aurantia (u/aurantia)

aurantia commented on Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations palant.info/2023/01/23/bi... · Posted by u/lawgimenez

kadoban · 3 years ago

> Not all books in all languages ever published are "somewhere out there".

I mean, they mostly are or can be. What's the point on relying on "nobody happened to catalog the book I copied my passphrase from"? Are you going to check every week that nobody uploaded it to an archive site?

There's easier schemes that don't rely on that.

aurantia · 3 years ago

For smaller languages the steps would be: - Somebody would have to digitize an old book without mistakes. - Somebody would have to publish it online. - Somebody would have to scrape and archive that. - Somebody would have to transliterate it to Latin script. - That transliteration would also have be the same transliteration I'm using.

It's unlikely it will be done for a lot of languages.

> There's easier schemes that don't rely on that.

Remembering random words is hard. This is how we got into this in the first place.

aurantia commented on Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations palant.info/2023/01/23/bi... · Posted by u/lawgimenez

artisticnuke · 3 years ago

Popular movie quotes or lines from books with minor iterations are bad choices. They are somewhere out there and not as safe as one might think. Completely random choice of words is good, but it is not feasible to remember random passphrases for all of your accounts.

Other common methods include appending a particular character to each word or alternate words...creating a pattern of sort, but this again makes it difficult to remember, which was the reason why we preferred passphrases instead of passwords in first place.

aurantia · 3 years ago

> Popular movie quotes or lines from books with minor iterations are bad choices. They are somewhere out there and not as safe as one might think.

In English. Not all books in all languages ever published are "somewhere out there".

aurantia commented on Normalising Layoffs/Firing · Posted by u/_448

hdjjhhvvhga · 3 years ago

When I started working in Europe, one of the most shocking this I learned was that you basically can't be fired under a normal work contract. I mean in theory you can, e.g. with group layoffs, gross negligence and so on, but it's illegal to fire person A and hire person B to do their job. You have to basically dissolve the job the person A was doing and when you hire the person B, they must not be doing what the laid off person was doing or else they can sue you.

aurantia · 3 years ago

Europe is not a single country, the EU is not a single country.

aurantia commented on Ask HN: Should a 'no side projects' policy be taken seriously? · Posted by u/throwaway9195

nopehnnope · 3 years ago

As an employee you have a duty of loyalty to your employer. I’m not sure about side projects generally, that is probably a Cyprus specific question. But I’d be shocked if it’s legal anywhere to release a product that competes with what you work on at your job. That’s just common sense. You would likely be violating not just your employment contract, but also trade secret, copyright, patents, etc. This is egregious enough behavior to even be criminally charged in many places.

aurantia · 3 years ago

> But I’d be shocked if it’s legal anywhere to release a product that competes with what you work on at your job.

That happens everyday. In fact most companies are found by people who already work in the industry. You simply should not steal trade secrets, copyright or patents.

aurantia commented on Who cares about plagiarism? worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/apophatic

aurantia · 4 years ago

It's about the cost of credit. References are free in academia. In music crediting means paying royalties. In academia the assumption is that citing is fair use up to a point (a paragraph? a page?). Since songs are much shorter, the window for "fair use" is also much shorter (5 seconds? 10 seconds?).

aurantia commented on Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read? · Posted by u/michalu

ripitrust · 4 years ago

https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more

This article inspired me on two things :

1) Lots of the things I do in everyday life is just to consume: buying, watching, following, etc. These things either consume my money, or my time. These things make me feel good, but it does not generate real value. In order to get rich, I need to create things. I also start to realize that great people are great because they started to create things at a very early stage of their life (but not consuming things as they advocate, think about celebrities, entrepreneurs etc), so they are able to practice and perfect the value creating skills to the extreme.

2) I start to realize that the world is binary in nature : I create to sell, I buy to consume. I either at the buyer side, or at the seller side. And in this current society, there is a huge buyer side trap, the whole idea of consumerism and social media is to trap you inside the buyer side, so you keep buying, you keep consuming. I really need to break free from this trap.

This blog post was written before COVID-19, but the idea feels even fresher during this pandemic era

aurantia · 4 years ago

While I do agree with your first point, I think it's a bit .. obvious. Of course you need to create value in order to be great (or get rich).

Regarding the article, it doesn't match my experience. All the prolific creators I know (about) are prolific consumers as well. Writers are known to read a lot. The girl the author saw sketching on the bus probably loves looking at and reading about art and does it often as well as actually creating art.

The other issue is the amount of creative effort you can spend. For example, software engineering is a very creative job and often at the end of the day I just have no energy left to create more.

aurantia commented on OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video] youtube.com/watch?v=aneK0... · Posted by u/tectonic

astrea · 4 years ago

Welp, where will all of us end up when this gets sufficiently complex?

aurantia · 4 years ago

There's still a long road ahead until that happens. Writing a single function, even if includes a long a list of steps, is not the main challenge nowadays. The challenge is how the code is organized, i.e. architecture.

aurantia commented on I made a mistake with Terraform and Azure made it worse craigstuntz.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

orangejewce · 4 years ago

workspaces are specifically _not_ intended to be used as environment replacements. And it wouldn't have caught the OPs issue to begin with. His problem was he didn't read the plan, because it's pretty basic that any change of a resource name or a change of type equates deletion and TF will report back saying it will destroy a resource that is missing in the config but in the state.

To solve his problem, after switching to the data source type from resource he needed to manually run `terraform state rm` to get rid of the resource from the state.

aurantia · 4 years ago

> workspaces are specifically _not_ intended to be used as environment replacements.

From Terraform's "An Overview of Our Recommended Workflow"[1]:

  "The best approach is to use one workspace for each environment of a given infrastructure component. Or in other words, Terraform configurations * environments = workspaces."

So 1 workspace != 1 environment but workspaces are indeed intended to handle multiple environments.

I've personally struggled with managing multiple environments using Terraform so I'm interested in what the best practices are.

[1]: https://www.terraform.io/docs/cloud/guides/recommended-pract...

aurantia commented on Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice edwardsnowden.substack.co... · Posted by u/yellow_lead

aurantia · 4 years ago

> the idea that conspiracies themselves are [..] a typology through which people who lack definite or satisfactory narratives as citizens explain to themselves [..]

I really like this idea. To me it means that conspiracy theories create modern day mythology. Ancient people used myths to explain to themselves things they either didn't understand or feared. I've always wondered how did they come with these outrageous ideas but it now makes sense.