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Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:01AM (#50284405)
MSFT is releasing models. See the MAI suite: https://microsoft.ai/models/
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:11PM (#50080743)
Not using the full names is a mitigation for talent poaching.

There are orgs that are moving to not including names at all as the next step on that trajectory.

Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:20AM (#49656525)
How does removing access to Clause equate to dehumanizing children?
Re:Big LLMs weights are a piece of history on Sunday March 16, 2025 @10:27AM (#43379326)
What does a 20 LLM signify?
Re:Cloudflare Thanksgiving 2023 Security Incident on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:48AM (#39227975)
Perhaps the parent commenter was referring to the section in the report which stating the IOCs indicated that the attackers used the known third-party command and control system named Sliver. There are multiple public yara signatures for Sliver.
It ruined the friendship.

I was uninformed on how stock grants worked and trusted their advice. They said "I'll take care of you."

They made millions from the venture. I was able to buy a motorcycle.

Early in my career, I dealt with this garage.

Once, I reported the VP of engineering for instructing me to commit fraud. I got back "Just do what he says, he's got experience in these things.". Then they hired someone to take over my team.

Another time, I reported someone for sexual assault to HR. I shared the incident without names at first and HR told me "oh, that's awful. Who is it? They need to go.". When I shared the name, I got "oh. Well, they are too important to the company. I'll talk to them."

I put in my resignation shortly after that.

I won't work for people like that anymore.

Re:Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:07AM (#37582403)
So... if you're referring to a challenge that did that during one of the DDTEK years of DEFCON-CTF, that was one of mine.

The expectation wasn't to buy time in an adjacent cloud, but to use out of order ip fragmentation or tcp segments, having the servers network stack reassemble the packets such that the read was coherent in one go.

My goal was to teach competitors to model real world challenges of exploitation.

The dataset does not appear to discuss the lifecycle of Linux distributions taking the security patches from upstream, nor the update process for all of the downstream distributions.

Something that's been widely discussed elsewhere is how often security issues are silently fixed in Linus's repo and therefore not picked up by distributions for their stable/LTS releases.

I buy the immediacy of patches if you compile your own kernel from the latest kernel.org sources, not if you're relying on distributions.

Re:I booted Linux 292,612 times on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @07:12PM (#36334174)
Microsoft has not implemented a monorepo.

However, it's not surprising when you consider the massive breadth of software that Microsoft builds, as one of the oldest and largest software development orgs.

Re:Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:12PM (#26824160)
I've implemented each of these features using public apis, so... Probably?
Re:The Teeniest Tiniest Laptop in the West on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:00PM (#25924093)
This brings back memories. I wore cargo shorts in college so I could carry my Libretto 70 to class.
(disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, but entirely unrelated to the team that built this.)

The privacy ramifications are intense. As the youth is apt to say, "like woah".

That said, I would love to see a tool that gives work-day insight where the user entirely owns and controls the data.

I've found it helpful to have a summarized report on how much of my work day is spent in meetings and emails verses writing code. It helps me to have data, rather than a vague feeling as to how much time I'm spending on things and how I could optimize my time.

I have no desire for HR or my management to see that information and I fully see where others having that data is ripe for abuse, but for my own sake if I totally control the data, it's useful.

Re:Why we’re changing to the AGPL license on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:44PM (#24772608)
How is that an unreasonable restriction for Google to ensure the work they pay for is usable in the company's products
Re:Microsoft: We were wrong about open source on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:25PM (#23230376)
I doubt it's about competition. Massive portions of Azure are developed completely completely open source, even though there are clear competitors.

Third party licenses, such as Adobe's font parsing, would need to get relicensed or rewritten to have a usable system.

You should listen to Bryan Cantrill's rant on Sun's disastrous attempt at opening up Solaris. This isn't an easy task.

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc