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I remember when he said he was going to do that, a good proportions of comments were about how he will slash a most of his Twitter followers by doing so. Did Elon himself thought there were less bots than what the majority of people believed?
I think you are also overestimating how much people look at downvotes. Most people click, watch and move on if it's not good. Have you ever seen a Tiktok user?
Well they use Plaid, they aren't really responsible for syncing. Most competitor will also use Plaid and have the same issue sadly. Mine also stopped synced recently as my bank updated their website. It took a few weeks before it came back.
> So, their monitoring (if it exists) is not doing its job whatsoever,
Actually Plaid monitoring is quite good (for each bank you get the percent of failed queries), but how fast they react, well that's another ball game and I guess it depends on the amounts of users affected and the amount of works required to fix it.
I was considering working on my own opensource alternative to YNAB and that's why I looked a bit into Plaid. Now that Actual is open source, maybe I won't...
> I don’t treat a CC transaction any different from a cash transaction
Well they aren't different either... I treat both my cash and debit card transactions the same way I treat my credit cards transactions. I add them in their respective accounts and that's it (I only started adding them manually when my bank updated their website, it has gone better than I thought and decided to stay that way for now, never felt comfortable knowing Plaid had my banks credentials).
Maybe what you were confused with was the amounts shown on the Budget side? The credit cards categories act a tiny bit different than the actual categories. I know you said you had no interest in learning, but if you change your mind, I could try explaining how it works.
I guess an issue with credit cards is that it feel like it's actual money, but it's not. That doesn't goes well with zero based budgeting which depends on the fact that you already have the funds to pay for all your spending. You work with past money, not future one.
I got a feeling that he just didn't see an opening toward making this viable against YNAB. An important fact is that YNAB increased their pricing recently, which caused quite a bit of stir up and an exodus to competitors. Everything was in his favor, cheaper than YNAB, people were freely advertising his app. As he mentioned he started to try to implement Plaid, I guess he did the math and found out that he would get too close to YNAB price (for sure it's going to be a few dollars a month)...
We all seen the Oracle vs Google lawsuit... sure they can choose to stand up to frivolous DMCA takedowns, but it doesn't means there won't be a frivolous lawsuit that follow.
It just not worth it, why takes that risk when taking something down protect you from it?
That's all in the Dockerfile though... it's a simple and standard way to show how to install something. It's just like a makefile, but it's one that always works whatever the environment you are in, whatever the dependencies that you already got in your system and in most case, whether it has been maintained or not.
> ports opened publically
... and that wouldn't have happened if you used something else? How so? Unlike any other solution where each application choose how ports are configured, on Docker you actually need to be aware of the port to open and specify it. I means sure you could have not known that by default it does it over 0.0.0.0 but that would be true for almost any applications (and that's when you are even aware of the ports, that's a basic CTF challenge to have an unknown port open).
> rampant disk use
That's a good point, I agree that the storage can be quite annoying, but at the same time, you handle that the same way you would handle that with any other software, simply by knowing where the storage goes and why.
> poor log files management
I love how log is handled with Docker, there's a single log output and that's it. It's the source of truth for logging, easy peasy. You want your logs to be pushed to another system? Well connect it to the Docker logging system and that's it.
> lack of security updates
Could you develop that one? You are responsible to keep updating whatever you use, whether it's a docker container or an application. One or the other doesn't change that. Maybe you means that it's so easy to make a Docker image that it's just as easy to stop updating it thus making it less secure for whoever use it? I means sure... that would make it less secure but it's still possible for any application to be abandoned, it is your responsibility to make sure whatever you use will be maintained.
> Seriously, I wish devs would at least list the tech stacks they're using in their apps in the readme.
I haven't seen many Docker images that doesn't do that. I do have seen a few that doesn't go into depth on how to setup the environment, but the tech stack, that's mostly a given.
Any good examples of that?
You got 2 contracts here, one to pay back a loan, an another with the merchant, and sadly, when you don't pay back a credit, it get on your credit report...
So the one to contact, is Affirm, just like the one to contact in case of issue with a payment you made, is your credit card provider, and not your bank.
This tactic is actually used by so many scammer, it's weird that a scam prevention expert is saying that kind of things. His sentence prove how effective transferring it to someone else is powerful, how could they transfer us to a supervisor?!
They are working in call centers, they just give their phone to someone else, often time someone with more experience with scams thus better to convince you. In some case I have seen situation where they use that tactic as good cop / bad cop, where the first one is threatening, this bad thing will happens if you don't act quick, etc... and the next one is more on your side, he believe you, but you need to works with him. I even seen some where they say that they have no other choice but to open a police report with your local police, and ask you your local police phone number, act like they talk with them on a second phone (as if they couldn't put you on hold and initiate the call directly on their system) and then say that the police want to talk with you and they will call you directly (I guess using fake caller id again but with the police phone number).
It's all part of their tactic.
I don't disagree that they do add something, but theses ones are not something that I want, nor that I need.
> if games shipped without textures and shaders and people would have to pay to unlock them.
I do have to pay for the textures and shaders... I did pay for them as a matter of fact. I didn't pay for the one not included, as I didn't want them. Some did want them, and did pay for them individually. Just like I didn't pay for Elden Ring but plenty did...
Now, when you bought that game, if you were expecting a specific amount of content, and you didn't get that content without paying more, I agree completely, that would be false advertising and that would be definitely wrong.
False advertising is definitely an issue in video games, there's so much overpromising and under-delivering but IAP isn't the issue there (though it definitely can be the reason for your false advertising). Until that part is handled correctly, the market did alleviate most of the false advertising by having an abundant amount of reviews and to me that's a not so bad way to deal with this.
Theses amounts were low because there was no interest in rewarding white hat hackers sadly. Bug bounties at the time were extremely rare. It wasn't lower because it was easier (though it may have been easier, not arguing it wasn't, just that the amounts are not evidence of it).
> ($100k-$1M on the black market as I understand it.)
On the "white" market you means. Zerodium is paying theses amounts. I don't feel like it would be higher in the black market than what they are offering, but could be.
Speaking of which, in 2020 Zerodium stopped accepting "Apple iOS LPE, Safari RCE, or sandbox escapes" for a few months because there was too many of them... still no "Thought on iOS" yet... It's not like it's even a new thing, I remember a long time ago when you could jailbreak your iPhone using a website directly.
Didn't even need to go far either... check CVE-2022-22620, only a month ago.
Sure but there's way to say something that may hurt someone... even if you don't intend to.
I think it's something that happens more on the web as we forget there's someone on the other side.
> Also, it may turn out this is a weird corner-case and MySQL is somehow incompatible with his laptop.
You started with "There's no chance" though... You may be ready to change your stance, but your first sentence didn't have that possibility. What someone understands by your sentence is that "I am the problem" instead of "there may be a problem".
I don't think OP example was the best to illustrate the issue, but I don't have a better example either, still struggling with that myself too.
> A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google. To keep a web page out of Google, block indexing with noindex or password-protect the page.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/in...
They won't crawl it, but it they already did crawl it or if there's a link to it, it will still be part of their index (thus search results).
They even go further on their noindex page, by saying that it need to be crawlable (thus not part of the robots.txt) so that they can see the no index directive on the page...
> Important: For the noindex directive to be effective, the page or resource must not be blocked by a robots.txt file, and it has to be otherwise accessible to the crawler. If the page is blocked by a robots.txt file or the crawler can't access the page, the crawler will never see the noindex directive, and the page can still appear in search results, for example if other pages link to it.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
His whole comment was about how he want to let traffic route through Russia even though he doesn't like it... but it's really Americentric? Could you explain that point please?
What? It just being a flu is an argument that I only seen from anti-vax... never been a thing here but would be happy to be proven wrong.
> and that masks promote xenophobia and do nothing.
Never seen this also, could you show me? The best I have seen in the past was that a mask in the wrong hands do no good, which is true when you need 100x more mask than you got, which was the case at the time.
> you want to mandate a treatment for non-at-risk people, which can give them permanent damage or even cause death.
I'm curious how you define non-at-risk people too? Covid was not a risk for them but vaccine was? That's weird how the virus works ;). Whatever you fear from the vaccine, you can fear the same from the virus... except that from the virus, the numbers are incredibly much worse. Why would we use the vaccine if that wasn't the case? We would be stuck with the exact same issues.
Then it will be from known source right? And not from new source like this system is blocking you from, right?
This is against NEW content, from people that are not known.
Once more people see them, once you keep watching them as you believe in them, then yeah that restriction will disappear. There's a reason why this is asking people to subscribe...
> Also I had a new group of friends who didn't drink
You had an alternative... you had something better. Stopping alcohol won't give you an alternative to alcohol, it will merely allow for a better alternative to happens.
OP is warning people that it's not a given. Either change your expectation, or make sure that you are ready to do the efforts to find a better alternative.
Where did I say any of this was ok? I'm saying you simply can't trust them. You can't expect to cost something to someone and trust that they will keep doing that forever. A business need to make money...
> as they sell ads with my data
They didn't over G Suite legacy. Sure at least if there's ads you know they may make a bit of money, can you trust it's enough to cover what you cost them? That's a whole other story certainly, but for sure you can't trust that if you literally bring no monetary value for them.
> this shows just how you cannot trust anything from Google.
I'll again correct you, can't trust anything free.
I also feel like this is not that much a matter of cash but mostly a matter of having to consider Legacy accounts each time they want to do anything over Google Workspace. It's just more trouble for nothing at all at the end.
I can't understands how people can expect free stuff to be forever... even more so here in Hacker News.