Been writing a Network Manager VPN plugin lately and woo boy is it hard to figure out how all of this works so I guess I should write that up
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Matthew Garrett
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Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security at Nvidia, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu. Blog: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog . He/him.
(Sorry, for internal tooling, I can release the writeup but the plugin would not be useful to anyone)
¡a!nRewatched https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Net and was astonished to discover that the music was composd by Simon Boswell, better known for his work on Hackers (cc: @jonty)
When something is described as "Heats or cools (x volume)" how do I interpret that if I live in an area where the extent to which I want to heat or cool the space is on the order of a few degrees rather than a few tens of degrees?
I am that guy who walks to a very carefully determined place on the platform
The sheer joy of correctly getting on a train several miles away such that you get off directly opposite the escalator at your destination
A key part of a SLAPP is that it's used against speech that is entirely legal. The defendant can simply not afford to get to the point where they're able to defend themselves, or is sufficiently afraid of the potential for losing that they'd rather settle first.
If a lawsuit goes to trial and the court concludes the speech was illegal, then that's by definition not a SLAPP.
SLAPPs are a genuine problem and some jurisdictions have enacted laws against them. California allows defamation cases to be examined early in the process and thrown out if a judge concludes there's no realistic chance of success - and in turn, the defendant is then allowed to sue whoever filed the SLAPP. This is good. There should be more laws like that.
But, again, if a court ends up deciding that you engaged in illegal defamation, that case wasn't a SLAPP
A Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation (or "SLAPP") is a lawsuit that is intended to target perfectly legal conduct, with the goal of silencing critics by leaving them afraid or financially unable to defend against a spurious claim. Someone says something you don't like? You sue them, they apologise and potentially even pay you some money, and the actual case never goes to trial.