Hacker News: mediocrejoker

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Apple Sign In"

mediocrejoker — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 18:29:10 +0000

This is going to be a tough sell to your marketing dept I think.

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent"

mediocrejoker — Fri, 31 May 2019 18:25:07 +0000

The site guidelines are here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Jokes aren't explicitly against the guidelines either, but I think the site likes to emphasize high quality content that will not alienate people who don't understand obscure references.

New comment by mediocrejoker in "SaaS CTO Security Checklist"

mediocrejoker — Thu, 30 May 2019 21:08:26 +0000

The slider of funding rounds is a neat idea but it's kind of hard to read in chronological order without mentally keeping track of which items appeared each time I slid it forward.

Would love to see a plain, non-javascript version of this content.

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users"

mediocrejoker — Thu, 30 May 2019 14:42:19 +0000

I've had a few instances of firefox on Mac and Linux starting to spin up the fans, and show high CPU usage, and I've had trouble pinning down which tab was causing it.

Is about:performance the best place to do this or is there something like Chrome's task manager that shows CPU and memory usage per page, and per extension?

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users"

mediocrejoker — Wed, 29 May 2019 23:14:28 +0000

By fling, do you mean the two-finger horizontal scroll to move back and forward through history? If so, I miss it too.

New comment by mediocrejoker in "What English sounds like if you don't understand it"

mediocrejoker — Wed, 29 May 2019 21:29:06 +0000

The same claim is made about this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections"

mediocrejoker — Mon, 27 May 2019 05:41:29 +0000

It's not nothing, but it's interesting to note that the amount they spent is dwarfed by the amounts currently being spent by top democrats (and Trump's re-election campaign), several of which are in the low millions of dollars.

> According to Facebook, the IRA purchased over 3,500 advertisements, and the expenditures totaled (sic) approximately $100,000

I think everyone would like to know how much actual influence it had in the election but I'm not sure we will ever know definitively.

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections"

mediocrejoker — Mon, 27 May 2019 05:35:59 +0000

This report might be interesting as well.

https://disinformationreport.blob.core.windows.net/disinform...

The two biggest caveats about it in my mind are that 1) all the data was provided voluntarily by the tech companies, with no indication of how they determined what was a Russian account, and 2) they don't really have any way to measure what actual impact it had on the election, or how effective the disinformation campaigns were

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections"

mediocrejoker — Mon, 27 May 2019 05:20:19 +0000

Doesn't it depend on how close the election was to begin with? If it's very close, you may not need to move the needle very far to change the outcome.

New comment by mediocrejoker in "In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc"

mediocrejoker — Sun, 26 May 2019 04:35:30 +0000

Digging into this a bit more and reading between the lines of the nytimes article, it sounds to me like EternalBlue was indeed used as part of the attack chain, for lateral movement. It was not the only exploit used, nor would the attack have been wholly prevented without it.

https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/113232602124240076...

New comment by mediocrejoker in "First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records"

mediocrejoker — Fri, 24 May 2019 22:22:24 +0000

That's what everyone (including myself) said after Equifax but just this week their credit rating was downgraded by Moody's:

https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/moodys-downgrad...

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Linux distros without systemd"

mediocrejoker — Mon, 20 May 2019 23:31:00 +0000

Are your init scripts available for viewing anywhere?

New comment by mediocrejoker in "[dead]"

mediocrejoker — Sun, 19 May 2019 17:30:38 +0000

Not defending Uber, but I don't think this article adds much to the discussion. I was hoping the feudal serfdom metaphor was going to be fleshed out more.

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Updates to Works with Nest"

mediocrejoker — Sun, 19 May 2019 17:21:51 +0000

Isn't there a bit of selection bias if you work in infosec and all the companies you see are either in danger or recovering from a breach?

In the all examples you mention, was it specifically Gsuite that was breached? I've always belived Gmail had fantastic security, so I'd be very interested to learn more about any breaches in their core gmail/gsuite offerings.

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Salesforce enables ‘modify all’ in user profiles"

mediocrejoker — Fri, 17 May 2019 23:06:15 +0000

Does this allow a salesman from company A to access customer info from company B (where A and B are both customers of salesforce) or is it just intra-organization?

Still bad if the latter, but catastrophic if the former

New comment by mediocrejoker in "YTMND is down for temporary maintenance"

mediocrejoker — Wed, 15 May 2019 14:29:41 +0000

Thanks.

I wonder whether the original comment about "doom music" is also a reference to the film? I had never heard of it.

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Who’s at risk for obsessive healthy eating? Toronto research sheds light"

mediocrejoker — Wed, 15 May 2019 14:12:57 +0000

I don't understand why the general tone of this article is "Did you know disordered healthy eating is possible" but the review of literature found that most of the studies are of poor quality, and furthermore the DSM does not recognize this condition as an eating disorder.

Am I missing something or isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results for AMP Stories"

mediocrejoker — Sat, 11 May 2019 16:12:25 +0000

It would be great to see a concise, relatively non-technical introduction to what is AMP and why is it bad for the open web that I could send to friends and family.

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications"

mediocrejoker — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:11:33 +0000

Not trying to be snarky but MacOS.

That being said, on Linux I think Elementary OS is at least trying to create a coherent visual design language. Maybe there are others?

New comment by mediocrejoker in "Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications"

mediocrejoker — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:09:20 +0000

This is the first thing I noticed too. The text is too close to the leftmost border and feels very claustrophobic.