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LinkedIn relied on its user agreement to gain consent to research millions of users. So it's not just to find out which of your coworkers is looking for a new job?
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Since LinkedIn advertises themselves as a professional connection site, the type of testing they're doing is actually an appropriate use of the information we provide them and is legal under GDPR and almost all other cyber privacy laws.
The question of ethical or not is up to the user.
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How was it.... If something is for free, you are the product?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You can get video cards at a discount now if you don’t mind rolling the dice with a used one, but maybe you want to think twice about that At least you'll know they're clean?
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In this article, we’ll explore how C++’s abstraction model heavily relies on compiler optimizations, unveiling some unfortunate examples of unexpected performance loss. So don't bother debugging
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An interesting article written from the perspective of game development, where debugging is a pain when dealing with a slow debug build.
My complaint is the opposite, namely that optimized release builds are basically impossible to debug. If you need to debug them, you need to disable many of the optimizations.
I would also claim that many systems are designed with hardly any consideration of CPU, memory, and disk usage. The hardware crowd makes it faster and bigger, and then the software crowd pisses it all away.
I hardly ever play computer games, but my guess is that these guys are also wasting resources trying to outdo the competition when it comes to how real a game looks. Maybe they need to back off a little instead of whining about the performance of their debug builds.
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Vittorio Romeo wrote: I also don’t have any proof of this, but I suspect that writing low-level code with the desire of optimizing the debugging experience ironically ends up increasing the frequency of debugging.
Very interesting observation. Well written article talking about the tradeoffs between clean code and debugging.
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We know that apps collect all sorts of data about us, and that makes us feel uncomfortable. In a new study researchers from the University of Copenhagen have measured how uncomfortable and "creeped out" using apps can make us feel. The beatings will continue until you uninstall the app
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The beatings will continue until you uninstall the app
FTFY 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within the realm of computer programming. But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. Now you can code on the system that will take away your job coding!
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A recent survey has found that employees need more learning and growth opportunities to stop them from hopping between jobs. Does this mean I have to figure out what colour my parachute is again?
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A recent survey has found that employees need more learning and growth opportunities to stop them from sleeping between jobs.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Kent Sharkey wrote: what colour my parachute is again?
You have a parachute?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does this mean I have to figure out what colour my parachute is again?
If it's golden, make sure that's due to the metal and not it being left in the latrine at some point. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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... and that it's not fool's gold. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Organizations are being warned about a wave of attacks targeting Microsoft SQL Server with ransomware known as Fargo, which encrypts files and threatens victims that their data may be published online if they do not pay up. Aw, Jeez. Your gonna wanna fix this one up. Okay?
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The current .NET trends are highly related to Microsoft’s releases and new features. However, many trends are driven by independent frameworks and open-source technology. For those who are trendy
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.NET 7 provides improved support for running .NET on WebAssembly in JavaScript-based apps, including a rich JavaScript interop mechanism. Because sometimes you just don't want your web application to work everywhere
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Generating checksums—cryptographic hashes such as MD5 or SHA-256 functions for files is hardly anything new and one of the most efficient means to ascertain the integrity of a file, or to check if two files are identical. And this blurb contains its own blurb
It's apparently an exercise for the reader to determine why it's a big deal.
I mean, sure, it's neat, but ...???
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Might it be another example of "only because you can..."?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It means that you can potentially be able to create arbitrary content that prints a desired MD5 - quite a big deal if said MD5 is used to authenticate a library, update or executable for example.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Denis,
This has actually been possible for around 15 years now. Not even sure why it made the news.
MD5 collision generation
PDF, DOC, ZIP and executables have already been publicly demonstrated. I would argue that images are easiest, you can use the EXIF block and leave the image data untouched.
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Randor wrote: This has actually been possible for around 15 years now. Not even sure why it made the news.
I'm glad for that since I didn't know it 
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I recommend avoiding SHA-1 as well. 
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