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by akerl_ 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is the reference point. Potentially relevant: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Yes. That was the whole point of the original comment you were misunderstanding. Because of the flexibility of Perl and heavy amount of symbol usage, you can in fact run most random combinations of strings and they’ll be valid Perl. Copying
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by akerl_ 1y ago
But what if my pet loses her wallet
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Axis. I have 5 outdoor and 6 indoor cameras. They all support PoE power; for some of the internal ones I'm using PoE, others I got an injector & wifi dongle. They'll talk to basically anything, the outdoor ones have handled se
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by akerl_ 1y ago
I really love this game of debating the appropriate derivative of a mistake. Maybe the mistake was inventing non-immutable data storage?
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by akerl_ 1y ago
"did you read the article" is the canonical example of what not to put in comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Physical storage providers make the same kind of mistakes all the time, accidentally emptying the wrong storage unit or trashing the wrong safety deposit box. You have potentially stronger civil remedies for recouping on those damages, but
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by akerl_ 1y ago
The post suggests that even if AWS’s policy had been to hold the data for a year, the same thing would have happened, because they deleted the data early due to operator error. Similarly, a physical storage company can totally make a mista
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by akerl_ 1y ago
That does seem to be a mistake on their part. And the comms we’re seeing look bad. But the overall post and the double buried ledes make me question the degree to which we’re getting the whole story.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
You’ve missed the point by leaning into your pedantry. The point is that from the perspective of vendor/platform risk (things like account closure, billing disputes, etc), all of AWS is the same basket, even if you use multiple regions
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by akerl_ 1y ago
They’ve really buried the lede here: this reads like the person paying for the account was not the post author, and AWS asked the payer (who from their perspective is the owner of the account) for information. That person wasn’t around to r
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by akerl_ 1y ago
But why?
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by akerl_ 1y ago
One of the big problems here is that once you start letting the government ban a class of speech, you’re also implicitly letting them classify speech. Their definition of what is or isn’t protected political speech is going to be warped by
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Why do you think this hasn't already happened?
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Why do you trust the government to ban non-political speech?
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by akerl_ 1y ago
So your concern is that it’s paywalled? Because like the earlier comment points out, letting anonymous people trash talk real people and name them is a core feature of 4chan.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Can you cite that? Because in the US I’m not aware of a law against sharing negative opinions about someone.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
A general plug that if you read this comment and thought “damn, 1st amendment law sounds complex and interesting”, you may want to check out https://www.serioustrouble.show/ , a podcast about legal news with a recurring foc
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by akerl_ 1y ago
~"It's complicated". There's really 2 different things here: Firstly, there's "How many things are between my finger on the trigger and shooting the gun". The furthest you get is not having a round in the
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Yes.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
The best colo haven if you're worried about US IC interference is the US. As tptacek noted above, things like due process apply to the US government's interactions with US entities. There are entire slices of the US IC apparatus w
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by akerl_ 1y ago
> Password rotation used to be considered a gold standard strategy for security, until people realized not only did it make everything harder, it also encouraged people to choose less secure passwords and was largely self-defeating. Even
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by akerl_ 1y ago
You’re welcome to submit a request for a refund of the purchase price for Evolution. Your Gitlab issue is a textbook example of why open source devs quit. And now you’re wandering around trying to drum up a mob to further pressure people to
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Cigarette purchasers aren’t filing chargebacks when their partner checks the billing history, claiming their card got stolen.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
I think you’re correct. I see a fundamental difference between services like slack and WhatsApp which provide messaging services and hosted platforms like the AUR where content is submitted and then republished on a site administered by the
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by akerl_ 1y ago
This feels like a non-sequitur. Yes, the AUR is user-provided content. Yes, system administrators are responsible for being aware of what they’re installing. You can find many comments from me on this page discussing that. An attacker being
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by akerl_ 1y ago
It seems odd that this is just on the AUR mailing list, and it the homepage, the announce list, or the security list.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Yay is a 3rd party package manager. The 1st party package manager does not interact with the AUR. Yay itself is in the AUR. You have to go out of your way to install it. The Archlinux docs on AUR helpers lead with a red warning: https:&#x2
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Those users are going to learn some hard lessons, either in this incident or a future one. Archlinux is a distro that’s designed for the user to control their own system, and the AUR is clear about what it is and the nature of the packages
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Sure, but only if you’d installed the affected AUR packages. Even if they were old packages, probably your SteamOS didn’t install them from the AUR.

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