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stedaniels··on Clubhouse’s Inevitability
> The key for Clubhouse will be in honing its algorithms so that every time a listener opens the app they are presented with a conversation that is interesting to them.

I think Netflix and YouTube have proven how hard this is. Watch a couple of the wrong shows and you a doomed forever it seems. It's a bit like Echo Chambers too. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)

stedaniels··on Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
> Every Google Play update prompt in My Apps has a description provided by the publisher.

I hate to reply like this but, the vast majority of Google Play app updates go something like this:

"Updates."

"Fixes"

"..."

Having genuine changelogs would be glorious.

Apple and Google should require proper source and issue management, they could then generate changelogs automatically. Having that, they could then use machine learning against the code commits and issue titles to ensure that what people say are happening, are actually happening in the code.

I mean we've got ML that can generate code from natural language, I'm sure the bright sparks at Google and Apple could use some ML to, with a high degree of probability, say that the code does what the comment/issue says it does.

stedaniels··on Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months
I work at a university, drop me a line, details in my profile.
stedaniels··on Raspberry Pi as x2go “thin” client
I connect from Windows 10 client to a Windows 10 host using RDP driving dual 4K and it feels like native, though I mostly just use single 4K. This it’s my daily driver over a standard UK fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) connection client end to a gigabit connection host side.

I’m generally using office, internet, Windows terminals/ssh, IDEs etc. Very rarely an overly dramatic full page video advert will jolt me back to reality that I’m doing this over RDP.

stedaniels··on Auction: David’s Personal KITT Knight Rider Car on Sale
Surely there'd be value in attempting to reverse engineer the AI?
stedaniels··on Show HN: Fyipe – Status Page, PagerDuty, Pingdom All in One
Clicking Deny on the cookie banner sends you to Google. Very mature.
stedaniels··on Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max
> I'm generally the person to be very critical of Sweden, but this is somewhat unfair as the definition of "Rape" in Sweden is incredibly broad, and includes people who can't give consent such as those experiencing fear.

I'm unsure if I'm reading the way you worded this incorrectly or not.

Are you saying people who are too scared to say no are only included because the definition is "incredibly broad"?! Do you think people too scared to say no shouldn't be included?

If so, I'd argue you must have a very narrow personal definition, which worries me.

stedaniels··on SRE Teams: Hash
As another point on the the metrics... I had exactly the same interpretation of the title and also left disappointed.
stedaniels··on Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
If you don't need the client IP for the application to work, but would like it for logging, consider community-id: https://github.com/corelight/community-id-spec
stedaniels··on Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention
This is where context sensitive mitigation come in to play, managing risk and balancing it against business priorities, keeping all stake holders in the loop and part of the decision.
stedaniels··on How I bypassed Cloudflare's SQL Injection filter
Yes. It depends on your threat model. You have to just someone at some point of you're not running your own datacentres.
stedaniels··on Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
If you avoid the extremely common mistake of mounting the SD card RW instead of RO then Pi problems are negligible.
stedaniels··on Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
I'm not sure I see the problem. Most servers will come up before a netboot/PXE boot timeout. At least in my experience they do.
stedaniels··on Microsoft’s $10bn Jedi cloud contract “sets dangerous precedent”, says AWS
From the AWS blog post [0].

> This time, AWS offered a lower cost by several tens of millions of dollars.

On a contract worth $10bn does tens of millions really make a difference?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/jedi-why-we-will-c...

stedaniels··on Understanding DNS: Anatomy of a BIND zone file
Do you mind me asking, what is your use case for scheduling creation of DNS entries?
stedaniels··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
This is their standard TOS.
stedaniels··on Ansible 2.10
The direct Google Groups list I think: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/_oKp...
stedaniels··on Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong
I've recently switched back to iOS and hoped this behaviour was temporary as it got to learn my swiping style. Gboard on Android is almost perfect.
stedaniels··on New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases
That was edited in afterwards. https://stackoverflow.com/posts/63067062/revisions whilst it very well may be a personal project, it certainly wasn't "very clear".
stedaniels··on Show HN: Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking
This is a crowded space, but you seem to have integrated many related features into your offering. With that in mind is a bit tricky to see exactly how you compare to the competition. I know some are for and some against competitor comparison tables... I think you'd come out favourable however. It looks great! If I had the cashflow is jump at that lifetime offering. I wish you well.
stedaniels··on Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
I imagine/hope a lot of the heavily engineered ops teams don’t use zone transfers, instead using APIs. The idea of primary and secondary wouldn’t really a strong indicator at that scale.
stedaniels··on The day I trolled the entire internet: accidental research project CVE-2020-1350
Took one glance at the shell script piping curl to bash and red flags went up everywhere! Not only piping curl to bash, but doing it via a bit.ly link. Then Twitter and the media started to pick it up and pass it on unverified. I should have been shocked, but I wasn't. I'd love to see the bit.ly stats for the short URLs added to the article.
stedaniels··on Why Can't I Reproduce Their Results?
Last-Modified Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:34:39 GMT
stedaniels··on Siberian town in arctic circle hits 101°F (38°C)
If you swap out "overall" with "in isolation".. I sincerely and hopefully doubt that most Canadians would ruin a lot of the world, for a bit more arable land.
stedaniels··on Tell HN: Unexpected errors with Archive.is on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS
That's not how the Internet works at all, archive.md is returning valid IP addresses, they are just the _wrong_ ones. They are actually returning Cloudflare's own DNS IP's. So all this is entirely correct from Cloudflare's point of view. archive.md just needs to quit being so stubborn.
stedaniels··on One-Word Domains
The _argument_ that Joe _won_:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17179415
stedaniels··on The unattributable “db8151dd” data breach
A lot of CRMs are enriched with social media accounts and their web of connections.
stedaniels··on Every software system used at Gitlab
They are a remote distributed team. I don't think their employees would value having to arrange their workspaces to accommodate a big screen set up high and at a distance from their workstation.
stedaniels··on [dead]
Well done guys. Obviously everyone has a price, and I imagine mine would have been a lot lower than yours.

Enjoy life, ignore the haters.

stedaniels··on Ask HN: How come there is no example code for B2B-SaaS apps?
They're are literally dozens of these startup frameworks for most of the web languages out there.
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