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boomer918··on Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?
What you're suggesting could get OP in trouble if caught. Not sure it's worth it, but then again I'm not that into cars.
boomer918··on Postgres: Extensions Shape the Future [pdf]
That's why teams behind those extensions sometimes build a cloud for you.
boomer918··on Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law
Sounds like we need to change the law to make privacy absolute, which of course will prevent legitimate crime investigations. We can't have it both ways here.
boomer918··on Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law
E2E apps and fully encrypted phones prevent the police from executing legitimate search warrants. This has never been the case with traditional communication mechanisms, e.g. phones, mail.

I agree that privacy is important, but it's not absolute, by law. So what we're saying is E2E apps are more important than current law we have, and we want to invalidate the ability of the police to investigate crime.

How can that make sense?

boomer918··on Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes
Thank you for posting and reminding us that multiple 2FA methods are a good backup plan with Google.

I just added:

- SMS - Authenticator app (Authy, of course) - Generated backup codes

That in addition to my Pixel 4, and maybe 3-4 authorized devices (laptop, ubuntu desktop, windows desktop), I feel a bit better about this.

Sorry for your trouble though, I hope you figure it out.

boomer918··on Amazon is said to plan to lay off thousands of employees
Tech eats the world. When tech goes down, its competitors go bankrupt.
boomer918··on Ask HN: Work instead of tech?
Underwater welders make a lot. It's risky work, but you get to do pro level diving (the risky part) and welding metal at something like 3000 degrees...while under water.

Might also make you explore diving more which is a ...whole other world.

Good luck and take care.

boomer918··on Zig is now self–hosted by default
C++ stage1 compiler is a magic binary blob :)
boomer918··on Is this the end of social networking?
"Tweet your comments", oh sweet irony.
boomer918··on AWS us-east-2 outage
Automatic failover within 60 seconds.
boomer918··on AWS us-east-2 outage
RDS just has a button for multi-AZ primaries. No complexity or microservices.
boomer918··on AWS us-east-2 outage
A multi-az deployment is a checkbox in most AWS services, e.g. ASGs, RDS, load balancers, etc. Someone didn't check that box because they didn't know about it, there isn't much complexity in it.
boomer918··on Protect domains that do not send email
Can the registrars do this for me? I have no idea what half of those records do.
boomer918··on Elon has decided not to join our board
Haha i was just thinking that, maybe he didn't pass? :)
boomer918··on The next Google
These solutions don't answer any of the fundamental problems with Google:

- who pays for the service (ads? users pay? Average user will never use a paid service if a free one is available)

- how to resist attacks against the algorithm (Google has been fighting spam for decades)

- how to personalize without invading privacy, e.g. Google had an option to search through your email in Google search...it's gone now, I wonder why?

boomer918··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)
3 weeks PTO threw me off, I thought unlimited was pretty standard? Maybe I live in a bubble :)
boomer918··on Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
This is a pretty big violation of privacy, especially for people who's criminal records have been expunged.

It could satisfy some people's curiosity or if they are a lawyer, they could save a few grand on PACER, but for everyone else this is a privacy disaster.

I hope you take this down eventually.

boomer918··on Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
That's not true. Court records used to be accessible in person only. You would have to be motivated to find anything. This puts everyone's past and often forgotten transgressions on display.

This might look cool or even useful to some, but it's straight up immoral.

boomer918··on Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
Isn't there laws protecting people against this? Expunged record should not be visible, right?
boomer918··on The Internals of PostgreSQL
Are you certain? I thought threads are much more lightweight and also access memory faster because there is no CoW overhead (mutexes permitting).

E.g. why nginx is much faster and lighter than Apache and MySQL connections are cheaper and faster to create than Pg.

boomer918··on How will the correction in the stock market impact startup fundraising?
I'm just sad my stock portfolio took a dive. I started to invest into the market for the first time during the pandemic (thanks to RH). Not sure what I learned so far.
boomer918··on How to securely encrypt a file with an insecure password in Rust
If the salt is stored with the file, how is this safe against a brute force attack against the low entropy password?
boomer918··on Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?
Let's make one. A universal format could help with bias and resume anxiety.
boomer918··on A breakdown of a DKIM replay attack
Very cool write-up. Email got pretty complicated, this helps.
boomer918··on Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall
Curious if this can help with hardware backdoors. This probably uses OS APIs which a sophisticated spyware would maybe work around?
boomer918··on Discourage use of Mailgun as a mail provider
Agreed, this is silly.
boomer918··on 1Password for Linux
Reads like a love letter to Linux, it's great.
boomer918··on Twitter's subscription service might cost $3 per month
I think this is good. Any free resource is bound to be abused and overrun with spam and trolls. If you have to pay to use it, a lot of this becomes disincentivised. Free to read, pay to post, it's perfect.
boomer918··on Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython
This is awesome, a lot of knowledge shared in that code, and lots to learn from I'm sure.
boomer918··on Rust, not Firefox, is Mozilla's greatest industry contribution
Me too. Why do I have to choose?
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