heybrendan
I'm vaguely aware that there are crates available in the Rust ecosystem for interrogating and manipulating sockets much more directly as well as high level abstractions for all things netlink (read: AF_NETLINK). Is wielding Rust's socket/netlink libraries unsuitable in some way, or was it merely deemed out of the design scope?
Very cool project, please keep going!
[1] https://github.com/grigio/network-monitor/blob/master/src/se...
This seems to be posted once per year (at least); however, hardly a complaint as the discussion tends to be high quality.
My personal mantra is if it's over 10~20 lines, I should arguably be using another language, like Python (and perhaps correspondingly, subprocess [2], if I'm in a hurry).
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140523002853/http://redsymbol....
This comment [1] by icing (curl staff) sums up the risk:
> "This report and your other one seem like an attack on our resources to handle security issues."
Maintainers of widely deployed, popular software, including those whom have openly made a commitment to engineering excellence [2] and responsiveness [like the curl project AFAICT], can not afford to /not/ treat each submission with some level of preliminary attention and seriousness.
Submitting low quality, bogus reports generated by a hallucinating LLM, and then doubling down by being deliberately opaque and obtuse during the investigation and discussion, is disgraceful.
[1] https://hackerone.com/reports/3125832#activity-34389935
[2] https://curl.se/docs/bugs.html (Heading: "Who fixes the problems")
- https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
How are 'concurrent.futures' users impacted? What will I need to change moving forward?
Notwithstanding the naysayers that surface with peculiar predictability any time Matrix is discussed here, know there are people like me that are happy Synapse users (and operators, nearly 5 years now!) that are in your corner, rooting for you [and Matrix]. Keep fighting the good fight.
> Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. It provides the latest Wayland features, is highly customizable, has all the eyecandy, the most powerful plugins, easy IPC, much more QoL stuff than other compositors and more...
The yt-dlp application functions better alongside ffmpeg, so I recommend installing that too. If on Linux, whatever is available via one's package manager /should/ do the trick.
Note, the project does make mention there are issues [1] with "standard ffmpeg", and is therefore minting custom builds [2][3] of ffmpeg, with additional patches applied.
[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#dependencies
[2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds#ffmpeg-static-auto-b...
A user or two have characterized Gill's activity as a pump-and-dump. From the article:
> A common form of this fraud is a pump-and-dump scheme, where fraudsters "make false and misleading statements to create a buying frenzy, and then sell shares at the pumped-up price."
Gill took a significant position in Gamestop beginning in June 2019 [1], and has been steadily increasing his position over the years (AFAICT without selling).
How is the belief in the long-term recovery and turn around of what was then, a dysfunctional (and unprofitable) American retailer, anything but rather prescient and patriotic?
Even if we were to concede that Gill is now in a position of influence, the suggestion that enforcement agencies should suddenly jump in and that litigation should /begin/ with him, rather than TV personalities and elected officials, strikes me as laughable.
Notwithstanding the ethical and security implications of a brokerage publicly broadcasting that a customer has an account on their platform (I would be livid if this happened to me), if E-Trade were to close Gill's account, would that not be a concrete admission that his position has them vulnerable, thereby strengthening and supporting the underlying thesis?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gill#Position_on_GameSto...
Given the example of risk HN user /deified/ shared regarding suspicions of brokers clandestinely distributing IOUs without investor knowledge where they should, in fact, be purchasing real shares, DRS offers the ability to move shares from one's broker to the company's transfer agent.
In effect, what DRS seemingly provides is a far more robust chain of trust and custody, as well as a more concrete level of assurance that shares in one's account are, in fact, real (and not IOUs).
In this case, the 10-K filing provides direct evidence that investors are consistently moving their Gamestop shares out of their respective brokers, to Gamestop's transfer agent, a company called Computershare (or purchasing shares directly via Computershare).
A conclusion one could possibly draw from this is that hundreds of thousands of Gamestop investors have collectively agreed that they can no longer trust their brokers, they are fed up with the true reality [and limitations] of "beneficial ownership", and are instead registering their Gamestop shares with the transfer agent (Computershare). All to the tune now of 25% of the total outstanding shares. As far as I'm aware, behavior of this magnitude has never before occurred.
Should that percentage continue to climb, it will be interesting to see what effect (if any) it will have on Gamestop's share price, assuming true supply and demand and real price discovery is still a fundamental part of how our markets function.
Ian released a video [3] this past December 2023, related to this topic.
[1] https://www.computershare.com/ca/en/insync/summer-2016/about...
[2] https://content-assets.computershare.com/eh96rkuu9740/630fe9...
> "As of March 20, 2024 [...] approximately 75.3 million shares of our Class A common stock were held by registered holders with our transfer agent (or approximately 25% of our outstanding shares)."
I've never seen anything like this. It seems absolutely unprecedented.
Recently Ian Carroll posted an overview [2] on X where he attempts to untangle the mess of the chaos surrounding Gamestop and its stock. I'm not going to pretend to understand the (dys?)function of our financial markets or everything that he shared, but my eyes are peeled.
Risks inherent to pipe installers are well understood by many. Using your logic, we should abandon Homebrew [1] (>38k stars on GitHub), PiHole [2] (>46k stars on GitHub), Chef [3], RVM [4], and countless other open source projects that use one-step automated installers (by piping to bash).
A more reasonable response would be to coordinate with the developers to update the docs to provide alternative installation methods (or better detail risks), rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
[1] https://brew.sh/
[2] https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole
[3] https://docs.chef.io/chef_install_script/#run-the-install-sc...
Would your stake in VMware and AWS not be {threatened,weakened}, perhaps severely, should Google succeed in Cloud?
[1] https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html
[2] https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/who-is-using.html
United States of America v. William Tomita (April 22, 2022; 2:35pm) [1]
Pages 184 - 186:
> THE COURT: Mr. Tomita, would you and your attorneys please stand, and would you tell me what makes you guilty of each of the crimes to which you are pleading guilty today.
> THE DEFENDANT: Okay. From March 2020 through March 2021, I was head trader at Archegos Capital Management. During this time, I and others executed trades that allowed the fund to amass market power and certain securities traded on U.S. exchanges. Archegos used security-based swaps to gain exposure to these securities while concealing the true size of the fund's positions from the market and our trading counterparties.
> THE DEFENDANT: Once Archegos gained market power in these securities, I and others used this power to trade in such a way as to artificially manipulate the prices of the securities. Acting at the direction of the head of the fund, I traded to increase the prices of names in which Archegos held long positions and reduced the prices of securities in which the fund helped short positions. I did this by, for example, buying large amounts of a stock when the price dropped in response to negative news or trading premarket when I knew the fund's activity would have a greater impact on price.
> THE DEFENDANT: I manipulated the prices of these securities in order to influence others in the market to buy or sell the securities in ways that would benefit Archegos' key positions and increase Archegos' purchasing power through variation margin.
> THE DEFENDANT: In addition to manipulating the prices of certain securities, I also made misrepresentations to Archegos' trading counterparties. These counterparties were banks and brokers who extended the fund credit to trade on margin and entered into swap agreements with the fund.
> THE DEFENDANT: I knew that the fund's counterparties considered Archegos' portfolio and assets when setting margin rates and limits on swap capacity. In order to maintain favorable margin rates and gain additional swap capacity, I made false and misleading statements and omissions regarding the size and the composition of the fund's portfolio. I knew that doing so would mislead counterparties as to the true risks presented by the fund. I made these false and misleading statements and omissions during phone calls and email exchanges with representatives from the banks.
> THE DEFENDANT: While engaged in the activities I described, I worked under the supervision of Sung Kook Hwang, also known as Bill Hwang, the founder and head of Archegos. I agreed with Bill and others to carry out the business of Archegos through a pattern of manipulating the prices of securities and deceiving counterparties. I did so knowing that I, Bill, or others committed at least two manipulative or deceptive acts in the course of conducting Archegos' affairs. I knew that Archegos' trading activity was carried out over interstate wires and affected interstate commerce.
> THE DEFENDANT: I knew this conduct was wrong at the time that I participated in it, and I knew that things I did were illegal.
There are many unanswered questions; however, I think it's safe to say we're squarely out of "oh its a cult" territory. The legal record is surely evidence enough that there are unresolved skeletons in the closets of our financial institutions.
This deplorable and criminal behavior is hardly confined to Archegos. There's a rot at the heart of Wall Street and time will tell if Citadel [and therefore Griffin] is tied to it.
[1] https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-32-10/s73210-20147568-313768...
> And I suppose I could mention from one of the very earliest computer scientists, whose name was Norbert Wiener, and he wrote a book back in the '50s [...] called "The Human Use of Human Beings."
> And in the book, he described the potential to create a computer system that would be gathering data from people and providing feedback to those people in real time in order to put them kind of partially, statistically, in a Skinner box, in a behaviorist system, and he has this amazing line where he says one could imagine as a thought experiment, and I'm paraphrasing, this isn't a quote, a global computer system where everybody has devices on them all the time, and the devices are giving them feedback based on what they did, and the whole population is subject to a degree of behavior modification.
> Such a society would be insane, could not survive, could not face its problems. And then he says, but this is only a thought experiment, and such a future is "technologically infeasible". And yet, of course, it's what we have created, and it's what we must undo if we are to survive.
-Odo
Rest in peace René Auberjonois.
Direct Registration System (DRS) [1][2], a system for book-entry ownership, has been successfully popularized by r/SuperStonk, over the last few years.
From Gamestop's recent SEC filing, 10-K [3]:
> Our Class A Common Stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “GME”. As of March 22, 2023, there were 197,058 record holders of our Class A Common Stock. Excluding the approximately 228.7 million shares of our Class A Common Stock held by Cede & Co on behalf of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (or approximately 75% of our outstanding shares), approximately 76.0 million shares of our Class A Common Stock were held by record holders as of March 22, 2023 (or approximately 25% of our outstanding shares).
Let's let that sink in: visitors of r/SuperStonk collectively own 25% of GME (and registered via DRS), throwing down >$1.5B USD.
How can one not appreciate the magnitude of this accomplishment? It's absolutely unprecedented.
When we look back on this, I'd wager that education will be r/SuperStonk's crowning achievement. Hundreds of thousands of people have mobilized thus far, and are taking an active interest in financial literacy, learning about market structure, reading quarterly statements, joining earnings calls, and submitting commentary to regulators in both the United States and Europe.
When does a group of investors stop being a "cult" and effectively become a full-fledged movement?
[1] https://www.computershare.com/ca/en/insync/summer-2016/about...
[2] https://content-assets.computershare.com/eh96rkuu9740/630fe9...
I suspect many of you are curious about CLI-only support (I was). I spotted this old, closed issue [1].
Can we eventually expect something similar for PostgreSQL [for Developers]?
And does this course include ORM's, like SQLAlchemy?
Reddit can and does create echo chambers. But that doesn't mean I wasn't willing to fully acknowledge and concede that this Reddit community was /right/ about this.
Dial back your sensitivity. We're on the same side.
We're in a weird timeline when the investors on /r/SuperStonk begin accurately predicting the future.
- What was involved with picking up the ASN and the IPv6 block of addresses (process, bureaucracy, initial and ongoing costs)?
- What networking plumbing is involved in being able to have homelab resources advertised to the internet?
I'm not an expert in this area, but I'd very much welcome the hard work that comes with reproducing such a setup. Thanks.