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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by viraptor »

pshirshov wrote: post #61
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lingua franca with all their contractors most likely.

Not at all. People preferred to use english to feel some connection to the world. That was mostly psychological. A Silicon Valley cargo cult if you wish. Also the company always avoided any use of external contractors.

I think you're reading to much into this. It's easier to not switch languages in one task. If you're using an English-based programming language and English libraries/frameworks, you're not going to name your own variables in a different language. Comments most often follow that too. Any time I see someone attempt that, it's extremely distracting.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by eatbitseveryday »

capableweb wrote: post #21
EMIRELADERO wrote: post #15

Could any kind soul out there upload the repositories to a public git instance?

No? It's 44GB of data. Magnet: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7e0ac90b489baee8a823381792ec67d465488fef&dn=yandexarc&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.co…

> Download at your own risk

Baseless fear-mongering or is there some truth to this you can elaborate on?

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by mtnGoat »

FpUser wrote: post #72
mtnGoat wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But could they find a judge/jury sympathetic to any Russian concerns?

You saying that US judges lack the integrity to issue impartial judgement?

Yes, I’m partially implying that and the records speak for themselves.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by unsupp0rted »

BonoboIO wrote: post #115
fencepost wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

any author would be idiotic to read stolen source code and then decide to create a OSS library/project based on what they learn from it. Ah, but will it make its way into Copilot? That could be interesting.

Oh that code, Copilot generated it. I m innocent. The Copilot Defence

I must be writing very obvious glue code because I’ve only ever had copilot suggest very obvious glue code.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by unosama »

rcfox wrote: post #48
imglorp wrote: post #23

Yandex reverse image search is very good. I use it more than tineye, bing, or goog. It either gives you the exact matches if it can find them, or else it can infer what is desired and show many similar matches.

I wonder if that's a function of their technology or their database. Google's image search used to be good, but regulations have forced them to cripple it in some ways, and they might have chosen not to surface results in some contexts.

It's not regulation. Google just has chosen to cripple it, the same way Twitter and Facebook mostly chose to censor certain viewpoints. All of these groups thing they are doing good.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by SXX »

If you want to know what's inside archives without downloading them I'm slowly working on my blog post about this breach. Will try to write a bit about affected Yandex services for those who never been interested in russian internet segment.

Also uploaded file lists from most of archives:

https://arseniyshestakov.com/2023/01/26/yandex-services-sour...

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by metadat »

rcfox wrote: post #39
SeanAnderson wrote: post #20

What are the short-term and long-term implications of this? I assume a drastically increased attack surface and potentially a boon for open-source development? Anything else?

Using stolen code in an open-source project seems like a bad idea.

Does the USA care to enforce Russian copyright law anymore? For the near to medium future it seems unlikely to be a priority.

Still not a solid foundation to start with, though.

Solution: Take kernel of the idea and implement it yourself.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by Strom »

bakugo wrote: post #52
imglorp wrote: post #23

Yandex reverse image search is very good. I use it more than tineye, bing, or goog. It either gives you the exact matches if it can find them, or else it can infer what is desired and show many similar matches.

It's also unexpectedly good at finding the original full images from cropped versions.

Not just cropped, the perspective and colors can be wrong. That is, you can take a photo of a poster on a wall from an angle, and it will give you the original image. It's impressive.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by [deleted] »

xwdv wrote: post #64
subw00f wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>This generation seems very sensitive to the prospect of computer crime. You're right. I remember a time, maybe 20 years ago, when stuff like this would be generally appreciated by any community of hackers.

I think the problem is people are entering a matured industry, all they know is the professional buttoned up culture we have today. People have no further curiosity beyond working and making money in tech. They do not have memories of a time when people tinkered around doing all kinds of crazy and possibly illegal stuff, just for fun, just to see if the could. Sad really.

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