we renovated. Had a kitchen wall section chalk board painted for notes, as well as a much larger section of the kids play room wall.

The notes was useful space on the kitchen and the playroom one the kids just loved to doodle. Their friends were always impressed and loved to be able to leave a tag or doodle on it when they came over.

We tried a layer of magnetic paint too, but it didn’t work nearly as well.

I’m a manager, and have been for a while (although I also have 1-1s). Personally, I think project updates belong in stand-up, sprint planning, tickets, etc. Anywhere except 1-1s.

If you want a really simple framework just focus on the previous week and highlight what went well (ie. that needs repeating), what went badly and needs fixing (or coaching, etc), what needs changing (could be a combo of both above).

Every 3-6 months I try to have a more strategic conversation about career paths and making sure annual goals are on track. Effectively reviewing progress against them and making sure the person is on track for success, adjusting as necessary. Similarly, asking about what projects they want to do next, where do they think we should dedicate effort and focus, etc. If they had the resources what would they do? This can be a great way to learn about how they approach problems, and to uncover issues in process and tooling. I want everyone on the team bought in to feeling like they can make a difference, and it’s really helped my teams develop great tools.

Other good questions I like to ask periodically are around what’s frustrating, what could we improve as a team, etc. I want their input to improve the life of everyone.

I always try to ask for feedback and how I can improve, or what roadblocks I can remove for people.

Sometimes we just chat - teams work well together when they understand each other. I like to know what’s important to people, and what isn’t. What stresses them, and what helps them flow. Sometimes those things just come from less structured conversation.

I’ve found having a shared doc to jot down notes in the week really helps. A google doc, OneDrive doc, whatever. Just something that’s open and can throw in some bullets to talk about. Particularly when blocked on something, or I need to ask a question about how to strategically approach a problem, I’ll throw it in the doc. Then before the 1-1 I reread it to prep my thoughts. It’s worked really well for me with my managers, and with my reports.

Ask what they’re focused on and how you can support that. Ask about what their manager cares about and how you can support the larger department or org. Ask what they’re worried about. Ask what makes them happy.

The most value I’ve had from 1-1s has often been just getting to know people, and demonstrating empathy, compassion, and engagement. This is why I really hate the project based 1-1s - they end up being very transactional, and very 1-sided; just a list of “I did this ticket” type things. For people who are used to it, it can take a while to break out of the cycle.

Because it’s within a set of three speaker buttons.

The first has no sound, the second a less sound, the third more sound. They correspond to mute (no sound), lower volume (less), raise volume (more).

Within the set of three buttons it’s perfectly sensible and intuitive.

It wouldn’t make sense on its own, but on the keyboard it isn’t.

Yes, within the set of three speaker icons it makes perfect sense.

If it was a one-off it’s unintuitive, but on the keyboard where it’s used it’s fine.

Always seems that people forget piholes run really well in a docker container basically anywhere.

The pi bit of it is less important than the hole bit of it.

and with things like Tailscale or ZeroTier you can run your pihole at home and use it from anywhere on mobile devices too

I run a couple at home and they've been rock solid in containers on mini-pcs for a long time.

I was worried more sometimes the OS will just reset everything in /etc (and other places) on reinstall

> Several hundred employees have been impacted with messages being sent from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address, not an official .gov email address.

Can I register doge_exec_official_genuine_super_real_orders@hotmail.com and start firing government staff too?

I've used a Mac and linux for 20+ years and never knew about this. Maybe coming to OS X from linux meant I never bothered to ask the official way to set a path.

How did you find out about it? This feels like a hidden secret.

Is that directory maintained across OS updates?

Funny, I do exactly the same thing, except it’s .shellrc because it’s for any shell.

Wow did I love this, and feel targeted.

After an afternoon pointlessly dicking around with the ansible I use at home, it was fun and I agree to wholeheartedly.

To defend myself, the rack is unplugged, empty and in the garage, while I just have a little mini pc running everything. No more massive rack servers for me.

The ansible lives on, of course.

How do you unflag? This deserves to be read by everyone

Nothing says big bank more than being yelled at by your ex-boss, with a different ex-boss in the room, while your real boss has no idea what's going on, and being maybe, but not really fired.

Bank VPs have no discretion to fire people - they'd need to work through it with HR. That would take weeks to months, unless it was really egregious, or came from someone 4 levels higher. Dimon could have told HR to fire him and it would happen instantly, but some mid-level idiot VP can't just fire anyone, especially not their own direct report.

I'm guessing the Director (Mead), who was on vacation, got a rude awakening and had to clean up the mess. Director is still not a big title at a bank the size of JPMC either.

But, I'm assuming she got the story many times from different people, had to come back and tell the first two VPs how stupid they were for yelling at someone and throwing them out of the building, and then talk to the guy's direct manager (Cundiff) and straighten things out.

Guessing the other two VPs got a shouting at for generating far more risk to the firm by swearing at and fake firing an employee.

In industries like finance each datacenter will have its own GPS receivers with dedicated antennae, and custom timekeeping devices to act as the local stratum-1 servers, and use PTP. Within the DC servers will have very low jitter and high bandwidth network routes to ensure tight accuracy, typically over different networks than the high-traffic connectivity, eg. different interfaces. Where you really really care you can further optimize the OS to ensure tight timekeeping.

Industries that care aren’t sourcing time across residential ISP links and consumer NTP sources. But, for most people it’s accurate enough.

My 12 yr old just spent a week in bed with flu A, fever over 100 consistently for the week.

A couple of weeks before he was wishing for flu so he could skip school, but I don't think he's ever had it.

Now he's learnt flu isn't worth it to get to skip school

More importantly, Browsers and HTML are never deprecated.

Browsers are, and HTML is on v5 and has deprecated things.

And using JS definitely can be deprecated too.

"Just raw HTML" is an odd statement when it's obviously not.

And the if some markdown and JS are ok, why not some CSS too?

murid, noun, Any member of the Muroidea superfamily of rodents.

RAT, a remote access tool/trojan.

I remember a while back seeing a story from SE Asia about cops finding a guy walking along the road clutching a bleeding hand. Turned out thieves had robbed him off his car, which had a fingerprint reader so they'd taken a finger with the car.

Found the article: https://www.theregister.com/2005/04/04/fingerprint_merc_chop...

A friend taught me to create a Smart Folder in Mail to show messages in inbox that contain the string “unsubscribe”.

Then you unsubscribe.

I try to keep inbox zero, so it flags all new email that needs unsubscribing. It’s a very helpful trick.

"So, I quit. Twitter, TikTok, Facebook — all gone"

I'm always curious here what counts as Social Media, and what's just a useful site?

Github? HackerNews? Reddit? Facebook, but only for FB Marketplace which is now a better local sales site than Craigslist?

What makes it social? Originally with FB and before it with MySpace it was the ability to put up a page about yourself, and then chat with others. HN has a profile and communication, so do the others listed.

Very interesting to see the thought put into it. And given the cultural and historic significance, they’re literally irreplaceable. Must be a fun exercise in incident management and prevention.

I found this interesting too - https://www.getty.edu/news/the-hidden-engineering-protecting...

An article about their approach to earthquake protection.

In both cases it looks like they’re leading these sorts of engineering developments.

You say human a lot, but are they really unique to humans, or we just haven’t looked at other animal definitive tracts yet?

This wasn’t specific to the Treasury.

BeyondTrust has a remote support product that gives support teams access to users desktops. It’s both SaaS and on-prem. BeyondTrust were hacked and a vuln was found in the remote access product.

Anyone using the products was impacted. Just happens to include Treasury.

Get a doctors note explaining you have RSI and need a mechanical keyboard for the ergonomics. Pick the specific switches you need for your RSI/ergo reasons.

Should probably have a [2019] tag, as things do change through time.

I always enjoy the self-hosting explanations. Starting with mail is an interesting choice though. It's relatable to most people, but also very complex compared with a tougher DNS setup, DKIM, SPF, all that stuff.

I'm not sure what the right approach is to maintain good security, and then open up the right ports for simple services.

"PRESENTED BY DELL TECHNOLOGIES" in the headline is a real give-away about the direction this article takes.

Title should be "87.4% of world’s population experienced a decline in freedom from 2020 to 2022"

"World's" in there is pretty important.

Minidisc has always been my fav music media. I had a Sony 4x CD and MD deck, so could copy friend's CDs onto minidisc at 4x speed, which was pretty impressive in the late 90s/2000.

Came with title text, no skipping, tiny size, no scratching the media, easy to copy. It was the perfect mix of tape, CD, and mp3.

[2023] video about the 2003 advert, not the actual cogs ad itself.

Even within humans it’s socially unacceptable to walk up to people you don’t know you are eating and strike up conversation, eg in a restaurant.

Disturbing eating is a pretty broad no-no across the animal kingdom.

Then again, if the orca wanted you dead, could easily grab you from below in its mouth and pull you down. You’d be dead in 2 mins without much fuss. They’re smart enough to know how to target the right bits. They target baby whales in similar ways, holding them down to drown them. Would be a lot more targeted and cleaner than a shark attack. If they just held a human down might not leave much evidence it was an orca at all.