Umm... "GitHub is a remote-first company with offices located throughout the US, Europe, and Asia", per https://github.com/about/caree.... I'm pretty sure they still have a physical office in Amsterdam, at least. They're also part of Microsoft, which is physically present in most EU countries.

I'm getting a kick out of reading this while still laying horizontal in bed at 11am on a Friday. ðYââ(TM)ï

Presumably the people who failed this test were employed by Go Daddy at the time, and thus were likely not struggling due to their own unemployment.

How did your company manage to get "large" without implementing a system to track their employees' shipping address? All of the places I've worked at, from fortune 50 enterprises down to the startups have had a solution for people's locations.

The email should look like "here's where we're going to ship your laptop; please confirm that it's correct," not "please give me your address." That's indicative of a complete Mickey Mouse operation.

Suggest paying for Namely. You'll probably get promoted to director of HR.

Not to be confused with dinghy hat, aka Hatty McHatface.

So many people post without having any creativity... Here's a helpful example:

Unzip to ../../.bash_profile knowing that this is run in $HOME/.programrc/modules/
Include "sudo runstuff" in new file
Profit

While the joke isn't lost on me, it misses the point. Your home address is already known from several other databases. The risk here is more in identifying your travel patterns. If you're being scanned often enough in "public," logic can identify that you must be at home when you're not found somewhere else.

Samsung Pay gets 100% of the mobile transactions made with my phone. And Apple Pay has zero percent of the mag stripe reader transactions.

This being a kernel issue, the kernel package is what gets updated. You use the same apt upgrade command to update linux-image as everything else. You've probably already done so several times without even noticing - aside from the need to reboot afterwards.

Here's the Ubuntu page on the defect, along with instructions if you need them.
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn...

The drink machine and snack/supply closet is a fantastic idea; suddenly I feel like reading Slashdot was actually worth it today. :)

You allow remote root login? Doh.

Set up a nopasswd sudo rule for rsync and add this to your rsync command: `--rsync-path="sudo rsync".` Then connect as a regular user.

Blocking signatures was one of the best options Slashdot added. For every good one, there were quite a few bad ones. Honestly, I had forgotten that signatures even exist on /. until now. :)

If only it had been connected to the Internet...

I use "storename.or.website@catchall.domain" pretty consistently here in the US, and I've found a huge number of stores which apparently do provide their mailing lists to anyone and everyone. Equifax - the "reputable" credit reporting company - seems to be among the worst; I get a ton of spam to equifax@catchall.domain.

I should probably publish a list online somewhere from my spam logs... :)

Wait, people actually say "ecks-muss"? They're poorly informed.

The "X" is used because it looks similar to the Greek "Chi," and is the closest letter chosen to represent "Christ." In the early to mid nineteen hundreds, it was suggested by several style guudes that "Xmas" be used as an abbreviated way to /write/ "Christmas" in places where space was limited, like store sign boards and such. It's been used that way for centuries, though. And it's not pronounced as an "x"; the word is still pronounced "Christmas."

There's a better, more detailed write up at Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...