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philociraptoron My first year as a developer

What I don't understand from this article is why the author didn't reach out to his team members in his first job. Maybe she did and just didn't write about it. I've never seen a team or been part of a team though that would not offer help to a new team member. Especially one that needed coaching or even teaching if need be. If the team was that not accepting of a new member, it's an issue with the team and not the new team member and should be addressed.

philociraptoron Hackers Stole My Website – I Pulled Off a $30,000 Sting Operation to Get It Back

I thought the story was a good read. I agree with your comment. I also was surprised with the FBI response as well, but the media likes to focus on the negative. More so than the FBI response, the larger thing I took away from this story is the terrible password advice that was given and the author didn't even bring up two factor.

philociraptoron Privacy issues with the “Hugging Face” chatbot for teens

Wow. Just wow. That seems really sketchy.

philociraptoron Hackers Say They Will Wipe iPhones Unless Apple Pays Ransom

That is pennies for the kind of information they have (assuming they have it). It's also not smart to ask for gift cards because they can easily associate it with personal apple ids of the hackers. Seems like an amateur job.

philociraptoron Show HN: Bits – Content-Agnostic Personal Storage

Looks interesting. I have not yet signed up for a few reasons:

1. I have no information on limits of storage.

2. Privacy page is really non-descriptive on a few important topics.

3. End to end encryption is a must. I see no mention of encryption at all.

4. The design hurts my eyes.

5. There are no screenshots of the user interface to interest me in it.

6. There is no pricing information at all.

I could go on. I recognize that this is in it's "Alpha" stages, so just take this as a list of things I think it would be good to improve on just from a first glance. I honestly would not even be interested in testing it unless it had end-to-end encryption (including at rest) that only I have a key to decrypt. This is because I honestly wouldn't want to use it without.

I also just want to mention that there are other services similar out there. For instance, box has notes built in (not a separate app) and you could even just host your own next cloud that does all of the things you mentioned so if you are trying to go in for a profit... you're going into a really crowded market.