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The Celery Organization on github had a security breach which has led to organizational activity halting. A number of contributions to the Celery project (apparently) have been reversed.

In case anyone is wondering where the next Celery release was.

As far as I understand it, they wouldn't be able to advertise with US companies in the US so it's a lot of cost for no benefit. Unless they're hosting all that bandwidth for an altruistic reason..

I've run into the same thing.

We don't even have the job posted publicly anywhere and we get >100 submissions per day. Many are duplicates. I've found some that with some minor research turn out to be foreign organized crime. A large number of them had the exact same cover letter with changes in the names and past jobs.

Not only is it difficult to find candidates that actually fit the job role, it's hard to go through any that are even real people.

I've told many friends of mine to use connections and not online job postings because it's basically impossible right now with the automated resume submission companies.

And then the candidate management tools such as lever told me that no, every one of those candidates that applied were real people -- even when I provided proof that at least 40 of them were linked to a single organized crime group out of China.

Partially. He basically kept ignoring the board and lying to the board -- and that was one such case.

Another example was he decided that all of PayPal needed to be Windows computers so every engineer has to stop what they were doing and convert. Board said stop, he said okay, then continued.

In practice, yes. They did.

I have worked at another organization (hosted server provider) where I was in contact with the FBI and other law enforcement.

There's a world of difference between what was shown they did at twitter by noting things that were "worrisome" or against a reasonable site's ToS and forcing anyone to take things down.

I have told agents that certain materials were acceptable and that we would take no action. Not much they could do there without an actual warrant.

I'm sorry, what? Controlled by the government "behind the curtains"?

You might want to take a step back and evaluate that thought process.

Private entities are not violating freedom of speech as a legal construct and as an issue of an ideological construct - isn't it violating the private entities freedom of speech when they're being forced to host speech they don't agree with?

If you're saying that you believe a shadow governnent is controlling twitter and that's why it's considered free speech - since it's a government entity in that case, uh, I don't really think that's plausible.

By banishment of free speech, you mean the right of a private entity to decline to host content that they seem to not be a fit with their ideals and brand?

I don't think this is a freedom of speech issue.

Instead, it's an issue that the private operators (codeberg & sourcehut) are looking to apply their own freedom of speech to take a stance against projects that have a high case of fraud.

You see the same thing from Stripe[1]: they ban similarity predatory systems from using their services & tarnishing their brand.

[1] https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses

It's so awesome to see the medplum team here!!

Medplum is a truly amazing solution to so many problems of building healthcare apps quickly. Before I had started chatting with the Medplum team it felt like an insurmountable task to experiment in the EHR area - the amount of infra & prep work we'd have to do made it so even for a proof of concept we'd have months before we could see anything useful.

It's really awesome to have so much of the hard part of handling health records done for us - and the depth of knowledge of the Medplum team is bar none when it comes to this area.

Y'all rock, congrats on the launch.

Well, there was the time that the Krikkit decided to wage war on the entire universe for 2000 years - I believe the estimate was about two grillion casualties.

Assuming you mean express' cookie parser signed cookies? Or maybe rails?

Solves some of the session problems..

Benefits:

Cookies - when set to http only + secure only are safer?

Drawbacks:

They're not cross-compatible No expiration baked in No not-before baked in Limited to hmac validation (no public key crypto options that I know of)

Unless you mean using a JWT as a cookie value. I guess that could work?