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  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Rule
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    3 months ago

    Well. In a one on one call with him once (he’s my local member) I asked him why we could not protect individual rights with a charter of human rights.

    I would describe the tone of his response as visceral… He said to me:

    "[I don’t trust the courts in interpreting legislation like that. I would not want to give them an inch. Just look what they’ve done down in Victoria.]{paraphrased}

    [As far as I’m concerned, the parliament is perfectly placed to decide what is, and is not a human right, and if you disagree with me, you can vote me out… ]{direct quote}"

    I assume the VIC reference was to the judges that had been appointed most recently with track records of upholding human rights…

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
    6·
    7 months ago

    I’ve used the 3x multiplier for staff planning at services companies since the early 2000s.

    Perhaps there are regional differences, but they’ve rung true for planning billable rates of return at every services company I’ve worked at in the last 20 years here in AU.

    I realise that the services aspect isn’t relevant, but having the sum of indirect staff costs equivalent to staff salary cost when office space is involved isn’t a massive stretch in my experience. (Indirect costs would include office rent, utilities, infrastructure and a share of shared functions such as IT, HR, facilities etc…)

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
    23·
    7 months ago

    When running a business, you need to budget 3x salary for actual TCO of a staff member:

    1x covers their direct salary 2x covers retirement fund, electricity, office space, and infrastructure items unlike server and laptops for corporate use etc.

    The 3x multiplier is for when you’re a services company, and that represents a possibly profit margin.

    So for signal, your $380k becomes $190k which in my experience is average for a US tech sw dev at a mid to early senior level.

    I donate to signal monthly and I have no problems with the costs they’re posting. I work in SV tech and I’ve seen 20x worse numbers.

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Reflections on running my own mail server for 10 yearsEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    I aplaud the write up and recognise that the OP has developed a solution that suits their use case.

    Personally I started running my own mail around the same time, but host for several family members at the same time.

    I went a slightly different route and pay for a mail filtering service for inbound filtering and outbound relay. All up costs me $90USD per year for inbound and $4 a month for outbound

    This has solved most blacklist and outbound mail server reputation issues.

    I used to run zarafa till they went commercial. I’ve since migrated to Mailinabox as a platform. Its pretty resilient. (I’ve just disabled greylisying and spam detection as I’ve got upstream MX filtering already) I’ve also recently been through a MiaB major upgrade - it was pretty simple once I actually read the instructions properly!

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What is your machine naming scheme?English
    1·
    1 year ago

    First macbook air was ethereal, nas was bitbucket, first macbook pros deathstar then dreadnaught, second bigger nas was abyss…

    More recently I’ve been using Neal Stevenson characters and themes.

    Mobile wass “primer”, high spec laptop was “reason”, workhorse laptop was “chevaline”…

    Work servers I’ve always liked two themes:

    Chaos or medications:

    Anarchy, bedlam, disturbed, chaos, mayhem, futility, entropy, maelstrom,

    Sudafed, NyQuil, Tylenol, advil, codeine, morphine, panadol, Valium,