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walletdraineron Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022)

One would expect that the HN users who care about such things would already be aware of the paywall on economist.com

walletdraineron For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

I suspect there are very few real setups affected by that proftpd bug.

Nobody is ddosing anything to cover it up.

walletdraineron For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

> This vuln is a digital magic wand that is trivially usable to cast Avada Kedavra and somebody neglected to tell 99.99% of the Good Guys about it.

A Linux LPE is a nothingburger unless you’re relying on the Linux kernel to enforce internal security boundaries, which would simply be foolish.

walletdraineron American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were

Completely absurd, most good looking, well-educated Eastern European women with a plenty of options would disagree with you.

Your comment seems to imply that they’re stupid.

walletdraineron $500M for Virtual Biology Initiative, Funded by Zuckerbergs

https://chanzuckerberg.com/grants-ventures/grants/

A lot of parties.

walletdraineron Grok 4.3

> No MCP / connected apps support. It's been teased but here we are, still not available. I can't connect Grok to anything, so I can't use it for serious work

Grok has tool use, no? Why would you also need MCP? What does MCP add?

walletdraineron Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

> What are you trying to say?

GP is clearly asking ”Are they?”

walletdraineron I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot

I doubt you are regularly getting 401s because of this.

walletdraineron At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared

CNN should accurately report just how bizarre the reasoning behind these investigations appears to be.

walletdraineron At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared

You can report these stories without sanewashing.

walletdraineron At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared

It’s sanewashing.

walletdraineron At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared

Pizzagate is still a (particularly nutty) conspiracy theory, if you genuinely believe otherwise you should seek urgent treatment.

walletdraineron At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared

Same legacy news presenters which have a track record of pushing UFO conspiracy theories?

CNN was one of the biggest pushers of this hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_drone_sight...

walletdraineron At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared

This is the same network that breathlessly covered the obviously fake “drone swarms”.

walletdraineron Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill

Why should anyone have the right to hold such power over another human being?

walletdraineron SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

So, where’s the evidence?

walletdraineron Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

In Europe it’s very frequently perfectly legal to give alcohol to minors, but not sell.

For example, in the UK it’s only illegal to give alcohol to a child younger than 5 years old.

France has no limitations, giving a toddler wine is not explicitly illegal. Getting a child drunk would be.

walletdraineron Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'

> USS Liberty--ever consider how hard it is to identify ships from the air in a combat situation? Israel knew the ship claimed to be American, but they thought that was a ruse.

Everybody outside of the IDF PR department has accepted that Israel deliberately targeted USS Liberty.

The “misidentification” story was utterly unbelievable at the time, and remains so now. There are endless statements from top US national security officials directly calling the Israelis liars.

walletdraineron Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement

CFTC, SEC does not regulate commodities but securities.

walletdraineron EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted

This is a very dishonest title OP came up with.

walletdraineron Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

> Who would do that?

Indian users, at least that’s what github data suggests.

walletdraineron Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

A well done DDoS gets the target depeered :)

walletdraineron Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

Clearly there are a plenty of people incorrectly blaming AI for bluesky outages, why indeed?

walletdraineron Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

Is the implication then that Aaron Swartz was murdered?

walletdraineron FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account

Why do you interpret that as everyone except Google getting their act together?

The obvious (and correct) explanation is deliverability. Spammers send from Google services because they can inbox, they don’t send from other services because those services will not inbox successfully.

walletdraineron Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

> like it ended for Aaron Schwartz in the worst.

They’ll… be offered 4 months in prison, or 6 months with an opportunity to ask the judge for less?

I don’t know about you, but to me that seems way more chill than how the TPB guys were treated!

walletdraineron Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

Google indexes links from places other than fiverr, odds are these links are mostly from places like GitHub.

walletdraineron Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

It’s a huge mistake to assume these links have to originate from fiverr-hosted HTML, it’s far more likely Google is finding them from places like GitHub repos used by fiverr-users.

walletdraineron Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

That’s very often a deliberate design decision.

It’s bizarre UX if you link a file to someone and the link doesn’t work.

walletdraineron Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

> Therefore, for these files to be indexed by Google, they need to be linked to from somewhere.

So? That’s indeed how Google works.

Google does not work how OP describes it.

I’ve investigated similar incidents in the past on other platforms, it was always user error causing links to be public.