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by smashah 5y ago
Yes, and major VCs, Big Tech companies, self diagnosed contrarians and the establishment OSINT crowd see nothing wrong with it or see it as a legitimate endeavour.
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by smashah 5y ago
The people who work in these companies should be absolutely shunned and black listed from laundering their past by taking up a role at any major tech firm. The people who work at NSO and companies like this are a stain on the whole tech ind
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by smashah 5y ago
Hi HN: Here's the link to the code snippet and screenshot which got scrubbed from the submission link: https://github.com/open-wa/wa-automate-nodejs/issues/98#issu... Thanks
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Show HN: Send WhatsApp buttons with wa-automate v4.11.0(github.com)
3 points by smashah 5y ago|3 comments
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by smashah 5y ago
True. I've been burnt a few times by bad CEOs/co-founders. Where I did my part (to build out the product) but they screwed up theirs. Next time a non-technical founder pitches me to come on board and do all the actual work then I&
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by smashah 5y ago
Umm am I missing something? Wouldn't you just use GSuite and set up other domains as aliases?
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by smashah 5y ago
The polarity is the result of asking the question. It's not a presumption. Any basic knowledge of CIA history would conclude that they're a complete geopolitical and moral liability. Must be worth it to some maniacs though.
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by smashah 5y ago
Who exactly thinks the CIA does any good in the world?
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by smashah 5y ago
1:1 meetings being a stupid idea aside, maybe she is concerned based on the stories of abuse coming out during MeToo. If the colleague in question wasn't a Muslim it would still be valid to not want to have a 1:1 imo.
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by smashah 5y ago
Just like with UK spy cops, it's, rightly, considered rape to have sex with someone under false pretences... But this is the CIA we're talking about, I'm sure they've committed atrocities they themselves would consider t
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by smashah 5y ago
letttss goooooo!!!! yesss!!!!
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by smashah 5y ago
This is insane behavior. OP shared something they were proud of to what seemed to be a mentor and then Amjad threatens OP? Damn! I was about to raise VC funding for legal protection from giants and this petty fool is swinging his schlong at
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by smashah 5y ago
This is a pretty sad state of affairs. Pidgin has been around for ages. I used to use it on my n900 back in the day - that and gpodder really opened my eyes to how powerful open source could be at a young age. How do we solve this potential
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Pidgin 0-day worth x4 actual development(twitter.com)
28 points by smashah 5y ago|4 comments
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by smashah 5y ago
Very concerning thread. Maybe worse are the replies defending YC e.g https://twitter.com/figputt/status/1401050235141558274?s=19 Hopefully YC doesn't pull a coinbase/Basecamp after this. Just because you
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by smashah 5y ago
The letter: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSck0yb4OgXJlf5N2Ap2... edit: I am not trying to break any rules here. I checked if this was posted before and I could not find it. Why was this post flagge
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by smashah 5y ago
The plight and occupation of Gaza isn't a technical curiosity. The answer is that there's a campaign of genocide and dehumanisation going on that bleeds into all aspects of life, that's why.
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by smashah 5y ago
I'm looking forward to a npm ads follow up. I feel like opinions have changed around money and open source.
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by smashah 5y ago
I wonder if anyone would open source all their data after their death. I definitely won't.
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by smashah 5y ago
I implemented repository dispatch endpoint yesterday to trigger docker builds in multiple dependent repos. Very powerful tool. Great work and write up!
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by smashah 5y ago
This guy. It's time for WhatsApp to be removed from under the control of this toxic company.
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by smashah 5y ago
closed vs open is a false dichotomy imo. There is a middle ground that makes it worth maintainers' time, eventually. Thankfully/luckily I've stumbled upon a good balance with my project.
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by smashah 5y ago
I think this is a legitimate question. Don't see why it's flagged. The same question can be asked for companies with HQ in China or some other countries in the middle east. I personally have some clients of my "open source&q
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by smashah 5y ago
Quite insane what lengths an in-group will go to justify their own horrible actions. You could argue that despite the fall of the Ottomans and the war of independence, modern Turks have nothing to do with the perpetrators of this genocide;
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by smashah 5y ago
Well, just because it's not breaking laws doesn't mean the use of tax havens has positive benefits for society which ,I guess, is the point of these ICIJ investigations - to eventually change laws.
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by smashah 5y ago
A friend of mine was contracting for another company and needed extra skills to make a package deal for his client. I filled that spot, he got the contract and I was subcontracted for some of the deliverables.
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by smashah 5y ago
Is there some sort of issue with ICIJ reporting?
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by smashah 5y ago
Chinese companies and state actors regularly attempt to hack US entities with zero consequences ofc. But, I never hear about US individuals/groups going on the offensive against the CCP. For example, if an American hacking group decide
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by smashah 5y ago
Wow excited to use this!
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by smashah 5y ago
Hello HN, I maintain a library that generates a sensitive files and unfortunately people were committing these sensitive files to public github repos. To solve this problem, I built ignore-check which I can add as an install script to my li

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