chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

dylansm

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max-mapper

note: I converted this script into the much easier to install joinopenwifi module on NPM

see https://github.com/maxogden/joinopenwifi#joinopenwifi for installation instructions

Tho85

Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox-esque sync folder

Prerequisites:

• One or more clients running a UNIX-like OS. Examples are given for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, although all software components are available for other platforms as well (e.g. OS X). YMMV
• A cheap Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with storage. I recommend Backupsy, they offer 250GB storage for $5/month. Ask Google for coupon codes.

Software components used:

• Unison for file synchronization
• EncFS for folder encryption

ladamson

#!/bin/bash
#
# Purpose:
#
# When you burn with K3b, this script will prompt for your
# desired encryption password (twice), and will encrypt the
# generated ISO with that password.  If your passwords don't
# match, you will be prompted to enter them again.  Your chosen
# password must be at least 20 characters long (this is a
# requirement of aespipe).

mc2pw

Tails - The Amnesic Incognito Live System - is a live operating system that "aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity." It is a Linux Debian distribution configured to follow several security measures including sending all internet traffic through the Tor network.

These are the steps I followed for setting up Tails. Tails provides a utility for setting up persistence, this utility only works when running a Tails installation created from within Tails using the Tails Installer. After consistently getting an "Operation System Not Found" message on my computer when trying to run the Tails installed by the Tails Installer, some research lead me to find out it was possible to set up persistence manually. This turned out to provide greater flexibility, as now I am able to keep my persistent partition on a USB drive and my Tails installation on a disk.

eliquious

Building

go build -o goencrypt main.go

Generating Keys

genericpenguin

/* Arduino Synth from
https://janostman.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/how-to-build-your-very-own-string-synth/
*/
#include <avr/interrupt.h>
#include <avr/io.h>
#include <avr/pgmspace.h>
#ifndef cbi
#define cbi(sfr, bit) (_SFR_BYTE(sfr) &= ~_BV(bit))
#endif
#ifndef sbi

cb372

(This is a translation of the original article in Japanese by moratorium08.)

(UPDATE (22/3/2019): Added some corrections provided by the original author.)

Writing your own OS to run on a handmade CPU is a pretty ambitious project, but I've managed to get it working pretty well so I'm going to write some notes about how I did it.

joshskidmore

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# update
apt -y update
apt -y upgrade
apt -y dist-upgrade

# 5.2 mainline kernel
cd /tmp
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.2-rc6/linux-headers-5.2.0-050200rc6_5.2.0-050200rc6.201906222033_all.deb