robbya
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Comment · 6 years ago
I read this as: a group of professional engineers dedicated to hosting/scaling a platform designed for hosting blogs will perform better than a single random person managing a personal blog in their spare time. I generally think that's accurate.
Comment · 6 years ago
There's an HTTPS version too:
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/97690
Comment · 6 years ago
For anyone who is curious about this line of thinking, I'd recommend reading a little bit of Neil Gorsuch's "A Republic, If You Can Keep It." The book covers these ideas very well.
On the other hand it's dry, repetitive, and has really poor flow, so I'm struggling to finish it myself.
Comment · 6 years ago
Anyone know what malware was served?
Comment · 6 years ago
> removing a 'create file' clause does not cause that file to be removed on subsequent runs, as the tool has no concept of ownership
Terraform on the other hand does have a concept of ownership, diff-ing, and applying changes. It takes some work as you now need to track state, but I've been very happy with Terraform.
Comment · 6 years ago
More info about the issue here:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-0...
Comment · 6 years ago
I think it's worth recognizing that this is a good first step in a hard problem. Hosting many TB of data for free isn't easy. Building an index on top of that data isn't easy either, and it looks like no such index exists today, but if someone decided to build that index they wouldn't need to worry about the hosting portion of the problem. That's a great starting point.
Comment · 6 years ago
https://academictorrents.com/about.php#mirroring
Using RSS to allow mirrors to host different subjects is really clever, although some of the categories seem quite large (>5TB). It may be worth breaking up each category (sharding) to keep each to 100GB or less so a volunteer can pick a couple and not worry about running out of disk when a category grows.
Then it would be good to track how many seeds each category-shard has so volunteers can help where it's most needed.
Comment · 6 years ago
Is Samsung Internet better than Chrome? I've always assumed it was bloatware since it's preinstalled and I haven't heard of people using it. I personally use the Firefox mobile browser, which I think works great.
Comment · 6 years ago
> just put a different joke in
I wonder how often you get a different joke on the translated audio and yet another different joke in translated sub titles. Kind of wild.
Comment · 6 years ago
FWIW subtitles for the original language will also sometimes vary from the original audio as well. I tend to re-watch shows on low volume with subtitles on so I've caught this a number of times, but it's fairly rare.
Usually I've seen the subtitles shorten the words in the audio. "You must come with me now" -> "Come now" or similar. I've been assuming it's to help the reader keep up with some quick exchanges.
Comment · 6 years ago
> Imagine someone in a domestic abuse situation
Depending on how abusive you are thinking, that sounds like rubber hose cryptanalysis. That's a hugely powerful approach and I think all 2FA can be bypassed with that, if not most of modern cryptography.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
> having their phone taken
Keep in mind that other 2FA methods also are phone based, like TOTP / Google Authenticator. Those also fail if your unlocked phone is taken. SMS is even weaker than those, but still better as a second factor versus nothing.