Context: court filing today and first substantive response from Automattic / Matt Mullenweg in the case WP Engine filed against them.
Readit Newswp381640 commented on "WordPress.org is not WordPress" [pdf] storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/wp381640
wp381640 commented on “Crypto drainer” template facilitates theft blog.confiant.com/how-one... · Posted by u/eliya_confiant
Banking the unbanked lol.
More unbanking the banked recently
wp381640 commented on Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs blog.coinbase.com/a-messa... · Posted by u/npalli
wp381640 commented on Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data forbes.com/sites/abrambro... · Posted by u/Balgair
"If the average length of a tweet (minus headers) is ~100 bytes of text, that’s only 50GB. You could fit it on a USB stick." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1534939289653592065
Having worked with the Twitter API, I think he's rather underestimating how much volume this is gonna wind up being, the amount of processing it'll entail, and the difficulties of determining "this is a bot" from just the Tweet data.
I found this tweet very naive and an indication that Musk really doesn't know what he's getting into.
I don't see how he thinks tweet content alone will be enough to verify the 5% of monthly monetizable users
The other poor indicator was his tweet about sampling _100_ of his own replies to detect bots. That's a horribly small sample and horrible selection bias
The firehose is terabytes a day, add storage + indexes and it's pretty far from "fitting on an USB stick" in order to analyze.
wp381640 commented on What a gas stove ban means for restaurants latimes.com/food/story/20... · Posted by u/fortran77
I can guarantee you that the fabrication / transportation / installation of a new electric unit far outweighs using the existing gas unit until end of life in terms of CO2 emissions. No different than diving a old truck vs buying a new tesla. Net negative.
> in terms of CO2 emissions
CH4 is the larger concern with natural gas
This paper explains it:
wp381640 commented on Security Vulnerability in Tor Browser darknetlive.com/post/psa-... · Posted by u/Vladimof
A reminder that Tor Browser might be one of the least safe browsers you can run: it's a fork of Firefox, meaning that its maintainers have to coordinate and port patches from the mainline project. Firefox is already not one of the most hardened browser engines. Meanwhile, the fork you'll be running is specifically designed to hide sensitive traffic, and collapses all those users into a single version for exploits to target.
I'm ambivalent about Tor, but if you're using Tor, don't use the Browser Bundle.
If you use anything but the Tor Browser on the Tor network you're going to stand out like a flare
Further - many of the privacy enhancements in Firefox, such as fingerprint protection, were adopted from the work on Tor Browser
wp381640 commented on $1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing hindenburgresearch.com/te... · Posted by u/ilamont
Yes, he has a website where he pats himself on the back for all of the good calls he's made. I've seen it. Ask yourself, why does a short seller need public confidence at all? It's because they want to be able to move the stock price when they publish something.
This argument has been done to death. I personally find the conga line of analysts and hedge fund managers who appear on CNBC and talk up their book of shit picks a lot worse than the best short selling shops.
There are so many bad companies that are public today, they really need somebody nipping at their heels.
I'm surprised how small Backblaze is.
Am I reading this right that they only had 53 million USD in Revenue in 2020?
That's a tiny fraction of, say, Dropbox's revenue. I would have expected them to be in the 30-50% range of Dropbox on size.
And with 164 employees to boot, that's only $323,000 revenue per employee. I wonder what the compensation is like there.
Carbonite - which is rarely mentioned on hn, had a $300M+ run-rate when they were acquired in 2019
I think brand awareness of Backblaze is insular - I remember Carbonite had the strategy of advertising on right-wing radio in the 00's which seems to have worked for them.
I feel bad for taking advantage of their personal backup plan ($60/yr) now that I see they're struggling to gross a profit. I just can't find a better way to back up 80TB offsite with that value.
How did you ever think backing up 80TB for $60 a year was good for the company? You didn't need financial filings to know it wasn't.