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I have no idea what this means. Can someone explain?

steveklabnik 3y ago
I did over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820670
m348e912 3y ago
If you can upload a custom file to a domain/subdomain, bluesky social (Jack Dorsey's new twitter) uses it to verify you are the owner of the domain. Chaz uploaded his custom file to their Amazon s3 bucket and now since he was the first one to do it, his account is now associated with Amazon S3.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
  It's ridiculous that this is not in the title.
  - runnerup 3y ago
    FWIW it seemed obvious to me. I think a minority of people who play in this space can’t conceptualize others’ understandable ignorance of the norms and axioms. https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/
    - olddustytrail 3y ago
      You got all that from a "429 Too Many Requests". That's an impressive level of deduction Holmes!
      - runnerup 3y ago
        Hahahahah. Try https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1043284184698994700/1103759216235266168/IMG_3937.jpg https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1043284184698994700... to see what the conversation is about!
        ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
        Nah. The responses to your comment saved us the time.
    - mypalmike 3y ago
      The title doesn't even mention bluesky, the all-important context here. *Edit: typo
    - ranting-moth 3y ago
      It's unfortunate that such a bright man has written such a comment.
  - steveklabnik 3y ago
    Hacker News discourages "editorializing" the title, which means there's incentive to repeat what's being linked to exactly. Most of the time, it's a good thing, but in cases like this is where this falls over. (You can also see this in the other direction parent comment, for what it's worth, "Jack Dorsey's New Twitter" isn't really accurate, as far as I'm concerned. It is more informative overall, though.)
    - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
      Describing or at least providing context is not editorializing. I don't know how this "discouragement" is phrased, but it should instead encourage (if not require) that titles mean something to a general audience (at least as represented by HN's users). I am routinely down-modded and even banned for merely asking for more-descriptive titles. It's anti-user, anti-community, anti-usefulness, and douchey. All we needed here was, at least, "Bluesky Social allows domain hijacking" or whatever it's actually doing (which I don't have a grasp of, even after following the cryptic link). Or even just "This guy is now all of S3 on Bluesky Social." But that wouldn't be as click-baity, would it?
      - steveklabnik 3y ago
        > Describing or at least providing context is not editorializing. Absolutely. I'm not saying that I think that the title here is good. Just that I understand why it ended up as the title. > I don't know how this "discouragement" is phrased, You can find the guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html To quote the relevant part: > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. That's it. > (which I don't have a grasp of, even after following the cryptic link) I described it over here, if you're still curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820670
        ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
        Thanks for the info! I'll check it out.
- Dalewyn 3y ago
  I would argue this is worse (and more hilarious) than Musk buying and giving out checkmarks for people.
- ta-run 3y ago
  >Chaz uploaded his custom file to their Amazon s3 bucket their is who exactly? and why does bsky associate it with the s3 domain if it's just a file in a random bucket?
  - m348e912 3y ago
    That's the whole point. Chaz uploaded the file to his own s3 bucket. He is one of thousands (millions?) of people who could have done the same thing with their own s3 bucket. He was the first.

I did over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820670

If you can upload a custom file to a domain/subdomain, bluesky social (Jack Dorsey's new twitter) uses it to verify you are the owner of the domain. Chaz uploaded his custom file to their Amazon s3 bucket and now since he was the first one to do it, his account is now associated with Amazon S3.

ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
It's ridiculous that this is not in the title.
- runnerup 3y ago
  FWIW it seemed obvious to me. I think a minority of people who play in this space can’t conceptualize others’ understandable ignorance of the norms and axioms. https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/
  - olddustytrail 3y ago
    You got all that from a "429 Too Many Requests". That's an impressive level of deduction Holmes!
    - runnerup 3y ago
      Hahahahah. Try https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1043284184698994700/1103759216235266168/IMG_3937.jpg https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1043284184698994700... to see what the conversation is about!
      - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
        Nah. The responses to your comment saved us the time.
  - mypalmike 3y ago
    The title doesn't even mention bluesky, the all-important context here. *Edit: typo
  - ranting-moth 3y ago
    It's unfortunate that such a bright man has written such a comment.
- steveklabnik 3y ago
  Hacker News discourages "editorializing" the title, which means there's incentive to repeat what's being linked to exactly. Most of the time, it's a good thing, but in cases like this is where this falls over. (You can also see this in the other direction parent comment, for what it's worth, "Jack Dorsey's New Twitter" isn't really accurate, as far as I'm concerned. It is more informative overall, though.)
  - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
    Describing or at least providing context is not editorializing. I don't know how this "discouragement" is phrased, but it should instead encourage (if not require) that titles mean something to a general audience (at least as represented by HN's users). I am routinely down-modded and even banned for merely asking for more-descriptive titles. It's anti-user, anti-community, anti-usefulness, and douchey. All we needed here was, at least, "Bluesky Social allows domain hijacking" or whatever it's actually doing (which I don't have a grasp of, even after following the cryptic link). Or even just "This guy is now all of S3 on Bluesky Social." But that wouldn't be as click-baity, would it?
    - steveklabnik 3y ago
      > Describing or at least providing context is not editorializing. Absolutely. I'm not saying that I think that the title here is good. Just that I understand why it ended up as the title. > I don't know how this "discouragement" is phrased, You can find the guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html To quote the relevant part: > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. That's it. > (which I don't have a grasp of, even after following the cryptic link) I described it over here, if you're still curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820670
      - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
        Thanks for the info! I'll check it out.
Dalewyn 3y ago
I would argue this is worse (and more hilarious) than Musk buying and giving out checkmarks for people.
ta-run 3y ago
>Chaz uploaded his custom file to their Amazon s3 bucket their is who exactly? and why does bsky associate it with the s3 domain if it's just a file in a random bucket?
- m348e912 3y ago
  That's the whole point. Chaz uploaded the file to his own s3 bucket. He is one of thousands (millions?) of people who could have done the same thing with their own s3 bucket. He was the first.