The way the admin panel screenshot is censored is not good as per this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326450
All those names could be recovered in theory.
Readit Newsttsda commented on I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel alaa.blog/2020/12/how-i-h... · Posted by u/hackerpain
A lot of people, including me, dislike threading in Slack. It breaks the algorithm for reading new messages. I use it when teammates do, and acknowledge it's useful sometimes, but I would prefer not to have that feature.
Discord also does not have threads. I've heard some complaints about it, but not many.
Threads in Zulip seem to change it into a different kind of app. I don't see how the Slack workspaces that I've used heavily would work with it. There are about 15 channels in my sidebar. Making them nested would turn it into 75, assuming 5 threads per channel. Perhaps there wouldn't need to be as many top-level channels with Zulip threads, but it makes it into a whole different paradigm. They are also missing Slack-style threads. I don't think it would be good to adopt it.
I think threads, used sparingly, are nice. They're good to have semi-private messages, so you can keep the more irrelevant conversation that would normally go to PM public and searchable, while not spamming the channel.
They're also good for support channels, to have a thread per support message.
A few years ago I made a modular IRC bot using ztcp. Probably comes with a bunch of security holes: https://github.com/tiagoad/zshbot/
ttsda commented on Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) returntonow.net/2018/01/1... · Posted by u/karimford
The unanswered question is what will you do with the mushrooms after they've munched on petroleum or plastic? My guess is that you're not going to want them on your pizza cause they might just be toxic. Will we only be replacing one kind of waste with another?
For plastics the answer is out there, biodegradable plastic made from corn. It has to overcome two problems:
1. It's slightly more expensive
2. If we want it to degrade rapidly we need to make an investment in plants to do it. Otherwise you're looking at 100 years versus 300+ years for regular plastic.
If those mushrooms truly degraded the petroleum or plastic into something harmless, they can be simply turned into compost.
Since the article buried the (technical) lead a bit, I'll just mention that they used Cloudflare Workers.
I imagine Cloudflare Workers is better than AWS Lambda (or Lambda at Edge) at handling sharp traffic spikes, since the use of V8 isolates yields much lower cold start times than AWS's micro-VMs. Does anyone have real experience with both models?
It's like night and day in my (small) experience. Cold start is VERY fast.
ttsda commented on Show HN: Grist, a Hacker Friendly Spreadsheet getgrist.com/blog... · Posted by u/paulfitz
Finally we have good alternatives to Airtable coming out! I'm really liking where this is going.
ttsda commented on A guide to preventing Webscraping github.com/JonasCz/How-To... · Posted by u/soheilpro
If your data is reasonably valuable, it will be impossible to deter a minimally invested developer armed with puppeteer (with some modifications), residential proxy services, and captcha solving (way less than a cent per captcha). Most sites that attempt to do it hinder their users more than they do the scrapers.
ttsda commented on hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet hcaptcha.com/post/hcaptch... · Posted by u/fab1an
Just turn on "Resist Fingerprinting" in Firefox and you'll find ReCAPTCHA _really_ annoying! I have to solve 3-5 "panes" of a ReCAPTCHA on _every_ page... It's very annoying that preserving privacy comes with this cost.
I almost want to just add a "DeathByCaptcha" extension to handle these for me and pay a few cents for every page I visit, lol
It's way cheaper than that, you'll pay significantly less than a cent for each captcha.
ttsda commented on What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? quora.com/What-was-it-lik... · Posted by u/Austin_Conlon
Top level executives very often lean to psychopthic tendencies than your average worker bees at corporations. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-... . You have to be a cold person to do a lot of what they do or at the very least have a very strong conviction that what you're doing is for some greater good (good chance it's yourself). I also suspect that ratio increases the larger the corporation.
I don't think there's more psychopathic tendencies in those positions because it's a necessity to being a successful leader.
I think a lot of people crave power, and with a disregard for morals and other people in general, it's easier to attain it. Good people also make good leaders, they just need more luck and hard work to get there without kicking on everyone across their path.
On the one hand, the argument is that individuals collecting artifacts destroys the scientific utility of the excavation site. On the other hand, someone doing the work to find coins seems better than nobody doing that work and having them lay in the ground.
I wonder if there are more instances of this trade-off between potential good and immediate good.
Taking the coins from the ground isn't the important part, its the scientific analysis in context that provides insight into the place's history. A coin in itself doesn't tell much, a lot of the same were probably found before.
It would be better for the sites to be explored properly later on. If it was a first come, first serve kind of thing, there wouldn't be anything left for future technology.