burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: A fork on GitHub is no fork
With 26 million users, five nines is not very reassuring.
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burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: A fork on GitHub is no fork
Yet, most users are content with GitHub being the sole owner of their issues, pull requests, code review, wiki...
burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages
Yes, that's the only reason anyone has voluntarily used JavaScript.
burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017)
> The thing is, SQLite is bulletproof at this point, so do we need to replace it?
Nothing written in C is bulletproof.
burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: ‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’
It makes it easier to collectively fire workers.
burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: ‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’
Doesn't a union make that easier? That's the point of unions.
burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: Apple Music now has 38M paid members
Yes, it's just that those laws are no longer enforced.
burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: Run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers
> [0]: Cloudflare provides SSL certificates to millions of web sites (even ones that don't pay us)
No, you don't. You proxy their traffic and encrypt it on the way out, undermining the security of the Web by creating a single point of failure that you've proven unable to defend.
burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: Run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers
They can improve compared to their past performance, but they are strictly an incredibly negative influence on the Internet.
burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: Run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers
Before using a Cloudflare product, please consider if you want to contribute to the Internet's largest man-in-the-middle attack. They have a poor track record when it comes to security[0], privacy[1], and censorship[2]. We're at the point where it's our responsibility to protect the Internet and keep these companies in check. Cloudflare is among the worst existential threats to the Internet.
[0]: https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cloudb...
[1]: https://blog.torproject.org/trouble-cloudflare
[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-...
burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
TunnelBear never had good security. It's Canadian HideMyAss. Well, it was.
burner5692 | 8 years ago | on: Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
To be frank, you should feel like an idiot. This was entirely foreseeable and people have been warning you not only about Slack, but about proprietary software and vendor lock-in for _literally decades_. Try not to make this mistake again. Advocate for free and open source.
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