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Paul-ish··on The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts
> Maybe worth noting that USPIS is older than the FBI. It's the oldest federal law enforcement agency.

The wikipedia page for USPIS claims that. But the wikipedia page of the US Marshalls claims that same honor. I wonder which is correct.

Paul-ish··on YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube
You have to wonder if everyone else offered the prize rejected it.
Paul-ish··on Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
If your SaaSS app surfaces a few small things from Grafana to the user, do you only have to open source the glue code, or the entire SaaSS application?
Paul-ish··on Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu
> Seems like every time I see coverage about Firefox, it's Mozilla removing or crippling some feature I care about.

Maybe this reflects the coverage more than the reality. Read the changelog and you will see things worth getting excited by, but no one is going to write an article about each new feature and change.

Paul-ish··on Spectre in JavaScript
The proof of concept is in Chrome, so it appears Chrome's mitigations are not sufficient.
Paul-ish··on The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
Even if a check up were $20 what I've described above would happen.
Paul-ish··on The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
You will see a lot of people using the (expensive) ER to treat their health issues. The reason they are there in the first place is that they couldn't pay for preventative care, so naturally they can't pay for the ER either. As a society when someone who can't pay ends up in the ER we have two options: treat them anyways, or turn them away.
Paul-ish··on East Coast Internet Outage
Did they charge you upfront for the installation?
Paul-ish··on Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite
Based on other comments in here, it doesn't appear to obfuscate what blocks of data are being requested. Its probably safest to assume queries can probably be inferred from access patterns.
Paul-ish··on I no longer trust The Great Suspender
I keep most of my extensions disabled most of the time. A lot of the extensions have particular uses and don't always need to be active.
Paul-ish··on Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
This doesn't add non-compete clause.
Paul-ish··on Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’
Whats the easiest way to resolve handshake names locally without a 3rd party gateway? Is there a FF extension I can use, something that doesn't require a lot of configuration?
Paul-ish··on Ubiquiti Networks Breach
Were any firmware updates pushed out? (To targeted users even)
Paul-ish··on New Defaults
If the COVID-19 vaccine is botched, multiple generations will lose trust in the medical community. The medical would lose their cultural authority and their rhetorical high ground against the anti-vaccine crowd and other health disinformation hucksters. The damage from a loss of trust is difficult to understate.

Modern healthcare may be expensive and advances may be slow, but it generally works and people trust their doctor.

Paul-ish··on Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt
The fact that the dashboards and alerts have a delay sounds like there might be difficult consistency stuff going on. Many nodes need to coordinate their usage and billing. It may be a difficult problem, but solving billing problems might not really motivate anyone at the company. It's not a "cool" problem for engineers and not profitable for product.
Paul-ish··on Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
> Edit to add: I don't think they'll kill off the old.reddit interface. I think they'll just stop updating and more and more things won't work there, like i.reddit.com.

I've noticed this drift is already happening. It's like there are two reddits. It can be really confusing as a moderator when you are looking at a different website from your users. Eg new sidebar and the old sidebar.

Paul-ish··on S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021
Is there any risk these indexes will prop up bad coins, or will provide incentive for people to try to pump their coin onto the index.
Paul-ish··on Email a Dumpster Fire
How long did the wait end up being?
Paul-ish··on Email a Dumpster Fire
Is there any way I can get a recording of my document getting burned?
Paul-ish··on Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
How expensive would a solid piece of metal that size be?
Paul-ish··on DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
I have mixed feelings about this, but what if someone bankrolled this lawsuit? eg paid out to the author and pursued the case on their own. In the event of the author's death the suit still would continue, while the author gets the money they need immediately. It would change the incentives for Disney.
Paul-ish··on Openstreetmap is having a moment
There's still low hanging fruit in OSM. There are still areas with official government GIS data that hasn't been imported to OSM. For example Irvine County in CA. I wanted to try it but I don't have the GIS skills. It would be nice if someone created a tutorial to teach the bare minimum GIS skills to do an import that is up to OSM standards. Importing whole counties would be a huge boost.
Paul-ish··on 16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile
Is it fair to compare performance for different compile targets?
Paul-ish··on Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
I edited my comment, as I intended to say "The people who need repudiation already have it."
Paul-ish··on Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
The piece seems to be arguing from a general principle. Repudiation is a feature of most secure messaging applications and it is a feature that should be introduced to GMail. This argument doesn't fully address how technologies are actually used today.

As far as I can tell, people who need repudiation are already using apps that have repudiation (eg Signal), because they know they are in a vulnerable position. The people who need repudiation already have it. So far we have seen DKIM authentication used against individuals in positions of power. With things as they are, cryptography is leveling the playing field by empowering the vulnerable while holding those in power responsible. If this situation or balance were to change perhaps it would make sense to rethink DKIM non-repudiation. I understand this is an opinionated/political take on cryptography that not everyone would share.

Paul-ish··on eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement”
This reminds me of a tangential matter. The Rasberry Pi has a built in hardware decoder for MPEG-2. You can pay a licensing fee and enable the decoder. This is despite the fact that the relevant patents on MPEG-2 have expired in the US and much of the world[1]. The issue is that there are still active patents in Malaysia[2].

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/939

[2] https://bryanquigley.com/pages/mpeg2-patent-tracker.html

Paul-ish··on A warning about Glassdoor
Do we have more evidence? I generally don't like to take the claims of a single anonymous poster at face value. I certainly appreciate the irony in this case.
Paul-ish··on Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
It is not a competition.
Paul-ish··on Rust is not a good C replacement (2019)
Whatever replaces C, if it is replaced, won't be C.
Paul-ish··on Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
I use Dropbox to send and receive files that over the email/slack/etc attachment limit. Dropbox has a cool "request files" feature that let's people upload files directly to your Dropbox.

I've never needed to send TBs of data.

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