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by eganist 5y ago
To the reader: if this is your first exposure to finding things that aren't supposed to be exposed to the internet and you're finding it interesting enough to want to learn more, there's a tool commonly used among security pr
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by eganist 5y ago
I'm looking at how China's currently pummeling their tech sector for the sake of the party* and am hoping that they'll apply the same decisioning to their emissions-heavy industries as well. Doubt it'll happen, but I can
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by eganist 5y ago
So they're pulling a Facebook/Instagram? Here's hoping someone with investigatory power is reading this.
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by eganist 5y ago
Worth noting that TDAT took the concept of the AMOC collapsing and turned it into one of the most absurdly unscientific science-based films short of Armageddon. But it was pretty entertaining if you could find a way to stay plugged into the
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by eganist 5y ago
So this is basically just a strongly worded letter. Anything here or elsewhere suggestive of the FTC actually doing anything else, like investigating for other wrongful denial of service? ....would that even be within their powers to invest
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by eganist 5y ago
Okay. "Sorry, we're only able to support Apple ID on Apple devices at this time."
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by eganist 5y ago
> Them claiming privacy concerns is just... peak hypocrisy. They're technically not wrong. They're just prioritizing client privacy, not product/cattle privacy.
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> I think Amazon should be allowed to confiscate union literature, because it is disruptive to the work environment. Talk about unions outside of work, not at work. This is likely to be illegal under current regulations: https:/&#
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by eganist 5y ago
> Then I don't understand why you're writing an article about it? Just to rant about the React hype? That seems a bit pointless. I mean, the thesis is "If you are building websites, you don’t need React (in most cases).&q
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by eganist 5y ago
> Can you just not? The whinging is a serious distraction. It's also against the rules. That said, the discussion and comments here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982672 - one of the only times downvoting c
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csp is basically only useful when eng teams don't rely on unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval as a crutch. which far, far too many apps do.
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> By writing code defensively. Despite the other comments, it's possible. I'm going to tack onto this and suggest that signal drastically slow down the pace of feature development. They don't have the same profit motivatio
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by eganist 5y ago
Question: do you guys have a software or product security team? I suggested the roles to workwithus @ Signal on 5/18/2018 and have never seen a public follow-up in the form of career postings. Asking because such a team may be bes
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by eganist 5y ago
> Has this app/service really been audited properly? Yes, repeatedly: https://community.signalusers.org/t/wiki-overview-of-third-p... Edit: that said, this did make me revisit a question I asked signal via th
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by eganist 5y ago
> The article seems to contain nothing that would qualify for the words "Company Town". It appears to boil down "look amazon is big, surely it means that it must be evil!". I guess this is the difference between a lit
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A landlord evicted you mid-stay without warning? That sounds extreme, and I'm having a hard time finding others who've experienced the same online (all of what I'm finding is around people being kicked out for parties). Do yo
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by eganist 5y ago
In fairness, the stress shouldn't be yours to sweat. If someone loses their rental to anti short-term leasing rules, that's really on the renter who's subletting it out to you via Airbnb.
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Thanks, this is helpful. It's exceptionally unlikely that I'll be able to spur meaningful change, but I'll try to have an update in December. (Posting for accountability)
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Do you have a reference to the specific legal code which includes the amendment? Thanks for coming through on this ask. I'm having a hard time finding it, and it's a point of contention I plan on raising with Virginia legislators
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> This is actually delusional, I'm sorry. > Cuba possess exactly 0 anti-shipping threat to the US. There is no feasible scenario where Cuba develops enough, with a population of 11 million, to become a military threat to the US.
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by eganist 5y ago
Edit 3: I originally referenced https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/brazil-us/arcos... which claimed the following: > The application for license for the ARCOS-1 Cuba Extension is still pending fo
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Ask HN: What structures exist to financially reward "investors" in non-profits?
5 points by eganist 5y ago|4 comments
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> You were tested and diagnosed with Covid in January 2020? 17 months ago would be mid february 2020.
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Confirmed; I've routinely used mine to charge my iPhone in a pinch when the only charger I've got is for my Galaxy device.
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> You've got Tricorders wrong, they're a generalized non-contact diagnostic tool; someone was working on one but it was just a load of diagnostic devices stuck together. We've got body temperature, and pulse is doable, but
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mate, you're under NDA with the contract you're bound to, and they can easily claim everything you just disclosed violates the NDA as grounds to swap you out of the contract. Now if that's what you want, godspeed. But you&#x2
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by eganist 5y ago
While this is literally true (anecdotally, during the peak of it in early June, I registered 106db standing still in a suburban neighborhood just outside the beltway near a large tree playing host to quite a few of them), I'm going to
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by eganist 5y ago
I hate how shortsighted these comments tend to be, but I can understand them. The money for projects like this, largely due to the sensitive nature of it all, still ends up staying local to the governments funding the projects, which means
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by eganist 5y ago
> tldr: total $70M. Nobody ever goes to jail in these stories. FINRA isn't government.
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Adding to this: I run product security for a large enterprise, and I've already gotten the ball rolling on prohibiting copilot for all the reasons above. It's too big a risk. I'd be shocked if GitHub could remedy the negative

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