Hacker News: silpol

New comment by silpol in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

silpol — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:21:50 +0000

No, it's not 'hostile'.

Behavior "give me now 50K and then monthly 200K" is called Racketeering.

wikipedia > In the United States of America, racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit.

Did they offer new service and asked for more? No.

Did they came with new calculation based on costs? No.

They just insist on "more money or your operations are toast".

Once executives and vice- clout get into the court on racketeering, just like al Capone was, things will go much better.

New comment by silpol in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

silpol — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:20:40 +0000

While his leaks expose surveillance, he was useful idiot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot in hands of Assange club. And it might be event of his saving was trigger for Putin to start war. So no, I'd better see whole camaraderie before court and sentenced. Regardless of 'heroism'.

And yes, most of modern supporters of Wikileaks / Assange / Snowden / etc, chanting 'release Assange' and 'pardon Snowden' are useful idiots in hands of tyrannies like BRICS club.

New comment by silpol in "Queer.af Mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban"

silpol — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:30:45 +0000

you mean, like registering anti-ccp domain before ccp comes to power, eh?

New comment by silpol in "Tell HN: Enterprises spend 10x more to build no-code solutions than coded ones"

silpol — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:47:02 +0000

there is reason why John Woods wrote in 1991

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code for readability.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/878436/499698

New comment by silpol in "Ask HN: Is GNU pass and Yubikey (via NFC) supported on iPhone?"

silpol — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:10:29 +0000

actually Bruce Byfield explains it in Linux Magazine:

Pass is available in the repositories of most major distributions. As usual, you can also compile from scratch, but, if you do, take note of the dependencies, especially GnuPG (GPG) [6], which creates encryption keys, and Password Generator (pwgen) [7], which generates random passwords that contain random combinations of upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Without GnuPG and pwgen, you will be unable to set up Pass, much less actually use it.

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2014/158/Command-Line-...

New comment by silpol in "Why Can’t I Sleep?"

silpol — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:40:14 +0000

for item 4, one has to have limited responsibilities towards society.

New comment by silpol in "Ask HN: Do you run apps bare metal?"

silpol — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:08:42 +0000

for some folks systemd is also 5th wheel in the cart

New comment by silpol in "Hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, secrets"

silpol — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 07:27:29 +0000

there is one small nuisance here - if we start to treat all governments equally skeptic, we should also "fry live" all large corporations too.

Twilio warns about Uber’s waning usage of its platform

silpol — Wed, 03 May 2017 13:43:13 +0000

Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/02/twilio-warns-about-ubers-waning-usage-of-its-platform/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14255535

Points: 1

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New comment by silpol in "A Message to 2600 Readers and Writers"

silpol — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 15:54:10 +0000

(quote) "People in dictatorial regimes didn't get there by being quiet. They never were. Even today in places like Venezuela and Russia people take to the streets. They got there by losing a channel of communication to their fellow citizens." -- you are clearly out of sync with reality about Russia. Since 2011 protests, Russian regime jails people even at "single person protest" which are always legal by their law, leave alone cases like Bolotnaya. NGOs are pushed into fed-by-govt-or-illegal mode. Political opponents either went into govt-is-right mode or expelled. Mind you, it is not dictatorial, it is only authoritarian. But it is toxic enough. And we haven't even started yet about DT going to hug with Putin asap once he is in chair. Did I mention that almost whole Republican party is in love Putin's image and strong arm behavior? Thank you but your ideas are out of sync with reality.

New comment by silpol in "Bruce Schneier: 'The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over'"

silpol — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:55:54 +0000

CA regulation did not stop VolksWagen to do what they did. And they did it for many years.

New comment by silpol in "Bruce Schneier: 'The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over'"

silpol — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:44:48 +0000

that's exactly how it is going on now. and it doesn't work anymore - different scale.

New comment by silpol in "Bruce Schneier: 'The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over'"

silpol — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:23:37 +0000

the sad thing is that you're probably on lawyer's mentality and hence deliver mantra "if that does not work on country level, lets push it up". Only that international law is not law-as-we-know-it. It is countries in interaction thing. Everything there is different - scale, speed, error rate, response rate, everything. And aside from "international law" part, it has started to change in earlier 00s, about 2005-2008. Next 10 or 20 or even 30 will be mess on international level, if not worse. So expectations of security global collaboration is... well, naive. And hence Mr. Schneier is right when he skips global level before going national. He is also right in a way that it is way easier to cast leadership with existing and working legislation than jump to table on global level and try to pull it towards imaginary rules. So... Mr. Schneier was right to skip. As per his lobbyism, without seeing his material it would be premature to jump to conclusions.

New comment by silpol in "See Twitter's SQL."

silpol — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:09:50 +0000

uptime was much better, and reaction was much quicker and to the point. with recent switchover to Google infra they are almost non-stop -- only Google is not that stupid to pay for your messaging ;)