snoopy_telex's comments

snoopy_telex | 3 years ago | on: Why do new cars look like wet putty?

They earned confidence? What did they do to earn the right to say "I don't like this color"?

Personally, I find the whole thing condescending and dismissive, taking swipes at "Gen-X-ers and Millennials"

snoopy_telex | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: PCIe cards with their own NIC/Storage/OS?

I'd like to offload a required security software to a stand-alone device that exposes the software endpoints directly to the host via PCIe. The goal would be to ensure that if an attacker gets into the host, they are unable to modify the security software or limit its functionality.

Ideally the card would have a TPM module and supports some sort of signed boot/firmware validation.

I know I'm being a bit coy, but hopefully that helps you understand the requirements a bit better?

snoopy_telex | 3 years ago | on: Twitter has fired more software engineers

Who do you consider the head diver then? I figured the guy that lead the mapping of the caves and the rescues the head diver personally, but I'm open to understand other people's opinions.

snoopy_telex | 3 years ago | on: How long would society last during a total grid collapse?

My experience differs. The right leaning members of my family strongly support Russia and the left leaning strongly support Ukraine. It’s caused a lot of strife in my family. And I don’t think the right folks feel like they’re on the fringe. They do watch a lot of Fox, but they’re not Q folks, afaik at least.

snoopy_telex | 3 years ago | on: How long would society last during a total grid collapse?

> I'm surprised that this article doesn't even mention the ongoing, continual attacks on the civilian Ukrainian electrical grid, in a concerted effort to take it out with thousands of cruise missiles and loitering drones.

I would guess that it was an intentional decision to avoid. Grady goes to great lengths to prevent anything political in his videos, and the Ukrainian war happens to be politically charged in America currently.

snoopy_telex | 3 years ago | on: Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging

Cisco’s meraki has that built into their devices. I run meraki in my home and have it enabled and it’s pretty powerful. If you see a wifi network, it most certainly can track you and if it’s not a residential network, I assume it is.

snoopy_telex | 3 years ago | on: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

I think he's made a major mis-step with twitter though.

SpaceX/Tesla employees work as hard as they do because they believe in the mission of the company. They're willing to just buckle down and do amazing things beyond most people.

Twitter had a lot of normal employees, however, it also already had the true believers in the mission. Those people don't seem to have bought Musk's vision and they're leaving the company. He wanted to get just down to those folks, but I think by and large, they're gone. I don't know that he can recover from that mis-step. He needed to come in, explain his vision and got the true believers onboard before he cleaned house IMHO.

snoopy_telex | 3 years ago | on: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

Really, I have multiple end profiles that are possible.

1. My phone 2. My wife's phone 3. My Tablet 4. My TV

They each have different screen geometries and even my tablet has two profiles really, local streaming at home or playing downloaded media on trips.

So I could transcode everything to 5 different formats and store it, or just transcode on demand and not worry about it.

snoopy_telex | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Stay fit as a time-poor remote worker

I personally decided the structure of a in person job was beneficial and went back to a in the office job twice a week rather then the full remote opportunity I was at. I need that framework to be mentally and physically fit.

snoopy_telex | 3 years ago | on: Twitter sources say company reached out to fired people asking them to come back

From the Twitter email

> Today is your last working day at the company, however, you will remain employed by Twitter and will receive compensation and benefits through your separation date of February 2, 2023.

> During this time, you will be on a Non-Working Notice period and your access to Twitter systems will be deactivated.

> While you are not expected to work during the None-Working Notice period, you are still required to comply with all company policies, including the Employee Playbook and Code of Conduct.

It seems like a refusal to go off of the “None-Working Notice” would be treated the same as any other refusal to follow assignments and it would make legal sense that it would turn to a termination rather then layoff.

Not moral, but legal IMHO

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