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nycpig··on Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco
Most v8s.
nycpig··on The August 17 outage
Almost 8 hours of downtime across all core workflows, and the word "sorry" or "apologize" appears nowhere in this post.

"If you were trying to ship software that day, we let you down" is classic corporate non-apology speak.

I’m done.

nycpig··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
Friendship is hard and requires a lot of energy, and it will not always pay off. You're going to get burned, ghosted, and bailed on. It's far too easy to push the hermit-mode button, and doomscroll your life away.

Social capital requires *active* participation. If you're willing to invest, put yourself out there. Be the person that kicks off the things that are interesting to you. You'll find that people are interested in things you thought were niche. As a mentor once told me: life is a body-contact sport; get out there.

nycpig··on We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
That is a farily broad statement.

How would you reconcile your statement against state laws that require all-party consent for audio recordings? e.g. CISA, or FSCA

nycpig··on We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
IANAL, but to answer your question, maybe? The CFAA has a fairly broad scope. "intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access and thereby obtains, information from any protected computer; " 1030(a)(2)(C)

Sandvig v. Barr tempers that a bit, with the DoJ now offering some guidance around good faith endeavors around security research.

I'd suggest Jane have a good lawyer on retainer, and a few years to spend in the tied up the legal system.

nycpig··on The OpenAI board was right
The other difference is that the creators also had his consent.
nycpig··on Ask HN: Keep binaries in system memory never removed till manually done so
VMTouch may be helpful. https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/

Just lock the file into memory using:

```vmtouch -l /path/to/binary```

nycpig··on Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo! Pipes was the 2002 future I envisioned. Come 2015, it was paired against reality.

From that point onwards, no longer was the OpenWeb the promise; but that of a walled garden.

While I mourn what might have been, I accept the reality of my new corpo future.