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complexworld··on Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach
Jetbrains says they had not been contacted by law enforcement.

On yesterday's thread it said that Team city was only used, in the intended fashion, as the delivery mechanism for the malicious payload. Kinda like blaming ftp when a hacker uses it to upload a payload.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2021/01/statement-on-the...

complexworld··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
Organized labor can negotiate with corporations and politicians to defend the interests of their members.

The way things are now in the US wasn't inevitable.

complexworld··on The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (2013)
For many Asians being FOB was an advantage. They had not been subjected to centuries of discrimination. I believe that immigrants coming from Africa do better in the US, on average, because they usually come from the educated elite of their home country.

The opposite occurs for some Asians minorites who were poor and uneducated in their home countries, they don't do anywhere near as well as the Asians who come from a privileged background.

Does that answer your question?

complexworld··on Threat modelling case study: bicycles
My ebike was stolen. It had a good lock, and was on street with significant passersby. It seemed like there was nothing I could do to prevent that from happening again.

My solution was to buy a foldable bike that was half the price, and half the weight of my ebike.

I didn't even buy a bike lock because I never leave the foldable bike parked on the street. Wherever I go I bring it inside.

complexworld··on Dealing with Insomnia
I have followed a similar path. My problem is that I usually wake up at 3am after only 4-5 hours of sleep, and can't get back to sleep. After 2 nights of that I'll feel tired throughout the day.

I discovered that one good puff of marijuana when I wake up too early, helps me to drift off to sleep again. After that I wake up feeling great the next day!

My Oura ring tells me that the marijuana significantly lowers my resting HR, and increases my HRV (Heart Rate Variability). From what I understand both of those effects are beneficial.

complexworld··on Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?
What ended up working in my case was to install an app called Replay Media Catcher. It is available for both Mac and Windows. It can intercept any video you're watching in the browser, and save it to a file.
complexworld··on Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?
I have now tried that. But logging in isn't working for me :(

    app $ youtube-dl -u yyyyyyy@gmail.com -p zzzzzzzzz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1234343
    [youtube] Downloading login page
    [youtube] Looking up account info
    [youtube] Logging in
    WARNING: Unable to log in: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
I disabled 2FA, and confirmed that my password is correct by logging out on the web, and back in again.
complexworld··on Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?
Yes I think that would work. Except then I've lost the sound track. Much better than nothing. I'll use it as a last resort if I can't find a better solution within the next 3 days.
complexworld··on Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried to do it, but YouTube still refuses to let me DL my video.

    app $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12345678
    [youtube] 12345678: Downloading webpage
    ERROR: 12345678: YouTube said: This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines.
    Sorry about that.
complexworld··on Android Studio 4.0
A major difference is that there is a tool for automatically converting from Java to Kotlin. I don't think that exists for Objc to Swift.
complexworld··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)

  Location: West LA
  Remote:Yes
  Willing to relocate: Not at this time
  Technologies: Android, Flutter, Kotlin
  Android best practices: https://github.com/franklinharper/lametro
  Résumé/CV: http://franklinharper.github.io/resume.pdf
  Email:frank.harper@gmail.com
Senior Android developer with 10 years of experience, and 2 X #1 apps (6M+ downloads)
complexworld··on The ProtonMail Android app is now open source
Previous discussions about PM

2018 - Ask HN: How secure is Protonmail really? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18101090

2019 - Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19372882

How secure would it be to use PM if the following conditions were met?

- you only used one of the open-source native PM apps

- you only emailed other PM users

- someone you trust audited the PM source code for the native apps

- you installed from F-Droid

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