> It's also helped create a boom in the cybersecurity industry, and helped build the hiring pipeline most American and Israeli cybersecurity firms are using in the CEE today.
Huge part of my decades long IT career is linked with Polish IT industry and I have no idea what are you talking about. Poland is most likely spending heavy millions on Israeli and American spyware mostly used to consolidate power internally.
Try visiting Czechia sometime. That's where exploit dev is largely consolidated thanks to the OS dev teams MS and RedHat offshored there decades ago plus Avast which developed a OS dev and detections engineering pipeline, and the Israeli FDI boom that started a decade ago to take advantage of that.
Poland's scene is mostly Incident Response and SOC, but the Polish talent pool has started climbing up the ladder.
Poland specifically bought Pegasus from Israelis. There is a parliamentary commission investigating this, everything is public so you can google it.
Poland does not develop its own exploits or have domestic spyware firms that target journalists. Unless you have proof to the contrary, what you wrote is not true.
Denying the role a number of CEE countries play in detection engineering and exploit development isn't helping if you actually care about reducing this kind of erosion.
And I have always used CEE to denote all of Central and Eastern Europe, not just Poland.
I met many people who after grabbing laser pointer first thing they do is pointing it into the eyes of a nearby person, from all the things they could point it to.
For at least a decade now every UI redesign has been useless chasing own's tail. Only rearranging items and adding white spaces. Android, JetBrains, MacOS, iOS, Windows. Sometimes I use a relict software or device with UI from 10-15 years ago and it was perfectly fine. Modern UIs introduce no advantage, even icons are not getting prettier anymore.
The jetbrains UI redesign actually allowed me to reclaim screen space. I immediately jumped on the beta and stayed with it in every editor.
Though there are other issues with their ides like slow fixing of reported bugs, and improper support for new feature which is most likely because of the bespoke implementation of everything
I have to agree. UI updates generally go wrong because users are conservative and loathe any changes to their workflow, even if it improves it. I won't judge anybody who disliked the update, but to die on this hill is a bit silly (imo).
It took me some time (like a few days) to get used to the UI but it is a general improvement
Fun fact: large transmission lines use power line carrier communications for things like remedial action schemes and other system protection functionality (e.g. protective relay trip signals). The carrier can be a few hundred kV, so it tends to be outside the comfort zone of most casual experimenters.
Photons vs electrons? Just rotate 90 degrees, seem to be swappable more easily than using neutrons or other particles, like tau/muon/electron neutrinos.
Oh wait, didn't fermilab even use neutrinos in 2012? That seems even harder, practically made for an April fools RFC.
Most IP over Lasers these days is Ethernet (although certainly other standards exist) 802.3ae covers a lot of 10G laser based ethernet over fiber for example.
I'm torn about online dating. It figures the real market value, the real league of possible partners, as we established that real life pick up is unwanted and creepy. Our value and league are not what we'd want and expect, no surprise.
Honestly tinder shows me profiles of all potential partners with comparable wealth, age, and status within my area which I recognize from closer and wider circle of acquaintances. Even short appearances or breakdowns the apparently have by installing and setting up the app for a day or two. Sometimes even have moments like "wow, this match would be a romantic comedy plot with reunion after a decade". Then... they just swipe me left and continue complaining that there's nothing there.
The act of "pickup" is creepy because it's based on a false pretense - establishing a human connection and trust quickly. Succes is guaranteed only for the sociopaths. Talking to people in real-life, without the help of technology is not creepy and doing it casually just for the sake of human contact is what all of us should be doing more. We would be able to filter out the "creeps" much easier if most people you get in contact with are normal human beings that are being nice to other human beings.
There are many countries where on attempt to small talk they will death stare and squash you into the ground, or laugh off. Actually... most of countries in Europe.
I've yet to find a place in the world where talking to strangers at bars is socially unacceptable. Everywhere has different rules about where idle chit-chat with strangers is allowed or not, but bars are a universal.
When you want security, but also want cheap security, and also want someone else to be responsible for it. Basically you only want the side of running business where you spend all the time on private yacht.
These old people will torch the world before passing away. Decades away their goal horizon was maybe 10-15 years, now they are moving faster as their time is more limited with goal horizon rather 3-5 years.
Oh god, this CIA meddling in never ends well for anyone. I mean afterwards Americans will make a Hollywood movie claiming that situation was complicated and their intentions were good, but it will end up with some sort of hell.
Huge part of my decades long IT career is linked with Polish IT industry and I have no idea what are you talking about. Poland is most likely spending heavy millions on Israeli and American spyware mostly used to consolidate power internally.
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