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by activescott 3y ago
A regular public audit by security firm would help increase confidence in a close source system. In fact, it would help in an open source system too.
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by activescott 3y ago
Yes, 1Password's end-to-end encryption model (explained at https://support.1password.com/1password-security/ ) should be secure to this even if an attacker penetrates some layers of access. The model of other passw
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by activescott 3y ago
OP here... @s3p: FWIW, I didn't take issue with your comment. Surprised it was down voted. I do find that often people to reply to such comments though with something like "Uber team member here..." so it didn't seem rid
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by activescott 3y ago
Seems like 1P took the right steps and is being transparent about the incident. It wasn't even an on their systems - but one of their vendors support systems. A lower quality organization would just conveniently not disclose the in
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by activescott 3y ago
I just happen to read about DMCA exemptions legalities recently (which I submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37961007 ). Turns out that exemptions to DMCA are recommended every three years. I noticed one especi
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by activescott 3y ago
> In preparation for the move to the cloud, the company spent two years working towards making all stateless microservices portable so that their placement in zones and regions can be managed centrally without any involvement from the s
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by activescott 3y ago
I think worth clarifying. The comment ends with > If you want to criticize colleges on their cost, the data to use is expenditure data, which is much cleaner. As if the opaque pricing of colleges isn't just as baffling as the heal
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by activescott 3y ago
The OP article provides clear evidence that for-profit companies is not limited to Pharma: > ...insurers, chemists, drug distributors and pharmacy-benefit managers (PBMs)—sitting between patients and their treatments. In 2022 the combine
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by activescott 3y ago
Are you arguing that the opaque pricing is effective?
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by activescott 3y ago
Your relentless customer service is commendable. Good work. Serverless works well in many scenarios and being able to run it on any k8s cluster without proprietary platform hooks is a good thing for all of us to have an option for.
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by activescott 3y ago
"you better have the configuration defined in code" - you better do that anyway for anything that is used and will be around for a while :)
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by activescott 3y ago
What a great point. Why is it that the peoples' rights require renewal every three years, rather than the restrictions of the peoples' rights that require renewal?
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by activescott 3y ago
Paddy Cosgrave's apology ( https://websummit.com/blog/apology-from-paddy-cosgrave-ceo ) seemed to me to be balanced, sincere and thoughtful. Although apparently it is not enough to appease the likes of Google, Meta,
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Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave Resigns After Israel-Hamas War Comments – AP News(apnews.com)
12 points by activescott 3y ago|11 comments
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by activescott 3y ago
My understanding is that the exemptions are made every three years and only for a three year period. So while the LOC isn't necessarily _intending_ to take back exemptions, their is not necessarily an intention to leave them in place f
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by activescott 3y ago
Lol. I’m so classy
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DMCA Excemptions to "Copyright Protection Systems" Being Reconsidered(copyright.gov)
66 points by activescott 3y ago|11 comments
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by activescott 3y ago
Every three years the Librarian of Congress publishes exceptions to the copy protection circumvention. The public can comment in support for renewing existing exemptions or adding new ones. Copyright holders or other can also lobby to remov