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Comment · 2 years ago
> > and heavy handed punishment is the best way to deter it.

> That sounds like an empirical statement. Evidence?

Singapore and Japan.

Comment · 2 years ago
Being strungout and shitting on the streets is a crime though, so I'd take it if they enforced that one...
Comment · 2 years ago
How did we get here? I don't know any sane citizen that would want this.
Comment · 2 years ago
We could also, ya know... enforce our drug laws and punish folks in possession of fentanyl. But no, lets enable warrant-less spying on American citizens instead.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not all applications provide users with the option to log out of all sessions.

Web Applications today, could do several things without the help of Google to make cookies more difficult to be stolen but they don't.

Comment · 2 years ago
Graphic novels and short comics are a finite medium, they have a beginning and an end. There's not a very practical way to doom scroll away your entire weekend with comic books. You will eventually run out of comic books or run out of places to put them.
Comment · 2 years ago
Children aren't allowed to play slot machines either and that's what TikTok (and Youtube Shorts, etc) sure feels like to me.
Comment · 2 years ago
I hear ya. We hold similar sentiments and also don't use CAPTCHA, we find MaxMind (and a few custom heuristics) to do good enough of a job at filtering out bad actors. A few get in every great once in a while but we have secondary controls that limit the money they can cost us.
Comment · 2 years ago
<insert meme here where it's just one fader like their older mice with one button>
Comment · 2 years ago
A captcha might add enough friction to at least slow them down if they're doing this at scale.

Also adding some fraud detection on top might help (e.g. MaxMind) you can tell if the requests are coming from a proxy, hosting service, etc and block those requests or present them with additional challenges.

Comment · 2 years ago
You can use separate repos for sensitive documents instead of one big repo.

The biggest challenges will be:

- Teaching git to non-technical folks, the HR lady doesn't know how to resolve a merge conflict and probably doesn't want to

- They also don't want to learn markdown or latex

With a small enough company though, this could work.

Comment · 2 years ago
Gotta pay the bills somehow
Comment · 2 years ago
I've actually seen CVEs like that before, I agree that's bonkers but I have seen it...
Comment · 2 years ago
Unfortunately so, native modules for Node are starting to be written more and more in rust rollup and parcel are two examples. Unlike previous modules written in C++ if there's no prebuilt binary for your platform, they won't even try to build locally, just flat-out wont install despite building fine if you do it all manually.

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