Hacker News: QUFB

New comment by QUFB in "My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community"

QUFB — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:20:49 +0000

> How are people still getting away with this kind of abuse? How?

Read the comments in this thread six hours from now and you'll understand.

New comment by QUFB in "Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands"

QUFB — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:26:48 +0000

Once they become a community project, rather than the rms fan club, I'll talk to them.

New comment by QUFB in "Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands"

QUFB — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 21:23:31 +0000

It's not quite google.ar, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with https://gnu.gl/

New comment by QUFB in "IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% of the Time”"

QUFB — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:22:05 +0000

Relevant Onion news article from 2003:

https://www.theonion.com/ibm-emancipates-8-000-wage-slaves-1...

New comment by QUFB in "Solanum IRCd: upcoming IRCd that’s being worked on by Freenode and OFTC staffs"

QUFB — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:09:33 +0000

Ah, that's helpful context. I had incorrectly assumed that it was something written from scratch, which would be very notable in the IRC space.

New comment by QUFB in "Solanum IRCd: upcoming IRCd that’s being worked on by Freenode and OFTC staffs"

QUFB — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:14:03 +0000

I don't want to be that guy, but.... We should probably appreciate a modern IRCd, but why, why, why wasn't this written in a memory safe language like Rust or Go? Seriously wtf, if you are starting from scratch in 2021 on a remotely accessible application why would you choose C?

National Intelligence Council Global Trends 2040 [pdf]

QUFB — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:34:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/GlobalTrends_2040.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26763285

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by QUFB in "The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned"

QUFB — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:13:45 +0000

I have had a Twilio account for years, and have always used the proprietary MFA implementation from their Authy app. I don’t remember being forced to switch to SMS MFA.

New comment by QUFB in "533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online"

QUFB — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 20:34:27 +0000

Not much to see? Not noteworthy?

Where could I, or any Internet user, trivially download these details on 533M Facebook users prior to this dump? If nothing else, it seems extremely noteworthy that someone was not only able to obtain the data through scraping or some attack, but has shared with the world.

New comment by QUFB in "[dead]"

QUFB — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:11:33 +0000

> The video provides a good overview about the issues surrounding bias in ML, and I think it motivates a discussion that would be useful to have on HN, given the number of people who work on such systems that regularly visit this site.

Have you read any sane discourse on HN in the last few years? The top post on any thread like this will discuss how algorithmic bias is just some SJW conspiracy or concern.

New comment by QUFB in "Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication"

QUFB — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 22:52:39 +0000

It's not an especially good look, although I see in the past few minutes HSTS has been enabled!

New comment by QUFB in "CentOS dropped because it “was not [..] providing [..] usefulness to Red Hat”"

QUFB — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:13:46 +0000

No, they just buy Canonical.

New comment by QUFB in "The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system"

QUFB — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 18:14:20 +0000

What about this interesting submission makes it "clear" the account was "sold"?

New comment by QUFB in "hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet"

QUFB — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:31:04 +0000

I'm not a lawyer, but can you explain how their privacy policy is privacy-conscious now and going forward, and how centralization of network transit with Cloudflare isn't a bad thing?

https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy

New comment by QUFB in "hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet"

QUFB — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:26:21 +0000

Honest question: How do you view it as an improvement? The same data is being shared, and the only difference is that Cloudflare isn't immediately behaving in the same evil ways as Google. But once you concentrate power in an entity, perhaps bad things might happen?

... If there was an on-premise captcha implementation that actually worked, that would be great.

New comment by QUFB in "Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021"

QUFB — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 21:55:47 +0000

It is a sad reflection on HN that comments like this are so aggressively downvoted.

New comment by QUFB in "Free Software Is More Reliable (2011)"

QUFB — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:08:49 +0000

With all due respect to the author here, the arguments presented aren't particularly compelling.

> Apologists for proprietary software like to say, “free software is a nice dream, but we all know that only the proprietary system can produce reliable products. A bunch of hackers just can't do this.”

Absolutely no one says this anymore. In 2014, when the article was written, almost no one would say it.

> Barton P. Miller and his colleagues tested the reliability of Unix utility programs in 1990 and 1995. Each time, GNU's utilities came out considerably ahead.

That's great, but it's 2020 now.

The FSF has done awesome work, but they might be better served presenting modern research and evidence about the reliability of free software.

New comment by QUFB in "Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes"

QUFB — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 19:19:14 +0000

Is this news? This is a block storage failure on Rackspace. EBS volumes on Amazon fail all the time, as anyone who manages a large number of instances probably knows (0.1%-0.2% per year for normal volumes):

> Amazon EBS offers a higher durability volume (io2), that is designed to provide 99.999% durability with an annual failure rate (AFR) of 0.001%, where failure refers to a complete or partial loss of the volume. For example, if you have 100,000 EBS io2 volumes running for 1 year, you should expect only one io2 volume to experience a failure. This makes io2 ideal for business-critical applications such as SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2 that will benefit from higher uptime. io2 volumes are 2000 times more reliable than typical commodity disk drives, which fail with an AFR of around 2%. All other Amazon EBS volumes are designed to provided 99.8%-99.9% durability with an AFR of between 0.1% - 0.2%,

https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/features/

New comment by QUFB in "FB account locked after replying to FB recruiter"

QUFB — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 02:04:43 +0000

If I do this, will they lock my shadow profile for 30 days?

IBM: The 'next big thing' no longer exists (2006)

QUFB — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:08:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnet.com/news/ibm-the-next-big-thing-no-longer-exists/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24730035

Points: 6

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