mattfields

Yep. This is the thing that Microsoft is not mentioning in their watery response there.

That's the thing: they do bear responsibility in allowing the situation to get to this point and are very pointedly not connecting the dots with their response.

Microsoft which owns GitHub, has been washing their hands if any responsibility in helping to resolve the ongoing supply chain catastrophe which is hosted and spread nearly entirely via Github repositories: not responding to security researchers flagging malware hosted on GitHub; doing nothing to address the proliferation of open source malware across their platform, giving no recourse for action, not applying their tremendous resources to the problem, fiddling as the open source community burns and leaving the devs to fend for themselves. Let's not mention the recent very hostile and trust-erodibg behavior towards bug bounty security researchers.

The *&$@ finally spread all the way up to the top of the hill in a compromise of Microsoft's own repos, which I think highlights the scale of the problem.

And in response, they offer a watery corporate platitude, "a few customers were affected in a recent incident, and we're looking into it."

This ^

Speculative guess, but it sounds like intentional collusion/coercion between government and big corporations.

ie: Brazilian government demands Microsoft to grant them MITM access from Windows machines, in order for the right to do business in the country.

This seems to fall under the category of "inflammatory political commentary", regardless of including both parties in it.

IMO seems borderline on flag-worthy.

Price of four plane tickets for your family?

I don't know how much these rail tickets will cost, but I find the math on that to be unlikely.

4x plane tickets, assuming rock bottom minimum $60 a head to basically anywhere, $180-240...

Hmm

This is, with no intended disespect, both absolutely false and dangerously blithely ignorant.

Unfortunately most of the population (including medical doctors) also has a similarly nonchalant conception of mold; that it's something that merely causes some allergies and sniffles for sensitive members of the population.

Toxic mold secretes _neurotoxins_ which will 100% destroy your life for years, if you get a bad enough exposure.

Read some of the experiences of mold survivors in this thread or elsewhere to get a sense of how bad this can be: it's horror-movie stuff.

Source: been through mold exposure myself. It wrecked my life for 5 years, and I still have lingering aftereffects.

Gotta love you supportive people. This is what makes HN a great community.

Hey! Could you give any insights as to what would make it easier (from your perspective as an engineering manager) to work with AS employees?

Social skills aren't the issue here, just inability to function in a noisy / motion-filled environment.

This was the question I jumped on today to ask.

Not aspergers/autistic, but neurodivergent, and the thought of working in an office, which my next position is likely to entail, is nauseating.

I don't know if I can function in that environment with people moving around constantly, and am worried that asking "hey, can I be remote only?" right off the bat is a big negative when interviewing.

Thanks for asking this. :-)

Does anyone else have trouble looking at these patterns? Does that mean something?

When viewing these repeating patterns, I get a kind of very uncomfortable visual disorientation, almost like vertigo: hard to describe.

This

Astute comment.

Love it <3

This headline is misleading by omission, to (nearly) the point of being false.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident

tl;dr:

- The primary reason for their arrest wasn't the Linux/encryption tools.

- They were under investigation / suspicion after volunteering for a Kurdish militant group.

Secondarily to the above, the prosecution used their encryption/etc, (in a case of bad logic) as further post-hoc evidence or cause for suspicion.

In my opinion, omitting the primary causes here is intentionally muddying the issue, and making it sound like encryption itself was the cause.

*Caveats:*

- Yes, the prosecution clearly don't understand the technology, and obviously don't care to know.

- Yes, they are implying that use of encryption itself is due to "needing to hide something".

- Yes, they're implicating innocent (AKA "normal") use of encryption as something bad, and that's a problem.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident

Just did a quick test with task "finish laundry".

Was impressed with the quality of the result. It broke it down into a list of logical and concrete smaller steps.

That's extremely cool.

One (admittedly far fetched) theory: Device compromised by advanced existing spyware

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101029

Most interesting unanswered question for me:

How do these companies transport the (waste heat) via heated mineral oil to the recipient?

Presumably not every server farm could have it directly piped to the customer, as they're not all necessarily in immediate proximity to a public pool:

Is the heated water or oil then shipped in some some kind of insulated container?

That's okay, ChatGPT probably can pass it for us.

I know this is the prominent question here, but isn't virtually all water on earth more or less the same age?

I think the title here is failing to be an accurate description, unless I missed something in science class.

Might suggest learning up some on stocks and trading.

Depending on your interest, aptitude, and spare income for trading/investment, you could potentially make a reasonable side income that you can maintain in parallel with your job.

congrats. That's a brave admission, and it took some hard work.

Thanks for sharing :-)