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A relative ran an online community. It was small, but not tiny

There was some cyber-bullying (for lack of a better word) going on. My relative called law-enforcement, then was referred to the FBI. A case was filed and was told they would circle back on it to collect details. They never called back. My relative was never able to make contact with them about it again.

Completely ignored. I can't remember the details, but it wasn't just a "you're fat and ugly" type of bullying. But it was a real safety issue for a member of the community. Law enforcement completely failed in this case.

Now what?

I despise the "public court". The internet and viral online comments deciding who's innocent and who's guilty. (the man during the US capitol riots who lost his job because he was seen in a photo holding a black woman. Turns out, he was actually saving her life! But the "public court" announced him as guilty and they went after him, contacting his employer, people saying awful things about him online. https://kfor.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/white-man-seen-in... )

But on the flip side... what do you do when law enforcement completely fails?

I feel it should almost be mentioned: It seems to me that the students did this on the existing reputation of the University. The University had been contributing and were generally trusted. So maintainers were reviewing the code based on that reputation.

Yes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAbG8Oi-SvQ&list=PL9FzW-m48f...

I really enjoyed his style and he does a good job hitting all the important points.

I’ve been using Godot for the last month. It’s been so fun to get back to game development as a hobby (it’s how I got into software development). I’ve tried many other game engines in the last few years but Godot just really ... works for me. It just clicks. Love it. Excited to try the new version!

One of my first practical pieces of software I wrote was for Winamp. I noticed at the time Winamp didn't support using the Media Keys unless it was focused. So I whipped up a simple application that listens to the media keys, then forwards the message to the Winamp process directly.

I haven't used a media player since Winamp that I like as much as I liked Winamp. I really miss it.

I had a brand new computer that i built at the start of the year. 100% new hardware. Brand new install of windows. Installed Steam, installed CS:GO. And I was unable to play because Steam flagged my system for cheating. The fix was to run some random steam exe found in the steam install directory. I guess it caused Steam to re-scan my system?

Not the same level of frustration as a permaban. But I was pretty annoyed that I had to jump through hoops on a brand-new system. Really weird.

Fair point. I guess I'm just not approaching it from the same angle as you. I am just assuming they're doing that kind of work, but are not publicly giving advice until they feel confident in that advice. Maybe I'm wrong in giving them the benefit of the doubt here.

I think there's an argument to be made that we can make the cost benefit analysis with or without assuming the vaccine is a silver-bullet. The CDC is choosing to not make that assumption and make the analysis that way.

I don't think it's fair to put that methodology in the same bucket as anti-vax logic.

Good to know. Thanks!

To me the justification is: we're in the midst of what we already know to be a global pandemic. The number of lives lost is nothing to scoff at. We do not want to declare victory until we know we can declare victory.

Personally, I feel that's a fair justification for the CDC's hesitation.

I like Linus's generalization of (in my words):

- If you like the idea of sharing code and want people to share code back. Use GPL

- If you like the idea of sharing code, and merely want credit for it. Use BSD.

Your point about patent is an import part of his generalization that is not addressed.

GPLv3 solves the first bucket WRT patents. Is there a license that falls under Linus's SECOND bucket, that solves the patent issue?

EDIT: formatting and clarifying words.

My understanding isn't that they're not actually "registering" anything. But rather just putting a piece of cloth they bought on amazon on their animal they and claiming it to be so.

They're abusing a part of the law most people don't understand (and most companies don't want to add to the drama of even if they do). IANAL, but it was explained to me that you cannot ask basically anything about service animals, other than one thing: "What is your service animal trained to do?". Apparently, service animals are supposed to be trained to do one specific task for their owner. Otherwise, they're not actually service animals. Allowing that question allows companies to verify that the animal is actually a service animal... without offending the people who require the animal.

I was talking to a friend of mine who works for a museum of sorts. These not-service animals are causing problems for them. But they are strictly forbidden to say or do anything about any pet being claimed to be a service animal. I suspect it's because they either (a) don't understand the law, and so they're trying to avoid being liable to anything, and/or (b) they don't care enough and just want to avoid the drama the fraudsters will cause.

I've read comments from people with actual service animals saying they wish companies (airports, etc) would crack down on it though. Because these untrained animals are making their own very expensive animals look bad. AND the untrained animals will yip and snap and pester the real service animals.

It depends on the relationship the third party has with the 1st party.

https://github.com/truevault/hipaa-compliance-developers-gui... was on HN a week ago. It seemed to jive pretty well with our internal policies at the HIPAA compliant company I work for.

I'm really sad that Swarm didn't take off.

I used it extensively at a job for deploying production replicas for developers and full-integration testing (the plan was to eventually deploy prod the same way). It was SO nice to use. If you could use docker-compose, then docker-swarm was a natural next step.

I can't remember the details (it's been a few years), but the biggest hangup I had was the default network "mesh" wasn't stable. But I was able to work around that by using a different implementation (i think it was the network mesh that came out of k8s at the time. Used etcd).

I agree. I remember years ago a friend of mine was found dead (took his own life) and a local news site reported it and had a comment section.

It was beyond horrible. People were commenting about how glad they were that this person they *didn’t even know* was gone. “One fewer idiot” type of comments. It was one of those things where it was so bad you didn’t want to look away.

The moderation was non-existent.

I just don’t get why a website would want to harbor a community that toxic.

I try not to complain when proper competition causes improved behavior.

I’m a fan of “the new MS”. Do I trust them? Not any more than a massive company.

But do I love all the open source software they’re producing now? Yes! Do I pretend that it’s because MS has seen the light and become penitent? No!

But at least this time when MS turns its back on their users, we can fork .net, edge, and vscode and go on with our lives. MS can’t unmerge their contributions to the Linux kernel or other open source projects they’re selfishly contributing to.

This is more or less also how IBM operates. I know someone who had to interview for other teams at IBM because their other IBM project ended. After a while of trying to navigate the politics of it all they just gave up on IBM completely.

Ooohhh. That makes sense. :) Thanks for explaining it.

I assumed "oriental"?

I don’t believe that Open Source == Less Secure. See also: Linux, Ngix, Postgres... Many many open source projects are secure. They’re not perfect but an argument could be made that they’re more secure BECAUSE they’re open.

Software with crosshairs on its back practicing garbage security practices will be pwnd the same regardless of it’s open-ness.

Honestly. With a lot of the tools out there these days. I question if it’s even faster to hunt security bugs by reading the source rather than just attempting common exploits via tooling.

Looks like that's a troll account? https://twitter.com/RobinhoodApp is the verified account...

The scary part is who has built tools like this before but people didn't know they existed?

At least now we all have access to the same tool. Maybe this one won't have everything the "secret" tools have. But it's a good start!

Yeah. I’m not sure people would be okay with people protesting outside a hospital and blocking people from getting there safely.

If their message requires blocking people from getting healthcare, maybe they need to find a new message?

For me it’s personal history. My kids LOVE watching videos of me and my wife when we were younger. Luckily for them, my wife’s family converted all their videos to digital and so it’s easy to watch.

I’m itching to do the same to my parents’ collection so my kids can see more.

I suspect their kids will enjoy the same.

Yes and no. Depends on tenancy requirements. I know with docker and other common Linux container strategies you would want to keep each tenant on their own VM. A container isn’t safe enough.

So if this is your org’s only action. Then you’re probably spinning up a VM. If you have other options. You’re probably not adding any overhead.

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Sounds to me these men are victims of abusive software bugs. They have a finger print... it may not be unique or normal. But pressing their inked finger onto paper will leave a print. I assume the software is looking for common pieces of a fingerprint to work. Said software isn’t considering the edge case of a smooth or mostly smooth finger pad.

The fact that the government workers are letting buggy software determine eligibility for drivers licenses and passports is the real issue here. It’s really sad.

Just reading this makes me so frustrated. I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to be them. I hope this article helps these men get the exposure they need to end this.

Thanks! I’ll probably migrate here soon then!

Could you tell me if you’re using your own domain if you can route all emails to your domain to one inbox? I’ve been grandfathered into a free GApps account and use my own domain thru there. I’ve started signing up for services using a unique email address per domain. So hn@my.domain, reddit@my.domain, etc. I’d love to move to something non-google. But I can’t lose that functionality at this point :)

Back in ye olden days, apps either shipped with their own updater, or shipped with no updater.

If my understanding of the history is right, that's how Steam was born. A unified update tool for Valve's games. It was pretty cool that all my Valve games were managed in one place! "I wish every company did this!". While it was nice that there was really only one primary place for games (Steam) for a while. And it's really nice when most games can be acquired in one or two places. I think the landscape has changed and "download managers" and their glorified counter part "app stores" are much more common... at least the worst case scenario is what I once wished... "Every company/publisher has their own App Store"

Just my two cents.

Sure... Also technically, I think they called it something different on the iPod Touch as well, if memory serves me right. :)