dementiapatent

Thanks y'all for the immediate slander and political replies. Anyways, the strategy is now clearly to burn twitter to the ground and diminish its influence since it isn't controlled anymore.

Gross! NewXXXXXX and constructors should always be near the top of the file, next to the struct and interface definitions :)

I think "the powers that be" also works in this context.

Control over global public discourse is the most effective mind control tool in the world. Even moreso when your control is hidden and you maintain plausible deniability. The current ownership won't give this up without a fight.

The blue cathedral is offended and retaliating.

Disagree, there are so many people who don't care about the media outrage machine that went from Trump to Musk and now to Kanye. It's all very political.

No it isn't like stealing at all. HTTP and REST API was explicitly designed so that clients can request and explore only the links they are interested in.

This includes links to tracker filled javascripts and images hosted on ad servers.

Isn't there a 'let me keep reading' button on these substack popups?

They are publicly hosting their content with a protocol that was designed for clients to only follow the links they are interested in.

Rather than gimping the browser stack for everyone, websites should use the tech they already have. Like rendering ads directly into the page contents.

I salute the IT team who keeps all of those security policies in place while not interfering with daily operations.

>Who's stopping you to create your own version of VBA, release it and replace Microsoft Office suite with your own defined version as you said.

I'm stopping myself because nobody would use it :)

Easily defeated argument. If that website doesn't want members of the public accessing it (and picking and choosing what parts to access), then don't make it publicly accessible.

>Do run it using a user that has no access to write/delete files and you'll see that the most malicious macro is benign.

It could retrieve work from a server to start long running processes that mine cryptocurrency. And scan every IP/port on your local network and use metasploit to send matching exploits to everything it sees. And then hijack a local process running under a different user with disk write permissions.

I would like to see macros restricted similar to Javascript in the browser. You can still run code and manipulate local data, but you don't get any direct access to the host OS. No disk access, no registry access, no way to create a process, only able to calculate things and change the document itself. And there must be no checkbox to disable these protections.

To argue against this, a Word document has no business running arbitrary code with access to system drivers. I think it's more like opening a document in GEdit and realizing that your whole system got hacked.

Macros were another billion dollar mistake: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-cost-of-ransomware-around-...

Do you also think that Carl Benz should have kept the first combustion vehicle secret from the public, since it could be used to automate damage upon pedestrians?

Ban and criminalize the unethical application, not the tool.

What is easily automated? Generating JPEGs until I receive an error that there is no more space on my hard drive? This would leave no bad effect on the world.

But stable diffusion isn't an automated system maximizing its own power and drowning the world in paperclips in an out-of-control feedback loop. It's just me generating cool pictures on my GPU.

This sounds like such a bad idea, what if one of your employees has a concealed carry permit and chooses to defend themselves?

Fear of this is why I prefer a sorted set with ZREMRANGEBYSCORE to remove expired items

Same here, I only caught one episode of HOTD, the one where they are at the feast and the two guys fight over the girl and then she gets kidnapped. The whole episode felt intimate, filled with emotion and natural rhythm, very personal and lifelike. Now I'm a fan.

Contrasting to LOTR where a bunch of miscast 20 year olds give wooden performances in front of sterile CGI to advance a bolted on story. Disappointment of the year.

It will be so much fun when the implementation is refactored and half of these comments are forgotten about and no longer meaningful.

Not downvoting, in fact I agree with you. The speed at which these old claims were trotted out against Trump and any Republican right of Lindsay Graham has me thinking about their veracity in a new light.

I find it interesting that similar claims have been made against several members of the Republican party in recent times (by prominent news outlets).

What is the threshold of evidence that taints an entire political party?

Are you familiar with forest fires?

I would like to point out that employers are/were permitted to discriminate against these people under federal law:

The Equal Rights Act of 1964: https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-196...

> As used in this subchapter, the phrase "unlawful employment practice" shall not be deemed to include any action or measure taken by an employer, labor organization, joint labor­ management committee, or employment agency with respect to an individual who is a member of the Communist Party of the United States or of any other organization required to register as a Communist­-action or Communist-­front organization by final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board pursuant to the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 [50 U.S.C. 781 et seq.].

You can find a happy middle ground between unrestricted free speech (of real people) and banning spammers and people who run alt accounts.

Making the system invite-only may be a requirement.

After they leaked drivers licenses and other personal documents uploaded by their userbase for verification, I'd be astounded that anyone is still willing to use that platform.

See: https://www.rt.com/usa/512152-parler-hacker-data-leak/

I always took that rule as "don't post insinuations (accusing other HN users of being) astroturfing, shilling, bots, foreign agents...".

Can we not point out when corporate entities are comprised of these things?

Yes, and there is even a JWT field to hold the unique identifier for that token - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7519#section-4.1.7 .

Makes it easy to track issued tokens and revoke them too.