mediocrejoker (u/mediocrejoker)

mediocrejoker commented on Apple Sign In techcrunch.com/2019/06/03... · Posted by u/ikarandeep

dyarosla · 7 years ago

Devils advocate:

‘Error: We love Apple and anonymity but we require a real email address to prevent fraud and to properly secure your account. Please enter your real email address.’

mediocrejoker · 7 years ago

This is going to be a tough sell to your marketing dept I think.

mediocrejoker commented on Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent techcrunch.com/2019/05/30... · Posted by u/pseudolus

Dig1t · 7 years ago

I don't know what this site has against jokes, but you can have my upvote.

mediocrejoker · 7 years ago

The site guidelines are here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Jokes aren't explicitly against the guidelines either, but I think the site likes to emphasize high quality content that will not alienate people who don't understand obscure references.

mediocrejoker commented on SaaS CTO Security Checklist sqreen.com/checklists/saa... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

mediocrejoker · 7 years ago

The slider of funding rounds is a neat idea but it's kind of hard to read in chronological order without mentally keeping track of which items appeared each time I slid it forward.

Would love to see a plain, non-javascript version of this content.

mediocrejoker commented on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users 9to5google.com/2019/05/29... · Posted by u/estranhosidade

nh2 · 7 years ago

Firefox has significant performance and correctness problems.

* Multi-second UI jank/freeze (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546847)

* HTTP2 is broken, infinite-stalls and internal errors surface if you upload enough files (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540574)

* WebGL is very slow on Linux (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1010527)

* High CPU on Linux even when in the background, possibly due to frequent polling (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508427)

These are just a few issues that I'm directly involved in and suffer from every day, and into which I've sunk over 100 hours profiling and reading code of, simply because they make it an absolute pain to use.

mediocrejoker · 7 years ago

I've had a few instances of firefox on Mac and Linux starting to spin up the fans, and show high CPU usage, and I've had trouble pinning down which tab was causing it.

Is about:performance the best place to do this or is there something like Chrome's task manager that shows CPU and memory usage per page, and per extension?

mediocrejoker commented on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users 9to5google.com/2019/05/29... · Posted by u/estranhosidade

Improvotter · 7 years ago

The only thing I'm missing on Firefox is when I am on my Macbook, is that fling when using my touchpad. It's essential to any MacOS app and it feels weird not to have it. I'm used to it on Linux and Windows though.

mediocrejoker · 7 years ago

By fling, do you mean the two-finger horizontal scroll to move back and forward through history? If so, I miss it too.

mediocrejoker commented on What English sounds like if you don't understand it eiman.tv/blog/posts/markl... · Posted by u/janvdberg

mediocrejoker · 7 years ago

The same claim is made about this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

mediocrejoker commented on Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections labsblog.f-secure.com/201... · Posted by u/ljf

tsimionescu · 7 years ago

Thanks for the link, but it mostly disproves your dismissive attitude: according to the report, posts generated by accounts controller by the Russian company reached 29 million people on Facebook alone (and " may have reached an estimated 126 million people."), with hundreds of thousands of direct followers for several individual accounts. That is not nothing.

mediocrejoker · 7 years ago

It's not nothing, but it's interesting to note that the amount they spent is dwarfed by the amounts currently being spent by top democrats (and Trump's re-election campaign), several of which are in the low millions of dollars.

> According to Facebook, the IRA purchased over 3,500 advertisements, and the expenditures totaled (sic) approximately $100,000

I think everyone would like to know how much actual influence it had in the election but I'm not sure we will ever know definitively.

mediocrejoker commented on Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections labsblog.f-secure.com/201... · Posted by u/ljf

mlb_hn · 7 years ago

Wasn't that thorough. ODNI report from 2017 was broader in scope (https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf). The 2019 Mueller report looks restricted to areas where there was possible collusion (just some of the social media stuff that was retweeted by Trump campaign people/stuff related to the DNC hacks/etc.).

mediocrejoker · 7 years ago

This report might be interesting as well.

https://disinformationreport.blob.core.windows.net/disinform...

The two biggest caveats about it in my mind are that 1) all the data was provided voluntarily by the tech companies, with no indication of how they determined what was a Russian account, and 2) they don't really have any way to measure what actual impact it had on the election, or how effective the disinformation campaigns were

mediocrejoker commented on Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections labsblog.f-secure.com/201... · Posted by u/ljf

dev_dull · 7 years ago

I’m skeptical that has any material impact on the elections. Why do I think so? Because you can ask someone who holds different opinion than you about those subjects and you’ll know exactly why they vote the way to they do.

You may not agree with it, but I really don’t think you’ll cling to the idea that they’ve been hypnotized by internet trolls.

mediocrejoker · 7 years ago

Doesn't it depend on how close the election was to begin with? If it's very close, you may not need to move the needle very far to change the outcome.

mediocrejoker commented on In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us... · Posted by u/SREinSF

NikolaeVarius · 7 years ago

https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1132345806177144833

Some interesting rebuttal notes. Apparently it is the vulnerability that is being exploited, not eternalblue itself.

mediocrejoker · 7 years ago

Digging into this a bit more and reading between the lines of the nytimes article, it sounds to me like EternalBlue was indeed used as part of the attack chain, for lateral movement. It was not the only exploit used, nor would the attack have been wholly prevented without it.

https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/113232602124240076...