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Politics is not a game or a religious belief. It is a literal matter of life and death for millions of people who have very little power. (Hint: not tech workers.)

Can you explain who and what you mean by this?

This isn't about the interests of tech workers, it's about our responsibility to society as a group of people who have been handed a lot of power. In a world with so much inequalit…

Are you equating a firearm registration system with a fascist database of a minority religion?

It sounds to me like your perspective may be skewed by having watched too many Hollywood action movies.

You can open your eyes but not look at the phone.

> It's worth noting that antirez has, as is usual for him, dealt with this issue wonderfully by making a call without downplaying the importance of the problem. He was doing okay u…

What do you mean? Are you implying that you make sure you're never alone with women in order to avoid sexually harassing them?

by "agenda" do you mean the agenda of exposing sexism at Uber? because that's what the whole post is about. and why exactly would it make you doubt her credibility?

are you openly admitting that the AWS service status page runs on AWS? because that is far more embarrassing than this downtime ever could be

it would appear that you are correct "The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates." https://twitter.com/awscloud…

when you start investigating an outage, that is exactly when you should change your checkmark to yellow if not red. if you're as big as AWS there should not be any more than a minu…

I like how this post says "if you look at the AWS Status Page, this what you see". but you can't see the image. because S3 is down.

what's truly incredible is that S3 has been offline for h̶a̶l̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶h̶o̶u̶r̶ two hours now and Amazon still has the audacity to put five shiny green checkmarks next to S3 on th…

Why would you ever want to add a second broken hash like MD5 instead of just using a single secure function like SHA2, SHA3, or BLAKE2?

This is important. Linode have proven many times to be irresponsible and insecure.

Python 3 is a more modern, better language, that's why. Hopefully, grumpy will support it soon enough, though it's understandable that they started with 2.7 to support Google's hug…

The stuff about Trump is mostly verifiably true beyond reasonable doubt. ("I like to assault women.", dozens of women in his circles: "Yeah he does that.") The stuff about Clinton …

Either you or the Uber driver in question completely made that up. Nobody is paying drivers $60 for $3 rides.

> there's 'women in tech' organisations that have been accused of framing technology leaders for sexual assault just to marginalize them Just what kind of absurd anti-feminist cons…

I think that's a good point, but to make a counterpoint, there are many documented cases of their soldiers independently doing just that.

She said no multiple times and he persistently pressured her anyways. As leader in the Tor community and a colleague she looked up to he was in a huge position of power making it e…

According to them their marketing guy clearly had to have the ability to upload arbitrary executable files to their Wordpress site. Which by the way ran their entire exchange and h…

Yep, they told us it would be $1k/month to use their organization system too. Which is really sad, because very few small companies are going to pay that, and using a regular user …