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by QUFB 5y ago
> How are people still getting away with this kind of abuse? How? Read the comments in this thread six hours from now and you'll understand.
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by QUFB 5y ago
Once they become a community project, rather than the rms fan club, I'll talk to them.
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by QUFB 5y ago
It's not quite google.ar, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with https://gnu.gl/
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by QUFB 5y ago
Relevant Onion news article from 2003: https://www.theonion.com/ibm-emancipates-8-000-wage-slaves-1...
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by QUFB 5y ago
Ah, that's helpful context. I had incorrectly assumed that it was something written from scratch, which would be very notable in the IRC space.
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by QUFB 5y ago
I don't want to be that guy, but.... We should probably appreciate a modern IRCd, but why, why, why wasn't this written in a memory safe language like Rust or Go? Seriously wtf, if you are starting from scratch in 2021 on a remote
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National Intelligence Council Global Trends 2040 [pdf](dni.gov)
1 points by QUFB 5y ago|1 comments
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by QUFB 5y ago
I have had a Twilio account for years, and have always used the proprietary MFA implementation from their Authy app. I don’t remember being forced to switch to SMS MFA.
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by QUFB 5y ago
Not much to see? Not noteworthy? Where could I, or any Internet user, trivially download these details on 533M Facebook users prior to this dump? If nothing else, it seems extremely noteworthy that someone was not only able to obtain the da
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by QUFB 5y ago
> The video provides a good overview about the issues surrounding bias in ML, and I think it motivates a discussion that would be useful to have on HN, given the number of people who work on such systems that regularly visit this site. H
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by QUFB 6y ago
It's not an especially good look, although I see in the past few minutes HSTS has been enabled!
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by QUFB 6y ago
No, they just buy Canonical.
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by QUFB 6y ago
What about this interesting submission makes it "clear" the account was "sold"?
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by QUFB 6y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but can you explain how their privacy policy is privacy-conscious now and going forward, and how centralization of network transit with Cloudflare isn't a bad thing? https://www.hcaptcha.com/priva
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by QUFB 6y ago
Honest question: How do you view it as an improvement? The same data is being shared, and the only difference is that Cloudflare isn't immediately behaving in the same evil ways as Google. But once you concentrate power in an entity, p
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by QUFB 6y ago
It is a sad reflection on HN that comments like this are so aggressively downvoted.
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by QUFB 6y ago
With all due respect to the author here, the arguments presented aren't particularly compelling. > Apologists for proprietary software like to say, “free software is a nice dream, but we all know that only the proprietary system can
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by QUFB 6y ago
Is this news? This is a block storage failure on Rackspace. EBS volumes on Amazon fail all the time, as anyone who manages a large number of instances probably knows (0.1%-0.2% per year for normal volumes): > Amazon EBS offers a higher d
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by QUFB 6y ago
If I do this, will they lock my shadow profile for 30 days?
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IBM: The 'next big thing' no longer exists (2006)(cnet.com)
6 points by QUFB 6y ago|2 comments
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by QUFB 6y ago
How so? Brian Eno owes his fans nothing.
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by QUFB 6y ago
> As part of the AWS Cost Management suite, AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is integrated with AWS Cost Explorer > https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/ > The Cost Explorer Hourly and Resource le
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by QUFB 6y ago
It's good to remember the following maxim, no matter what you're building: > If you build it, they will abuse it. Not that you shouldn't build anything, but it's better to threat model the abuse cases early on in desi
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by QUFB 6y ago
Another day in the world of tyrannical Gulf Monarchs trying to gain the upper hand on each other.
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AT&T considers cellphone plans subsidized by ads(nasdaq.com)
5 points by QUFB 6y ago|0 comments
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T-Mobile: Are you blocking specific words and suspending accounts?(reddit.com)
167 points by QUFB 6y ago|57 comments
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The Night a Mysterious Drone Swarm Descended on Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant(thedrive.com)
2 points by QUFB 6y ago|0 comments
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by QUFB 6y ago
The picture is slightly more nuanced. What's your exposure from browsing a web page or your mobile phone? Your IP address alone is enough for companies that use network provided APIs obtain your full billing information, location info
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by QUFB 6y ago
On the same theme, there are several videos on Youtube related to schizophrenia. This is a particularly frightening one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lHuGMbscU
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by QUFB 6y ago
This is where things are heading, especially for business or corporate 'consumers': Need web hosting? Certainly you can't deal with a 2Tbps DDoS attack, so let's route that traffic through Cloudflare. Sending email? Can&

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