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Comment · 23 hours ago
> The crawler operated by technical staff in $foreign_country just switches to compromised smart TVs in your own country

That costs the crawler money, not many do it and is something that can be fixed over time

banning country and AS numbers for cloud companies is pretty effective in my experience

Comment · 1 day ago
Why not use claude code directly?

Why risk getting compromised like that?

Comment · 1 day ago
Then why even allow employees to use that?

Binance got a pretty expensive lesson if that was the cause for their recent hack

Comment · 1 day ago
OpenVSX has no extension signing, no verification, nothing...

So really, there's no way to say what was compromised and where.

This could have been avoided by having extensions signed by company doing them with their own keys and have them reviewed

Comment · 1 day ago
Just did a quick search, OpenVSX has no extension signing?, no verifications?, what year is this...

This could have been avoided by having extensions signed by company doing them with keys and review

Comment · 1 day ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/cursor-says-u...

> Cursor said the extension was not developed by Anthropic and the maliciously modified extension was live on the marketplace from about 2:27 a.m. PT to 1:35 p.m. PT on Thursday

So is this or isn't this from Anthropic and how did this happen?

Comment · 2 days ago
They wouldn't get fired. They are protected both in the US and Spain.

At most face unlikely discipline.

Here they would even have valid reason to refuse - order was given for full speed, regulation says low speed ready to stop.

So a "No, i'm not doing that, you're moron" would be justified.

Comment · 2 days ago
The "random blinking green light" is generally more reliable

Being a snowflake here has 2 benefits:

1. Getting company managing tracks to fix the lights (they need to deal with angry customers and pay off damages for delays and more), so there's a direct path from unreliable lights to economic damage.

2. Avoid crashing and killing yourself and passengers on the offchance the person on the radio is a moron

Comment · 2 days ago
so in this case, couldnt conductor just say - make it green, not my problem, staying still until then
Comment · 2 days ago
The train driver's job is to say: "it's red, I'm no moving, not my problem, you make it green if you want me to go"

That's why it's a union job

Also he's the first person to die on accident so it's that and the safety of everyone else

They do not 'need' to follow others, they just need to refuse unless all safe and green.

If they never start to drive it's the companies problem to deal with angry non-dead customers

Comment · 2 days ago
Why is that?

I remember a long time ago I was stuck in a train in a field a considerable time because of a similar failure and conductor just wouldn't move unless green

I was expecting the same here, conductor is the first to die so just refuse until the idiots fix their system

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