cvalka

166 karma · joined June 15, 2013

cvalka··on Jury awards American Airline $9.4M from website behind 'skiplagging' hack

They PAID for their tickets. They are under no obligation to consume the service they PAID for. What you are not willing to admit that the decent three don't do this stupid shit(Southwest, Alaska, Jetblue). The fucked up three are the ones pushing it: Delta, AA, United. I truly hope they go bankrupt.

cvalka··on A new JSON data type for ClickHouse

Absolutely incorrect. ClickHouse was created by Yandex and it's cluster ready from day one.

cvalka··on Jury awards American Airline $9.4M from website behind 'skiplagging' hack

I prefer not to have fraud.

cvalka··on Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?

TiDB

cvalka··on FTC Announces "Click-to-Cancel" Rule Making It Easier to Cancel Subscriptions

They never do that

cvalka··on Restic: Backups done right

Rustic is better

cvalka··on Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

100℅

cvalka··on American Airlines Seeks $94M in Skiplagging Travel Hack Lawsuit

How dare you bypass our price discrimination!

cvalka··on After USA Ban: Google Kicks Kaspersky Out of Play Store

I guess they haven't figured out anything about Acronis and Veeam ;-)

cvalka··on Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move

OVH and Hetzner are not reputable providers. Not in this universe.

cvalka··on Telegram founder charged with wide range of crimes in France

The information had been verified by the Russian independent media.

cvalka··on Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over

How can they have them if they are prohibited?

cvalka··on Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

Yes, independently vetted.

cvalka··on San Francisco takes harder line against homeless camps, defying its reputation

3 > 1 > 2

cvalka··on Show HN: Infisical PKI – Open-Source Private CA and Certificate Management

Step-CA is much better

cvalka··on RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems

You are right for now. This is the last piece(ssh server) that needs to be solved for Go/Rust to prevail over the legacy systems.

cvalka··on RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems

https://github.com/francoismichel/ssh3?tab=readme-ov-file

cvalka··on US Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless camps

Exactly. The 8th amendment restricts the punishment and not the underlying crime.

cvalka··on Open Source Python ETL

It's source available. It's definitely not open source. It's deception plain and simple.

cvalka··on Open Source Python ETL

THIS IS NOT OPEN SOURCE!

cvalka··on True Defamation [pdf]

Instead of reviving defamation, we should introduce the right of rebuttal. The right of rebuttal should replace defamation and libel lawsuits. It's compatible with the freedom of speech and the first amendment.

cvalka··on Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get

Correct. https://www.eff.org/cases/lenz-v-universal

cvalka··on Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get

Incorrect

cvalka··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

They should have called their bluff.

cvalka··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

They just folded. They were not the right people for the task. They would have prevailed with a bit more persistence and better PR.

cvalka··on Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

1. Paytofix. All proceeds go to charity. 2. 2FA + identity verification

cvalka··on Google is changing how you set up 2FA

Long overdue