It's not as much of a hoodwink as you would think however, it's everywhere and has been the same throughout history.

East India Company, Facebook, and even more recently Uber. Uber is the most readily documented.

In Australia (and I'm almost certain else where, but I'll talk about Brisbane, Queensland explicitly), Uber were illegal for years and just paid the fines to the local authorities when pegged. And continued to do so until they became legal.

It's a confronting and candid example of "money fixes all problems". The truth of this continues to bother me, the older and maybe not wiser I become, the more twisted I am from feeling disenfranchised, jaded and cynical from this truth.

The world fundamentally operates very differently at the macro level where money is counted in 10 or more digits than the micro level where most of us here sit. Witnessing the average person struggle to home and feed them selves on a countries median wage. While organisations wash their sins with coffers and pivot into unicorns and technical behemoths.

If you ever want to see how bad vibe coded software can be. This subreddit unfortunately had been a gold mine full of it.

Hoping this turns it around.

Good being a difficult term to define but most of not all of us here know what I mean

It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

I haven't really looked at anything else but I found >2 years ago the UI of BitWarden to be ordinary. And it was more awkward to manage a company.

Went with 1Password in the end, and that you get a free Family account with a Business account is great.

Your position on how BitWarden is open source should contribute to any decision you make though.

GitHub Pages, CloudFlare pages etc are a great and very simple service. But they're opposite or contrary to running your own hardware, warts and all.

Herman wasn't looking for solutions IMO, I read it more as him lamenting at how hostile and insidious the internet has become. It has been for some time, but it seems to be getting exponentially worse.

There isn't a single machine out there that's even moderately close in terms of build quality. Either at the dollar cost for an entry series MacBook Pro or Air with 36GB (38?) memory.

I don't think there's an OEM Linux or Windows laptop with Linux as a first class citizen laptop out there even moderately close for value, performance and build quality.

Shit I'm not sure if there's even one out there if you spent considerably more than on a MacBook. MacBook Pro's are pretty good value now.

Went around in circles deleting the repo, deleting packages from homebrew, reimporting the tool chain from our private repo, constantly got HTTP 400 errors from the Rails Console when we were attempting to use our local dev instance to talk to third party APIs.

Eventually found out it was because of a recent release of OpenSSL:

1. https://github.com/ruby/openssl/issues/949#issuecomment-3367... 2. https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/28758#issuecomment...

Had to rollback OpenSSL to a prior version, we were dangerously close to "time to wipe the Mac".

This isn't trivial to organise though since semver by it's self doesn't denote when a patch is security related or not. Of course, you can always review the release notes but this is time consuming, and doesn't scale well when a product grows either in size of code base or community support.

This is where there's a fairly natural place for SAST (E.g., Semgrep, Snyk (many more but these are the two I've used the most, in no particular order)), and supply chain scans fall in place, but they're prohibitively expensive.

There is a lot of open source tooling out there that can achieve the same too of course.

I've found there's a considerable linear climb with overheads/TOIL and the larger the number of open source tools you commit to create a security baseline. Unfortunately, this realistically means most companies where time is scarcer than money, means more money shifts into closed source products like those I listed, rather than those ran by open source products/companies.

I had no idea English was your second language! That's awesome.

I'm dyslexic so language is really hard for me, I have to put a lot more effort than most. I'm pretty intolerant of people who get annoyed at others when spelling or grammar is incorrect when we don't know their personal context (I had to triple check my spelling of grammar at least three times there XD).

I never got that impression from your post English wasn't your first language though! But I also wouldn't have stepped in to correct you even if you had. I nearly always find my own errors after a second or third visit, if I want cristicism of how I wrote something. I'll ask for it. If I didn't. I don't. I assume the same for everyone else.

https://kagi.com/proxy/Nathan-Lyon.jpg?c=ORiVIG1iR-yXL_2BLhX...

Australia does have the highest records of skin cancer diagnosis per capita though, and it has for some time. [1] The reason for it is for a few reasons.

A prevalance of outdoors focused lifestyles, exasperated by a higher amount of UV penetration to the ground due to proximity to the equator, and a much smaller/thinner O-zone layer than anywhere else in the world. This applies to both Australia and New Zealand btw.

Both due to the location, and man made causes (e.g., CFC's) [2]. Though fortunately, the O-zone layer is getting much better and quite quickly. The article I linked states the ozone layer will be at pre-1980 levels by 2050. Taking this at face value without much scrutiny though.

Australian's statistically have fairer skin. I'm half Cypriot by mother's, Norweigan. I did not get my fathers complexion ;-).

Throw in the sheer number of people who travel here from places where the ozone is much stronger/better, means people enjoying our lifestyle without the same level of protection warranted. I thiink this risk is overstated though, I made the mistake of not using enough sunscrean or clothing once, and got the most hellish skin burn. You only ever make that mistake once.

[1] https://biologyinsights.com/which-country-has-the-highest-ra... [2] https://cyclimate.com/article/does-australia-have-an-ozone-l...

So, we, as a community knew to avoid them for an awful long time. I can't be specific about when I heard this first but I'm almost certain some one said this to me in the first 12 months I moved to Brisbane (from the UK) 17 years ago.

So, there's been an urban myth for almost, if not longer than 2 decades. And we're only finding out now that it's true? That's the most surprising part of this to me IMO.

Edit: sentence structure, words.

And the "water proof" sunscrean is even worse. I know it states on the label that it doesn't last forever, but the average person assumes it'll just persist and relayering it isn't needed as often as you'd think.

Sunscrean does work, absolutely. But if you need to be in sun for an awful lot of time, follow the advice of lifeguards, cricket players. Which is exactly what you said.

Clothing + zinc. In that order. Sunscrean every 1-2 hours for anywhere zinc or clothing can't be used.

I love HN because, for every snarky comment that's made or said on a misunderstood, or incorrect basis of knowledge that would set off an alarm on QI, followed by a stern telling off by Stephen Fry.

There's some one like you, who has an endless pit of knowledge to aritculate or better inform with a whole lot of insight thrown in for good measure. Thank you, your post's awesome. :)

Small edit: I immediately thought "Your skin can't be that good as a barrier, nicotine and caffeine patches work through the skin?" when I saw the post you replied to, and loved that you made reference to it too.