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Regarding the original YouTube channel name system. Google used to redirect from YouTube.com/name to YouTube.com/channel/name. So, naturally, creators started printing merch with t…

Shoot yourself in the head.

Says the Linux communist.

You need to move to a better city.

"Encryption is so expensive!" cries the 1990s

I couldn't find the vignette filter in this app. Can anybody help?

> So what reason is there for adding a new string formatting syntax that looks nothing like string formatting syntax used in any other language The new syntax is more like other mo…

It's not 945x faster, it's O(N) faster.

The typical approach is to keep the PII in the backups encrypted with a user-specific key which is stored separately and can be deleted without touching the backups. I'd expect Fac…

No, they just do it in slightly different ways than Americans so it's framed as something exotic and weird instead of typical human behaviour.

The user in question uses a nonunique pseudonym and Tor, so I'm not sure if they actually want attention. Maybe they were also the hacker. ;)

I believe they were polling the list of moderator-or-greater-access users on each site through the API: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/moderators

As it happens, this incident was discovered by a curious user who had a script watching for new accounts with staff privileges, who brought the attacker's account it to the company…