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fiberoptick
·hace 4 años·discuss
The perfect example for how bloated, inefficient, and wasteful the bureaucracies of higher education can become.

How did $40m of fraudulent spending go unchecked for literally years? It seems to be that even at the largest private sector organizations this kind of malfeasance would have been caught much sooner.
fiberoptick
·hace 5 años·discuss
This could have been an immensely powerful covert communications channel for field operators of military and intelligence services
fiberoptick
·hace 5 años·discuss
Well, at companies that actually care about 100% rollout of "corporate, invasive crapware" on computers that _they own_ and that are used to process _company data_ and access _company resources_, the alternative is usually just to ban Linux workstations altogether.

I see this as a strict improvement for adoption of Linux workstations in the corporate world
fiberoptick
·hace 5 años·discuss
End of an era...

Are there any viable alternatives to Kubernetes and Nomad?
fiberoptick
·hace 6 años·discuss
I wonder where this leaves the AWS-sponsored Open Distro for Elasticsearch? (https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/)

Seems to me that they have no choice but to hard fork off of the last Apache-licensed release of Elasticsearch et al
fiberoptick
·hace 6 años·discuss
Copyright law is the basis for the legal enforcement of software licenses. License violations usually get pursued under copyright law
fiberoptick
·hace 6 años·discuss
There are state laws that require financial institutions to do this actually. Their hands are tied here. It's called "escheatment".

https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersescheathtm.html
fiberoptick
·hace 6 años·discuss
> does not directly answer to any legislative, judicial, or executive authority.

This is patently false. The Securities and Exchange Commission accredits and oversees all national SROs.
fiberoptick
·hace 6 años·discuss
Should be corrected to "Vendor-Locks", as well.
fiberoptick
·hace 6 años·discuss
Does this defend against any additional attack surface that wasn't already defended by the UEFI Secure Boot standard?