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mattfields
·letzten Monat·discuss
Yep. This is the thing that Microsoft is not mentioning in their watery response there.
mattfields
·letzten Monat·discuss
That's the thing: they do bear responsibility in allowing the situation to get to this point and are very pointedly not connecting the dots with their response.

Microsoft which owns GitHub, has been washing their hands if any responsibility in helping to resolve the ongoing supply chain catastrophe which is hosted and spread nearly entirely via Github repositories: not responding to security researchers flagging malware hosted on GitHub; doing nothing to address the proliferation of open source malware across their platform, giving no recourse for action, not applying their tremendous resources to the problem, fiddling as the open source community burns and leaving the devs to fend for themselves. Let's not mention the recent very hostile and trust-erodibg behavior towards bug bounty security researchers.

The *&$@ finally spread all the way up to the top of the hill in a compromise of Microsoft's own repos, which I think highlights the scale of the problem.

And in response, they offer a watery corporate platitude, "a few customers were affected in a recent incident, and we're looking into it."
mattfields
·letzten Monat·discuss
This ^
mattfields
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Speculative guess, but it sounds like intentional collusion/coercion between government and big corporations.

ie: Brazilian government demands Microsoft to grant them MITM access from Windows machines, in order for the right to do business in the country.
mattfields
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
This seems to fall under the category of "inflammatory political commentary", regardless of including both parties in it.

IMO seems borderline on flag-worthy.
mattfields
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Price of four plane tickets for your family?

I don't know how much these rail tickets will cost, but I find the math on that to be unlikely.

4x plane tickets, assuming rock bottom minimum $60 a head to basically anywhere, $180-240...

Hmm
mattfields
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
This is, with no intended disespect, both absolutely false and dangerously blithely ignorant.

Unfortunately most of the population (including medical doctors) also has a similarly nonchalant conception of mold; that it's something that merely causes some allergies and sniffles for sensitive members of the population.

Toxic mold secretes _neurotoxins_ which will 100% destroy your life for years, if you get a bad enough exposure.

Read some of the experiences of mold survivors in this thread or elsewhere to get a sense of how bad this can be: it's horror-movie stuff.

Source: been through mold exposure myself. It wrecked my life for 5 years, and I still have lingering aftereffects.
mattfields
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Gotta love you supportive people. This is what makes HN a great community.
mattfields
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Hey! Could you give any insights as to what would make it easier (from your perspective as an engineering manager) to work with AS employees?

Social skills aren't the issue here, just inability to function in a noisy / motion-filled environment.
mattfields
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
This was the question I jumped on today to ask.

Not aspergers/autistic, but neurodivergent, and the thought of working in an office, which my next position is likely to entail, is nauseating.

I don't know if I can function in that environment with people moving around constantly, and am worried that asking "hey, can I be remote only?" right off the bat is a big negative when interviewing.

Thanks for asking this. :-)