Kevin Jones

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Product Security and Cryptography at GitHub. .NET Cryptography maintainer. Speaking only for myself. He/they. Persephone #1347.

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Hi y’all! My team at GitHub has an opening for a Senior Product Security Engineer. Come work with me! https://careers-githubinc.icims.com/jobs/4614/senior-product-security-engineer/job
Senior Product Security Engineer in Remote | Careers at US Remote

GitHub is transforming how the world builds secure software, and we are looking for a skilled Product Security Engineer to join our Security Services organization. This role is integral in ensuring the security of our software products by performing comprehensive security analyses, identifying vulnerabilities, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to embed security best practices throughout the development lifecycle.   The ideal candidate is passionate about security, with a strong focus on discovering and mitigating risks across GitHub’s products and services. You will engage with internal and external stakeholders, provide expert guidance, and play a key role in driving security initiatives across the organization.

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@bradwilson @xunit is there guidance anywhere, official or otherwise, on running xunit v3 against a trimmed library?
Guessing whoever named the Saluki in Sing 2 "Suki" does not speak Russian.
Penny's scout troop has a Halloween thing today. I am "We're all trying to find the guy who did this"
I know time travel is impossible because if it were, someone would have gone back in time and told Windows to go for UTF-8 instead of adding UTF-16 / UCS-2 everywhere.

Jumped on iOS 18.1 with "Apple Intelligence"

1. If you want Apple Intelligence, you need to join a waitlist. It's "Off" by default (for now?)
2. "Off", as far as I can tell, means "act like iOS 18.0"
3. You can turn some parts on or off. eg. you can turn off notification summaries from Apple Intelligence.
4. You can turn the whole thing back off. It is not irreversible.

I will probably leave it on for Siri, and turn off the notification summaries. Overall I think it is pretty neat.

Okay Apple. I am eligible for a laptop refresh at work starting today. You can come out with the cool stuff now.
"Should we get the one that is less expensive or the one that is showing an expired certificate error?"
One of the nice things about smart appliances (fridge) is they are always showing some error on show room floors which is a good reminder to me to not buy a smart appliance.
I do not understand why some people insist on hurting themselves in Home Depot. You do not need to try to carry four pressure treated 6x6s that are eight feet by yourself. Just get a cart.