Avalyst

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by Avalyst 9y ago
Double IPA level of hop
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by Avalyst 9y ago
Especially in a <10 person team
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by Avalyst 9y ago
The conspiracy theory is the one that he will be extradited to the US on "secret charges" as soon as he is arrested in Sweden. Some others in this thread compared it to other CIA grabs, for example one in Italy.
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by Avalyst 9y ago
> Safety officials are still investigating how safety checks failed to spot that the calibration data had been deleted. So I guess the checks for checking the checks of the data failed? You can never have too much redundancy!
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by Avalyst 9y ago
Reminds me of SK751 [1] where an automated system prevented the pilots from powering down a broken engine, resulting in both engines failing and the plane crash landing in a field north of Stockholm. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by Avalyst 9y ago
Programming is a skill just like management. I would argue that if you spend 5% writing and 95% reading you won't be maintaining that skill. If you come from a strong technical background when first promoted (Being the go-to expert on
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by Avalyst 9y ago
But if he's worried about the Swedish police violating Swedish law, why would he care about whether or not the case is closed? If the CIA/Swedish police were to snatch him, in blatant violation of a number of laws, it's not l
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by Avalyst 9y ago
The fact that he was in Sweden already? And the fact that he fled to the UK, the closest ally of the US in Europe as well as a NATO country, unlike Sweden? And perhaps the fact that he now plans to seek asylum in France, another NATO countr
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by Avalyst 9y ago
Amazon has employees as well, yes? Employees with access to data centers? Employees that may be convinced to make some "mistakes" in the disposal of old disks combined with the early replacement of a few specific drives? Of course
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by Avalyst 9y ago
It does not but it limits the possibility to prosecute which is what the prosecutor came to terms with, at least according to her comments on the Swedish evening news. Basically the statue of limitations for this crime is 10 years, it'
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by Avalyst 9y ago
Do you have a source for this verdict?
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by Avalyst 9y ago
And so he should, after all at that point he would be a convicted rapist, no?
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by Avalyst 9y ago
It's one of the fundamentals of the Swedish legal system, you can't be sentenced in your absence or at least not without being heard
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by Avalyst 9y ago
Yep, it's not foolproof but it's better than nothing. And considering that the number of people using it aren't that many (I guess) spammers wouldn't bother
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by Avalyst 9y ago
Actually my experience is the opposite :)
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by Avalyst 9y ago
At rest basically means on disk. People might not think about this but AWS actually has a physical disk somewhere which someone could yank from the data center and read from. Not that likely but also not hard to protect yourself from.
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by Avalyst 9y ago
I do the same with Gmail, just add + at the end (As in username+docusign@gmail.com). Of course this has the drawback of some sites being to restrictive with their checks for valid emails and not allowing the + character
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by Avalyst 9y ago
I find it interesting that they didn't randomize a couple of long strings and tried to resolve those instead like the article mentioned has been done in the past
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Commit Logs from Last Night(commitlogsfromlastnight.com)
2 points by Avalyst 9y ago|2 comments
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by Avalyst 9y ago
Paywalled article
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by Avalyst 10y ago
My feeling exactly. Feels like a very clickbaity title
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by Avalyst 10y ago
I feel like the biggest problem would be all the ISP's DNS servers, ISPs are notorious for breaking all kinds of stuff and this would probably be just another thing they break.
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Hacked Twitter Accounts Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content(bloomberg.com)
92 points by Avalyst 10y ago|78 comments