Notices by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club), page 3

I'm looking at a company hiring for techs to work on neat aerospace projects. they're a contractor doing stuff with GPS and calculating orbits and stuff!

and they want you to know Ada. NOPE, EJECT, ABORT, NOT A GOOD JOB

this job listing is trying very hard not to reveal that they want to hire you to make missiles

it's not about the language itself, mind you: Ada is a perfectly fine language, even if I don't know it.

It's that the people who want you to know Ada are the people who thought it should be required for all new programming projects, like the department of defense

kinda like how Uber doesn't advertise any of their jobs as being for Uber's self-driving cab division (you know, the one that has killed at least one person)

they're hiring for a "autonomous ride-hailing service"

I don't work for ABC companies:
AI, Bombs, Crypto.

and the annoying thing is that some of these companies know that there's people like me and are trying to hide the fact that they're hiring for ABC jobs

I wonder how hard it would be to have a wireless mouse with two receivers paired to it. Like, only one is active at a time, but it can be used with either computer

I'm wondering because I have two laptops I switch between. They're never on at the same time (I only have one lap) but I keep having to disconnect and reconnect my wired mouse

like I know there are mice out there that can pair to multiple devices, with like a switch to select between them.
I mean more a mouse that is automatically connected to whichever of the two receivers is on

worse idea: one mouse with two USB cables, and some smarts to make it pick whichever one is powered on

@0xabad1dea well if they want to send me binaries I can reverse engineer it and then check for security vulnerabilities but it'll take a lot longer and I charge by the hour :)

6% yes, 4% kinda, 90% no.
Interestingly when I ran this on Tumblr, they were 12% yes, 5% kinda, 82% no.

The quick explanation: the Vela Hotel Incident (or Vela Incident) was a 1979 event where a single satellite detected the double-flash of a nuclear explosion in the Indian ocean.
No country officially took credit, but the current consensus is that it was a joint South African-Israeli test.

wow the interface has managed to get even worse somehow

I just checked the logs for a simple HTTP request to their top level site and it defined a content security policy for 92 separate domains.
Including a lot of fun ones with names like "sandbox.company.egg" and "debugging.company.egg" and "embedded.demo.company.egg" and "debug-preview.company.egg"

all of which is pretty questionable when you already defined a *.company.egg policy!

hey, web administrators: be careful with your content-security-policy headers. yeah it's nice to set up a good cross-site-scripting policy, but you shouldn't be leaking information to attackers with it.

Inscryption has a neat bit of abstraction: cards have attack/health/cost and then some number of sigils.
There's no rules on the cards themselves, but each sigil has associated rules, which you can look up at any time.

That times a billion. You can't do anything in the engine without checking 8 different conditions that only happen when you have some other rare item and it's in the right place

And you look up the Unkillable sigil in the in-game rulebook, and it says:
"When a card bearing this sigil perishes, a copy of it is created in your hand"

So instead of having the Ouroboros card have rules on it saying that it always returns to your hand when killed, it has an Unkillable sigil.

So they don't have to test the card individually, just all the sigils.

This also enables the game to modify cards mid-game: with special events you can copy the sigils from one card to another, making new combinations of sigils.