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FAKEDETECTOR··on MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated
People are still using that?

Think about it - what kind of work does involve "reliable infra" today?

Instead of knowing one Linux system well and maintaining multiple servers in different data centers with different providers you now have the stupid overhead of multiple cloud infra providers with all their lockin-pitfalls and incompatible specialities.

The promises of cloud have not been delivered.

It is all fake.

FAKEDETECTOR··on Gaia-X: Technical Architecture [pdf]
Provide facts and sources or be tagged forever.
FAKEDETECTOR··on Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL
> 3. Zero vendor lock-in

This is wrong. For basic features that are absolutely needed for a real-life app you will need the "Pro" hasura license.

FAKEDETECTOR··on Perch: a really little CMS
This statement can not be left on HN without contradiction. It says more about your dev experience than about Drupal.

Drupal is still horrible. They did not learn from the security issues of the past, they still put lots of php files into document_root, just to mention two basic things.

They are doing it wrong in many ways, and there is no hope the "community" will ever learn, because people with competence already moved away long time ago.

Let a developer with some experience with different languages and frameworks (Java, Ruby, Python, Elixir) - not some single-eyed PHP-only beginner - work for one day with Drupal and then ask her what she thinks about it.

FAKEDETECTOR··on AI Generated News Articles
Question about your product: besides "gaming the system with creating fake or duplicated + slightly modified content" what is the value of this?

Question about you: did you ever consider using your skills to do something that will help humanity to solve actual problems we are facing?

Proposal: let this grow as a honeypot and publish a list of your customers after some while, so we can spot the "quality journalists" - that will be fun!

TODO for everybody: integrate fake news detector from sites like this into ublock-origin. Make them invisible.

FAKEDETECTOR··on A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
"Our secret telemetry dataset gives us reason to believe that the cars produced by us are not safe."

Would a statement like this be a surprise for you?

FAKEDETECTOR··on Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation
Evidence, please.
FAKEDETECTOR··on The race is on to develop new strategies for storing nuclear waste
Both of your points are factually wrong.
FAKEDETECTOR··on Cryptography Dispatches: Hello World, and OpenPGP Is Broken
Is that a fork of openPGP or some other product that is based on the same specs? I could not find anything meaningful for openGPG.
FAKEDETECTOR··on India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications
This is wrong information.

Publishers can show a cookie-free site to all visitors and offer a cookie opt-in for some kind of added value, e.g. "more information for membership".

There is no governmental force pushing anybody to produce a website that diplays a "cookie dialog" even before you see what that site is about or if you like it. You are producing a false and absurd story of "governments meddling into tech produces cookie dialogs".

FAKEDETECTOR··on India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications
> Thank the French for that, who are the main reason behind the EU legislation about Cookies.

This again is wrong. The problem originated by publishers who track users and disrespect their privacy for many years.

The regulation that happened after a very long time of people urging governments to do something about that, makes this initial problem better visible.

Still it is important to understand: no cookies are needed at all for publishing content.

FAKEDETECTOR··on India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications
It seems like you want to suggest that Matrix is not secure - as others pointed out already the bug that was reported about has nothing to do with matrix and was fixed quickly.

Also you do not seem to understand that bugs and resulting security problems are something that happen every day - and get fixed quickly, usually, after discovery. This is what they mean when domain experts say things like "security is a process".

Also here we see a perfect example of why you want to use open source software for all governmental software: after a bug was found your admins can see the code changes and understand, if the bug still exists or not. Even more, only with open source software your admins and developers can read the code and search for bugs, too! This is what makes open source software a very good idea!

You are welcome to the world of free and open software, and after some reading about the basic principles I am sure you will understand why open source software is used by so many companies and organizations around the world.

BTW re the website you pointed to: I see a very annoying, totally absurd cookie dialog that makes me click at least five times and still does not give me a choice to not accept cookies at all. Please do not link to that website until they wake up and stop insulting visitors with this UI nightmare and learned that nobody needs to set cookies to publish content. Also this is not a website a pro developer would ever read or point to - always prefer to point to the primary source of information.

FAKEDETECTOR··on How Nike sold its first shoes
But it is part of the Nike history and should have been mentioned. It is disgusting to read that kind of fanboy publication, deeply bowing before a company that helped to construct the modern international slavery system.