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Oh, this. Author here. I'm waiting for legislation around this, but I'm not sure we'll ever get it. I was on the phone with a senior Apple support specialist person and I even prof…

I had a streaming piracy site that I went to federal prison for. I can chime in on these people. It's worth separating the two populations: My users had money and had considered le…

"Login to order" That's a new one.

Sometimes I'll search LinkedIn for posts on internet piracy. It's usually companies or those affiliated with companies promoting their anti-piracy product—typically streaming. I'd …

I'm hardly a sysadmin and I think Unraid is great. My usecase is some Docker containers and media backups. The UI gets the job done well, whereas Synology tries to dumb things down…

Is there a best and not-so-best category for certain odds?

I ran the ATS myself and had a similarly quirky experience. I was in the 70s because it couldn't find my GitHub profile, and then it didn't like some of the popular Ruby libraries …

Reminds me of HotScripts, which is still around for anyone looking for nostalgia: https://www.hotscripts.com/category/scripts/php/scripts-prog...

Been waiting for seahorse myself.

The shame has passed and I served my time. What I owe now is not doing it again—which I'm not.

It's the digital equivalent of your house burning down, your devices are inside it, and you never bothered to bring the 2FA codes you definitely wrote down to the bank.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844197

If there are any Dropboxers here (drew—I emailed you a few weeks ago, but I imagine you're busy): I went to prison for 18 months, my digital and physical life was stolen from me: h…

barman seems to cover "Natural disaster" in their docs. Seems good. I'll take a look. Thanks!

I have a moderately sized 2TB production database I have enjoyed using pgBackRest on, and was—this week—going to set it up on another 8TB database we have. What's the next-closest …

is `current_user` really costing that much?

I ran a sports streaming service ("pirated sports streaming service" ?). The US Government said I was making $250k MRR as a solo indie dev (I wasn't, but that's great validation). …

What are your, um, favorite gum providers?

I didn’t know about this case. When you said it I thought it must have been a US federal case. Nope. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844197

I was in federal prison with Sebastien Raoult, one of the ShinyHunters guys. We were in the same unit and talked regularly. I was about mid-way through my bid when another inmate t…

In my vast personal experience, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030 is the most absurdly vague law in existence.

My dad spun up my Pentium Deschutes (400MHz!) machine the other day. Same hard drive from when I was 10 years old. “clouds.psd” was on the desktop. I still remember retiring that c…

Related: Em dash leaderboard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071722