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Politics is not a game or a religious belief. It is a literal matter of life and death for millions of people who have very little power. (Hint: not tech workers.)

Can you explain who and what you mean by this?

This isn't about the interests of tech workers, it's about our responsibility to society as a group of people who have been handed a lot of power. In a world with so much inequality and suffering, don't you think that's important?

Are you equating a firearm registration system with a fascist database of a minority religion?

It sounds to me like your perspective may be skewed by having watched too many Hollywood action movies.

You can open your eyes but not look at the phone.

It's worth noting that antirez has, as is usual for him, dealt with this issue wonderfully by making a call without downplaying the importance of the problem.

He was doing okay until he wrote that everyone is a slave because having to follow "politically correct rules" is itself a form of slavery.

What do you mean? Are you implying that you make sure you're never alone with women in order to avoid sexually harassing them?

by "agenda" do you mean the agenda of exposing sexism at Uber? because that's what the whole post is about.

and why exactly would it make you doubt her credibility?

are you openly admitting that the AWS service status page runs on AWS? because that is far more embarrassing than this downtime ever could be

it would appear that you are correct

"The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates." https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

when you start investigating an outage, that is exactly when you should change your checkmark to yellow if not red. if you're as big as AWS there should not be any more than a minute or two between when your service goes down and when you actually update your status page to show that.

I like how this post says "if you look at the AWS Status Page, this what you see". but you can't see the image. because S3 is down.

what's truly incredible is that S3 has been offline for h̶a̶l̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶h̶o̶u̶r̶ two hours now and Amazon still has the audacity to put five shiny green checkmarks next to S3 on their service page.

they just now put up a box at the top saying "We are investigating increased error rates for Amazon S3 requests in the US-EAST-1 Region."

increased error rates? really?

Amazon, everything is on fire. you are not fooling anyone

edit: in the future, please subscribe to @MyFootballNow for timely AWS service status updates https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5xdm9_WMAAY7y_.jpg:large

Why would you ever want to add a second broken hash like MD5 instead of just using a single secure function like SHA2, SHA3, or BLAKE2?

This is important. Linode have proven many times to be irresponsible and insecure.

Python 3 is a more modern, better language, that's why. Hopefully, grumpy will support it soon enough, though it's understandable that they started with 2.7 to support Google's huge older codebase.

The stuff about Trump is mostly verifiably true beyond reasonable doubt. ("I like to assault women.", dozens of women in his circles: "Yeah he does that.")

The stuff about Clinton is mostly verifiably false. (see Snopes for example http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-lau...)

That's the difference.

Either you or the Uber driver in question completely made that up. Nobody is paying drivers $60 for $3 rides.

there's 'women in tech' organisations that have been accused of framing technology leaders for sexual assault just to marginalize them

Just what kind of absurd anti-feminist conspiracy theories have you been reading? Are you honestly suggesting that this many of Applebaums colleagues are evil conspirators hell-bent on destroying an innocent man's life? I think you could do with some Occam's Razor and a moment to think about your attitude towards sexual assault and power.

I think that's a good point, but to make a counterpoint, there are many documented cases of their soldiers independently doing just that.

She said no multiple times and he persistently pressured her anyways. As leader in the Tor community and a colleague she looked up to he was in a huge position of power making it easy to coerce her. He physically pulled her into the tub, directly against her clearly stated nonconsent. To not call that just "ungentlemanly" is what is actually crazy here and you should be disgusted with yourself for making it sound like he did no worse than forget to hold a door open for a passerby.

All you nerdy guys out there, if you don't want something like this to happen to you

If you don't want actively ignoring someone's else's nonconsent and forcing them into sexual contact with you to happen to you- wait wtf?

learn the dance -- there is a sequence and a pace to these things if you want a woman to feel good

Ah yes, the don't-sexually-assault-people dance. A classic in romantic etiquette. It sure makes women feel good not to be assaulted. Do you read the things you write?

According to them their marketing guy clearly had to have the ability to upload arbitrary executable files to their Wordpress site. Which by the way ran their entire exchange and had direct read/write access to their balances database.

That's utterly comical. It makes me think there should be a The Onion for crypto/infosec news because I haven't laughed that hard in a while. I feel bad for them but thinking they could run a cryptocurrency exchange with a solid zero on the scale of zero to having a clue about security was pure hubris on their part.

Also the author's level of denial about their incompetence is incredible:

"Even the most secure systems can be circumvented with enough time and ingenuity."

"And we were secure and solid for a year..."

"Well, due to some apparent exploit in wordpress, someone, somehow, got into the server tonight, installed some files, and managed to empty the goddamned BTC wallet. Best I can tell it was something with that worthless pile of shit software wordpress." (earlier notice on allcrypt.com)

Yep, they told us it would be $1k/month to use their organization system too. Which is really sad, because very few small companies are going to pay that, and using a regular user Heroku account as a company is a real PITA. I hope they smarten up soon.

The article you link to does not support your claim of 8%. It mentions data "averaging 8 percent to 10 percent" but then goes on to point out that:

Not all reports classified as unfounded are necessarily false. In some cases, women who were victims of rape were disbelieved, pressured into recanting, and charged with false reporting only to be vindicated later on—the kind of awful story that adds to people’s skittishness about discussing false accusations. Some police departments have been criticized for having an anomalously high percentage of supposedly unfounded rape charges: Baltimore’s “unfounded” rate used to be the highest in the nation, at about 30 percent, due partly to questionable and sometimes downright abusive police procedures, such as badgering a woman about why she waited two hours to report a street assault. By 2013, an effort to provide better training and encourage full investigation of all complaints reduced that rate to less than 2 percent.

The problem is that you cannot rely on a police officer's opinion that a rape accusation is false. It could too easily be based on a sexist perception of the woman reporting the crime. The rape of sex workers, women who use drugs and alcohol, and women who have many sexual partners has never been taken as seriously by law enforcement.

On the other hand, we have actual scientific data from the CDC showing that 20% of women have been raped: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6308a1.htm?s_cid=...

What we need is an equivalent study that asks men if they have ever been falsely charged with rape. My guess is that the number is quite small.

IIRC events were created based on some heuristic of the photos' geolocaiton data and time taken. So if you do a 3 day trip outside of your city that becomes one event on import. It was also super easy to merge two events into one. I thought it worked pretty well in general.

The undisputed face of the MRM is Paul Elam who runs the hugely popular "A Voice for Men" website. He is a great example of a bitter misogynist MRA asshole: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/10/18/paul-elam-of-a-voic...

There are lots of good reasons to talk about issues affecting men, but sadly the bad parts of the MRM far outweigh the good at this point. I'd say it's 85% bashing feminism, complaining about women's sexual power (e.g. The Friendzone), denying and minimizing rape as a social problem, etc. and only 15% talking about fathers' custody rights and boys' education issues.

What if you don't trust the random key generator on your computer? Just xor the generated key with some other files.

NOTE: You can increase security significantly if you xor/encrypt zipped files, as they already contain very little structure!

If your key is too small or if you are using it too often, you may be reducing security.

I hope it goes without saying that this thing should not be taken at all seriously.

This can't be true. If you restore your iCloud backup to a new device, all you need is your passcode. It obviously won't ask you to enter the UID of the device you previously backed up with.

So people flagged it and it got marked as spam? I think since the rest of the hearsay got to the top of HN, this should too to balance things out. No matter what happened, the more sides of the story we hear the better.