fletom

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by fletom 9y ago
Politics is not a game or a religious belief. It is a literal matter of life and death for millions of people who have very little power. (Hint: not tech workers.)
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by fletom 9y ago
Can you explain who and what you mean by this?
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by fletom 9y ago
This isn't about the interests of tech workers, it's about our responsibility to society as a group of people who have been handed a lot of power. In a world with so much inequality and suffering, don't you think that's
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by fletom 9y ago
Are you equating a firearm registration system with a fascist database of a minority religion?
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by fletom 9y ago
It sounds to me like your perspective may be skewed by having watched too many Hollywood action movies.
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by fletom 9y ago
You can open your eyes but not look at the phone.
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by fletom 9y ago
> It's worth noting that antirez has, as is usual for him, dealt with this issue wonderfully by making a call without downplaying the importance of the problem. He was doing okay until he wrote that everyone is a slave because havin
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by fletom 9y ago
What do you mean? Are you implying that you make sure you're never alone with women in order to avoid sexually harassing them?
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by fletom 10y ago
by "agenda" do you mean the agenda of exposing sexism at Uber? because that's what the whole post is about. and why exactly would it make you doubt her credibility?
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by fletom 10y ago
are you openly admitting that the AWS service status page runs on AWS? because that is far more embarrassing than this downtime ever could be
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by fletom 10y ago
it would appear that you are correct "The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates." https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846
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by fletom 10y ago
when you start investigating an outage, that is exactly when you should change your checkmark to yellow if not red. if you're as big as AWS there should not be any more than a minute or two between when your service goes down and when
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by fletom 10y ago
I like how this post says "if you look at the AWS Status Page, this what you see". but you can't see the image. because S3 is down.
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by fletom 10y ago
what's truly incredible is that S3 has been offline for h̶a̶l̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶h̶o̶u̶r̶ two hours now and Amazon still has the audacity to put five shiny green checkmarks next to S3 on their service page. they just now put up a box at the t
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by fletom 10y ago
Why would you ever want to add a second broken hash like MD5 instead of just using a single secure function like SHA2, SHA3, or BLAKE2?
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by fletom 10y ago
This is important. Linode have proven many times to be irresponsible and insecure.
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by fletom 10y ago
Python 3 is a more modern, better language, that's why. Hopefully, grumpy will support it soon enough, though it's understandable that they started with 2.7 to support Google's huge older codebase.
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by fletom 10y ago
The stuff about Trump is mostly verifiably true beyond reasonable doubt. ("I like to assault women.", dozens of women in his circles: "Yeah he does that.") The stuff about Clinton is mostly verifiably false. (see Snopes
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by fletom 10y ago
Either you or the Uber driver in question completely made that up. Nobody is paying drivers $60 for $3 rides.
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by fletom 10y ago
> there's 'women in tech' organisations that have been accused of framing technology leaders for sexual assault just to marginalize them Just what kind of absurd anti-feminist conspiracy theories have you been reading? Are
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by fletom 10y ago
I think that's a good point, but to make a counterpoint, there are many documented cases of their soldiers independently doing just that.
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by fletom 10y ago
She said no multiple times and he persistently pressured her anyways. As leader in the Tor community and a colleague she looked up to he was in a huge position of power making it easy to coerce her. He physically pulled her into the tub, di
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by fletom 11y ago
According to them their marketing guy clearly had to have the ability to upload arbitrary executable files to their Wordpress site. Which by the way ran their entire exchange and had direct read/write access to their balances databas
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by fletom 12y ago
Yep, they told us it would be $1k/month to use their organization system too. Which is really sad, because very few small companies are going to pay that, and using a regular user Heroku account as a company is a real PITA. I hope they
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by fletom 12y ago
The article you link to does not support your claim of 8%. It mentions data "averaging 8 percent to 10 percent" but then goes on to point out that: > Not all reports classified as unfounded are necessarily false. In some cases,
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by fletom 12y ago
IIRC events were created based on some heuristic of the photos' geolocaiton data and time taken. So if you do a 3 day trip outside of your city that becomes one event on import. It was also super easy to merge two events into one. I th
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by fletom 12y ago
The undisputed face of the MRM is Paul Elam who runs the hugely popular "A Voice for Men" website. He is a great example of a bitter misogynist MRA asshole: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/10/18/p
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by fletom 12y ago
> What if you don't trust the random key generator on your computer? Just xor the generated key with some other files. > NOTE: You can increase security significantly if you xor/encrypt zipped files, as they already contain
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by fletom 12y ago
This can't be true. If you restore your iCloud backup to a new device, all you need is your passcode. It obviously won't ask you to enter the UID of the device you previously backed up with.
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by fletom 12y ago
So people flagged it and it got marked as spam? I think since the rest of the hearsay got to the top of HN, this should too to balance things out. No matter what happened, the more sides of the story we hear the better.

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