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abhiminatoron Cybersecurity Isn't Special

>We're paid to find risk and reduce risk.

There's a dedicated department that already does that in most organizations -- risk management.

One could argue that 'cybersecurity' ought to be a component of 'risk management' versus being on its own which only adds to bloated organization structure and increases bureaucratic complexity.

abhiminatoron Google Maps has become an eyesore

It's almost like you're teleported into browsing a different, parallel (and a way worse) web with a shitty UX when you turn off your ad-blocker.

abhiminatoron Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

ZDNet published an article just yesterday that looked into Twitter's engagement data and it looks like Twitter is bleeding users like never before. [0]

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-seeing-record-user-eng...

abhiminatoron Bullshit Jobs (2018)

Unabomber manifesto reads more like an unhinged rant written by some resentful, middle-aged Anon on 4chan than a piece of academic literature -- Ted Kaczynski somehow managed to fill 32 pages of it with racist, misogynistic and incomprehensible rambling with zero citations.

Also, the fact that he literally had to threaten people to force the publication of his "manifesto" says it all to me. [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/06/11/ted-kaczyn...

abhiminatoron Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

Reminds me of Russ Hanneman's obsession with the three commas and the 'Tres Comas' tequila from HBO'S Silicon Valley.

I'm hindsight, it's crazy how accurate that show was in portraying a lot of the VC and Silicon Valley folks in general.

abhiminatoron Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts

These are all symptoms of the end of 'cheap' money essentially. World's been running on QE for a long time now, and most millennials and Gen Z folks (myself included) haven't seen/lived in a world without QE.

This is all regression toward the mean. The next couple years should be interesting.

abhiminatoron FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank

Bailout? Sounds like an '08 déjà vu again.

It's crazy to realize how brazen Wall Street bankers and Hedge Fund managers are when it comes to asking for taxpayer dollars during distress, while decrying any attempt to add to that taxpayer dollar pool from their billions in earnings when the times are good.

abhiminatoron Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

I'm curious as to how many people will actually end up sending crypto to that modified address.

I think that's a problem that can easily be solved by training the models on 'trusted links' mode.

abhiminatoron SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities

Can't wait for the trial now.

abhiminatoron Dublin Whiskey Fire

This has to be the most 'Irish' mishap in history ever, perhaps.

>People drank from the 6 inches (150 mm) deep river of whiskey that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe.

Can't help but laugh hysterically whilst imagining this scene. Guess I found a brand new piece of trivia to share with my Irish friends and co-workers.

The Irish have been amongst the nicest and the most 'jolly' group of people I've known/worked with. Look very forward to visiting the island someday.

abhiminatoron Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

I was a lot more vulnerable to manipulation via propaganda and good PR back when I was a college student, I suppose. Aside from the naïvety of late teens/early 20s.

abhiminatoron Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

It's sad really. I used to idolize him so much. I read through all of WaitButWhy's [0] blog post series on Musk back in '15/'16 and loved every bit of it. He literally became my demigod during my undergrad days.

And from all that... to this?

From a much admired and respected 'inventor' to a cringeworthy Twitter 'edgelord.' Just been a crazy ride.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html

abhiminatoron Hexells – Self-Organising System of Cells Drawing Textures [WebGL]

Not to mention the resource utilization. I feel the code could be more optimized for a WebGL-based project.

abhiminatoron Spotify was down

Discord seems to be down as well -- https://discordstatus.com

abhiminatoron Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tells Blinken

When push comes to shove, it's D.C. they call, not Beijing or Moscow (definitely not in this case, haha).

abhiminatoron James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away

Ars Technica did a well-written story on it recently -- https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/all-hail-the-ariane-...

abhiminatoron Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

>After the defense cutbacks in the 90s, he could only find minimum wage jobs for the rest of his working life.

That's unfortunate to hear. Hope he's doing well now, in his retirement life.

abhiminatoron Facebook-owned sites were down

That's a pretty accurate description of the site, lol.

On a side-note, I think you'll enjoy some of the videos by the YouTube 'Internet Historian' on 4chan:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjwXhCNZcU

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTqIyx6tBU

abhiminatoron A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

Thank you!

abhiminatoron A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

Absolute textgasm.

Wonder how 'text-only first' prioritization is being implemented, algorithmically speaking?

abhiminatoron Firefox 92

Rapid release cycle FTW! [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Rapid_...

abhiminatoron Amtrak might add more routes, but they won't be faster than a car

It's also about saving a night's worth of hotel/accommodation money, especially if you happen to be a broke college student traveling across the country on a budget (like I was not too long ago).

I absolutely love overnight 'sleeper car' train journeys.

abhiminatoron M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti

Haiti and the surrounding regions are tectonically f'cked, unfortunately.

At least the United States is relatively close by, so humanitarian assistance isn't super far away. I remember the US deploying its hospital ships, among other resources, to assist Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 quake, under operation 'Unified Response.' [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unified_Response

abhiminatoron Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

This article from Amnesty International's Security Lab is a good primer on the attack vector used by the Pegasus exploit

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...

abhiminatoron The vital art of talking to strangers

Beautiful story. Please pass on my gratitude to your lawyer buddy for making that stranger's life better. Gosh, HN can be wonderfully soothing sometimes! :)

abhiminatoron The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review

On a related note, I highly, highly recommend watching this well-made documentary on JWST, released around 3 and a half years ago -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLD9LKq0u9E

This documentary was produced by Northrop Grumman Corporation -- the builders of JWST under a NASA contract.

abhiminatoron I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

Below are some relevant articles I keep going back to that highlight the same phenomenon on the 'decay' of web as a platform (by decay I mean extreme commercialization, excessive bloat, endless tracking and whatnot) made by the linked forum post's author:

* https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/

* https://danluu.com/web-bloat/

* https://medium.com/digital-diplomacy/the-world-wide-web-is-d...

Can't help but agree with most of their assertions.

Also, I just noticed that the author of this forum post uses 'internet' in place of what I feel should be 'web/world wide web' (just some pedantry from me tbh).

abhiminatoron Fastly Outage

Looks like they're currently applying a fix.

https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

abhiminatoron Fastly Outage

Holy smokes these Wikipedia writers are quick! I'm sometimes impressed by how fast a page on a super recent happening gets populated with all of the currently known details.

abhiminatoron Fastly Outage

PayPal seems to be working for me at the moment. Rest of the sites are 503s.