cynicalsecurity 

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IT Security, cynically aged. Maths. Some nukes. Four languages. Longing for Symbolics and Connection Machines. Keeper of Ancient Computing Lore. Ⓐ
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First 0day1986

Alright Mastodon, I'm looking for work.

Senior software developer, specializing in low-level, embedded, and systems programming. Previous work includes video compression (developer on AV1 and AV2), silicon verification, and scientific/numerical software. Full CV/resume available on request.

Primarily looking for remote work, but would consider in-person in the UK if the circumstances are right.

Available for either contract work through the company I run (easiest route if you're outside the UK), or direct employment.

Tagging #FediHire for visibility.

Last week I lost my job. It took me a while to process but now I’m ready to share.

If you or your company needs an experienced full stack developer who understands how the web works, knows modern tech, communicates well, please reach out.

My CV: https://pawelgrzybek.com/cv/

I'd appreciate if you could share. Thank you.

CV | pawelgrzybek.com

I’m a software developer with 15 years of professional experience, specialising in building performant and accessible full-stack web applications. I’m passionate about web standards and ethical design.

pawelgrzybek.com

'The European Commission has launched a new formal investigation against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA). (...)

The new investigation will assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks [e.g.] related to the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, such as manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount to child sexual abuse material.'

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_203

#law #eu #politics #dsa #tech #ai

Don't you love that Microsoft Entra ID now insists you install Authenticator even if your primary login method is Yubikey and the URL is, literally, an "upsell"?

hxxps://mysignins.microsoft.com/register?requirement=AppUpsell

and it won't let me log in unless I install it…

It is a sad reflection on the world when a US friend is worried about travelling _to Switzerland_ because he's from the US…

i finally found this picture again. it has infected me memetically a long time ago

Never touch the terminals.

Please don't. Cause of failure.

This may be the cause.

It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time.

It is not possible.

Another entry into the mystery bugs category: Parallels and Microsoft Remote Desktop.

So, after many years of using both Parallels and Microsoft Remote Desktop I can state with certainty that there is a mysterious interaction between the two.,

Like all good mysterious interactions, I know it happens but it does not happen "reliably".

How to (occasionally) reproduce:

1. open Parallels and run a VM, a macOS VM is fine,
2. open Microsoft Remote Desktop, connect somewhere and use it, a Linsux RDP is fine,
3. flip between the two
4. Parallels hangs
5. Parallels crashes

it only happens with Microsoft Remote Desktop, no other app interaction causes this.

Apple used to make outstanding products. I'm currently cleaning up my kitchen and I've got this pair of shoddy logitech desktop speakers connected to a 1st gen airport express. The same airport express model in the living room is connected via spdif/aesebu to neumann studio monitors. Music playback from my mac to both speaker sets simultaneously works without any discernible delay. I can walk back and forth between the rooms and they are perfectly in sync.

That's 2004 hardware - running netbsd.

at first i thought that u-boot on this device is uncharacteristically and unexplainably slow at updating from Ethernet, but no, u-boot finishes in like five seconds and then vscode adds twenty more on top

QA is dead

i'm probably going to be told tomorrow that i'm being laid off, so if anyone has a lead on a decent remote embedded software engineering or unix/linux systems job, i've got a resume to send you.

i don't like discussing the specifics of who my past clients have been in public. however, my most recent position was contracting with the kernel team of a major CDN and cloud services provider that i know many people on fedi are also current or former employees of, maintaining their internal linux distribution (an customized Ubuntu downstream) for their custom server platforms, porting forward and cleaning up patchsets to newer versions of the distribution, fixing issues in toolchains and libraries, etc.

i've also done embedded software work for a large variety of devices including medical, cellular technology, and industrial control equipment, in addition to some consumer products. i've done board bringup and BSP development with Yocto/Openembedded, Buildroot, FreeRTOS, etc, on most major SoC and microcontroller families. when doing business logic, I am most comfortable in C and Lua, but fine working with C++ codebases, and can learn to work with other languages if a project needs it.

boosts appreciated.