QUFB | 4 years ago | on: My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community
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QUFB | 4 years ago | on: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
Once they become a community project, rather than the rms fan club, I'll talk to them.
QUFB | 4 years ago | on: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
It's not quite google.ar, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with https://gnu.gl/
QUFB | 4 years ago | on: IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% of the Time”
Relevant Onion news article from 2003:
https://www.theonion.com/ibm-emancipates-8-000-wage-slaves-1...
QUFB | 4 years ago | on: Solanum IRCd: upcoming IRCd that’s being worked on by Freenode and OFTC staffs
Ah, that's helpful context. I had incorrectly assumed that it was something written from scratch, which would be very notable in the IRC space.
QUFB | 4 years ago | on: Solanum IRCd: upcoming IRCd that’s being worked on by Freenode and OFTC staffs
I don't want to be that guy, but.... We should probably appreciate a modern IRCd, but why, why, why wasn't this written in a memory safe language like Rust or Go? Seriously wtf, if you are starting from scratch in 2021 on a remotely accessible application why would you choose C?
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
I have had a Twilio account for years, and have always used the proprietary MFA implementation from their Authy app. I don’t remember being forced to switch to SMS MFA.
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
Not much to see? Not noteworthy?
Where could I, or any Internet user, trivially download these details on 533M Facebook users prior to this dump? If nothing else, it seems extremely noteworthy that someone was not only able to obtain the data through scraping or some attack, but has shared with the world.
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: Are We Automating Racism?
> The video provides a good overview about the issues surrounding bias in ML, and I think it motivates a discussion that would be useful to have on HN, given the number of people who work on such systems that regularly visit this site.
Have you read any sane discourse on HN in the last few years? The top post on any thread like this will discuss how algorithmic bias is just some SJW conspiracy or concern.
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
It's not an especially good look, although I see in the past few minutes HSTS has been enabled!
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: CentOS dropped because it “was not [..] providing [..] usefulness to Red Hat”
No, they just buy Canonical.
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system
What about this interesting submission makes it "clear" the account was "sold"?
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
I'm not a lawyer, but can you explain how their privacy policy is privacy-conscious now and going forward, and how centralization of network transit with Cloudflare isn't a bad thing?
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
Honest question: How do you view it as an improvement? The same data is being shared, and the only difference is that Cloudflare isn't immediately behaving in the same evil ways as Google. But once you concentrate power in an entity, perhaps bad things might happen?
... If there was an on-premise captcha implementation that actually worked, that would be great.
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
It is a sad reflection on HN that comments like this are so aggressively downvoted.
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: Free Software Is More Reliable (2011)
With all due respect to the author here, the arguments presented aren't particularly compelling.
> Apologists for proprietary software like to say, “free software is a nice dream, but we all know that only the proprietary system can produce reliable products. A bunch of hackers just can't do this.”
Absolutely no one says this anymore. In 2014, when the article was written, almost no one would say it.
> Barton P. Miller and his colleagues tested the reliability of Unix utility programs in 1990 and 1995. Each time, GNU's utilities came out considerably ahead.
That's great, but it's 2020 now.
The FSF has done awesome work, but they might be better served presenting modern research and evidence about the reliability of free software.
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes
Is this news? This is a block storage failure on Rackspace. EBS volumes on Amazon fail all the time, as anyone who manages a large number of instances probably knows (0.1%-0.2% per year for normal volumes):
> Amazon EBS offers a higher durability volume (io2), that is designed to provide 99.999% durability with an annual failure rate (AFR) of 0.001%, where failure refers to a complete or partial loss of the volume. For example, if you have 100,000 EBS io2 volumes running for 1 year, you should expect only one io2 volume to experience a failure. This makes io2 ideal for business-critical applications such as SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2 that will benefit from higher uptime. io2 volumes are 2000 times more reliable than typical commodity disk drives, which fail with an AFR of around 2%. All other Amazon EBS volumes are designed to provided 99.8%-99.9% durability with an AFR of between 0.1% - 0.2%,
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: FB account locked after replying to FB recruiter
If I do this, will they lock my shadow profile for 30 days?
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: So you want to contact Brian Eno? (2000)
How so? Brian Eno owes his fans nothing.
QUFB | 5 years ago | on: Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
> As part of the AWS Cost Management suite, AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is integrated with AWS Cost Explorer
> https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/
> The Cost Explorer Hourly and Resource level granularity allows you to access hourly granularity for the past 14 days and resource level granularity for EC2 instances. The cost is $0.01 per 1,000 UsageRecords month. UsageRecords are defined as one line of usage. For example, one EC2 instance running for 24 hours will generate 24 distinct usage records at the hourly granularity.
Life is good for Amazon, when they can get their customers to pay extra to see exactly why they're paying so much.
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