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It wasn't a zero-day notice

"On 26 June, however, the company published a brief note advising users to "take a moment to review our updated terms and policies"."

Photobucket told its users that they were going to charge extra, but it was a bit sneaky

> She told police she launched the coins [into the airplane's engine] as she "prayed for safety" on Tuesday.

Seems a bit counter intuitive to me

> " This is where Noisy comes into play, a small Slackbot I wrote that enables people to anonymously raise the issue for everyone else to see"

It's a good idea, but it might be counterproductive to message everyone that they're being too noisey; that might contribute to the noise

Seems like a cool idea, but clicking on this link will immediately download a file to your computer: https://bash.rocks/KJKEk3

(it's just a snippet from /dev/urandom, but it looks like it could be any arbitrary file that's within the size limits)

For example, https://bash.rocks/jJg193 shows that it is possible to download any arbitrary data with no prompt (here it's the eicar test file)

EDIT: where can I contact the author? I found a very bad security bug; I can see what commands other users are running

It does, but sometimes the line breaks don't show up so it's all on one line with what appears to be tabs. WordPad works fine though.

While plain text is compatible with virtually 100% of every OS ever, when I try to open a txt file on my windows machine it asks what application to open it in, since there are no default apps (Windows 7 and earlier.) This might make it appear that plain text files are a "special" format because it doesn't open up when you double click on it.

I have sent plain text files to some of my colleagues in the past (so that there is a 100% chance that they could read the file), and they were unable to open them because of this issue with choosing the default application, and asked me what app they needed to download to view the files.

> "the call is then redirected to a live human operator who then asks for the access code."

I feel bad for that operator

This is an interesting idea, but probably won't work out because Linus (and other developers) may not want to transition away from the C language (see Linus's comments about not using C++.) I think it would be excellent to see Rust being used, but the implementation of replacing C with Rust could be very complicated, and Rust's benefits may not be directly visible when having to port/rewrite a lot of the components.

Well, you would just check the final download dmg/iso file, and only do it for the first n-versions or so (since those will be the most popular.) The other ones can be checked too, but at a much lower frequency.

This Handbrake outbreak could have been easily avoided. For instance, Handbrake could create a separate server on say, Amazon EC2 and have it download the file from their website every 30min or so, and check the checksum. If it's not right, then it flips a kill switch on the website.

Doesn't fix the root cause, but could have caught it much sooner.

But if you just want one directory on an existing filesystem to be compressed, this might be an easier option

It would be cool if it showed me how many years I have left (based on average life expectancy.) Would be a bit depressing though.

I'm getting an application error from heroku when I try to enter in a Twitter handle (@dronezone) from 2000-12-12 to 2017-01-01

What's the advantages using this service rather than using a custom Google search alert on a particular domain? https://www.google.com/alerts

Them: Yo! Does it compile?

Me: Yes

Them: I'll update the tag

Me: Ok thank you

Them: The second one then.

I have a few questions:

- how long will my data be stored for?

- how big can a single key be?

- how many requests can I make per hour/day?

"So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place."

What I do is spend a bit of time, and write down all of the features I could possibly want in my program as GitHub issues. I sort them in the order of usefulness/ones I want most, and I set a timer for 25 minutes and write as many features as possible (the code can get a little messy but you can fix it up later.) Rinse and repeat until you're burned out.

I hope they do this for CC numbers too, because I know of a website I had to use that passed your Name, address, CC number, CC exp, amount; the whole shebang over plain ol' http to do a payment shudder.

I think your idea is pretty cool

I just had another an idea about something tangentially similar just a few minutes ago. It'd be algorithmically curated news with no human intervention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284875 . Do you think this would be somewhat related to what you're talking about?

How does this differ from something like AdBlock or uBlock?

This is a really good idea. No more if (keycode == 71 && keycode == 73 stuff), and trying to remember which is which, and having to look up each one.

Yes, it catches a few things that Grammarly doesn't catch (or have to pay premium to view) like missing the closing parenthesis, or forgetting a period at the end of the sentence (I'm using Grammarly on mobile; it's possible that I didn't see the error.) We have a ton of cases still to add, and since it's entirely focused on punctuation and small details, we hope it should catch more than standard grammar checkers.