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_vvdf

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    Comment #26961724

    > How are people still getting away with this kind of abuse? How? Read the comments in this thread six hours from now and you'll understand.

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    Comment #26927345

    [flagged]

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    Comment #26909355

    Once they become a community project, rather than the rms fan club, I'll talk to them.

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    Comment #26908381

    It's not quite google.ar, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with https://gnu.gl/

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    Comment #26874247

    Relevant Onion news article from 2003: https://www.theonion.com/ibm-emancipates-8-000-wage-slaves-1...

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    Comment #26856396

    Ah, that's helpful context. I had incorrectly assumed that it was something written from scratch, which would be very notable in the IRC space.

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    Comment #26855903

    I don't want to be that guy, but.... We should probably appreciate a modern IRCd, but why, why, why wasn't this written in a memory safe language like Rust or Go? Seriously wtf, if…

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    Comment #26716092

    I have had a Twilio account for years, and have always used the proprietary MFA implementation from their Authy app. I don’t remember being forced to switch to SMS MFA.

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    Comment #26684486

    Not much to see? Not noteworthy? Where could I, or any Internet user, trivially download these details on 533M Facebook users prior to this dump? If nothing else, it seems extremel…

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    Comment #26652468

    > The video provides a good overview about the issues surrounding bias in ML, and I think it motivates a discussion that would be useful to have on HN, given the number of people w…

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    Comment #26071399

    It's not an especially good look, although I see in the past few minutes HSTS has been enabled!

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    Comment #25446022

    No, they just buy Canonical.

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    Comment #25408658

    What about this interesting submission makes it "clear" the account was "sold"?

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    Comment #25213253

    I'm not a lawyer, but can you explain how their privacy policy is privacy-conscious now and going forward, and how centralization of network transit with Cloudflare isn't a bad thi…

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    Comment #25213181

    Honest question: How do you view it as an improvement? The same data is being shared, and the only difference is that Cloudflare isn't immediately behaving in the same evil ways as…

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    Comment #25063494

    It is a sad reflection on HN that comments like this are so aggressively downvoted.

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    Comment #24832505

    With all due respect to the author here, the arguments presented aren't particularly compelling. > Apologists for proprietary software like to say, “free software is a nice dream, …

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    Comment #24812412

    Is this news? This is a block storage failure on Rackspace. EBS volumes on Amazon fail all the time, as anyone who manages a large number of instances probably knows (0.1%-0.2% per…

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    Comment #24806900

    If I do this, will they lock my shadow profile for 30 days?

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    Comment #24725590

    How so? Brian Eno owes his fans nothing.

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    Comment #24593809

    > As part of the AWS Cost Management suite, AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is integrated with AWS Cost Explorer > https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/ > The Cost Explore…