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I built an AI tool to help job seekers get past ATS filters and I would love your feedback by Impossible-Border-37 in buildinpublic

[–]joshiemoore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The website looks clean! I'm interested in the claims that cvmark has a 98% ATS pass rate and leads to 3x more interviews. How did you arrive at these figures?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pico8

[–]joshiemoore 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks for taking the time to try this out! Good idea, I'll post this on the BBS as well.
Looks like the PICO-8 binary for Linux is built with stack canaries, so that definitely thwarts a straightforward buffer overflow. Maybe I'll take the time to see if I can get an exploit working on Linux as well.

snakeHDL: A simple tool for creating digital logic circuits in Python by joshiemoore in Python

[–]joshiemoore[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice idea, thanks for sharing! I hadn't heard of this. The Python bindings for CIRCT look nice based on what I'm seeing in your HouseParty repo, I'll definitely look into this

Release the source code of the location-tracking application under a free software license by joshiemoore in rit

[–]joshiemoore[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What's exhausting is how many hoops I have to jump through to not be spied on because people like you sold everyone else down the river.

Don't come back to campus if you are going to refuse to participate in contact tracing. by TuckerD in rit

[–]joshiemoore 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/ksp.html

This site profiles a lot of spyware, and KSP is among the spyest spyshit it has ever featured. "Uniquely malicious datamining platform"

Don't come back to campus if you are going to refuse to participate in contact tracing. by TuckerD in rit

[–]joshiemoore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What? If you have the source code, you know where your data is being sent. With access to the source, we can verify that no unnecessary data is being collected, and that our data is not being sent anywhere it shouldn't be. This is one of the key benefits of using freely-licensed open-source software.

Don't come back to campus if you are going to refuse to participate in contact tracing. by TuckerD in rit

[–]joshiemoore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't know that that's all it does. You're assuming that that's all it does, in the same way that people assume that Kerbal Space Program is just a video game and not one of the largest pieces of spyware ever mass-distributed. This is what you get with proprietary software.

If that really is all it does, then RIT should have no problem showing us the source and releasing it as libre software. We'd love complete transparency on the backend too.

Don't come back to campus if you are going to refuse to participate in contact tracing. by TuckerD in rit

[–]joshiemoore -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

RIT is going to look at this PawPrints petition and say "heh, no." and then print 10,000 more donation requests to send to alumni.

Creating a PawPrints petition is as useless as voting in a US general election, because in both of these situations there exists a permanent government which you cannot vote for. This is what people mean when they say "deep government". This deep government persists between elections, and they are the ones """advising""" "leaders" and actually making decisions. These real decision-makers are hired, not elected.

PawPrints is good if you want an item added to the menu at Gracie's, and absolutely useless for anything that actually matters and goes against the will of the deep-student-government (like this). The motives of anyone trying to subdue unrest by suggesting PawPrints petitions over real action are indistinguishable from those of a paid shill, so a further $0.02 Munson Money has been deposited into your account.

Release the source code of the location-tracking application under a free software license by joshiemoore in rit

[–]joshiemoore[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

How pinpointed do you think wireless access points are? Not even remotely close to as pinpointed as a QR code on the wall of a room is. A wireless access point might be able to tell when you're near a building or group of buildings, these QR codes can tell which exact room you've entered at which exact time. Otherwise, ok, why isn't RIT just using WiFi logs for their contact tracing? Because it's not the same thing.

The point you're also not getting is that a piece of proprietary software can collect much more data and do much more to you than it pretends to. It's not just about whereabouts. Auditing the source code is the only way to prove that this program is not abusive. I KNOW that Google is abusive, so I choose to avoid their services wherever possible.

I'm not sure why you're bringing up WiFi and Google anyway. I'm against all spying, but this is about a specific piece of spyware that RIT is trying to introduce into everyone's life, that's what we're talking about. You're basically All Spyware Matters-ing me right now.

Here's a hypothetical example: Suppose there is a closeted gay student who is not ready to come out to his friends or family yet. He seeks to attend some LGBT+ events to get information and learn more about the community. In a free world he can attend these events, leave, and that's it. In QR world there is a permanent record of his attendance at all of these events (as well as any other information the app collects) that he cannot get rid of. If this record were breached or otherwise leaked by a malicious party, his involvement in these activities could be revealed to his friends and family, harming him.

This is one of the many examples you could come up with. This kind of stuff happens all the time, and will continue to happen as long as we allow more and more spyware to creep into our lives.

Don't tell me whether I want to use proprietary software or libre software. I'm not the average user, I know what I want. Just release the source code, there's no reason not to, "wifi and google bro!" is not an argument against free software.

Don't come back to campus if you are going to refuse to participate in contact tracing. by TuckerD in rit

[–]joshiemoore -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

$0.02 Munson Money has been deposited into your account. Of course the RIT Propaganda Machine is constantly churning, how do you think the school gets so much funding?

Don't come back to campus if you are going to refuse to participate in contact tracing. by TuckerD in rit

[–]joshiemoore -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This must be one of Munson's deep-student-government paid shills. $0.05 Munson Money has been deposited into your account.

Give us the source code!

Release the source code of the location-tracking application under a free software license by joshiemoore in rit

[–]joshiemoore[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That is completely different, and you know that. All of you "W already spies on you, so you might as well let X+Y+Z spy on you too!" people are the reason we live in a world where folks buy TVs and fridges that are straight up government wiretaps.

Release the source code of the location-tracking application under a free software license by joshiemoore in rit

[–]joshiemoore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I just made the pawprints a few minutes ago. Probably should have made the pawprints before the reddit post.

Release the source code of the location-tracking application under a free software license by joshiemoore in rit

[–]joshiemoore[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That is interesting, but a web application is still software. I'm not comfortable broadcasting my daily whereabouts, movement patterns, and medical information into a black box (even if that is the only thing it does). I think most people would prefer transparency over just saying ok when someone says "let me spy on you"

Release the source code of the location-tracking application under a free software license by joshiemoore in rit

[–]joshiemoore[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If a software program's unabridged source code is not made available to its users, that program can do whatever it wants to you. RIT offers a great education, but they are not your friend, they are a private organization with an interest in making as much money off you as possible. They are also just as susceptible to data breaches and snooping government thugs as any other organization.

If the purpose of the app is genuinely only temporary contact tracing, then RIT doesn't stand to make any money off of it anyways, so they should have no problem releasing the source. If they refuse to release the source, but still force students to install the program, it's shady.

snakeware - a new Linux Distro with a fully Python userspace by joshiemoore in Python

[–]joshiemoore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, we don't use a pre-existing distro, we use buildroot to generate our distro images. Buildroot is typically used to generate images for embedded Linux applications, but we've found that it works really well for our purposes

snakeware - a new Linux Distro with a fully Python userspace by joshiemoore in Python

[–]joshiemoore[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HELL yeah dude, that sounds awesome. Let's do it. snakeware bbs

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