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I bet Linux, whatever distro you use, wasn’t right for you to begin with; but you made it yours by tweaking it to your liking. Trust me, you can tweak macOS to your liking, as well. I used to be a Lin…
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> Wachy uses the magic of eBPF ... eBPF may be magical, but because it's not readily usable, nobody uses its magical powers. I haven't tried Wachy, yet, but the short demo video on the la…
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I wrote a few browser based small apps at q.ht [1], in the hopes that once written and tested, I will never have to maintain that code or infrastructure. While most of those tchotchke apps are still s…
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30716390
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Oh no, what have I done! I hope you're not referring to my comment here [1]. Please note, that was, and remains, purely a speculation/hypothesis; see the thread after that. I have no knowled…
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This advice makes a lot of sense to the affected person after the fact. But when someone's hurting, in that moment, the cannot relate to this advice. Human nature is immensely complex, and hence …
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Dear Bereaved Parent, Given how you have phrased the situation, I don't think you or your wife are in a place to take on battles. Please take care of yourself first, take care of your wife; tell …
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Agreed. It’s all speculation at this point. I hope I did not make it sound like I have any evidence to backup my speculation. I was just trying to come up with a threat vector to explain how it might …
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Perhaps the app was not compromised, to begin with. Hackers might’ve gotten into the build infrastructure of the app, rewrote it to make it compromised, and then all the users of that app are now comp…
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What else do you expect them to say? Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. It’s perfectly okay to not say anything prematurely that can cause any confusion; with the employees, customers, and medi…
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One possible route: a Microsoft employee using an Okta protected product/service. That other product/service was compromised, which let hackers hack into MS employee’s computer, which gave t…
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If the protagonist of this story, Gbenga Adewoyin, is here, or if someone can put me in touch with him, I am willing to back his efforts with my money. This is so that he can raise the stakes, and at…
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Link for the curious: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility... …
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Just a note that this comment, and the thread below it (hopefully excluding the one you're reading), produced zero value to the readers of the thread. Writing these comments must've taken a …
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Related: The Sound of Running Water Puts Beavers in the Mood to Build https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67662/sound-running-wate... …
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It's not really a discovery, or study. The article is implying that stronger hands help prevent falls. And because falls are _the_ (emphasis theirs) leading cause of injury-related death for peop…
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That model would succeed only in dense cities. American cities are so sparse, a police station/force without cars, or very few cars, just cannot do the policing or helping it would need to do.
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Why do you insist that the other email address be a non-Google account? Is it not sufficient if the other/recovery email is your family member's Google/GMail account?
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If you think so, please spend some more effort and provide the correct capitalization, as well.