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RTO is a technique used to get staff to quit voluntarily without severance pay and with less morale and publicity damage than official mass layoffs.

I applaud the simple, blunt honesty from the very beginning:

> Hi - I'm new here. I did something dumb

Please note: this research comes from a short-seller focused on decreasing the value of a subjects of their write-ups.

As far as I understand this is the team of people previously working at closed Hinderburg Research[0], which was known for well-done and backed-up write-ups.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42717234

> And if you’re storing secret information in your bucket names, you have bigger problems.

Yeah but the design should be made on the assumption that some customers will do stupid things, and protect them.

Not an identical case, but I once bought a Cisco router for home lab/learning and it appeared to be a hardware decommissioned by one of European banks, not flashed before being handed over to some asset disposal contractor. It eventually landed on an auctioning portal with bank's configuration. The bank was very meticulous with documenting stuff like the address of the branch where it was installed in device's config and ACL names/descriptions included employees' names and room numbers. You could easily extract the names of people granted extended access to internal systems.

So while I agree with you in principal, even financial institutions do stupid things, lack procedures or their processes don't always follow them. Cloud provider's design should assume their customers not following best practices.

Signal does have its own contacts management and doesn't have to be allowed access to OS-native contacts.

> 404 Media journalist Joseph Cox published a story pointing out that Waltz was not using the official Signal app, but rather "an obscure and unofficial version of Signal that is designed to archive messages"

Wow. And that's while their entire point of using Signal is to have conversations scrapped after a week to leave no no traces of criminal activity.

> This comment might not be the most succinct

Understandable writing, easily digestible and - for me - thought-provoking. Thanks!

Naaah, let's exchange knedlíky and pierogi recipes, make silly jokes about the other language over a few beers and we're good.

> "rz" is a bit of a special case (...) pronounced like "ź" in Polish

Tiny correction: "rz" is spelled exactly like "ż", while "ź" sounds differently.

And yet, you can see the "Straƶ Miejska" logotype linked in my comment above, with a crown on the eagle, so post-December 31, 1989[0].

It may depend on the region (I was raised in the eastern Poland) but I also remember that in the primary school we used a different symbol for the letter "s". But only in hand-writing while any printed "s" looked like it does currently. I'm unable to find the UTF-8 character resembling the hand-written version.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Poland#

The more I read and interact with people like you, the dumber I feel. Thanks. I'll read up.

OK, maybe not "just a precursor" but still "just a neurotransmitter".

I've read "The Molecule of More" and as much reasonably looking material I could find on the subject to "understand" my ADHD and fight it w/o meds. And I still feel dumb. Could you please explain how dopamine "participates directly in this functionality"?

Early primary schooling in the early 90s and some preschool teaching in the late 80s taught me to write "ż" as a "ƶ"[0].

> It represents the same sound in the Polish alphabet, remaining in active usage by some as an alternative for the letter Ż (called "Z with overdot").

> In Polish, the character Ƶ is used as an allographic variant of the letter ⟨Ż⟩ (called "Z with overdot") although once used in Old Polish.

Funnily, there's a counter-argument to "Straż Miejska" from article you linked, with "Straƶ Miejska" in another Wikipedia entry[1] :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_with_stroke

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Straz_plakietka.svg

It's weird that there's no mention of adrenaline (epinephrine) and noradrenaline (norepinephrine). Dopamine is only a precursor for a broader chemical reaction. All three - with dopamine - play crucial roles in our bodies' stress response system, and definitely with fear reactions. Dopamine is just a neurotransmitter.

    tyrosine -> dopamine -> (beta-hydroxylase) -> noradrenaline -> Phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase > adrenaline

Why would we? It "just works". We've only changed how we write the letter "ż" some 30-20 years ago. It was previously "ƶ". Also, "ż" and "ź" are not accents but separate alphabet letters.

Friend's comment:

> Konichiwa, Brzęczyszczykiewicz-san.

> Trump was quick to blame his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden

At this point only QAnon/MAGA crowd and possibly Trump himself believes this shit. The rest of the world sees Trump for who he is.

FYI: YouTube provides RSS feed for every channel. The URL is as follows:

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

And without downloading with yt-dlp, videos can be watched from youtube-nocookie.com in full-window mode (no distractions) under:

    https://cinemaphile.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

Please point at particular people and parties without wording it as "some politicians".

In Poland alone we have far right, a lot of centric parties and some more or less leftist parties.

The most popular (by popular votes) "right wing" PiS is not "right" for the most part for several years now, had a Marxist/socialist prime minister and gave so many social benefits away to grab votes that it made "left" blush. They are "right" only on the level needed to get church-goers votes.

And, with antisemitist agenta, PiS was buying Pegasus subscriptions from NSO to spy on opposition and unvafourable journalists just in hopes that they'll get something from it.

So - which "particular politicians" are you quoting?

He wrote that there's Caddy adding TLS between Wii (which runs lighttpd) and the viewer.

> Separately, here in the U.S., I take issue with the fact that ex-felons are denied the right to vote.

You have a _CURRENT_ felon serving as POTUS.

Blabbering about GDPR, they're serving spyware from googletagmanager.com without consent.

Potential bias warning: The Washington Post is owned by Bezos.

I appreciate your suggestion. But I hope not to have to exercise it. My go-to setup is: uBlock Origin, NoScript, Dark Reader.

Firefox, LibreWolf and Zen, all have this value set to true by default. This behavior is only present in LibreWolf.

I'd guess that their problem is data pollution (marketing unhappy, ads impressions unaligned, data needs to be cleaned anyway before PowerPoint presentations for shareholders are made). And technically: unnecessary database growth which impacts migration efficiency, backup size and duration and stuff like that.

> Also, fuck companies that do this. I just start permanently deleting accounts whenever services do this.

On the one hand yes, on the other - these times call for ditching US companies and switching to local (EU) ones. So it's better to tell these local ones to be more welcome / less hostile.

I have just yesterday asked Amazon to delete my account and all my personal data and stop processing it, quoting "Article 17 and Article 18 of the General Data Protection Regulation".

I'm also planning (as in: technically planning) to move all my data off AWS reasonably ASAP, too. It's personal stuff; mostly S3, domains registered and parked at Route53, some CloudFront distributions fronting static files, SQS/SNS - not much overall - and domains are the main PITA.

I've tried using LibreWolf on MacOS but there's a few annoying bugs.

HN has a really small text size for me and I usually read HN at 120-133% text size. LibreWolf does not remember this setting on per-site basis and even opening HN-to-HN link in a new tab doesn't preserve text size and I need to increase text size constantly.

In addition, posting images to Bluesky doesn't work. Every attempt results in an image of proper size but consisting of only vertical lines. For this, I need to fall back to Firefox or use Safari.

Even if the first of above problems is a "feature", the latter is definitely a bug. I haven't filled a report yet. But for now, I'm planning to test Zen.

This is basically "allow us to steal others' IP". It's hard not to treat Altman like a common thief.

Why would you? Firefox is a spyware nowadays.