How about the static linked executables? No LD_PRELOAD? The technique is at least 10 years old. I guess this is cutting edge hacking at blackberry - the Iphone killer.
Everybody should check and recheck they actually own their data, github accounts, digitalocean boxes, google accounts dropbox accounts, youtube accounts, the list goes on and on. It is obvious by now that it can happen to anyone for any reason (datacenter fire too) at anytime.
Every now and then there is a similar post on hackernews.
I agree, the scrubs are performed manually, but enabled by default in debian/ubuntu, via crontab every two weeks (mdadm consitency check is also triggered from cron)
about the data loss in the video, mistakes easy to spot:
1st: using seagate.
2nd: installed by us and never updated
3rd: insufficient reading of docs before going all in on zfs.
4th: buying more seagate drives ;))
I think they had a way higher chance of losing their data going the usual stack mdadm/lvm/ext4/luks/btrfs, I think mastering those is harder than mastering zfs.
he is wrong about a few things:
1: checksuming is worthwhile, I have had silent data corruption on both ssd/hdd.
2: compression is also worth it: home dir 74G/103G, virtual machines dir 1.3T/2.0T
3: zfs was never supposed to be fast, data integrity is the target.
4: zfs does not need a manual repair tool, is automatic and data at rest is always consistent.
5: in the future x, y, z - yeah sure.
I am implying he/she/whoever may be a minor attracted person and he knows is a bad thing, and needs to hide his true identity under a newly created account to slap me in face with it was fine to have sex with seven year old kids in Delaware in 1895. Why would anyone post with a random fresh account a link to Wikipedia? Why? Why do you need to hide when you are posting a link to a fact? Why do you need to hide when expressing your opinions?
Now to reply the post, just because 100 years ago was legal it doesn't mean it was normal or moral. The post is more enforcing in the same direction - legal in ancient Japan, legal in modern Delaware. I am waiting for more examples of legal pedophilia.
I think (one of) the article purpose(s) is psychological desensitisation to the horror of what pedophilia is by having a different main narrative - number of genders, gender fluidity and introducing it as extra.
What is the point of this article? More 'minor attracted person' propaganda? More tries to push pedophilia into normality? Key points: "Gender roles in Edo Japan recognized an in-between position for young men, called Wakashu, that was erased as Japan westernized.", "Wakashu usually ranged between seven to early twenties in age....", "Wakashu were connected to sexuality. As youth, they were considered largely free from the burdens and responsibilities of adulthood but regarded as sexually mature... " so it used to be perfectly fine having sex with 7 years old kids before the narrow minded westerners "invaded" Japan.
This article is not about gender, is about normalizing pedophilia.
Tragic and comic in the same time. In half generation we will be losing all technological skills. There is a shortage ... "The world is facing a shortage of nuclear specialists because of a lack of training programmes and students to replace those about to retire, according to Nobel Peace Prize holder and former director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr Mohamed ElBaradei." apparently the same thing is happening in aviation.
Of course google, and everybody else, wants us to throw away the phones and other products after 3 years, I don't know if anyone noticed but USD 100K cars start to break a lot after 3 years (the usual warranty) so you have to buy extremely expensive replacement parts (10x price of the new one) and get dragged into a "subscription" or buy a new car. The planned obsolescence is real and everywhere, from cars to light bulbs, software, hardware, and now is even easier for them with internet connected devices, even if the device works they just pull the plug of the service and render it useless.
Reading the past news from Romania would be enough for a research, the 'small fish' generally get convicted for 500k-5M EUR the big ones never get caught. You can google "romania 30 years of democracy" to get a background of the country and some information and then continue with all the material from 'recorder', most of the bribes come in form of contracts 'clanul marelui alb' is another good documentary centered on the corruption inside the Romanian Orthodox Church and how the bribes and kickback works.
tl;dr the title was enough. I am so surprised by how this somewhat normal post (we got burned on aws cryptic billing model) makes it on the 1st place - is like people discovering warm water. This is not high-tech/rocket technology/science.
Bitcoin has died 442 times. Do they understand that USD 80M is peanuts? even for such a small country? Even in the small countries, 80M is not a significant amount, is more like a normal sized bribe for a state funded project. I would say that the entire ElSalvador move to bitcoin had the purpose to move the price up or down.
TL;DR seems just another random anti-cryptocurrency article. Long story short bitcoin has the same value people give to a nicely printed image of Benjamin Franklin on a piece of paper or a sparkling rock from Sierra Leone. Things have the value the trading partners agree upon.
I don't know why anyone bothers to buy anything else than WD, seagate is making bad products for at least 10 years if not 15. Barracuda 7200.11 anyone? That was 12 years ago,I got a pair of Ironwolf 10TB, they failed in 6 months. How many seagates I saw failing? All - 30 - 50 God knows how many exactly. I have 10 years old WDs still running, actual powered on 6 years or so. I don't know why people are buying the same bad engineered products over and over again. Seagate should not exist anymore since long time ago.
TL, DR; is the Nth time I read the same story, someone losing access to something they think they owned.
I don't want to sound too heinous or else ..but please don't be so naive to trust github, operated by microsoft,an usa company, with your life work. You own what you can defend. Your github account is not yours. Sober up. Using any service inside USA is a priviledge not a right.
Quick real-life example: I had a program that heavily relied upon curl library and fork(), compiled (dynamically linked) and ran in debian 8 would work flawlessly, when ran over debian 9 would have a lot of memory leaks and sometimes SEGVs, when statically linked the program would ran the same way (good) in debian 8 and 9. It took me days to track down and find out that unlike in debian 8 in debian 9 the curl library uses a threaded dns resolver which of course is not a very smart thing to fork() after, so the new curl library had a new feature that messed up the program logic completely. So, no, I would say static linking is way better than dynamic because is CONSISTENT, the library functions you call are guaranteed to behave the way you think they will. Also the ltrace, LD_PRELOAD, etc doesn't legitimize the use of shared libs, why would you debug a release binary?
I don't know about you, but I always static link when possible because I am so tired of the DLL (SO) hell.
Quick real-life example: I had a program that heavily relied upon curl library and fork(), compiled (dynamically linked) and ran in debian 8 would work flawlessly, when ran over debian 9 would have a lot of memory leaks and sometimes SEGVs, when statically linked the program would ran the same way (good) in debian 8 and 9. It took me days to track down and find out that unlike in debian 8 in debian 9 the curl library uses a threaded dns resolver which of course is not a very smart thing to fork() after, so the new curl library had a new feature that messed up the program logic completely. So, no, I would say static linking is way better than dynamic because is CONSISTENT, the library functions you call are guaranteed to behave the way you think they will. Also the ltrace, LD_PRELOAD, etc doesn't legitimize the use of shared libs, why would you debug a release binary?
The memsetting code is more obvious for older programmers and probably more compatible too. I don't want to start a flame or something, but if you want shiny new programming features and initialisation you should probably look away from C and try javascript ot something similar. One of the reasons we love C is that the same code compiles and works cleanly on the latest linux, a freebsd 4.11. or PIC16.
I've always thought that, I also used to operate my own email server and I've encountered the same problem with other email providers, always the big ones, yahoo (there was a time when yahoo was big in email, at least here), microsoft and now yes, google. What is even worse is that sometimes google just drops the email messages, replies with 250 ok, but the email never gets delivered to inbox or even spam. Definetly the big 4 or 5 or whatever are taking over on all aspects of our life. Actually if I think better about it, they have already done so, there was an article here on hn about blocking google, amazon and ms network blocks, nothing really works as expected without them.
I didn't know paypal is still a thing in 2019. Stoped using it about 5 years ago for the same reasons like in the article (high fees, random payment rejects, high profile accounts closed for no reason). I am better with good old credit/debit cards and now with crypto.
Well, from what I see in the pictures they are using consumer grade ssds to power up an enterprise like grade database. This is not bad luck, this is just bad by design.