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Its ethics.

They didn't vote for it, or against it. In most countries, citizens don't get to vote on individual laws. We vote people into power, who then hopefully don't enact laws that harm us. But as we all know by now, that's never stopped a politician.

Unrelated to the article, but trying to read it on my phone made the device heat up significantly in the minute I had the page open. There’s probably some runaway JavaScript on it.

I love the whole “2.3x less CPU overhead per transaction” where Postgres scales from 5% to 65% CPU usage and Oriole sits constantly at 90%. That doesn’t seem like a huge success to me? The predictability sure is nice, but moving the lower end up by 85% is something I’d be rather worried about

I would not consider LI to be a fun/dorky social media platform. At least for me, it's mostly forced positivity with a side dish of scams and a bunch of recruiter spam.

Remember you can hibernate[1] your LI account if you want. It can spare you the nonsense while still allowing you to easily return to the platform when you're out looking for work.

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1336653/hiber...

I didn’t ask for an update every hour, but an 11hr stretch of silence is not cool. An update every 3 would’ve been fine. Even if there isn’t much new to share, reiterating you’re working on it is useful to reassure your customers. I’m fairly certain they could’ve found something more meaningful to communicate than “still twirling the thumbs”. For example, the update after 11hrs included the tip to switch to a VPN. That would’ve been useful to communicate.

Incidents happen, that's life. You can hedge your bets, but some things are out of your control. Communicating with your customers however is entirely within your control. Fastmail did a poor job of it. Their status page was useless beyond an initial "we found an issue" and then nothing for almost 11hrs. Their Twitter account was the same story, didn't bother with the Mastodon account at all. Unfortunately they don't seem to realise or recognise that they dropped the ball on this and that goes entirely unaddressed.

I'm also not really charmed with how they try to minimise the importance of the incident by repeating it only affected 3-5% of the customers. That might very well be. But those are real people and real businesses that rely on your services that were unavailable for the whole of the EU workday and a significant part of the US workday. Everyone I know who was affected is a paying customer, none of us have received so much as a communication or apology for it.

For a company that's been on the internet since 1999, the single-homed setup is a little shocking. But fine, it's being addressed. But both the communication during and after the incident don't inspire a ton of confidence.

The British Museum stealing things is very on brand for them. It seems there's some extra plagiarism committed by (one of) the two researchers that the British Museum funded to create this exhibit.

It also applies to all victims of hackers, irrespective of whether the victims themselves are supposedly criminals or not. So if you get hacked, then suddenly the government can hack you too.

No amount of hypothetical "it could also be used against criminals" balances out the bonkers overreach this represents.

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¿Por qué no los dos?

"The UK's biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster". There's really no need to rope in the whole continent for a specific thing in a specific country. The fact that they're the biggest local authority by population in Europe is really not relevant to anything that's happening here.

> Our new documentation system is built upon MkDocs, with theming designed to match WebKit.org’s visual style.

Slight omission there that it's using mkdocs-material for the theme, and not a theme they designed. mkdocs-material has built-in support for custom colour schemes which is how they've achieved the WebKit visual style.

It'll be very interesting to see what Intel does in response. They can't really afford to stay behind here, as this would make AMD the preferred vendor for any hyperscaler. It's also bound to make a lot of people in the tech community much louder about buying AMD, if we get an open source firmware stack.

No, you can’t. To own s3.amazon.com the HTML on that exact domain and not a sub path needs to have a specific link back to your profile on it.

Lets hope this is all the ammunition needed for the MEPs to kill this thing for good. At least EPRS is doing its job on this matter, contrary to the Commission.

Ask those users who the vendor of the firewall is (or have them ask their IT department) and reach out to them. It's probably one specific vendor. It might not even be on any kind of list, could easily be some kind of heuristic matching some traffic pattern or even it not liking your domain name or IP somehow.

You can check your domain in things like https://talosintelligence.com/reputation_center/lookup?searc... or other domain reputation engines. But nothing seems wrong with it.

I love how the author calls this a study, when:

* Sample size of 2, no controls whatsoever

* No actual scientific analysis or understanding of anything that's going on here, just a bunch of potato-adjacent studies and a few personal hypotheses

* Nothing got measured beyond weight, so who knows what this does to your health during those 2 weeks or what would happen longer-term if you'd stick to it

Please don't follow any kind of advice like this. The conclusion in the implications section that they've collected enough data to confirm the main hypothesis is equally nonsense.

They lost weight because they limited their caloric intake. That's part of what you need to do to lose weight.

In case anyone's wondering, Noyb is Max Schrems. The Schrems in the Schrems-I and Schrems-II decision the ECJ took to yeet Privacy Shield out the constitutional window. They are generally being a thorn in the side of any organisation trying to not live up to the GDPR.

Consider supporting their work either through a membership: https://noyb.eu/en/support-us or a donation: https://noyb.eu/en/donations-other-support-options

Another case of a bunch of instances and everyone on it being harvested for some perceived benefit, without the instance admin or the individual account's consent. And of course it's then up to you to get yourself opted out of it.

Consent isn't optional, people and instances should have to explicitly opt-in. This is not how you build things on the fediverse.

It speaks volumes to the success of Snap that they’re now moving to ensure Flatpak isn’t part of the default desktop experience.

The only outcome this leads to is monetisation attempts through their store and other OS integrations to try and turn free users into a source of revenue. If you’re using Ubuntu for desktop I’d urge you to start exploring alternatives.

You can already achieve that the other way around without depending on Docker Hub: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/docker-image-registry-facade/

That lets you adopt a custom domain for the registry that pulls through Docker Hub and start using that. Until you need or want to switch to hosting your own.

It makes the image name a bit longer, but that's only because mything/mything is a shortcut for docker.io/mything/mything that Docker's suite of tools implements.

They're generally not needed. The RedHat implementations through podman etc. work perfectly fine and are supported by container orchestrators too.

If you weren't paying Docker Inc. before, there's no reason to do so anymore now. Or risk a dependency on them in your stack.

If by "reinventing" we mean "pissing off everything and everyone so far" then yes, 100%. But for the rest of it this article reads like a bought for piece of marketing trying to do some damage control.

Regulations didn't change. The fund they tapped to protect all depositors exists since the financial crisis of 2008. To avoid another global meltdown.

Unfortunately, this wasn't a payment issue so this wouldn't have saved you. It's a Know-Your-Customer issue, i.e prove you're not doing business with someone on the US embargo list.

DO, Vultr etc. would have the same issue depending on the timeframe they were given to prove compliance by the feds.

The actual link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2...

[..] This essay will show how the English-language Wikipedia, the world’s largest encyclopedia, whitewashes the role of Polish society in the Holocaust and bolsters stereotypes about Jews. We will show how a handful of editors steer the historical narrative away from evidence-driven research toward a skewed version of history touted by right-wing Polish nationalists. [..]

[..] The claim alleges that the developers owe "fiduciary duties" and "duties in tort" to re-write or amend protocol code in order to give Wright access to 111,000 bitcoin (BTC) from two wallets whose private keys were allegedly stolen and subsequently erased in a hack. [..] His ownership of those coins is, as such, contested. [..]

Basically, he wants developers working on the Bitcoin protocols to be financially liable for his losses. He wants someone to sue. An exchange, sure. But individual developers? Seems like this would destroy much of the UK's tech scene if he ends up winning this.

[..] Craig Wright is a computer scientist who claims to be Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. In October, Judge Helen Engebrigtsen held in a court case in Norway, involving a claim by Wright that someone named Hodlonaut defamed him, that Hodlonaut “had sufficient factual grounds to claim that Wright had lied and cheated in his attempt to prove that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.” [..]

> You're reading the news from a Swedish company anyway so we use to be pretty vigilant on privacy issues.

But the issue they're raising is that the issue isn't being reported and examined by others and especially not journalists who are best placed to raise wider awareness of this.

> 2. My country of birth, Sweden, has more history of rejecting stuff like that.

You might want to check the article as to Swedes and Sweden's involvement in the drafting of this in the first place. And the NDRE is another thing which the country happily introduced and expanded upon. As far as mass surveillance of populations go, Sweden's not on the side of protecting privacy.