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What you're suggesting could get OP in trouble if caught. Not sure it's worth it, but then again I'm not that into cars.
Re:Postgres: Extensions Shape the Future [pdf] on Saturday November 25, 2023 @11:27PM (#38419157)
That's why teams behind those extensions sometimes build a cloud for you.
Sounds like we need to change the law to make privacy absolute, which of course will prevent legitimate crime investigations. We can't have it both ways here.
E2E apps and fully encrypted phones prevent the police from executing legitimate search warrants. This has never been the case with traditional communication mechanisms, e.g. phones, mail.

I agree that privacy is important, but it's not absolute, by law. So what we're saying is E2E apps are more important than current law we have, and we want to invalidate the ability of the police to investigate crime.

How can that make sense?

Thank you for posting and reminding us that multiple 2FA methods are a good backup plan with Google.

I just added:

- SMS - Authenticator app (Authy, of course) - Generated backup codes

That in addition to my Pixel 4, and maybe 3-4 authorized devices (laptop, ubuntu desktop, windows desktop), I feel a bit better about this.

Sorry for your trouble though, I hope you figure it out.

Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:23AM (#33596391)
Tech eats the world. When tech goes down, its competitors go bankrupt.
Re:Ask HN: Work Instead of Tech? on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:49AM (#33529698)
Underwater welders make a lot. It's risky work, but you get to do pro level diving (the risky part) and welding metal at something like 3000 degrees...while under water.

Might also make you explore diving more which is a ...whole other world.

Good luck and take care.

Re:Zig is now self–hosted by default on Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:32PM (#32533254)
C++ stage1 compiler is a magic binary blob :)
Re:Is this the end of social networking? on Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:04PM (#32431041)
"Tweet your comments", oh sweet irony.
Re:AWS us-east-2 outage on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:42PM (#32414884)
Automatic failover within 60 seconds.
Re:AWS us-east-2 outage on Friday July 29, 2022 @01:11AM (#32273374)
RDS just has a button for multi-AZ primaries. No complexity or microservices.
Re:AWS us-east-2 outage on Thursday July 28, 2022 @03:09PM (#32268836)
A multi-az deployment is a checkbox in most AWS services, e.g. ASGs, RDS, load balancers, etc. Someone didn't check that box because they didn't know about it, there isn't much complexity in it.
Re:Protect domains that do not send email on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:22PM (#30991009)
Can the registrars do this for me? I have no idea what half of those records do.
Re:Elon has decided not to join our board on Sunday April 10, 2022 @11:36PM (#30984330)
Haha i was just thinking that, maybe he didn't pass? :)
Re:The next Google on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:36PM (#30922163)
These solutions don't answer any of the fundamental problems with Google:

- who pays for the service (ads? users pay? Average user will never use a paid service if a free one is available)

- how to resist attacks against the algorithm (Google has been fighting spam for decades)

- how to personalize without invading privacy, e.g. Google had an option to search through your email in Google search...it's gone now, I wonder why?

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022) on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:34PM (#30881724)
3 weeks PTO threw me off, I thought unlimited was pretty standard? Maybe I live in a bubble :)
Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases on Saturday February 19, 2022 @10:12PM (#30402887)
This is a pretty big violation of privacy, especially for people who's criminal records have been expunged.

It could satisfy some people's curiosity or if they are a lawyer, they could save a few grand on PACER, but for everyone else this is a privacy disaster.

I hope you take this down eventually.

Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases on Saturday February 19, 2022 @10:09PM (#30402874)
That's not true. Court records used to be accessible in person only. You would have to be motivated to find anything. This puts everyone's past and often forgotten transgressions on display.

This might look cool or even useful to some, but it's straight up immoral.

Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases on Saturday February 19, 2022 @10:06PM (#30402857)
Isn't there laws protecting people against this? Expunged record should not be visible, right?
Re:The Internals of PostgreSQL on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:14AM (#30096493)
Are you certain? I thought threads are much more lightweight and also access memory faster because there is no CoW overhead (mutexes permitting).

E.g. why nginx is much faster and lighter than Apache and MySQL connections are cheaper and faster to create than Pg.

I'm just sad my stock portfolio took a dive. I started to invest into the market for the first time during the pandemic (thanks to RH). Not sure what I learned so far.
If the salt is stored with the file, how is this safe against a brute force attack against the low entropy password?
Re:Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés? on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:02PM (#29960675)
Let's make one. A universal format could help with bias and resume anxiety.
Re:A breakdown of a DKIM replay attack on Sunday January 16, 2022 @01:56PM (#29958746)
Very cool write-up. Email got pretty complicated, this helps.
Re:Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall on Saturday January 01, 2022 @05:21PM (#29763464)
Curious if this can help with hardware backdoors. This probably uses OS APIs which a sophisticated spyware would maybe work around?
Re:Discourage use of Mailgun as a mail provider on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:39PM (#29543513)
Agreed, this is silly.

Cloudflare “Flexible” SSL Misleading

Cloudflare Flexible SSL mode encrypts traffic between the client and Cloudflare but it forwards that data to the origin server unencrypted over the public internet.Isn't this misleading? The client thinks their traffic is safe, but it ends up being exposed? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of SSL and browser certificate validation?

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Re:1Password for Linux on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:29PM (#27197104)
Reads like a love letter to Linux, it's great.
Re:Twitter's subscription service might cost $3 per month on Saturday May 15, 2021 @04:36PM (#27168767)
I think this is good. Any free resource is bound to be abused and overrun with spam and trolls. If you have to pay to use it, a lot of this becomes disincentivised. Free to read, pay to post, it's perfect.
This is awesome, a lot of knowledge shared in that code, and lots to learn from I'm sure.

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