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841.
by mdhb 2y ago
I sometimes wonder how many people realise that the CTO at Vercel’s previous main claim to fame was HN’s favorite boogie man: AMP from Google.
842.
by mdhb 2y ago
Sorry just to be clear the accusation is that he was effectively working for the Russians knowingly and the plan was to leak as much source and methods style information as widely as possible but under the cover of an independent whistleblo
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by mdhb 2y ago
It’s been years since I looked at that case in detail it’s totally possible I’m misremembering things but can you tell me what steps he took in any detail?
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by mdhb 2y ago
This isn’t a hypothetical. This is stated as a fact even in the absence of public evidence in intelligence circles that there is just zero chance in hell that he would find himself in that situation where he had zero good moves left that he
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by mdhb 2y ago
It was widely reported at the time that he literally wrote a crawler to grab as much stuff on the network as possible specifically and tweaked it to look for the most classified stuff he could find if I recall correctly.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Just going to add a small bit of extra context to this from the eyes of the intelligence community because that doesn’t seem to ever get a look at on Hacker News where for many years there has been a more or less unquestionable assumption t
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by mdhb 2y ago
To pretend that he had some option to just say no thanks on giving up information is so incredibly naive. He did have a choice in the sense of go to jail or give up everything he knew for protection. We can all very publicly see the decisio
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by mdhb 2y ago
Apple have repeatedly thrown their customers under the bus especially in China. At least Google had the courage to withdraw entirely.
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Meta stops AI plans in the EU(noyb.eu)
7 points by mdhb 2y ago|1 comments
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Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia's Request(theintercept.com)
43 points by mdhb 2y ago|4 comments
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by mdhb 2y ago
For now but this is in the pipeline too. https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/working/333%...
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by mdhb 2y ago
You almost caught up to Dart. - Built for embedded devices and already has RISC-V support - Already has WASM was a compilation target - Not just an LSP but amazing VSCode tooling - Native C, C++, Java, Rust and JavaScript interop and a .NET
853.
by mdhb 2y ago
I think this is a US centric thing maybe because the banking infrastructure is decades behind everyone else
854.
by mdhb 2y ago
How are people supposed to block it when they stole all the data first and then only after that point they decide to even tell anyone what user agent they need to block and how they are planning to exploit your work for their profit.
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by mdhb 2y ago
I don’t actually think this is complicated and reading a comment is not the same thing as scraping the internet and you obviously know that. A few factors that come to mind would be: - scale - informed consent which there was none in this c
856.
by mdhb 2y ago
So built on stolen data essentially.
857.
by mdhb 2y ago
It’s at the core of the ecosystem and has basically zero other well supported use cases or successes to point to.
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by mdhb 2y ago
And you’ve spent the entire time responding to an argument nobody ever made and then walked away like you won some victory.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Just like how they let you install “web apps” by hiding it deep within a “share” menu. Can’t tell me that’s done in good faith either.
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by mdhb 2y ago
I got to be honest every time I look over to the Swift/iOS development ecosystem I’m shocked at the amount of nonsense they have to deal with. - Xcode is terrible - Documentation is barely existent - you can’t really reuse your code in
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by mdhb 2y ago
You keep going on as though I am somehow unaware of the difference between how things are and what I said from the start was an ideal scenario. You seem to have a reading comprehension problem on top of being a smug prick.
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by mdhb 2y ago
what a miserable existence
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by mdhb 2y ago
I just think it’s not wrong to want something better than fuck you, you’re disposable and the only thing that matters is profit. That’s not a stable environment for people to live in. No need to pretend like I’m an idiot. You know exactly w
864.
by mdhb 2y ago
Who the fuck wants to actually live in that kind of world as an employee?
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by mdhb 2y ago
Bonus points if you can just build the tooling to work with some emerging standards at different levels of the stack. A few relevant ones that come to mind would be: - CBOR for the on the wire format - CDDL for schema design of CBOR objects
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by mdhb 2y ago
Reading reports that they managed to kill hundreds of people many of whom were not legitimate targets in the process.
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Amazon violated UK sanctions by selling facial recognition tech to Russia(engadget.com)
12 points by mdhb 2y ago|0 comments
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by mdhb 2y ago
This is dangerous advice for actually protecting people.
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A common web component learning blunder(daverupert.com)
2 points by mdhb 2y ago|0 comments
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OpenAI Says Russia and China Used Its A.I. In Covert Campaigns(nytimes.com)
2 points by mdhb 2y ago|0 comments

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