timdev2

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by timdev2 6mo ago
Why do you believe that "Section 230 differentiates between publishers and platforms"?
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by timdev2 11mo ago
Thanks for sharing. After digging in, it appears that something very similar happened here, after all. It looks like an access key with admin role leaked some time ago. At first, they just ran a quiet GetCallerIdentity, then sat on it. Then
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by timdev2 11mo ago
These were accounts that shouldn't have had console access in the first place, and were never used by humans to log in AFAICT. I don't know exactly what they were originally for, but they were named like "foo-robots", we
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by timdev2 11mo ago
I would normally say that "That must be a coincidence", but I had a client account compromise as well. And it was very strange: Client was a small org, and two very old IAM accounts had suddenly had recent (yesterday) console log
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by timdev2 1y ago
I find your public road network analogy interesting. Should your car require you to prove your age before it will start? How else can we protect your kid (and others) from the dangers of an 8 year old taking the family sedan for a spin?
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by timdev2 1y ago
Isn't strident opposition to "neo-Marxist philosophy" actually highly correlated with weird/reactionary ethno-nationalism?
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by timdev2 1y ago
I think there's diminishing returns. A broad, liberal arts, undergraduate education develops critical thinking and reading skills in a zero-to-one kind of way. Once you've attained those skills (whether through a college degree or
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by timdev2 2y ago
I don't get your strong objection. A 1.0 release that is fit for use by >80% of the addressable market, and gets high marks from those users is a "boondoggle"? Perhaps you overestimate the fraction of taxpayers that itemiz
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by timdev2 2y ago
You can use Caddy's CertMagic library in your own server, if you want something super-lightweight.
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by timdev2 2y ago
Structuring (splitting up cash deposits to a bank so that they don't trigger the bank to file a CTR) comes to mind. It does have a mens rea component, but the money being entirely clean doesn't make the act not-structuring, IIUC.
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by timdev2 2y ago
Monopoly concerns are better addressed by going after monopolies for being anticompetitive. Intermediary liability seems pretty orthogonal to competition concerns. I would need a lot of convincing to start believing that categories like sea
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by timdev2 2y ago
That thinking strikes me as "clear, simple, and wrong". (I appreciate that 230's bright-line rule may also be clear, simple and wrong) Consider defamation. Often, the difference between a defamatory and non-defamatory stateme
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by timdev2 2y ago
The idea that there's an indistinct difference between "publisher" and "common carrier" doesn't seem right. Google or Facebook are not, and have never been, common carriers. The entities that most resemble &quo
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by timdev2 2y ago
The "idea that these providers are simply neutral carriers of content" is a false premise, isn't it? The piece you link is ... weird. First, it doesn't really describe the problem it's trying to solve. Then it prese
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by timdev2 2y ago
My use-cases are pretty basic, and my use isn't all that frequent, but I've been very happy with: https://zellij.dev/
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by timdev2 2y ago
If that's true, they're uncharacteristically quiet about it!
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by timdev2 2y ago
How do those people feel about wearing pants at the point of a gun?
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by timdev2 2y ago
Is this person a lawful agent of a legitimate government? Is the ice cream policy reasonably connected to some compelling government interest, like public health?
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by timdev2 2y ago
Pants-less transit civil disobedience when?
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by timdev2 3y ago
Lower costs for everyone. Including people you don't like. Yes.
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by timdev2 3y ago
I'm not understanding how two staircases are more accessible than one. Can you elaborate?
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by timdev2 3y ago
Of the half that are dark, how many are working late, out to dinner, out of town, etc? That half the units are dark from 7-9PM doesn't mean they're not someone's primary residence.
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by timdev2 3y ago
The article does acknowledge the existence of real fraud. It distinguishes it from honest errors. It goes on to point out that sometimes institutions (financial and state) sometimes fail to adequately distinguish the two. Maybe it could h
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by timdev2 3y ago
I don't think that's a fair reading. At most, the piece describes a common political rant, and then says "Phrased that way, it sounds almost fantastically unjust. And… it’s complicated." Your comment, in contrast, strike
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by timdev2 3y ago
Someone should do "Uber for Notaries Public"
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by timdev2 3y ago
Yes, exactly that.
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by timdev2 3y ago
That's not true. As far as the law is concerned, users/providers are shielded so long as they don't take part in authorship. You be as despotic or biased as you want, and you're still not considered the publisher of cont
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by timdev2 3y ago
> Does anyone know if section 230 of the DMCA shields Reddit from liability as-is? It does. (And 230 isn't part of the DMCA, it's the only surviving bit of the CDA).
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by timdev2 3y ago
My understanding is that they'll give the subject the warrant, which just describes what they're allowed to search for and where. The affidavit submitted the judge, which describes the evidence that established the requisite proba
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by timdev2 4y ago
Caddy works quite nicely in front of php-fpm, as a replacement for apache.

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