Eleison23
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I think this is a compliment from the journalism community. Any journalist on a particular beat is going to lurk on various news aggregators and forums, looking for a scoop. This writer has probably seen dozens, hundreds of stories come across HN's headlines that were reporting on blogs already given exposure and news stories that had already broken. If the journalist determined that in this case, HN had the scoop, and dang's outlet was the first to publish the link to the hacktivist's blog, then HN rightly deserves credit as having the scoop. I have no idea whether it went down that way; I'm just describing a Platonic ideal.
That's not obvious, because you don't necessarily own the code you're uploading. I can upload any sort of MIT-licensed, BSD-licensed, Apache-licensed, Creative-Commons-licensed, or GNU-copylefted works I want, anywhere within reason and compatible with those licenses, but if I didn't write them then I don't have the legal right to relicense, grant exclusive or restricted license to any specified parties.
So in a way this would void parts of many TOS agreements where you do relicense your User-Generated Content. If we're uploading memes to Facebook, they're gonna have to work out license terms with the copyright holders, not the uploaders.
When I was homeless, I found a job with a "call center". Our training consisted of teaching us the cover story and how to handle reactions to it. We began with a joke involving alcohol. Then if they didn't hang up we launched into the pitch: "We just lost our lease on our warehouse, and we've got to move all these pens. You can get them imprinted with your name and phone number for a bargain. What do you say?"
I quit within 3 days because I'm not a liar.
I don't know about the others, but AWS is not free and it's not cheap.
There are ways to set alerts on budget overruns, but there is no foolproof way to limit monthly spending.
Eventually you will configure something that goes out of control, or I was able to conceive of a few scenarios where a malicious third party could rack up charges for, e.g. S3 egress costs.
Good luck contesting the charges more than once.
I shut everything down and pulled out of AWS. I believe that Azure's free trial featured a hard cap, but still requires a credit card to open your account.
I wrote a research paper in college on the Children's Crusade, and the question I posed to be answered was "how many children participated in it?"
It turns out that it was a real phenomenon, and many children did leave home, but being children, practically none of them made it to the Holy Land. The journey for many was much, much shorter. And likewise, for many it was merely a spiritual crusade and they went nowhere but "TO GOD!" as they were heard to shout.
There were eyewitnesses and contemporary accounts, and I compiled an impressive list of sources to document what could be gleaned from those accounts from a modern perspective.
Cultured meat is meat, it's just not taken from slaughtered animals. So there's a world of difference between processing vegetable matter and faking it into meat-like substances, vs. culturing meat "humanely" with technology to avoid the perils of factory farming.
All things being equal, the promise is that cultured meat will be equivalent in taste, texture, nutrition, etc. to animal meat.
They are, however, secret codes, and should be regarded as confidential. Just because you can divulge them without direct harm does not mean you should publish them on billboards and Facebook for safekeeping.
Perhaps legislators should put their own house in order first. Have they considered how an ever-growing corpus of laws and policies and guidelines and regulations places an enormous burden on corporations and ordinary citizens? "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" but it would take many lifetimes for any of us to study all laws that apply to us, much less to understand them!
If legislators wish to ease compliance, enforcement, and awareness, they will winnow down this corpus on an annual basis by removing, deleting, merging, and summarizing.
How can there be "too many children"? That is like having too many flowers!
I'm waiting for new lenses/frames as we speak, and I made a mistake two years ago in accepting the "blue light filter" coating that they were pushing. It was horrible - everything was green, especially my peripheral vision. It ruined my experience off the computer. So I took the glasses back to the optician under warranty and requested they be remade without the filter coating. My experience immediately improved and I was satisfied with those lenses. Never again will I opt for that ridiculous blue light coating.
The blue light bugaboo is a hobby horse of my psychiatrist and other quacks. It really makes little difference, because the intensity of the light coming from your monitor or your smartphone is negligible compared to sunlight/daylight. What matters ten times more than blue light is what you are doing on that computer at night: are you engaging in bitter social media arguments? Playing twitch AAA games? Are you watching YouTube with a ton of fast talkers and ads and quick edits? That will amp up your hormonal imbalances and disrupt your sleep patterns surer than the color of light wavelengths coming into your retinas.
Make sure to get backup codes for your MFA-protected accounts, and then keep them out of your password manager at all costs. Print them out on paper and store them in a fire-safe location, preferably one copy off-site.
I could leave my keys at home, but most days now I'm traveling with my security keys, partly to keep them away from my desk at home and partly in case I might need to login to a secure account while out and about.
A QA friend of mine remarked that he was amazed that the loss of general purpose computing capability would be accomplished simply by a change in form factor.
Smartphone OSes have propogated their own curated walled-garden app stores, and then the desktop OS vendors follow suit. Soon it will simply not be possible to install unsigned, uncertified software on your computer, and that will be the end of GPC.
If only 27-year-old me had realized that 50-year-old me would have need of save files from a game I no longer wanted to play.
It's funny about that. Our transit system began an initiative just a bit before COVID-19, aimed at cleaning up the bums and criminals. So most people are not able to hang out on the train or bus, they're hustled off at the nearest stop.
What effect that did have is that the train and bus is more empty, but all the bus stops and train stations are clogged with people literally camping out. There is nowhere to sit and wait, because the stop owner either removed the seating or someone is sleeping/camping on the benches already. Every stop is full of skeezy people who have nowhere to go and aren't boarding the bus.
So perhaps the perception of clean/reliable/safe has increased aboard the bus, but it has plummeted at the locations where it really counts: the stops and stations where I spend the most time. I feel notably unsafe when waiting for a bus and there's nothing to be done about there, and there's no recourse because nobody's in charge there (the city will point the finger at transit and transit will point the finger back at the city. LEOs won't touch it because it's not a priority.)
>internal video camera pulling back poltergeist-style
That cinematic technique is called a "dolly zoom" and it's totally dramatic, if used correctly!
When the doctor's office phones me, they must immediately learn my DOB or they can't reveal any information. Unfortunately the person calling is sometimes a nurse who's working on test results or some followup and they don't have a direct number. But it's kind of a stalemate if I won't reveal anything to them, and they won't reveal anything to me.
At this point if they manage to have the correct caller ID and I'm more or less expecting the call, it can't hurt to divulge my DOB. Scammer's going to find that out easily anyway.
Soon the car will just purchase its own new tires, or drive itself around town in search of a working air pump.
Yes, police response is typically prescribed when people do something that is proscribed.
Birth rates are declining because of Western feminism and gender ideology. Let's see how far we can export it to Africa and Asia.
That's a myth that the medical establishment wants to sell you. Women are fine and have children with no problem, long past that artificial "deadline".
https://youtu.be/g9ryP0UyO5U
It should shock you, because it's pure bullshit; let Adam Ruin that for you too.
It would seem to us that nights and weekends are the most convenient time for citizens to access government services such as this. But the things that are down for maintenance are not our publicly-accessible frontends, they're the backend databases that the administration uses internally as well.
So it would seem that all the worker bees in government offices rely on having access to those backend databases during USA office hours, and the only time they can realistically be shut down is while the civil servants are off the clock.
I hope that you've counted how many paces it is to the emergency exit, in case the cabin depressurizes, fills with smoke, and you've made a water landing.
Yeah also because departure and landings are the most critical times for aviation safety. If you're jabbering away on your mobile phone then you are not paying attention to the stewardess who is demonstrating important safety features that could save your life one day. Also if the aircraft encounters difficulty and there is a real emergency, you don't want a bunch of people enslaved to their electronic masters rather than having situational awareness and responding and obeying the flight safety crew (the crew is there to ensure your safety, not to feed you Coke and pretzels.)
I absolutely confirmed that my diet is the biggest factor in sleep patterns.
If I eat takeout or delivery food I will be groggy all day, sleep late, have trouble going to sleep at the same time every night.
If I prepare my own fresh, organic meals at home, including a yogurt and muesli breakfast every day, I awake refreshed and ready with the sunrise. I have energy throughout the day. And I fall asleep at about the same time every night without relying on drugs or medications.
I found a great WiFi router at a thrift store, along with the original transformer brick, and it was in service at my home, unpwned, for about a decade until I could afford a brand new replacement.
So the oldest, greyest employee disassembled the code and dumped the ROMs, and ran them through a steganography scanner then?
But moderns are jaded and blasé about stuff that's recycled.
When the Gospels were written, the known world was fascinated and captivated with what was being preached. Because it was familiar, logical, and somewhat inevitable to them. To Jews it was revolutionary, and to Greeks it was transcendent.
The inspired authors of the New Testament tugged on every heart string, checked every name, and copied every dank meme that mattered. This stuff is fulfillment of every prophecy. Of course it's cliché; that's a good thing!