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While the link itself is not political, it seems to be inviting the people who want to turn HN into a place where they can say why their preferred candidate is the best, or more typically why the other candidate is just about the worst person in human history.

HN is better when politics are discussed elsewhere.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

Reading public website data is not "taking it". It is still there.

Observing publicly available information is not theft, nor is it illegal.

Of course copyright rules apply, but that is for if you reproduce something.

Art isn't "found" it is created

We have switched to chrome boxes and chrome books for our aging parents.

It's not perfect, but at least they are less likely to get viruses or spyware, which was about every 6 months with Windows.

What is it with older people and their penchant to install every possible crapware they encounter, no matter how strongly you warn them?

Yeah, in a way I was being tongue in cheek about it.

The truth is that internally they probably don't like using their own solution for key management.

I usually opt for environment variables for secrets, which I know isn't awesome, but keeps them out of code at least.

Regardless, secrets should never ever be committed, even in a private repo (or one you think is private).

Agreed, 100%

I'm definitely not defending it, just saying the red tape in some orgs can be nearly impossible to defeat.

This problem should have escalated as high as needed though to bypass the red tape and fix the security issue immediately.

Probably a failure of weak middle management not having the guts to communicate the problem up.

It sounds like the credentials were embedded in code, so the fix probably involved all the steps of any production code change and deployment.

I'm not defending it, because it is abysmal, just explaining probably why it took so long.

Didn't Microsoft create Azure Key Vault for storing and managing secrets?

Why in the world would they not use it?

> The researchers notified Microsoft of the security lapse on February 6, and Microsoft secured the spilling files on March 5.

What???

This doesn't leave me confident of the security of any data in Microsoft's possession.

> as opposed to just punish and ruin people lives for their mistakes for the sake of making random commenters on internet feel good

That is a strawman.

Besides (potentially) rehabilitation, prison serves to protect the populace from dangerous people who would harm others and as a deterrent to others who can see what punishment they might get if they do something illegal.

I am not claiming prison does a good job of these things, just that its goal is not to "ruin people's lives".

> OpenAI has taught me that no one gives a shit. Scrape the entire internet if you want, and use the data for whatever you feel like.

Cloudflare gives a shit.

My household had to use our 5G internet for most things for a week or two until our IP reputation recovered.

Not "parole" but his sentence can be reduced.

From the article:

> There is no possibility of parole in federal criminal cases, but Bankman-Fried can still shave time off his 25-year sentence with good behavior.

> "SBF may serve as little as 12.5 years, if he gets all of the jailhouse credit available to him," Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN.

> Federal prisoners generally can earn up to 54 days of time credit a year for good behavior, which could result in an approximately 15% reduction.

> Since 2018, however, nonviolent federal inmates can reduce their sentence by as much as 50% under prison reform legislation known as the First Step Act.

It sounds like the author got her account suspended after sharing ("distributing" in Google's view) the book's sexually explicit content.

Here is Google's Program Policies document that their Terms of Service references:

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505#zippy=%2Csexua...

The section about Sexually Explicit Material says:

> Do not distribute content that contains sexually explicit material, such as nudity, graphic sex acts, and pornographic material. This includes driving traffic to commercial pornography sites. We allow nudity for educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purposes

I'm not defending Google's actions here. I'm just trying to interpret what led to this situation and what it means in a general sense.

> Perhaps, but I suspect “read my lips, no more taxes” and Ross Perot taking a large chunk of republican voters might have more to do with it.

Your analysis is correct, but the quote was slightly different:

"Read my lips, no new taxes"

As an open source creator and contributor, something about this author's post bugs me.

Maybe it is his condescending words "why do people bother...", or that we are "working for free" with the implication being that we're suckers for doing it.

I think it bugs me because the author seems to disdain open source contributors. But why?

Some people just have a zero-sum mentality.

If it is your belief that the only way you can benefit is by taking something from someone else, then yeah, open source doesn't make sense.

Requiring special characters is just another type of security theatre.

A new terminal is nice, I guess.

But all I ever wanted was simply the ability to disable line wrap.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-212620/Allow-a-use...

Nobody gets promoted for implementing a line wrap toggle in the old terminal, but they do for creating an entirely new terminal.

It does solve the problem.

Leaders need be held accountable, not to fix the past, but so that other leaders will make better decisions in the future.

In this case, it is a lesson that if you destroy your engineering culture and sacrifice quality, you will lose your job.

I don't think this limitation is exclusive to Apple though.

As far as I know, there is no way to edit a hosts file on Android either. Is there?

Hmm. My experience with prime shipping is exactly the opposite, but I think I must live near a distribution center.

In fact, just yesterday I ordered some vitamins for overnight delivery and they actually showed up in 3 hours, so sooner than promised.

That has happened on several occasions, and I can't recall every not getting something on time.

That's shipping.

But I do think Amazon has a serious problem with fake, incentivized reviews, and I have heard of, but not yet experienced (to my knowledge) counterfeit products.

Huh. I was taught this in Software Engineering (2 semesters) in my CS degree, which was a required "capstone", so to speak, and focused on how to build real world software.

Some of it can't be taught though, any more than a craftsman or artist can teach a novice how to produce what they do with the same result.

The processes and steps can be taught, but only through experience can some things be internalized.

This reason for "hire to fire".

Incentives are weird.

I can't believe I scrolled this far down before seeing a comment like yours.

I'm not saying I've done everything in the list, but have done many of those things without thinking twice.

And the rest of them, I likely would not think twice about either.

Do people really feel like they can't do these things for some reason?

Not sure. We haven't used the WASM version, but it is possible that it works better.

I still think there is a rug-pull risk by Microsoft, so not sure I would choose it for that reason alone.

Here is my personal experience.

I've been working on a large-ish Blazor (Server) application for about a year. The choice to use Blazor was not mine, but I went into it with an open mind. For context, I have used React and Angular in the past.

I will never used Blazor again.

Performance is not good, with CPU always at some base level, even when idle. My machines fan is always cranking while developing it. Hot reload does not work consistently (on like 25% of the time), and when it does, it is slow, so it might as well not work at all. Everything in Blazor just feels half-baked.

I'm old enough to remember things like "ActiveX Documents" and Silverlight, where were other attempts by Microsoft to provide a way for people not to have to learn and use a proper front end framework, and I think Blazor will end up on the scrap heap with them.

Microsoft has a bad habit of touting the next big thing for developers to use and then abandoning it several years later. This feels like that to me.

I'm always amazed when people feel the need to say to the world what they're thinking, especially when it is personal, and when the situation is controversial like this.

Is there anything to be gained, reputation-wise or any other way, in coming out and saying (paraphrased) "hey I know this guy and let me tell you he's a two-faced jerk"?

Is this just attention seeking?

It should be possible to periodicallt crawl the ring participants and exclude them if they don't have the footer, right?

I love this idea.

Does anyone know of a similar riff trial related to irritable bowel syndrome and gut health?

Every team I've been on has abused CSS, specifically overusing the !important keyword.

Many people just don't get the cascading part of CSS.

Yes, I can be like that from time to time.

I know it is the actual title of the article, but is "ripped" really an accurate word to use to describe what is happening here?

> "VBScript is being deprecated," Microsoft said. "In future releases of Windows, VBScript will be available as a feature on demand before its removal from the operating system."

This sounds like the opposite of "ripped" to me. Maybe "slowly withdrawn" might be more accurate.

"Ripped" implies (to me) a sudden and traumatic removal, without care for collateral damage that might be caused.