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It seems to me that tech trade unions could be where tech workers can safely discuss what worries them in the technology they are paid to build. With legal support and a whistleblowing platform.

Do you know of such success or failure stories of tech workers telling trade unions about unethical products?

I am considering redesigning a web application so that it is structured the same way as the API. The same URL would take the user to an application in a browser, or a corresponding API endpoint if used programmatically. That could work by checking the request headers.

The goal is to improve discoverability or exploration of functionality. Many of our users might want to use the API programmatically. They could explore the API using the user interface. For a detailed definition of the API, there is SwaggerUI already.

Do you have any experience with this approach or advice? Any opinions?

As someone interested in OS development, I read articles, source code and tutorials on the topic. I have created a Linux module, I have an idea of how a bootable "hello world" ISO is created etc.

Recently I looked into an open-source OS written from scratch, with support for some peripherals, networking, graphics and I asked myself whether I would know how to implement those. I picked rtl8168d (that was one of the implemented drivers) and tried to find the specification - without success.

My question is: how does an OS developer that started a toy OS and wants to add basic networking/graphics/mouse know what specification to implement to get it working on as much hardware as possible? Once he knows that, how does he find the specs?

I hope it's not by reading other OS's source code and trying to do the same thing (whether it's correct or not).