Em Adespoton

I believe the encryption restrictions were relaxed in 1998.

However, certification for import/export of nuclear weapons and other dangerous goods was still needed for strong encryption (such as phone SIM cards) as recently as 2006. To get on that list of people who could legally transport SIM cards not for personal use over the US border, you needed the same background check and government clearance as someone transporting enriched uranium.

This is why I no longer go out in public.

As a neurodivergent person, let me just say that I have a great life. Why should you, or anyone else, get to make uninformed decisions about who gets to live based on inaccurate information?

Also, just look at bananas to see where eugenics ends up. Crops devastatingly vulnerable to disease, and companies like Chiquita creating slaves of entire nations that manage them. It’s not hard to extend this wrt humans.

But really, the main reason is how tightly linked eugenics programs through history have been linked to fascism.

Yup. Entry level wages have stagnated while food and housing prices have skyrocketed.

Exact same thing here.

If you ignore any company related to “cloud” or “AI”, especially if you focus on tech jobs at companies outside the software industry, there’s still plenty of hiring fresh coders going on.

$165,000 tech jobs are still out there. Usually they require at least 10 years experience, or a masters in mathematics or data science.

Fresh out of school? Try a $48-64k job and get some experience.

Still true a decade later.

You’d have to build them first.

Anything more complex than an atom is going to be disintegrated before it even enters a black hole due to the intense energies at play at the interface.

These days, experience. I know it will pass, just like it always has before. And I don’t want to rob future me of all the potential opportunities just because current me feels like nothing is worth it.

I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.

Unfortunately, companies are being bombarded with AI- generated CVs at a massive scale, and so have turned to AI filters to filter out all the slop. This has resulted in filtering out a lot of qualified people as well. But in an employer’s market, that doesn’t really matter to them.

Once you get past the filter, everything is mostly business as usual; many hiring managers are probably even unaware that their HR department uses AI filters.

I’m insulted they thought I didn’t know what a LUHN check is.

Of course, my current credit cards don’t even have a magnetic stripe, so the original purpose for the check digits is history. Still useful for other situations where the number might get garbled though.

The other thing useful about credit cards is that the first set of digits refer to the issuer, not your account. Once you strip off the issuer code and the check digit, there’s much less that’s unique to your card.

OK, I stopped posting on Reddit but left my account and comments in place because I considered them part of the public record. If Reddit is taking that record private, it’s time for me to start removing my content from the platform.

Does anyone know if historical Reddit content will remain in IA? If not, I’m going to have to back up years of content somewhere else.

The format (mixed mode, red book, multitrack, hybrid, etc.) is usually stamped on the CD.

Yes, because it records “all” the data.

Other image formats also store the extended data at the start of the disc and the gap data between the tracks, but unless it’s an odd format or has some really nasty copy protection, that information isn’t usually useful.

Depends on the CD. If it’s just a data CD, iso is the way to go. If it’s a mixed mode CD with data plus audio, bin/cue will preserve the audio tracks but iso may not. Also, mixed Joliet/HFS CDs can lose one of the formats if imaged with an iso imager.

The big thing is that you want to image the entire CD and not just the most recent track on the CD.

It all really started to fall apart after Taligent foundered.

Whatever it is you can talk engagingly about, unscripted. Following that, whatever you can talk engagingly about, scripted.

Doesn’t matter if you’re actually doing the voiceover; just having the ability means less time setting up shots and editing.

Yeah; that’s passkeys in action. It’s your Android phone setting up the passkeys vault that’s doing the face capturing, not LinkedIn. LinkedIn is showing you the QR code as a means of using passkeys for verification.

You’re not using the app are you?

Avoid the app at all costs. Use the web site. I can log in there with nothing but a username and password.

The stuff you’re describing sounds like it’s setting up a passkey and tying it to Windows Hello via a face scan.

None of that is needed, but even if you use passkeys (which you should), you don’t have to do a local face scan to unlock it; you can use a password or (better) a token such as a YubiKey.

In all these cases though, LinkedIn isn’t doing a face scan; that’s just your designated way to unlock your locally stored passkeys.