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stebann··on NordVPN confirms it was hacked
Why isn't anybody in journalism publishing this? Really, they're scammers!
stebann··on Cache Poisoned DoS Attack: Shutdown any CDN Website with One HTTP Request
Yes, it is. Many servers/proxies/caches/ad-hoc-header-filters configurations, if they're not handle properly, don't expect that some clients will tamper their headers or people who configure them don't even take them into account, so servers/proxies/caches/ad-hoc-header-filters don't discard them (better approach is to use white-lists but it's not the panacea). CDNs can cache or not, but I have seen a variety of behaviors even for the same CDN, so again I suspect many times this could be caused by misconfiguration.
stebann··on By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence
Oh yeah! Now they're taking down videos showing the Chilean soldiers and Chilean police unleashing their rage and violence against their own civilians.
stebann··on Chile crisis: Fearlessness and anger drive protesters
I just want to say that if the deaths would have happened Hong-Kong or Venezuela you would see western journalist calling for intervention. Inequality is something that has taken the world and it's not about ideology. Chile Government and YouTube have been taking down videos showing the military violence against civilian.
stebann··on Estonia is running its country like a tech company
A country that relies on tech-company-style management. What can go wrong?
stebann··on Estonia is running its country like a tech company
Wow! Exactly the same I thought about the article. Also it has to do with country's scale as Estonia can afford to take risks given their small population size comparing to, say, UK. By the way, some observations can be just "Hype", because whether your country relies on tech or not, tech adaptation for society welfare and political welfare is more about pragmatics than planning.
stebann··on Argentinian security researcher arrested after tweeting about government hack
When people fell into the believe that neoliberalism politics, conservative politicians and deniers of the genocide during the last dictatorship were right.
stebann··on Argentinian security researcher arrested after tweeting about government hack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21235238
stebann··on In Macri's “democratic” Argentina tweets can get you arrested. (Spanish)
Summary: infosec guy gets arrested because government didn't like him! If you know Python you probably are a criminal...
stebann··on The end of uBlock origin for Google Chrome?
Mozilla is the real hero here. GO with the good guys!
stebann··on Science papers are getting harder to read (2017)
When I'm researching something I write about the thought processes and the meta-cognitive process involved, including comments on other resources (technical or not), so when time comes I have a technical article and a not technical article ready. I'm speaking as a student who doesn't writes papers for scientific publications, but I think the same methodology would benefit scientist in general.

One of the most promising things I was taught at high school in Argentina were methods to think about how and why I think what I think. It's true that you don't have to apply it to any topic, but if you're serious about writing is really helpful to grow with that in mind.

stebann··on The China Cultural Clash
Not entirely self-inflicted. A) Argentina "populist" leaders didn't have to go to the IMF and they provided a good climate for small to large enterprises with the obvious limitations that country's market has. When the current administration (conservative, neo-liberal) got in, Argentina didn't have debts but was negotiating with foreigner speculators who took advantage during last crisis at the end of 90's. So the current administration (those administration you guys love) worsened all the conditions for enterprises and made impossible to invest in any industry. They also let financial and venture capital to take the country's destiny in their hands. Four years ago, defaulting was unthinkable. USA Foreign Policy has much to do with it when they disturbed the local political process. B) Social programs benefits a small part of population, and they really need it. Actually, the actual administration is spending even more than before on social programs, and they're not the "elected populist leaders" you refer. While we can discuss if the incentives are effective for producing a labor force (I think they fail miserably), we can't discuss the basic rights of people to have something to eat until better economic conditions are met. C) Taxes are the weakest part of the system, but alone didn't hamper Argentina's capabilities to made business locally and internationally. And you forget that their nature are not different from any other places taxes in the world. US provided political and ideological support for this complete mess and you should feel ashamed before talking about other countries.
stebann··on The China Cultural Clash
You forget the part where now all South-American economies are in crisis thanks to US forcing pet leaders to replace "corrupt" ones. Now 50 % of population in Argentina is poor (counting homeless too) thanks to US Foreign Policy, but for them is OK to maintain the 10 % becoming nastily rich while others pay the price.
stebann··on The China Cultural Clash
That is exactly what I try to point out, but "freedom" cowboys don't care about other perspectives about Freedom. And they actually don't understand it and then they forget every atrocity their country has committed and is committing right now, including trying to overthrow legitimate governments and destabilize other countries economies to gain competitive advantage. Moral and Ethics, I don't see them anywhere.
stebann··on 'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology
Oh and in Argentina Pro-US-"Freedom" Party make disappear protesters or poor people claiming for their rights, and I don't see that in CNN or in Twitter. If you post something in Twitter against the actual administration they ban you from using some services or even finding a job.
stebann··on Under-Investigated Fields
That is NOT under-investigated, you just didn't find who is investigating that.
stebann··on Unsteady income in young adulthood linked to thinking problems in middle age
I was thinking the same, as an extra ingredient in the recipe. Nutrition and good health habits (avoid smoking, avoid excessive drinking of alcohol or sodas, sleep the necessary for your well-being, practice some sport, etc) are essentials you can't ignore.
stebann··on A Texas Ranger got a prolific serial killer to talk
Question wasn't ok! Didn't mean what it seems to. Question I wanted to write was more about psychological predisposition to violence in US considering their serial killers.

Maybe I didn't have my coffee on time!

stebann··on A Texas Ranger got a prolific serial killer to talk
Yes. Prolific, but I wasn't talking about the number of victims but the number of produced serial killers. I know that there were (and are!) many serial killers in other countries, but what I am asking is how and why did USA produce more serial killers as a cultural and sociological phenomenon. You could say "Ok, but you don't know that and your observation can be explained, because in US they caught more of these guys while in other countries they remain unidentified". That is really hard to believe because many LE and their corresponding Investigation Divisions in the world have the same level and resources that in USA and it is really hard to loose tracks of many linked murder cases, even when they seem unrelated at first. Given enough time, data, and evidence, someone will relate those cases if they were committed by a mostly psychological-driven serial killer. I also know that they look for the easy prey (as you said, it's logical), but there's something that seems out of that dimension in this issue. I also find really hard to miss that mass-shootings in USA are something far from logical (I'm not talking about accessibility to guns, or laws and policies about guns). I apologize if I offended someone.
stebann··on A Texas Ranger got a prolific serial killer to talk
It's amazing how can a professional solve this cases where others couldn't. Why there is so much hate towards women in US? I mean, particularly, these serial killers. Cases like this are rarely seen in South America, where violence has other drives (many times much less psychological).
stebann··on Orangutan with Human Rights Begins New Life in Florida
Ironically?
stebann··on OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)
"...yet, I think that the move by the current government to scrap it completely - instead on making the effort of fixing the problems - was utterly stupid..."

Yes, they should have tried to improve the program. But they didn't, the current government it just marketing. They really disappointed people.

stebann··on OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)
"Conectar" was my introduction to computers. When I was a teenager I felt that some people were really making an effort to bring new opportunities but many didn't appreciate it, like teachers who couldn't figure out configuration stuff and just dismissed the effort by the government and personnel who worked in the program because they thought We (many poor children in the "Interior") wouldn't have any kind of curiosity about them. Don't misunderstand me but I used to heard things like "No entiendo para que lanzaron este programa si estos chicos nunca van a ser programadores o van a trabajar de éso"... Of course I can talk about it, It just wasn't about throwing computers to us and expect us to hack our way to success. I think that by mid 2020's Argentina will have much more literate computer users and many people with more expertise in a variety of things, and with that new context We will do better by recycling good ideas and reviewing mistakes from the past.
stebann··on Show HN: Instant, Self-Destructing Websites
Oh man, I laugh with that one!
stebann··on My father was IBM’s first black software engineer
Maybe unwise and short-sighted. Human beings aren't perfect, even who fight racism. I think his legacy goes far beyond that point.
stebann··on BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful
I completely identify myself with this. Many people told me that I was rude because of my way I communicate in workplace. But since then, the group I'm working with got used to me and some of them have adopted this style. Sometimes we're really hurry with the schedules and continuous feedback among us has helped us to meet that schedules.
stebann··on How to do a code review
Never heard about effective patience and respect for other people's work? After all, people who wrote this have some experience...
stebann··on Burnout is real – how to avoid it
> A good start to this conversation can be: What does Atlassian (or your company) do to prevent burnout throughout their company?

I agree completely with this, since this is a health AND socio-cultural problem. Trying to solve the problems without the necessary cultural resources in any organization will just put a heavier weight on the worker, and it will eventually crack him. Without true commitment this is a Catch-22.

stebann··on Thank you, Chris
Anybody has some idea why that trend? Firefox is wonderful. I don't understand why more people aren't adopting this amazing browser.
stebann··on Michael Crichton: Why Speculate? (2005)
< I didn't want to succumb to group think. >

It's unavoidable, but compartmentalization of Information and focus can help. You don't always have to mix fragments of known things (Do you think you know everything or almost anything you know?) with possibly new ways of providing products functionality or a completely new product consciously, but many times you are putting an "additional" cognitive effort when you try to predict if someone else would do it the same way you do it, or will go through the same thought process, and get the same results. Of course, that "additional" can overload you.

< I do wonder how much speculation, opinion and general exposure to ways of thinking shape our thoughts in subtle ways. I'm generally afraid of a future where this phenomenon becomes better understood and weaponized. >

Those phenomenons are being exploited from centuries ago but they have different causes and taxonomies according to the discipline you look at them.

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