Microsoft which owns GitHub, has been washing their hands if any responsibility in helping to resolve the ongoing supply chain catastrophe which is hosted and spread nearly entirely via Github repositories: not responding to security researchers flagging malware hosted on GitHub; doing nothing to address the proliferation of open source malware across their platform, giving no recourse for action, not applying their tremendous resources to the problem, fiddling as the open source community burns and leaving the devs to fend for themselves. Let's not mention the recent very hostile and trust-erodibg behavior towards bug bounty security researchers.

The *&$@ finally spread all the way up to the top of the hill in a compromise of Microsoft's own repos, which I think highlights the scale of the problem.

And in response, they offer a watery corporate platitude, "a few customers were affected in a recent incident, and we're looking into it."

ie: Brazilian government demands Microsoft to grant them MITM access from Windows machines, in order for the right to do business in the country.

IMO seems borderline on flag-worthy.

I don't know how much these rail tickets will cost, but I find the math on that to be unlikely.

4x plane tickets, assuming rock bottom minimum $60 a head to basically anywhere, $180-240...

Hmm

Unfortunately most of the population (including medical doctors) also has a similarly nonchalant conception of mold; that it's something that merely causes some allergies and sniffles for sensitive members of the population.

Toxic mold secretes _neurotoxins_ which will 100% destroy your life for years, if you get a bad enough exposure.

Read some of the experiences of mold survivors in this thread or elsewhere to get a sense of how bad this can be: it's horror-movie stuff.

Source: been through mold exposure myself. It wrecked my life for 5 years, and I still have lingering aftereffects.

Social skills aren't the issue here, just inability to function in a noisy / motion-filled environment.

Not aspergers/autistic, but neurodivergent, and the thought of working in an office, which my next position is likely to entail, is nauseating.

I don't know if I can function in that environment with people moving around constantly, and am worried that asking "hey, can I be remote only?" right off the bat is a big negative when interviewing.

Thanks for asking this. :-)

When viewing these repeating patterns, I get a kind of very uncomfortable visual disorientation, almost like vertigo: hard to describe.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident

tl;dr:

- The primary reason for their arrest wasn't the Linux/encryption tools.

- They were under investigation / suspicion after volunteering for a Kurdish militant group.

Secondarily to the above, the prosecution used their encryption/etc, (in a case of bad logic) as further post-hoc evidence or cause for suspicion.

In my opinion, omitting the primary causes here is intentionally muddying the issue, and making it sound like encryption itself was the cause.

*Caveats:*

- Yes, the prosecution clearly don't understand the technology, and obviously don't care to know.

- Yes, they are implying that use of encryption itself is due to "needing to hide something".

- Yes, they're implicating innocent (AKA "normal") use of encryption as something bad, and that's a problem.

Was impressed with the quality of the result. It broke it down into a list of logical and concrete smaller steps.

That's extremely cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101029

How do these companies transport the (waste heat) via heated mineral oil to the recipient?

Presumably not every server farm could have it directly piped to the customer, as they're not all necessarily in immediate proximity to a public pool:

Is the heated water or oil then shipped in some some kind of insulated container?