Is this really crypto-jacking? Because it's not clear to me from the article the end user did anything wrong. Maybe it's just "legitimate" cryptomining in an unexpected way.
Readit Newsariehkovler commented on When Losing $10k to Cryptojacking Is a Good Investment thenewstack.io/when-losin... · Posted by u/blazercohen
I don't think the model has existed long enough, especially through hard times, to make a judgement on if it's effective or not.
Yeah, I tend to agree. I guess we'll see which companies can make it work and what happens to the projects if they don't.
Well, it makes sense, you can outsource bug fixing and reporting for free.
You can test and use the software for free
Companies can outsource the responsibility of hosting.
> Well, it makes sense, you can outsource bug fixing and reporting for free.
In the long term, maybe. In the short to medium term, most of the development ends up being done by the company who created the project.
I guess for simple stuff like typo bugs, people will submit PRs, and maybe organisations with weird use-cases will merge their integrations etc into the project, though.
ariehkovler commented on It's time to stop texting dfeldman.medium.com/its-t... · Posted by u/schvenk
This is silly, most people have never even heard of Signal or Telegram, and only 25-50% of my contacts have WhatsApp. I could either immediately message anyone over fast and reliable SMS, but I should instead ask them to install some app first?
Moreover, despite all of the hate, iMessage actually works great. If the other person happens to have an iPhone (as most of my contacts do), they automatically get all these modern features, and if they don't, it seamlessly fails over to SMS and just works without anybody needing to think about it.
> only 25-50% of my contacts have WhatsApp
In many countries, EVERYONE has WhatsApp. In Israel it's how your boss, your work team, your kid's daycare, businesses and government offices communicate with you.
ariehkovler commented on It's time to stop texting dfeldman.medium.com/its-t... · Posted by u/schvenk
I don't think I've sent an SMS in more than five years. But outside of the US, everyone uses WhatsApp with E2E encryption baked in.
ariehkovler commented on Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine findthatmeme.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/whoisburbansky
This is mad and I love it.
This seems to be an increasingly popular model: Make an open source project on the one hand and selling a hosted, managed version of the open source product on the other.
ariehkovler commented on I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler anonymousdata.medium.com/... · Posted by u/formalsystems
the crowd sourcing and eyes of regular people could have predicted it anyhow, and many people did in fact do just that simply by reading Parler or 4chan and taking threats seriously. See for example Arieh Kovler, 21 December 2020:
"On January 6, armed Trumpist militias will be rallying in DC, at Trump's orders. It's highly likely that they'll try to storm the Capitol after it certifies Joe Biden's win. I don't think this has sunk in yet.[...] To be clear here, I don't think the 3%ers, Proud Boys, Oathkeepers or boogaloo types are going to seize the Capitol. But some of them are going try. And people will die."
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341016471795843080?s...
Don't spin this into some borderline gas-lightning argument about letting more of these people run rampart on platforms, this is a result of not taking far-right extremism seriously. If these people faced the full force of the law and state like ISIS-propagandists do you would not see them try to storm (and succeed) to occupy a federal building.
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