cloud-ranger's comments

Well this is unexpected. Japanese toilets aside and the comments regarding which countries people have seen them in, and the hand bidet sprayers and their usage, as I understand:

- In Islam, Muslims must pray 5 times a day, but you must have 'Wudhu' which means you need to have performed the ritual wash before praying. You have to do it again if you've gone to the toilet. * When you go to the toilet, you must, as a requirement use water * So, most Muslim household bathrooms or public bathrooms in Muslim countries have a hand sprayer or at a minimum, a water container to fill.

I worked in Dubai and Saudi before, and apartments come with hand bidet sprayers.

Regarding Singapore, I wouldn't be surprised if this was influenced by Malaysia (a Muslim country, but they were part of the same country before) although when visited Malaysia I can't remember (ok they probably did) have a similar arrangement. I remember my Chinese friend telling me that her dad went to a Muslim school (a Malay school), so he pretty much uses water like Muslims do (when they go to the bathroom).

Regarding the deadly hand sprayers (pressure wise), usually in modern Mid East apartments: - They are connected to a tap so you can control the pressure - those bathrooms usually have toilet paper too, so you wet the paper to clean first, then you can direct the water on to your hand whilst you clean yourself with your left hand, finally dry with toilet paper. Final step of course, wash your hands! Hence why Muslims only eat or shake someone's right hand, knowing the left hand is on toilet duty.

I've been in corporate bathrooms in the UK, in a cubical, and you hear someone enter, pee (or even more) and exit without washing their hands!!! Not only once either.

The bottom line is, use water. No one can argue it's better to use paper. Some folks dislike of things from the Middle East lead them to argue toilet paper is enough. It isn't. (-_-)

Side note: If you're ever in Dubai and visit one of their big malls, like Dubai Mall, you'll question where the 1st and 3rd worlds are. Clean and maintained luxury rest rooms, you'll be happy to relive yourself in such restrooms, rather than dread using the toilet if you're outside. And they have good baby changing facilities too.

Trump is about making money for himself so he can boast. He doesn't care about this. I wonder who's really calling the shots, because, this is just the beginning. At the same time, he feels he can (or he's testing) ignoring court orders. Where this meets in the middle will not be a good place.

Like Germany and the UK? However, it's no problem at all for them to supply Israel with support in their murder of 18,000+ children. Remote killing good, local killing bad?

There's obviously a high level of skill involved... However, if you want to experince the late 80's, change the playback speed of the landing gear video to 0.75 :D

I'm assuming the guy doesn't have kids or cats, I can't even make a cup of coffee most days without one being in the way!

I used to love to make things when I was younger but I was never this dedicated. I stopped at radio controlled models. I'm glad my mum bought me a TI99/4A when I was a a kid, so my hobby turned into my career.

This is my first ever HN post, and I actually got distracted/took timeout from studing for a Snowflake cert (what are the odds; first ever story I saw about Snowflake on HN).

So, I was reading the comments and then in my mind I said to myself, this sounds like something connected with a Pegasus type company. The very next line in the comment I was reading was: "our boots-on-the-ground approach to cybercrime originates from the IDF's 8200 Cybercrime division"!

As others have noted, doxing the SE seems unnecessary...unless, that was part of the threat/proposal to Snowflake. You can imagine companies that had worked with that SE being concerned/need reassuring they're not affected.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if someone had bet against Snowflake stock before this story broke, if the story was hyped up enough or it was bad enough to spook the market.

Snowflake "strongly recommends" using 2FA for the admin account role, but users are free to decide whether to use it or not. Snowflake's website states: "MFA is enabled on a per-user basis; however, at this time, users are not automatically enrolled in MFA. To use MFA, users must enrol themselves." - I assume a future update will change that so they can enable it by default. MFA related questions always appear in lower-level Snowflake certs.

I'd assume (as a consultant) It would be against company policy to use a username/password for client work. Sometimes that's one of the first bad practices we see working with new clients. Perhaps that's why the SE is an ex-employee.