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ethanplant
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Comment #48952438
Hey! This is a really neat project, especially considering your age. That being said, I’m confused by why what is essentially a beginner learning project is being wrapped in langua…
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Comment #48848620
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Comment #48838116
“This article reached a conclusion from the author’s perspective” is not a criticism of writing. It is a description of writing. Good writing is almost never neutral. It can be fai…
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Comment #48753544
I think the idea that it’s a trust issue is broadly correct. “Free vibe-coded anonymous Linux server with root access” immediately causes every infrastructure and security neuron i…
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Comment #48740677
Broadly I agree that you can’t expect organizations to change their behaviour without changing the incentives. That’s essentially my argument in favour of the platform accountabili…
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Comment #48479685
> my philosophy is this: if I'm doing my job properly, the user should never even know I exist. This is my philosophy too working in infrastructure. It’s my job to care way too muc…
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Comment #48456780
These days I get most of mine from curated RSS feeds, here, and Kagi Small Web.
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Comment #48327743
I’d be cautious about saying OpenBSD itself is directly affected. It really depends on if OpenBSD counts as an “electronic service provider”. You do raise a pretty good point thoug…
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