I don't know about "need", but it's certainly common to reach out to them... But that doesn't mean that they respond quickly. Google does not have a rep for reliably getting back to people quickly or even at all, and…
There's actually an entire genre here, sort of! The key is, you do not "rephrase texts". You get a court order REQUIRING all communications to go through an app that can be monitored by the court for compliance with the…
I'm super hyped about this, I've been working on this for the last couple-few years and I'm optimistic about the return to being primarily an open-source thing.
No, it did not used to be that "all forums had pervasive doxxing and swatting". That has never been true. It has never been widespread. Heck, swatting as we know it today wasn't even remotely common until quite…
Okay, but consider that I might be better off with a machine that approves or disapproves based on credit history and credit score than a banker who won't lend to me unless I get my husband's signature because he…
Someone pointed out an obvious one: You can open the file "/dev/mem" or equivalent on many Unix systems and break things horribly, and rust can't tell that you're doing it or stop you. Someone used this to write an…
You say it "comes off as part of an effort ... to mount another attack". Maybe it does to you, but I don't know why. I've never heard of this "fierce and dirty" competition between young languages. I've never seen…
It's not hard to articulate why: Nearly all the large numbers are beyond what anyone can actually pay. If you assume that the bet pays out at most 4 billion dollars, and simply can't pay more than that, suddenly the…
Remember, crime is just surprise pentesting with an ad hoc payment model. But also remember, surprise pentesting with an ad hoc payment model is crime.
If you make concessions in a circumstance like this, you just have the same problem again in a few years. If doing this gets Putin anything at all that he wants, it will keep happening. We know this because it already…
https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1498803126765191173 > hello i'm from the tech industry. today i'm going to explain how to solve all problems with whatever it is you do! based on my experience of writing…
It may be, but you may rest assured that when a recruiter asks me whether I'd like to work for Amazon, how they treat warehouse employees is going to be a factor in my answer. I've never been confident of the viability…
Do you think this applies in general to questions of legal liability, or is this one unique? If it's unique, why should anyone think that this case is unique? If you think in general it's "not hard" to know things about…
Lying is a reasonably fundamental part of research, but lying to humans can hurt them in various ways, and that's why we have human research ethics rules and standards that require an explicit process for obtaining…
The reason for this isn't "cowardice", though. I've read a lot of things by practicing people in the field on reasons for which they don't think human challenge trials produce reliable enough data. (Basically: You don't…
As a person who has watched this kind of thing happen a lot: I think a lot. I had a bunch of friends on tumblr who wrote and exchanged very similar fiction and art. The ones who were known to be trans, female, enbies,…
Due process for calling someone to resign is deciding that you personally feel they should resign, and saying so. If you don't see a difference between the things called "cancel culture" and the mob rule with violence,…
There is a big difference between what's reasonable and acceptable in random people and what's reasonable and acceptable in people who are established or establishing themselves as Community Leaders. We expect leaders…
I don't know about "particularly" famous but I know that I've talked to people whose family members were programmers who reacted with "wait you know SEEBS!?!" when they mentioned me, so apparently some people have heard…
Haha, wow. I totally forgot I wrote that one. When I wrote that I was unaware of some of the Sort Of Creepy stuff. I recognize that some of the allegedly creepy stuff is sorta misquoted. I think that matters. But I…
That's a fascinating take, but I don't think it's particularly related to what actually happened. I wasn't toxic because of some Microsoft FUD, I was toxic because I was a teenager with low empathy who hadn't learned…
In the sense of a logical implication which follows with full logical necessity: it doesn't. In the sense of a likely reason for someone to draw an inference: Most people do not specifically seek out excuses to take…
I think it would make more sense to make this opt-in. For instance, I set my profile not to be displayed a while back, but when I checked on this new thing, it was set to make at least some part of the profile public by…
Google did something significantly worse -- and spent ages apologizing for it and never really recovered from the reputation hit, and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to…
I think the 5th one is harder because it has a lot of reliance on recognizing a specific syntax for key/value stores, and may rely on realizing that a key/value store can have another key/value store as one of its…
I don't know about "need", but it's certainly common to reach out to them... But that doesn't mean that they respond quickly. Google does not have a rep for reliably getting back to people quickly or even at all, and…
There's actually an entire genre here, sort of! The key is, you do not "rephrase texts". You get a court order REQUIRING all communications to go through an app that can be monitored by the court for compliance with the…
I'm super hyped about this, I've been working on this for the last couple-few years and I'm optimistic about the return to being primarily an open-source thing.
No, it did not used to be that "all forums had pervasive doxxing and swatting". That has never been true. It has never been widespread. Heck, swatting as we know it today wasn't even remotely common until quite…
Okay, but consider that I might be better off with a machine that approves or disapproves based on credit history and credit score than a banker who won't lend to me unless I get my husband's signature because he…
Someone pointed out an obvious one: You can open the file "/dev/mem" or equivalent on many Unix systems and break things horribly, and rust can't tell that you're doing it or stop you. Someone used this to write an…
You say it "comes off as part of an effort ... to mount another attack". Maybe it does to you, but I don't know why. I've never heard of this "fierce and dirty" competition between young languages. I've never seen…
It's not hard to articulate why: Nearly all the large numbers are beyond what anyone can actually pay. If you assume that the bet pays out at most 4 billion dollars, and simply can't pay more than that, suddenly the…
Remember, crime is just surprise pentesting with an ad hoc payment model. But also remember, surprise pentesting with an ad hoc payment model is crime.
If you make concessions in a circumstance like this, you just have the same problem again in a few years. If doing this gets Putin anything at all that he wants, it will keep happening. We know this because it already…
https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1498803126765191173 > hello i'm from the tech industry. today i'm going to explain how to solve all problems with whatever it is you do! based on my experience of writing…
It may be, but you may rest assured that when a recruiter asks me whether I'd like to work for Amazon, how they treat warehouse employees is going to be a factor in my answer. I've never been confident of the viability…
Do you think this applies in general to questions of legal liability, or is this one unique? If it's unique, why should anyone think that this case is unique? If you think in general it's "not hard" to know things about…
Lying is a reasonably fundamental part of research, but lying to humans can hurt them in various ways, and that's why we have human research ethics rules and standards that require an explicit process for obtaining…
The reason for this isn't "cowardice", though. I've read a lot of things by practicing people in the field on reasons for which they don't think human challenge trials produce reliable enough data. (Basically: You don't…
As a person who has watched this kind of thing happen a lot: I think a lot. I had a bunch of friends on tumblr who wrote and exchanged very similar fiction and art. The ones who were known to be trans, female, enbies,…
Due process for calling someone to resign is deciding that you personally feel they should resign, and saying so. If you don't see a difference between the things called "cancel culture" and the mob rule with violence,…
There is a big difference between what's reasonable and acceptable in random people and what's reasonable and acceptable in people who are established or establishing themselves as Community Leaders. We expect leaders…
I don't know about "particularly" famous but I know that I've talked to people whose family members were programmers who reacted with "wait you know SEEBS!?!" when they mentioned me, so apparently some people have heard…
Haha, wow. I totally forgot I wrote that one. When I wrote that I was unaware of some of the Sort Of Creepy stuff. I recognize that some of the allegedly creepy stuff is sorta misquoted. I think that matters. But I…
That's a fascinating take, but I don't think it's particularly related to what actually happened. I wasn't toxic because of some Microsoft FUD, I was toxic because I was a teenager with low empathy who hadn't learned…
In the sense of a logical implication which follows with full logical necessity: it doesn't. In the sense of a likely reason for someone to draw an inference: Most people do not specifically seek out excuses to take…
I think it would make more sense to make this opt-in. For instance, I set my profile not to be displayed a while back, but when I checked on this new thing, it was set to make at least some part of the profile public by…
Google did something significantly worse -- and spent ages apologizing for it and never really recovered from the reputation hit, and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to…
I think the 5th one is harder because it has a lot of reliance on recognizing a specific syntax for key/value stores, and may rely on realizing that a key/value store can have another key/value store as one of its…