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It was just a guess :) Would be interesting to see the RCA if/when it’s published.

Typical case of degraded mode of operation, I presume. That’s how well engineered systems should behave when they’re about to go down. My guess is that this particular outage was c…

Congrats on successfully completing the internship! Looks like you made a significant contribution. This is a well written summary as well. Reading it brought back memories from my…

As Matt Levine likes to say - everything is securities fraud. > contributing to global warming is securities fraud, and sexual harassment by executives is securities fraud, and cus…

A good number of comments here mention dealing with the GPU is going to be a major hurdle. What makes porting GPU drivers significantly more challenging than everything else?

Curious to know if AWS has ever hiked the price of any of its services.

Sounds like for some reason the monitor is running at 30Hz. You can confirm that using an app like EasyRes.

> This is only likely to make it slightly harder to track the small fraction of users already taking strong measures to prevent being tracked. This statement isn't correct. That sm…

Compute + DB should cover a lot of use cases, but it’ll be great to have support for more AWS services. DNS (Route53) issues are a pain to deal with for example.

What do multiple monitors have to do with having a dev env on EC2? But on a similar note, I use VS Code's Remote SSH plugin to connect to an EC2 on one monitor and terminal + brows…

That makes sense. So given that the attacker is technically sophisticated in this case, what are the tangible benefits of publishing the fingerprints? I guess one benefit might be …

Not sure about PubSub, but Kafka doesn’t store messages on disk forever by default. So hydrating the state from a message bus may not be a good idea depending on what you’re doing.…

If I understand your comment correctly - even though the fingerprints are published, the attacker can still reverse eng the implementation from the tools and bypass antivirus syste…

From their official blog post: > Based on my 25 years in cyber security and responding to incidents, I’ve concluded we are witnessing an attack by a nation with top-tier offensive …

Official blog post (no info on how the attack was performed though): https://www.fireeye.com/blog/products-and-services/2020/12/f... They’ve also released signatures to detect the …

I don’t understand why people like the spatial audio feature. How often do you move your head relative to your iDevice while watching a movie? The field of view is too narrow for i…

It doesn’t make sense to compare these to the wired Sennheiser cans. These are targeted towards a completely different market. I’d be surprised if the sound quality comes anywhere …

Persisting message offsets in DB has its own challenges. The apps become tightly coupled with a specific Kafka cluster and that makes it difficult to swap clusters in case of a fai…

Not OP, but I feel Wikipedia “has a soul”. The design doesn’t get in the way, is consistent and the information density is just right.

> Do you think having a set of opt-out functions/decorators for sensitive variables would be comforting? Opt-out is risky and I’d not want to use it in sensitive applications. Inst…