You don’t even need to do that. Once you have Residency (distinct from Permanent Residency and Citizenship - the one with the passport) you are allowed to start your own company which you can use to contract yourself out to Australian companies for annual amounts double those of a lot of NZ roles.
(My last role paid 240-250K NZD depending on exchange rate; the local role prior to that: 120K NZD)
Didn’t know about E3 visa route. Very interesting, thank you
This used to happen to me constantly. I fixed it accidentally in switching to Ripgrep [0] which defaults to recursively searching the current directory. Bonus: it parallelises too!
Honourable mention also to FZF [1] which not only makes it trivial to locate a file in a directory tree, but has revolutionised my history use with its fuzzy matching.
Long-time Signal user but I'm on the verge of moving I think. There are several UX shortcomings but the new PIN nag is a bridge too far. What are my options for alternatives? I imagine Telegram is the next best bet but very open to suggestions.
Keybase has end-to-end encryption and you can connect to people without publishing the fact. But unfortunately, it was recently purchased by Zoom and probably won't be headed in a good direction in the future.
Of course, Keybase's main idea is to have a verifiable public identity which might not be what you want.
Threema.
Don’t provide your phone number when signing up, and don’t permit it to access your address book. Set a recovery password. It’s not free, but a one small fee per app is worth getting my privacy back.
Oh and it’s hosted outside the jurisdiction of 5-eyes!
I like Threema. You don't have to provide a phone number to create an ID with them.
You can create a backup of your private key in a completely offline way but there is also an online backup for convenience.
Telegram is great for public things like huge groups or newsletters. But no encryption by default is a no go for me.
I have been using an app provided by my company (finance) called SecurLine
It's weird how simple it is, and I don't have to provide my phone number like on Signal
Wire, not phone number based and they are working on distributing their backend and making it FOSS. Client is already FOSSand they've been audited a few times iirc.
I've been using the RiotX beta app for android last few weeks and yes it is definitely in beta, some parts just won't work. But basic chatting, joining rooms and communicating with their "fediverse" works just fine and looks very modern.
Same. The UI is just atrocious. It’s fundamentally a better product but just doesn’t come through as a whole. Evidently they learned nothing from Gimp/Photoshop.
A lot of positive comments about Pluralsight here so I thought I'd offer a slightly different perspective:
I had a subscription through work and was excited to jump in and learn as much as I could but I found the talks to be quite information-sparse when compared to say, destoryallsoftware.com [0] videos. As a result, I was apt to watch lessons at 1.5x speed in order to cover ground more quickly, which took a little getting used to.
I looked into why this might be, and discovered (at least back in 2015) that authors are paid in part, per minute of engagement [1], which might account in part for the length of the courses.
Judging from what I've read subsequently, I may just have been unlucky in the courses I selected (I didn't watch any Microsoft ones for example) so if anyone has any recommendations on particularly good courses, I'd be interested to give it a second try.
I had the same impression. They seem to have mandated structure that has bio, introduction, second introduction, introduction in each part and repeats the same thing over and over. And they make you sleep because they all talk so slow.
It is fine when you know absolutely nothing about the topic, but does not have good intermediate nor advanced topics.
Some (mostly java) videos did not seemed to have audience. For example, video is about setting up server and frontend with spring boot etc. And the video is explaining again and again how to make a class in eclipse. If someone cant make java class, they likely should not be learning spring framework just yet.
Yep! This is how I started out (I run it one a VPS now so I'm not tied to my home network) and it works fine. The only limit you're likely to run into is your blocklists filling RAM. I have a 5M+ long blocklist and it won't fit into 1GB, so you might want to spec up a little bit in that area, depending on how block-happy you are.
Glad to see it finally officially accepted. I've been using it on all my devices for over a year now and it's been rock solid. The ease of setup and initial connection speed alone blow any of the alternatives (that I'm aware of, at least) out of the water. Long may it continue!
The only place where it falls shorts is that it doesn't go through as easily as SSL/IPSec on restrictive networks like corporate firewalls, but maybe that will go away when it becomes more common (and hopefully adopted in enterprises).
I've honestly not had a lot of issues with that up until now. Real world it doesn't seem to be blocked by a whole lot of things, except where you only have port 80 and 443 anyway. I've actually seen it work in a lot of places I wouldn't have expected it to, like hotel wifi.
Actually there are workarounds to get Wireguard running over TCP and port 80/443 described here (like udp tunnel). I also wanted to check them out for very restrictive networks in the near future:
(My last role paid 240-250K NZD depending on exchange rate; the local role prior to that: 120K NZD)
Didn’t know about E3 visa route. Very interesting, thank you