He has half a dozen court dates set for other stuff related to corruption/money/....
Assuming he's losing the appeal on this particular case, he will have been sentenced for scheming with a convicted murderer (Lockerbie amongst other things).
If convicted, that person will be guilty of criminal actions together with a foreign dictator and his terrorist in chief.
Not exactly stealing gums.
The case is of particular seriousness and he's a convicted person, repeat offender.
Would something as serious be put under the rug in other democracies? I'm not so sure. If Justin Trudeau is found accepting money from a bunch of Taliban involved in weapons trafficking, would the RCMP turn a blind eye?
(Why do I say "if convicted"? He appealed, so he is innocent until proven guilty. Why is he in jail? In large parts because his political party lobbied for this type of sentences. Leopards did eat his face)
> If Justin Trudeau is found accepting money from a bunch of Taliban involved in weapons trafficking, would the RCMP turn a blind eye?
RCMP turned a blind eye to multiple corruption scandals involving bribery, fraud, embezzlement of public funds, etc. under Trudeau and his government, and helped cover them up. That is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to corruption within the RCMP - there is a long list of nefarious and straight up illegal shit they have done over the years.
Say someone is legally elected president of France. They serve their 5 years term, doing their job.
They get out of Elysée Palace, draw a gun and shoot a passer by. Do they get a free pass? Wouldn't that victim deserve justice?
That person, not a divine being, a mere mortal like the rest of us, has been convicted of serious offences. He is now serving his sentence as any other person would (well, not exactly, for instance he gets a clean solo room and 24/7 security detail).
If your point is "an elected head of state should not be prosecuted by a standard court of justice" (a point I still disagree with btw), the french judicial system got that covered with "cour de justice de la république".
For offenses committed while doing their jobs. Use your elected position as president to steal money? Cour de justice de la république it is. Not a walk in the park, judges & a "jury" of members of the Parliament. Aggravating circumstances (committing an offense while in an official capacity) means theoritically harsher sentences.
What he's been convicted for was as a private citizen. Standard judicial system. As should be, nothing naïve about this.
(Huge simplification of the french judicial system, the actual nature of his current legal status, etc as this case is utterly complex. Judge's ruling is over 400 pages long, and he's appealing, and he'll mostly spend a month in the lam and the rest under house arrest)
Met him at HAL 2001, volunteered together a bit there. I think he was heading the speakers herald team I was part of.
First encounter with the hacker conference scene, he guided me wisely.
Patient and kind indeed.
He's the reason I kept going around European hacking / free software events. I owe him cultural discoveries, long lasting friendships and tech partnerships.
Very saddened by this news.
So far the thread is full of similar interactions with him.
That person changed so many lives, by his contributions to culture and technology but more importantly (?) because he had tremendous impacts on the lives of many people he took time to interact with.
I know that these threads are always full of "this recently deceased people made the world a better place". I lived with him 4 days 24 years ago so I can't say I knew him...but I know I wouldn't be writing this about more "famous" people I interacted with.
It's also not that "user friendly": depending on their locale, users will usually expect for instance DD/MM/YYYY. Sorting by YYYY-MM-DD won't feel natural to them.
I am french. Everydays, we use DD/MM/YYYY or DD/MM/YY. Sometimes, I encounter YYYY-MM-DD, for example at the beginning of a document reference or in a file name. For me, it feels natural and I have no issue to make this switch mentally. The only problem I encounter is in english: MM/DD/YYYY. Hopefully less and less people are using this insane order.
I'm working in this space, reach out to me and we'll talk.
Entering the EU market with this is going to be extremely touchy, the privacy protection agencies are going to mow down your clients with fines if you're not _very_ careful....
I'd be happy to discuss this further and learn from your experience. Please reach out to me at oleh.savchuk@prepin.ai and we can schedule a short call to chat about navigating EU market entry properly. Really appreciate the warning!
If there is any 'decision' being made with that screening, you can't run this with GDPR. You can't have the 'machine' make a life-impacting decision such as employing someone, there is no 'explainability', no re-do by a human. Someone with time to spare can ramp up your legal costs in court, and they won't have to pay a dime/cent even if they lose.. because GDPR (also the EUDPS's people will have a party on your expense).
Also considering that your 'AI' collects and processes, voice, name, PII, perhaps financial data, etc... good luck with the DPIA!
You raise excellent points about GDPR compliance. Just to clarify - Prepin is a mock interview practice platform, not an actual hiring tool. Users practice with our AI to prepare for real interviews, so no employment decisions are being made.
That said, you're absolutely right about data processing concerns - we still handle voice, PII, etc. during practice sessions. We'd definitely benefit from your expertise on proper GDPR compliance for AI-powered interview practice tools.
Would love to discuss the regulatory landscape further - please reach out to oleh.savchuk@prepin.ai when you have a chance.
This tool is made by the french OSS company Linagora, active in that space for more than 20 years.
They mostly likely have thousands of users running on corporate or state platforms so it's not a "one off project" supported by a couple individuals, it's an actual stack with probably a large dev team.
However, Linagora has been entangled in a legal battle for 10 years with former employees that founded BlueMind[0], a competing offer.
Latest episode in the saga appears to be "back to square one" with the legal case coming back to a fresh start based on complex legal issues [1]
Yeah, and especially as Vanta is adjacent... I think a rebranding is in order.
Vanta (and the auditors they market) is a nice company I'm happy user of but I'm afraid they won't be too pleased with this.
Your project is a pretty nice overview of what network level monitoring encompasses, I'd say it's more than a tool, it has obvious educational value. Would be sad to see it buried under naming issues.
I'm on the market for a decent laptop. Don't want to side-line the thread, but is Arch supported decently on, say, Dell or any "enterprise grade" laptops?
More color: I was happy running Arch on a 2012 vintage Dell Latitude (Intel, integrated graphics) for several years. I'm currently quite happy running Arch on a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s (gen2, AMD, integrated graphics).
I haven’t tried much, but as long as you avoid nvidia or fancy laptops with weird components, you will be good. My recommendation is to go for business line, as they have more standardized peripherals. Better if there’s some linux support guarantee.
If in doubt, search the Arch forums for posts about the model you consider to buy. Best case: Some threads come up, but all problems could be solved. Worst case: No threads, or a lot of threads about obscure errors.
I have a Dell Vostro 7620 currently running Arch. Even with the Nvidia graphics card I have run into very few issues (only once did a nvidia driver update did break the system), so I'd say go for it.
As mentionned elsewhere, 30h of being "in the zone" is already above average.
Above that, the teams will be present, or rather their bodies will be, but non productive.
Death march is a real thing and it results, as the name implies, in death.
As a manager, if you choose to run your team in death march mode, then it implies reaching your goal is more important than the well-being of your team and the ability to function long-term. Short term is... short term.
AWS East going down will (and has) cause(d) disruption in other regions.
Last time it happened (maybe like 18 months ago), you ran into billing and quota issues, if my memory serves.
AWS is, as any company, centralized in a way or another.
Want to be sure you won't be impacted by AWS East going down, even if you run in another region? Well, better be prepared to run (or have a DRP) on another cloud provider then...
The cost of running your workload on two different CSP is quite high, especially if your teams have been convinced to use AWS-specific technologies. You need to first get your software stack provider agnostic and then manage the two platform in sync from a technical and contract perspective, which is not always easy...
You just made the single point of failure your software stack hardware abstraction layer. There’s a bug in it, you’re down. Everywhere. Not only that, but if there is CS in either your HAL, or your application you’re down. So to get the redundancy the original commenter was talking about, you need to develop 2 different HALs with 2 different applications all using a minimum of 2 different OS and language stacks.
Why multiply your problems? Use your cloud service provider only to access hardware and leave the rest of that alone. That way any cloud provider will due. Any region on any cloud provider will due. You could even just fallback to your own racks if you want. Point is, you only want the hardware.
Now to get that level of redundancy, you would still have to create 2 different implementations of your application on 2 different software and OS stacks. But the hardware layer is now able to run anywhere. Again, you can even have a self hosted rack in your dispatch stack.
So hardware redundancy is easy to do at the level the original commenter recommends . Software redundancy is incredibly difficult and expensive to do at the level the original commenter was talking about. Your idea to make a hardware/cloud abstraction layer only multiplies the number of software layers you would need multiple implementations of, shadow run and maintain to achieve the hypothetical level of redundancy.
Assuming he's losing the appeal on this particular case, he will have been sentenced for scheming with a convicted murderer (Lockerbie amongst other things).
If convicted, that person will be guilty of criminal actions together with a foreign dictator and his terrorist in chief.
Not exactly stealing gums.
The case is of particular seriousness and he's a convicted person, repeat offender.
Would something as serious be put under the rug in other democracies? I'm not so sure. If Justin Trudeau is found accepting money from a bunch of Taliban involved in weapons trafficking, would the RCMP turn a blind eye?
(Why do I say "if convicted"? He appealed, so he is innocent until proven guilty. Why is he in jail? In large parts because his political party lobbied for this type of sentences. Leopards did eat his face)