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by acdha 8mo ago
I realize it makes you uncomfortable but the harms are done whether or not you ignore them. That’s the problem: people can exploit that desire to be fair, “neutral”, say it’s “just business”, etc. for years until the negative impacts on soc
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by acdha 8mo ago
Philosophically I want to agree with you more but Meta is the informational equivalent of RJ Reynolds. They’ve facilitated crime waves (remember all of the hand-wringing about shoplifting which died down when the government went after Faceb
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by acdha 8mo ago
The bigger story is the way tech companies sucked the oxygen out of journalism. This started with capturing a growing chunk of ad revenue but then became editorial control as everyone started picking headlines, writing styles, and publicati
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by acdha 8mo ago
I think that’s why they are encouraging the mindset mentioned in your parent comment: it’s completely reversed the tech job market to have people thinking they have to accept whatever’s offered, allowing a reversal of the wages and benefits
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by acdha 8mo ago
> If offering a tie in thing supposedly free of charge without warning that would end once it serves a party less profit purpose then yes Claiming that you’re entitled to free R&D forever because someone once gave you something of va
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by acdha 8mo ago
That’s not the intent. It could be a more defensible intent if it was paired with a Biden-style program to develop domestic manufacturing capabilities, but that never happened and if it did it would be targeted. Raising taxes on chocolate,
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by acdha 8mo ago
Apple has used AWS and Cloudflare in the past, too, so it’s not like seeing that traffic is a reliable indicator of compromise.
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by acdha 8mo ago
How did you determine that a connection was malicious? Modern apps are noisy with all of the telemetry and ad traffic, and that includes a fair amount of background activity. If all you’re seeing are connections to AWS, GCP, etc. it’s highl
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by acdha 8mo ago
No: they’ve campaigned for years on behalf of their fossil fuel industry donors. The major oil and coal companies started a multi-decade push when the climate science debate was settled around 1980, with an end goal of protecting profits fo
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by acdha 8mo ago
How did you link that traffic to malicious activity?
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by acdha 8mo ago
Does that mean you’re retracting your earlier claim? The people who are familiar with the details are saying it’s mistreatment, do you have any evidence contradicting them or is it simply a reflex to contradict criticism of your preferred t
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by acdha 8mo ago
Yes, but that has to happen somewhere. OpenSSH already uses privilege separation to limit the scope of the code which requests the kernel set the user for the process for the session. Can you say where precisely you think that should happen
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by acdha 8mo ago
Yeah, I think it’s really hard to understand how much more cultural variation there was without first the internet and open source, and then services like GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc. converging people onto similar practices and expectat
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by acdha 8mo ago
This is quite untrue as a blanket statement. The problem is that there was massive cultural variation: if you installed a Perl module from CPAN you probably ran hundreds of tests. If you ran a C program, it ranged from nothing to “run this
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by acdha 8mo ago
> The father already has to go to work to provide for the family. The burden is already being split. Haha, are you serious? One of the biggest demographic trends of the last century has been the rise of dual-income households, and we hav
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by acdha 8mo ago
Here are two daily occurrences contradicting that: 1. The driver realizes out of their peripheral vision that the light has changed but wants to finish the urgent TikTok they’re watching so they accelerate, often rapidly, without looking ar
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by acdha 8mo ago
They’re pretty tightly coupled. Mothers do the hardest part but human children are incredibly expensive in terms of the time investment. If society wants to have more children, one of the easiest ways to reduce that burden is by sharing the
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by acdha 8mo ago
Yea, but then we’ve recreated this CVE which is caused by calling login(1) unsafely. The point was that the person I was replying to misunderstood the problem and largely seemed to be conflating telnetd with OpenSSH.
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by acdha 8mo ago
That still needs a way to change users, and OpenSSH already has privilege separation. That hardens the process somewhat to reduce the amount of code running in the process which can change the uid for a session but fundamentally something n
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by acdha 8mo ago
Culture has changed a lot since the 20th century and older projects can have antiquated norms around things like testing. I was just listening to a recent podcast talking about how worrisome it is that OpenSSL has a casual culture about tes
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by acdha 8mo ago
The birth control pill wasn’t on the market in the first half of the 20th century (1960) and there was more religious pressure not to use contraception (e.g. how many women faced significant external pressure to be married housewives and mo
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by acdha 8mo ago
First, that’s a LOT of money. Very few people can afford that at all and those that can are definitely counting down the days until their last child goes to school. Second, it’s hard to find a good nanny. Parents live in fear of not getting
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by acdha 8mo ago
There are two competing factors: how much of a choice do women have and the opportunity cost of that choice? If you look at the data, in rich countries much of the drop has been the reduction of unintentional teen pregnancies: women have be
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by acdha 9mo ago
They’re also selling a massive vehicle which was designed for macho aesthetics rather than performance. Bragging about minor aerodynamic tweaks is how they convince buyers that it’s okay to spend even more money to take the edge off of that
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by acdha 9mo ago
It’s more that there’s a career ceiling and ageism is a looming threat. There are far more management jobs than high-level IC and for decades there’s been this thought that older engineers will be replaced with younger ones more aggressivel
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by acdha 9mo ago
Some brands have definitely devalued themselves but it’s definitely not “same factories with the same materials”. If I buy a pair of jeans at Walmart and Costco, the latter ones will last years longer.
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by acdha 9mo ago
That leaves out staffing, backups, development and testing of a multi-location failover mechanism as robust as the RDS one, and a bunch of security compliance work if that’s relevant. It’s totally possible to beat AWS and volume is the way
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by acdha 9mo ago
First mover advantage still requires some reason to stick, especially when it costs more. Almost nobody _needs_ Bitcoin – most people don’t use it at all so they have no reason to pay more for it and there’s almost no situation where that w
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by acdha 9mo ago
> he’s the first guy in a long long time to actually do things and not just talk about doing things The problem is that the things he’s doing are using his office to become an actual billionaire and tearing down protections against abuse
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by acdha 9mo ago
> It's not a small problem in Canada. Funny was this patient who got rear ended like 8 times in a few years and needed time off and massage treatment every time. This seems … reasonable? Car crashes are the leading cause of life-alt

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