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forgot_old_useron Facebook reveals 'SuperCell' tower to increase connectivity in rural areas

win win situation? With net neutrality, that is.

forgot_old_useron I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel

I think it depends on team dynamics. On a team I was on (Fortune 100 company), a techlead would just buddy up with a very junior one, and have them rubber stamp their code review. The techlead almost committed a bug similar to one in this post- I had to step in and leave a review comment to prevent this vulnerability. I almost wanted to have it shipped to get back at at these code review buddies, but decided against it as I valued not having a vulnerability more.

forgot_old_useron Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?

Not FANG, but at Fortune 50 company. I can second to this. There are teams that move quickly, use new technology, create new products. But most of the SWEs work on mature products with moats- the development is slow because of the complexity of the product, and redtape.

forgot_old_useron Facebook takes down accounts and pages of Roger Stone

archive.org?

forgot_old_useron Slack was down

pigeons? But seriously though, just cell phone I guess

forgot_old_useron Amazon May Have Misled Congress, House Judiciary Chair Says

Never thought of it this way! Almost every produce I buy at target has a target brand (knock off?) version like MarketPantry or Good&Gather

forgot_old_useron How Tailscale Works

Thank you! Fascinating work. Easily readable, yet highly informative article. Hope you are the ones that kill off VPNs!

forgot_old_useron How Tailscale Works

Interesting :) Follow up, trying to cement my understanding here. If two devices may talk to each other (as defined in the ACL), only then they get to know each other's public keys, right? If so, how would this ACL be negated later- do the devices forget eachother after this disallow?

forgot_old_useron How Tailscale Works

Really fascinating work! I enjoyed reading this article. Do you actually have tunnels between every device? Wondering, how does this scale?

forgot_old_useron Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN

Can't they whitelist VPN access to corporate IPs?

forgot_old_useron Yaegi – Yet Another Go Interpreter

Why would I need a Go Interpreter? What advantage does it provide over using a precompiled binary?

forgot_old_useron Training the Brain to Eat Less Sugar

Oh where can I get this game

forgot_old_useron Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?

Checking in from Cisco, its unfortunately all open space here now