chaps

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1. 1291.▲
   by chaps 6y ago

   Consider a scenario where a non-technical person whose friend blocked telemetry through the hosts file for them, and they get a pop-up saying that the hosts file is risky. It's stochastically likely that it's scary enough that the
2. 1292.▲
   by chaps 6y ago

   Heh. I'm not talking about opinions, I'm talking about case outcomes, involved parties, lawyers, judge info, terminated parties, dates, docket info, context, complaints. And furthermore, I'm not talking about individual cases
3. 1293.▲
   by chaps 6y ago

   Heh. One way it helps poorer members of society is by making it possible to do basic research on courts data so that the public can understand and take action from understanding what's happening in courts and how law is applied. This
4. 1294.▲
   by chaps 6y ago

   Can this be used locally for datasets with non-transferable PII? Thinking about this for non-profit work.
5. 1295.▲
   by chaps 6y ago

   This was my experience also. It's bad enough that it's effectively useless and requires extensive validation.
6. 1296.▲
   by chaps 6y ago

   Clearly you haven't seen crime or police data. It's truly, truly awful. That, and the people running analysis on it are just as bad: https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-police-arrested-more... Garbage in crunc
7. 1297.▲
   by chaps 6y ago

   Got it, thanks. Since that's that's been a big trend recently, is there anything that can be done to make sure posts like these don't just immediately get flagged into oblivion? I can absolutely see campaigns against HN that
8. 1298.▲
   by chaps 6y ago

   And it's already off of the front page.
9. 1299.▲
   by chaps 6y ago

   Most posts on this subject keep getting pushed off of the front page by mods. It's pretty sad to watch, especially with the number of posts about coronavirus. They're both major issues, but one is nerdier than the other so it gets
10. 1300.▲
    by chaps 6y ago

    1: Your scraper must be anonymizing data that it gathers, removing identifiable information to prevent disclosure of names of arresting officers or cited citizens. https://github.com/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project/
11. 1301.▲
    by chaps 6y ago

    Okay, so some PROBABLY BAD THINGS about this project. I'm 100% convinced that this group is an astroturfing project, but I don't know to what end. 1. This group believes that police officer names should be redacted from all police
12. 1302.▲
    by chaps 6y ago

    Uploading images to a blurring service is probably a really bad idea . At least OP's link does it in-browser.
13. 1303.▲
    by chaps 6y ago

    If anybody wants it, I compiled a list of Alexa's top 50 domains and their available TLDs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VaGA8344-13eGn9D1LAj... Now with price!
14. 1304.▲
    by chaps 6y ago

    I just find it weird that Microsoft owns GitHub and is essentially using free code that interfaces with their own (core) services. Anywho, building the package wasn't as altruistically motivated as I first imagined, since he was paid b
15. 1305.▲
    by chaps 6y ago

    Out of curiosity, are they supporting you financially in any way for that?
16. 1306.▲
    by chaps 6y ago

    Hmmmm... so wouldn't you agree that a percentage of keys would be decryptable by iterating over all encrypted files of all accounts using password dumps? Seems like a good way to decrypt maybe 10%. Still sounds like a major problem, th
17. 1307.▲
    by chaps 6y ago

    Why would someone want to play music but try and dodge the foundations of music theory? Why would someone want to paint but try and dodge the foundations of art theory? Why would someone want to learn a new language but try and dodge learni
18. 1308.▲
    by chaps 6y ago

    On April 23, 2020, we identified SSH usernames and passwords had been compromised through an altered SSH file in our hosting environment. This affected approximately 28,000 customers. We immediately reset these usernames and passwords, rem
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    GoDaddy notifies customers of compromised SSH passwords(bleepingcomputer.com)

    2 points by chaps 6y ago|1 comments
20. 1310.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    If a potential source is too afraid to reach out, did that source even exist in the first place?
21. 1311.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    One specific example doesn't make the whole set of journalists who need to communicate with others over the internet. Consider that during a pandemic, people are limited in travel, and over the internet is the de facto way of communica
22. 1312.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    That's understood. That's obviously a huge problem, but isn't it worth pointing out one of the bigger issues of the bill? There are many, many people who agree with this bill who may not have thought about this specific iss
23. 1313.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    Can you please explain why this isn't a big problem to you?
24. 1314.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    If you let ssh connection dies, these keys, in order, will kill the ssh process before the timeout kicks in: esc ~ .
25. 1315.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    Since when does medium require sign-in to read? Anyone have a different link to the post?
26. 1316.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    So, FWIW. The database I mentioned in my original post had 2TB of RAM. Food for thought!
27. 1317.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    Heh, I wasn't being passive aggressive, I was being serious. Take a breath, man. Also "magic" is not a new term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(programming)
28. 1318.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    Wow, okay. You alright over there? Edit, because meh: I'm making no claims about go itself. No idea what makes you think that's what I'm saying, since I'm clearly talking about a library, and not even any stdlibs. "
29. 1319.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    No clue!
30. 1320.▲
    by chaps 7y ago

    Here's a fun bug I had a few years ago - Had a postgres database which was using pgbouncer for connection pooling. The most senior developer (24yo or so) we had on the project was using Go to connect to the database to write some simpl