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'Arcane terminal commands'? These are standard basic terminal commands.

It obviously depends. It's not a one size fits all answer.

You can't really make an informed decision without knowing how much data they were moving. For it to be that expensive, you'd need to be moving a ludicrous amount of data, and you …

Just because it's an old method doesn't mean it's a bad method.

I believe they titled it that way on purpose.

Windows needs sysadmins too, and Mac does as well. There are group policies and all sorts of other tools out there for managing Macs. Apple even has documentation on this. Someone …

They are, but a lot of people think they need a commercial kitchen to make a bagel now a days, because they've only worked in commercial kitchens.

This seems a bit generalized. Yes, infrastructure as code/etc. are becoming more prevalent, but underneath there are still systems running. While a lot of jobs can abstract away th…

A newer Raspberry Pi can run most of the web fine, the $600 argument is laughably false.

Did you ever update your root certificates after some of the LetsEncrypt certificates expired in September?

Are you saying that developers should improve their security by monitoring their own commits?

You can't think of any examples around you of organizations that have networks?

Agreed, about 99% of admins I know would not be able to identify this error, and most likely most Hacker News reads. The last sentence on your post is very true.

Running a server to do database, authentication, comments, etc. is relatively simple. If you're trying to do scaling or whatever, sure. But to do all of that on a single vanilla se…

CentOS wasn't "shut down"... it's still out there, just as CentOS Stream now. The changes for most users are minimal to not even noticeable.

You're expecting the NSA to recommend BeyondCorp?

Transferring files

There is nothing in their terms of service or privacy policy that says personal information can't be used for an ongoing investigation.. just that it can't be used by "the Communit…

What would be the advantage of using this over AppLocker or the built-in Windows tools?

Just don't follow toxic sources, that's all he's advocating. If someone's sharing memes from a crazy political page, either block that page or remove the friend. People say social …

Probably blockchain

Or pretty much any other person. I think a lot of people in HN forget that they are in a silo, and the majority of internet users don't add additional security features like contai…

It's not generally used to assess your own attack surface - it's mainly used to assess the attack surface of others using their search syntax. It's a Google of vulnerable systems.

Pretty much every service by default discloses version numbers.