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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Kevin JonesOct 9
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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Kevin JonesNov 19, 2024
@bradwilson @xunit is there guidance anywhere, official or otherwise, on running xunit v3 against a trimmed library?
Kevin JonesNov 14, 2024
@artcollisions @jerry apparently! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy

The satirical news site intends to turn Infowars into a parody of itself. But the court overseeing the bankruptcy put a hold on the sale pending a hearing next week.

The New York Times
Kevin JonesNov 11, 2024
Guessing whoever named the Saluki in Sing 2 "Suki" does not speak Russian.
Show threadKevin JonesNov 4, 2024

@aronia CoreWCF has a lot of the SOAP / WSDL pieces over at https://github.com/corewcf/corewcf

A number of .NET folks contribute to it. I don't think it will be drop-in (and maybe it won't be usable at all, it depends) but its probably worth looking in to.

GitHub - CoreWCF/CoreWCF: Main repository for the Core WCF project

Main repository for the Core WCF project. Contribute to CoreWCF/CoreWCF development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadKevin JonesNov 2, 2024
@hacks4pancakes I did the thing today! 💙💪
Show threadKevin JonesNov 2, 2024
@jbosse yeah it clearly is a regression in that regard. I asked it to show me pictures of Penny, a named person in my photo library, and:
Kevin JonesOct 31, 2024
Penny's scout troop has a Halloween thing today. I am "We're all trying to find the guy who did this"
Kevin JonesOct 29, 2024
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.
Kevin JonesOct 28, 2024

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.