u/pylessard

So there's a guy that contacted me on Reddit after a post here asking me if I would be interested in taking contracts if ever. I said sure, he just had to contact me. He mentioned that it was through a company he was launching, like a recruiter and I was fine with it. I found out later that he made me this public profile that pops out when I google my name and is obviously an AI scrape of my linkedin and contributions I made everywhere.

I already sent 2 requests for this to be removed, no answer. I think the guy is Moroccan, but based in Spain. What would you do? I know he used public information + few direct info I gave him, but I don't want a public profile managed by him.

I'm based in Canada, I have no knowledge of EU laws, but I feel like there should eb a body to complain to?

Company is FirmwareBridge

EDIT: After using my super forensic skillz, I'm pretty sure he is a native Moroccan. He used the same picture for LinkedIn (which I have a backup of) and graduation picture from a school in Casablanca. I filed a complaint through CNDP. Also wrote to the hosting company legal complaint mailbox. Will see!

Sharing a piece of information that took me hours to figure out. If you use the MS C/C++ extension on Windows and your boot time is slow, cleaning the user temporary folder may solve this.

Turns out that winlogon scan the user Temp folder for some reasons, and the MS cpptools is infamous for filling this folder with stuff. I had 300000 files (80GB). Clearing this got my machine boot time from 1m30 to ~ 10sec.

Here's a supporting reference

Cheers

I'm a simple engineer with interest into physic.

I know that in general relativity, space-time can be curved. Let's just consider space for now. What does it mean for space to be curved. I know something can be curved if I observe it inside a space. Say I take a space and stretch it by a factor of 2. A being inside that space will also be stretched out, will move twice as fast and not be aware of that stretch, no? I don't understand how someone can be external to that to observe it since there is only 1 space (time). It seems like the concept of curved space would need another independent space to even make sense.

What is it that I don't get?

EDIT: Thanks to all the responses. I think the flaw in my reasoning is that I tried to neglect time to make the problem easier to comprehend. Everyone here seems to talk about a curvature in a higher dimension. That's the part I didn't get. I totally understand how something 3D can be curved in a 4D hyper-space. If I understand correctly, the additional orthogonal axis IS the thing external to space that allow observing it. By simplifying the problem, I made it impossible to solve.

I've been thinking lately about this and would like to throw an idea here to get some feedback.

I worked in highly regulated environment and requirement management/test plan is always a pain. Hard to sync with the code because requirements were always (in my case) in a different system, often of debatable quality. Polarion, Doors NG, ELM, etc. As a software engineer, I despise these software and I was wondering how I would solve the need for traceability and requirements if I had to reinvent the wheel.

Since we have git for version management, change tracking, diff viewer and platforms such as Bitbucket support complex approval flows already, it seems to me like having requirements in text format, versioned by Git would be the way to go (disregarding the learning curve for non-programmer folk).

Of course, we can't just use a non-contrained text file, so I was thinking these file would need to go through a step of validation (or compilation). A bit like we can do ReStructuredtext to generate HTML/PDF. It's a text base format, with a predefined format that compiles to something that can be rendered to a user.

Does something like this exist for requirements? If I could write requirements in a text file, with some constraints enforced by some sort of compiler, and Ideally, a way to map this to a test case I would happily adopt it in my non regulated workflow. Imagine "include" directives, namespaces, references, but for requirements; so if you have a certain feature, you can tie it to a set of sub requirements.

Seems to me like the non-regulated alternative right now would be a word documents or excel sheet; can't diff those. Or unstructured text file, that's no good imo.

I've seen plenty of home made parser that check for a certain patterns in comments. It's not my favourite approach. I'd prefer having a dedicated file with a given syntax so it does not need code to generate quality documents.

I think PlantUML is kind of half way there. StateSmith have the mindset I want and uses PlantUML, but they do state machines, not requirement tracking.

Comments?

So i'm having port forwarding issues and I really don't understand what the issue is here. As a starter, I know the concept, i've done it in the past many times, but my pfsense making me think I'm crazy.

Here's my setup:

My WAN goes to a fiber optic modem. Connected to ISP through PPPOE. My local machine is under OPT2, which is a subnet that use VLAN tagging. I try to forward port 22552 to my machine at 192.168.10.200

https://preview.redd.it/dvquc0lk4uzg1.png?width=1181&format=png&auto=webp&s=d6c3c4fa3d214911df17c8d0777d3522d0b19def

PfSense auto setup a rule :

https://preview.redd.it/ywv6ze0p4uzg1.png?width=1148&format=png&auto=webp&s=10f5225efd5e7cb6bfd5852551d5b057e23c2d49

On my machine, I start socat :

https://preview.redd.it/f2hstijr4uzg1.png?width=214&format=png&auto=webp&s=217d74e146734a2ab33e5bd61985dea70611d8c6

On a VPS in the cloud, I connect to my public IP (validated with whatismyip.com and also my router interface status).

https://preview.redd.it/1pr2otx05uzg1.png?width=304&format=png&auto=webp&s=4b910c3c7b0cb44115278fb8d18c75a5339b7f87

Nothing reaches my machine

Looking at the firwall logs, I see this:

https://preview.redd.it/t5bu57ae5uzg1.png?width=1129&format=png&auto=webp&s=09f759dd394f174a4af8fee1d195d1ed58b9aa50

The source address matches my VPS. The target address matches my public IP.

What's wrong here? I read the troubleshooting guide, read forums, asked an AI; nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here's my system :

https://preview.redd.it/8qjlyvcs5uzg1.png?width=551&format=png&auto=webp&s=defc9924809040e8d61e10f10b9a368c6b920ac4