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Not sure what the angle is?

Maybe a new version of the directory harvest attack[0]?

For example, if someone has an email address (or list of email addresses) from somewhere else, one can easily tell if you (or they) have a Facebook account by simply requesting a password reset against it (them). If there's no throttling on password reset requests, one could process a large list rather quickly.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipient-filterin...

...but strictly just means "not a manager right now".

There's also the verisimilitude that it can also mean an inferred ceiling. For example, Principal <whatever area> Engineer role[s] at Microsoft is [are] typically the highest that you can go - if you stick to the IC (read: non-managerial) track[s].

While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category...

If you're into privacy-conscious search engines and want one that's not susceptible to blanket FISA warrants[0], check out either Qwant[1] or SwissCows[2].

[0] - DuckDuckGo's address is in Pennsylvania - 20 Paoli Pike, Paoli, PA 19301.

[1] https://www.qwant.com

[2] https://swisscows.ch/

In an ever-connected world, it's entirely plausible for you to die alone and for no one to have seemingly cared.[0]

[0] https://www.oddee.com/item_98735.aspx

Does this sound like Downing Street is gearing-up for mass surveillance, post-Brexit, or is it just me?

Giving the benefit of doubt, I'm assuming that they meant the UK being a protector of the US interest[s]; however, I could be wrong.

This comment doesn't even make sense, as with a little digging you could've found this[0] information yourself:

"Windows port work is underway, but is not yet working. The difficulties are in figuring out the set of system library APIs to intercept, in getting the memory management and dirty memory parts of the rewind infrastructure to work, and in handling the different graphics and IPC pathways on different platforms."

In fact, their documentation makes a specific call-out to TTT (Time-Travel Debugging) on Windows; so, I suspect that this is the API that they would like to use but are unable to do so at present (presumably because many of the features are still lacking in the API, which Microsoft could - and most probably would - enable).

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...

On top of that they monitor for profanity. WHY? It doesn't harm anyone and lets people express themselves how they want.

The war against profanity is strictly a Puritan, I mean American, thing.

In most sensible countries in Europe (read: those still not devoutly religious), profanity on the "state-run" TV stations is a normative part of life (e.g.: "helvete" or "fan" in Swedish - https://youtu.be/4ofbqaLiPe4).

Surprised that this is the first comment about this on here but we really need a better turn-of-phrase than "toxins" because kind of language validates the fads going around that are harming people - like the "get skinny in two days!" diets or the anti-vax community.

Also, why do they use the term emphatically in the title of the article and then state, "...presumably removing toxins associated with Alzheimer's, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science." That comes across as, "We don't actually know what this is doing but we're going to take a guess and just run with it."

In fact, from the abstract of the paper itself, "Sleep is also associated with increased interstitial fluid volume and clearance of metabolic waste products. It is unknown why these processes co-occur and how they are related."

I don't understand how metabolic waste products automatically equates to "Alzheimer's toxins" nor how they're reaching these conclusions if they don't understand their coincidence - whether accidental or intentional.

Can anyone help a stranger on the internets and connect these dots? =]

...one thing that gets overlooked is declining religiosity...

I think, maybe, you're mistaking the community that forms around religion (e.g.: churches, friendships, church groups, etc.) for religion, itself.

If the argument were that lack of religion is a precursor to increasing suicide rates, then we in Europe should be killing ourselves off in droves because we're the least religious lot (compared to our North American counterparts).

A perfect storm of prescription opioids, government prohibition, and cheap/plentiful Chinese and Mexican fentanyl.

I think it's actually the fact that the war on opioids has translated into a war on prescription pain drugs, in general.

So, when you're a chronic pain sufferer and have gone without and you get ahold of something - anything - to remediate the pain, you're far more likely to take a little extra just to get the pain to STFU for a while so you can do things like sleep through the night for the first time in seemingly forever.

I've heard tales of American veterans (through the VA) being referred to things like yoga to manage their chronic pain, when it's entirely due to neurological damage and things like yoga will do fuck-all to help with that.

Is it any wonder then that people might be more liable to OD when they obtain something to try to manage the pain that otherwise never ceases?

I'd say it is a fundamental issue in American society (the war on opioids translating into no pain management medications whatsoever) with callous indifference - rather than anything else.

I think the reason why most devs still prefer plain-text resources over anything else is...

I think you missed a vital reason and that is portability and sharability. No one needs to install anything special to read or edit a text file.

It's the digital equivalent of paper and pen when you think about it and that makes it a popular platform for everyone to be able to consume it.

Plus, back when we were all old and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the text file was the lightest/smallest way to transfer data (read: ideas) between computers.

The practice/behaviour saturated the industry so much that many readmes of today are still on text files.

Maybe there's a correlation to the real world, where we're definitely more apt to consume mediums that don't have superfluous data points than the words/ideas that they're meant to convey? Maybe I'm just talking out of my ass?

Either way, plain-text resources are the easiest to create, share, and consume because there's almost a universality in the standard for text files (except the EOL and CRLF but that's more of an inconvenience than anything).

Punishment is a deterrent and has been proven so for millennia.

A proven deterrent? Do you have any facts to back-up your posit? The crime and recidivism rates would seem to indicate the contrary; especially, in the states.

Essentially, we should - in theory - have no crime by now (given it's been over a millennium) as all rates should've diminished to zero, yeah?

At best, punishment as a deterrent is keeping the for-profit prison-industrial complex in business and that's about the extent of any benefit[s] (if it can even be called that) it might be providing to society.

This will probably seem very pedantic but aren't "Unauthorized Access/Disclosure" and "Hacking/IT Incident" pretty much the same things?

Most complicated game of Six of Degrees of Kevin Bacon[0] that I've heard of. :)

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

Modern IRC servers tend to support TLS on port 6697 and SASL for authentication.

The OC's point was by default, meaning/inferring clear-text is still the modus operandi for generally getting onto IRC services.

Many applications still aren't encrypted by default, like IRC.

SSL and SASL aren't, precisely, user-friendly implementations with some clients (e.g.: IRSSI[0] - but if you're using IRSSI, you don't want a user-friendly GUI to begin with, so...).

SASL has less to do with the actual encryption mechanism and more to do with the authentication mechanism (think NTLM)[1].

If IRC services dropped clear-text, today, that would go a lot further to standardising (e.g.: making default) encryption but, back to the OC's original point, it is not the default today.

[0] https://freenode.net/kb/answer/irssi

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Authentication_and_Secu...

You seem to have meant to put citations in (e.g.: [1], [2]) but forgot to include them. :(

...it's very convenient when you're in the system and impractical when you are not.

This exists everywhere, though, so Sweden's personnummer isn't exactly unique in this case.

For a small subset of examples, take Norway's fødselsnummer[0] or Iceland's identification numbers[1] or Ireland's PPS number[2].

[0] https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B8dselsnummer

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_identification_numbe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Public_Service_Number

I take notes every week on every employee I manage to track specific instances of positive and negative things they’re doing. This is really helpful for tracking behaviors in one-on-one reviews.

This seems to be on the micromanaging level of things. If you have to operate at this level, you're trying to "control" the all of the elements of the team dynamics, instead of letting the dynamics work for you.

A team is a team because it operates together. It isn't just about the manager-employee relationship.

Give specific expectations and behaviors that you want the employee to execute. Don’t be vague or use words like, “better” or “more”. Be specific by saying, “You need to complete all stories within 25% of your estimates this month.”

This seems a bit metric-driven and metrics with a distribution of disproportionate work is going to drive bad culture and bad habits. The low-hanging fruit will drive metrics high for one individual and, if they're gaming the system, it will be obvious; but if it's all down to metrics, they're getting the job done, right?

The worst is the reality that people could (and would) use it for libelous purposes; such as vindictive exes (no matter the sex), or people with stability problems, or the like.

Should the title have a (2017) at the end, since Quantum initially came out then[0,1]? (I understand it points to a current-version but it seems like, from the comments, it's being mistaken for having recently been released.)

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/26/firefox-quantum-bet...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Firefo...

...implementing great, thoughtfully designed features on a regular basis, for free.

Haven't we already learned the underlying issue with the moniker of "free" from the likes of Facebook and Google?

Could victim organizations reduce the damage through dilution and disinformation: create a lot of fake data and intentionally leak it?

Given HIPAA and GDPR, leaking medical data is the antithesis of what you'd want to be doing. All it takes is one correct medical record in the lot and you're fecked.

To save you the read, the summation is in the second-to-last paragraph:

As you have probably noticed, I didn’t say anything about information. That’s because really the reference to information in “black hole information loss” is entirely unnecessary and just causes confusion. The problem of black hole “information loss” really has nothing to do with just exactly what you mean by information. It’s just a term that loosely speaking says you can’t tell from the final state what was the exact initial state.

Instagram influencers who are thoughtful and authentic are great.

If your main focus is slinging products, I don't see how that equates to being thoughtful or authentic; especially, when your end-goal is just chasing the next few quid.

For example, I'd expect Neill DeGrasse Tyson's IG to be far more thoughtful and authentic than, say, Amanda Strand's IG.

To be fair, the article leaves out the size of the areas affected by the wildfires; however, it does proffer a guesstimation in the potential damage as a byproduct of the fires:

The fires have been releasing a large amount of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of 228 megatonnes so far this year, according to Cams, the highest since 2010.

In units the Americans would be familiar with, that would be roughly 461,608,800,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. (1 tonne = ~2024.6 pounds, according to Wikipedia[0]).

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

Some links on your site are directed to the vanity 'charte.ge' but are still branded with 'giveinternet.org'. An example would be the 'Meet our team' link on this page: https://giveinternet.org/en/faq

Perhaps, this was a previous project name and the links haven't been fixed?

^So much of this. HN != Reddit_2.0

In the states we have to rely on stuff like the Innocence Project, unfortunately.

The American justice system is built upon the premise of retributive punishment and not rehabilitative punishment; so, they believe that whoever is in jail/prison must've earned that because, to them, the system is infallible - when, clearly, it is not.

To that end, the system in the states depends on bodies filling the cells. It doesn't really matter to the system which bodies fill the cells, as long as it's someone: The company operating the jails/prisons are going to be turning a profit and not dropping the jails/prisons back onto the system to be responsible for. So, to the system, what does it matter, yeah?

We should also mention that felony disenfranchisement[0] allows scenarios where people can lose the right to vote for life. In cases, such as in Florida, that right can only be restored at the whim of the governor[1,2].

Florida isn't alone in this, to be sure, but it demonstrates a problem that is based on a flaw in American society, overall.

In other words, if society gives zero fucks about its own citizens - even after they've paid their dues to society - why would anyone expect the system to care, when it's counter-productive to the system's own benefit?

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

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/12/11/459365215/ex-felons-fight-to-r...

[2] https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/02/01/fed...

She told him that if he wouldn't meet it, he needed to let her go seek its fulfillment elsewhere.

This seems like a vague sense of displaced blame, however; so I can understand how people will view it as a red flag: There's nothing preventing her from leaving of her own volition but it's inferred that she has no possibility of choice (without him having to have made a choice) - even though he's already signaled his desires multiple times before.

In that sense, it is an ultimatum but one that tries to absolve guilt by making the "decision-maker" the "owner" of the result/consequence - even though, in reality, both would suffer the consequences of the choice.

Further still, is the impression inferred that she's a prisoner because she's "bound" to him because he needs to "let her go" if he won't fulfill her desire[s]; inferring that, somehow, he - alone - wields power over her self-agency.

That doesn't quite make sense - when a healthy relationship should be two independent people sharing in the relationship "power" dynamic. In other words, it should not be so skewed that one has power/control over life, destiny, etc. of another.

In this perspective, it does seem to be a very troubling red flag.