I agree this is true for the economist readers, but I clicked the link thinking this was about how Dropbox (in a company) is an obvious target for privilege escalation (for red teams and hackers), which also sounds plausible and interesting.

But I don't mind, after a few seconds of loading my mistake was obvious.

Like comments? ;)

Longest? Yes, they actually use actual wall clock time. I don't think this metric makes any sense. I don't know about the others, I stopped reading at this point.

The difference is that nowadays people can just skip the research part and copy-paste Llama. No value added.

Serious "hackers" are usually state sponsored now, or members of mature groups.

I am certain many of them honestly believe that they are doing the right thing and that they are helping. After all hey, they implemented a feature or fixed a bug for the community! It's a grim worldview if you think they are all just selfish.

It was long after university after I learned that it's also an English word.

So there's no point in wasting time on this, if perceived problems are low or nonexistent. Current maintainers probably look at it from a technical pov "it's just a name, who cares"

But... That's not how days off work.

What? Do you seriously think that wealthy people only want to move to the US? It's a wild claim, especially considering we're in a comment section of a post about immigration to Japan.

For cron, despite years of looking at it, I can never remember what those numbers mean and I need to Google almost every time.

For example I don't leave my house often, so a walking protest in the middle of a city has zero chance to reach me. HN post does.