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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Last time this came up (2023):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37326806 > FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee
Comment · 1 year ago
> I remember back in the 2000s writing purely XML websites with stylesheets for display
Awesome! I made a blog using XML+XSLT, back in high school. It was worth it just to see the flabbergasted look on my friends faces when I told them to view the source code of the page, and it was just XML with no visible HTML or CSS[0].
[0] https://www.w3schools.com/xml/simplexsl.xml - example XML+XSLT page from w3schools
Comment · 1 year ago
> they want my serial number to let me download it.
Out of curiosity, why is that a problem to you? Granted, it is strange; I went through the process for my TCL Roku who's wifi stopped working (still not fixed, and now a second, 3yo TCL Roku has bricked itself. nice!)
Comment · 1 year ago
I use a pi-hole to block the spying. My experience with Amazon's FireOS & Roku is they phone home a lot.
Comment · 2 years ago
Firefox on Windows 11 doesn't work.
Comment · 3 years ago
Looks like the website has been overwhelmed with spam, and, possibly hacked/exploited [1]. It looks like someone has been able to create directories & upload scripts [2]?
I do bug bounty in my spare time so this was an interesting live find.
Comment · 5 years ago
Spectrum was the first company that came to my mind, too. Last week, my mom recently signed up for spectrum & she bought the traditional TV + Internet + Phone package, when she only needed Internet. I've been putting off calling them since I don't want to deal with talking to anyone.
& yep, it is very easy to upgrade your subscription on spectrum's website but there is no way at all to cancel/downgrade online.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm in a similar situation. Distro hopped quite a bit, (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian).
For 5 years now, I've ran Fedora on an old laptop that resides at my parents house, 5000 KM away from me. In that time I have not once physically been in contact with that server. I've done all updates via ssh, including full system upgrades (e.g. Fedora 32 -> Fedora 33) without any hiccups.
To me, that's amazing.
Comment · 5 years ago
i actually was just thinking of the west cost. i'm a los angeles native, guess that shows. sorry.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Oregon
Are the eight states from the title. Though it seems New York should be included since it says "The bumblebee species have declined by 99 percent in New York."
Also noteworthy
> In the Midwest and Southeast, population numbers have dropped by more than 50 percent.
To nobodies surprise, the culprit is pesticides. Interestingly the west's bumblee population isn't listed as being in trouble.
Comment · 5 years ago
apparently, turkeys have a pretty understandable language. There's a documentary, My Life as a Turkey [1]; he was able to decipher what each call meant (e.g. which squawk meant "snake" and which one meant "eagle"). So, if you were walking with a turkey, and you saw a snake and wanted to warn it about it, you could, in theory, communicate with it.
[1] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-life-as-a-turkey-introduc...
Comment · 6 years ago
As a bug bounty hunter, I can attest to having an awful experience at times. The three companies I have worked with @ HackerOne have all taken forever to payout or fix bugs. Currently, I have been waiting 4 months to be paid by a company on HackerOne, for a pretty dang high impact bug that leaves all their customers vulnerable; I checked today, & they still haven't fixed it, let alone paid out.
You also have to be aware of policy changes. I've noticed companies remove language that told how much they'd pay out. Some companies have a mandatory pay out of 7-14 days but they are rare; with everyone else, you just have to hope they pay you, and they do, I guess... whenever they feel like it.
Comment · 6 years ago
yep. checkra1n for iOS 13.1 requires that you re-jailbreak every time you reboot your phone. Takes like 5 minutes to do.
One of those cases where a bug really is a feature
Did you miss this part from the article:
> They switched from talking about bug bounty programs, live hacking events, and how they could help you stay secure, to promoting their in-house AI security product and continuous security monitoring tool.
notably the in-house AI security product is trained on existing bug bounty reports.
> It sounds to me more like the OP already disliked H1 (for its sales practices and general enshittification) and the LLM issue was a convenient excuse to make a clean break.
that's pretty harsh to say when OP provided some very valid reasons, imho speaking as someone who's used HackerOne for over a decade.
link to H1's "continuous monitoring tool" for the curious: https://www.hackerone.com/product/h1-continuous-testing