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by malwrar 6y ago
I'm the opposite. Security researchers have struggled for decades to get people to fix their stuff after discovering something is broken. When a vuln has a human-readable name that sounds vaguely scary, even nontechnical decision maker
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by malwrar 6y ago
What competence would make ticket walls go away? I’ve only ever had dayjobs with large orgs and ticket walls have been a useful defense against folks who insist on sending low-quality help emails or DMs the moment they encounter a problem.
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by malwrar 6y ago
Incels and other such creeps aren't popping up in other places or real life though. Spend a week in a rural place near you and you'll find that people there legit think that "big tech"--who they know is insanely powerful
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by malwrar 6y ago
There’s been too much news lately covered w/ Hindendenburg-esque severity, at some point being a spectator to this many burning airships is just exhausting :P
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by malwrar 6y ago
I believe the first step when creating something new aught to be answering honestly for yourself why existing solutions won’t work for you. Your time is valuable and much better spent building something no one else has yet. I was once heavi
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by malwrar 6y ago
I’m really impressed with how... humble this briefing is. It has no prelude, no author introduction, no ego whatsoever—-just short descriptions of SQLite behavior and a proposal to make it faster. I’m feel like this format would be amazing
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by malwrar 6y ago
I had a similar reaction to this. I don't see what the use is in ensuring the hardware is running software from "trustworthy" persons, especially when the device's owner is not usually considered to be part of that group
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by malwrar 6y ago
Wanted to +1 this, if you’re talking about technical problems that aren’t prohibitively expensive to work on, I garuntee you the world has room for your work. I swear, once you enter a tech company it’s like any given task suddenly takes 10
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by malwrar 6y ago
According to this guy's various interviews over the last few months he's trying to integrate a lot of G-Suite services together into a single offering, so it won't just be the icons that are the same. Who knows, by the time t
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by malwrar 6y ago
I don't think so, I actually think he might be pretty clever. I thought the same thing you did when I read Javier Soltero's quotes in this article, so I dug into him a bit. If you look into what he's been saying for awhile, y
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by malwrar 6y ago
Example question from the article: > “I’m seeing errors on the site, what’s happening?” What was the error? What were you doing when the error occurred? How can I reproduce the error? These sorts of one-sentence questions with no context
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by malwrar 6y ago
You can save yourself from scary operations like deleting everything by a.) not rooting your entire infra in the same main.tf and b.) using Terraform's lifecycle meta-argument: https://www.terraform.io/docs/configu
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by malwrar 6y ago
> What I am pondering is: would this ruin the Internet? If I couldn't host a public forum if it got beyond my limited means to moderate? Do you actually have the means to moderate your forum and fund the legal trouble you might face
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by malwrar 6y ago
> Why do you suppose the only way user content can possibly be shared on the Internet is through content aggregation sites? Do you have an alternative that could survive if user-generated content is made legally risky to host and is subj
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by malwrar 6y ago
Guilt is more than feeling bad--it's a force that prevents antisocial behavior. The author's self-confessed desire to engage in antisocial behavior due to the associated thrill is a risk to herself, her husband, and her daughter.
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by malwrar 6y ago
> Yet the companies it protects the most are the ones I feel are the worst. Assessing legal risk of user-generated content is a financial barrier that only the companies you feel are the worst will be able to overcome. We're discuss
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by malwrar 6y ago
> Twitters official policy is to not allow publication of hacked material or information with Personally Identifying Information The root of the issue here is that Twitter is the one deciding this in the first place. What appears on thei
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by malwrar 6y ago
The question is who defines that threshold. In this case, its a few people at a few tech companies, and I don’t feel like it’s controversial to say that they all internally inherit the progressive/leftist/whatever Bay Area culture
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by malwrar 6y ago
It is amusing that you propose the vigorous use of force (“Ban Them. All of them. Today”) to eliminate voices you deem fascist. If you feel this strongly about the harm of holocaust denial, have you considered working to convince people the
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by malwrar 6y ago
You don’t necessarily need to implement bidding on a dedicated slot—-the TV comparison assumes you’re sending the same thing to each user. This isn’t TV though, you can display different ads to different people of you wanted. How about a s
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by malwrar 6y ago
This is a really honorable and amazing occupation you've found for yourself and I'm glad folks like you are out there changing people's perspectives and lives. Do you have any resources you'd recommend for learning weldi
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by malwrar 6y ago
Guns are controversial because they kill things and are thus a weapon. Encryption cannot kill anyone, if anything it is a shield. It’s also an infinitely replicable shield, and one that is omnipresent. I don’t think anyone believes they can
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by malwrar 6y ago
Besides the obstacle of it being difficult to cool objects in space (you need atmosphere to do convection cooling, i.e. heatsinks), you need to somehow actually get everything in space. It costs a lot of money to get heavy things into orbit
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by malwrar 6y ago
I use it (and similar tech) because I don't want to think about individual boxes at scale, rather instances of an application. Containers + orchestration allow me to develop and test in the exact same environment my apps will be in in
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by malwrar 6y ago
I haven’t participated in this trend-hunting behavior the author describes, but it sounds like it has the main appeal of HN—see new ideas that other people with a similar mindset are talking about. There’s educational and entertainment valu
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by malwrar 6y ago
I have no idea why people discussing these protests aren't focusing more on this. How else do you capture "systemic problem" better than widespread thuggish police behavior during countrywide protests about police brutality.
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by malwrar 6y ago
Watching this launch has really been a bar-setting thing for me as an engineer. It's done what folks stated as a goal many times during the launch livestreams--I feel inspired to build great things after watching the success of this mi
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by malwrar 6y ago
Speaking personally, most of my good friendships growing up (and even now) were with people online and they feel perfectly fulfilling and real to me. I've been really surprised to hear people (who seem to have been forced into interact
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by malwrar 6y ago
I find the same is true for me too. It's much easier to talk about the idea over Slack rather than during some random encounter that is probably the product of either or both parties heading to a meeting somewhere. With Slack, you even
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by malwrar 7y ago
Are you referring to the sudden boom of the general public dumping their money into cryptocurrency hoping to get rich? Hell, I’ll bite here and assert the same as my parent comment: the folks who dumped their life savings into crypto made a

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