I don't understand it: these companies have enormous funding, an army of employees, and they can't provide the service reliably (both regarding consistency and safety). What all these coders do all day? I'm asking as an uninformed party of course. But it looks to me like these are companies that build bridges, and their bridges are collapsing all the time.
Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
> PS: Make sure to change your Twitch (and possibly Prime) password. Twitch is already prompting users to do so based on Reddit posts. This is not worth worrying about. If Twitch is making you reset your password, that means you don’t need to hurry because they’ve already locked your account. If your password hash leaked, the important thing isn’t Twitch, it’s every other place you used the same password.
Just spend 2 minutes and change your password instead of spending 2 minutes thinking about whether you should.
Then you would not be solving the problem because you need to change everywhere else you used that same password.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they use the common github approach of one fork per contributor, 6,000 repos accumulate quickly.
I've never worked in this way (when I've been part of the org), is it that common? What are the benefits of making everyone fork repos vs branching off the original repo?
I don't think that's a common workflow within companies. In every org I have worked at, forking is explicitly disabled
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#174Is this the first major porn site to be hacked?
Twitch is not porn. It's maybe a gateway to onlyfans, but you cannot have sexual content on twitch. Even YouTube allows more nudity then twitch. So yes, there are girls wearing bikinis and underwear on camera, but that's as far as it goes.
The microphone ear licking channels are definitely more sexual than many "NSFW" subreddits.
What actually defines porn? It's hard to say, but you know it when you see it. Spend 5 minutes watching any of the ear lickers on the front page of twitch and make your mind up for yourself. I find it hard to come to the conclusion that it's not porn.
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#175HN is vastly concerned about privacy and screaming about FB transgression on these issues etc., but the top post here is about disseminating private information of 10's of thousands of people.
at least that table above doesn't reveal much you couldn't have estimated from their official twitch page to begin with and I don't really consider earnings that private (neither do most of the top streamers by the way who tend to display their sub count on their streams).
People on HN probably would very much oppose leaking private DMs but transparency on celebrity earnings is not exactly that big of a deal. I'd actually like earnings transparency in general, like it already exists in Sweden.
Given that children's rights on the internet seem to be a hot topic, this might give some of them an idea who they're giving their hard earned money to.
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#176You really have to feel bad for the IT staff at Twitch who I expect are going to have a bad day today.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
>It's not really materially different to paying Disney millionaires to go watch the latest Marvel movie. I feel like it's substantially different, you are paying Disney the money to watch the movie, you don't really care about the actors or other people who worked on it. On the other hand, twitch users pay for the sake of paying money, it's closer to something like strip clubs.
That's a pretty harsh moral/value judgment on how someone chooses to spend their entertainment money. What about comedy clubs? If I buy a ticket to see Dave Chappelle, who is clearly wealthy, am I sucker too? What about paying cover at my local bar because a local band is playing that night? What about buying tickets to a baseball game, to see a bunch of millionaires play a game for a few hours? You are making it see…
Sorry, I didn't mean that in a derogatory way. I just meant twitch users pay for the sake of giving money to their favorite streamers rather than paying for a product. Strip clubs are the first example that came to my mind, bands or comics also stand. My point was that OP's argument about comparing twitch to movies doesn't make sense because paying for a movie is no different than paying for groceries.
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#178Are we sure that we are comfortable sharing the actual leak on this website? If we are, fine, but that is a choice we are making.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
>It's not really materially different to paying Disney millionaires to go watch the latest Marvel movie. I feel like it's substantially different, you are paying Disney the money to watch the movie, you don't really care about the actors or other people who worked on it. On the other hand, twitch users pay for the sake of paying money, it's closer to something like strip clubs.
That's a pretty harsh moral/value judgment on how someone chooses to spend their entertainment money. What about comedy clubs? If I buy a ticket to see Dave Chappelle, who is clearly wealthy, am I sucker too? What about paying cover at my local bar because a local band is playing that night? What about buying tickets to a baseball game, to see a bunch of millionaires play a game for a few hours? You are making it see…
If the Dave Chappelle show were free but you chose to donate your money to Dave Chappelle anyway, yes, you're a sucker.
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#180Are we sure that we are comfortable sharing the actual leak on this website? If we are, fine, but that is a choice we are making.
Why not?