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Ask HN: Phishing – ever fallen to a scam? Or dodged an attempt?
Most of us see ourselves as pretty tech-savvy. But have you ever fallen to a phishing attempt? Or came close to falling for a scam? Or did one of your relatives fall victim to a phishing attempt?

I've been fortunate to have not been a victim of phishing. The closest was a text message phishing attempt.

I received a text message saying I had missed a parcel delivery and to re-arrange delivery and pay a re-delivery charge. I almost fell for it because I was expecting a parcel delivery on that day. Text messages use shortened URLs that hide their full URL, but when I clicked the URL in the text message the website that opened in my mobile browser was a convincing reproduction of a delivery company. Luckily, I realised this was a phishing attempt when I looked at the URL. (Some mobile browsers hide the URL until you scroll up the page.)

On subsequent occasions I received similar text messages but I knew immediately they were fake because I wasn't expecting any parcel deliveries. Given that many people expect parcel deliveries regularly, I suspect some users fall for this scam when the fake text message coincidences with an actual delivery. I also wonder how my mobile number managed to get on to some scammer's list of phone numbers and where else it’s being circulating.

So, have you ever fallen to a phishing attempt? Or came close to falling for a scam? Or did one of your relatives fall victim to a phishing attempt?
Try paying for things at a shop or service that only accepts credit cards when you've been banned from having one. Who bans you from that? Payment processors.

If all the insurance companies decide they won't insure you, how will you get health care? The government had to intervene (with the ACA) because that particular problem was so bad.

People trying to immigrate often have to use email to communicate with government agencies. If gmail bans their account, they can no longer talk to the immigration agency. I've seen a couple different people have this exact problem.

There are plenty of other examples.

Certainly governments have the power to do all these things as well, but large influential companies can absolutely ruin your life if you get the wrong kind of attention (or in the case of automated policy decisions, get unlucky).
Some private enterprises are treated like government services and regulated as such. Utilities, for example. I doubt there are many countries where the electricity company can fire a paying client. The key is not who manages or owns the business, but whether it's a commons platform - something needed to function in society.

So yeah, there's a pretty strong case to be made that certain internet companies are like that. Can you survive without social media? Sure, but you can also survive without sewer. It's just a lot harder to live a normal life.
Seems like a cheaper move to open a PAC.
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Yeah, I agree with you generally (I don't think Congress is that important in this context; it's more the Executive Branch), I just don't see how that supports the above poster, unless one assumes that a Republican is going to win in 2024.

But at this point, who knows who will win?

edit: oh you are the above poster lol
> I don't advocate that speech shouldn't have consequences.

We already have free speech and consequences. Twitter and Musk have nothing to do with free speech issues.

You want absolute freedom of speech but then you want to limit a company and platform in what it says, which it does by allowing or disallowing certain content? And you would prefer a single person, who has a history of devious activity, having totalitarian control over said company and platform? It doesn’t make sense.
some horrible bit of "satire" right, something about "two genders" like 99% of their content?
I'm not really sure what you mean by free speech here.

Do you mean that, if I say "this war is bad!" I may be "arrested" and "tried" and then put in a jail for 15 years (or just vanish, or be dropped from a helicopter over the ocean).

Or do you mean if I tweet "I'll <wink wink> 2nd amendment those Hajis!" my tweet won't be seen by 12 million people rather than "promoted" by some algorithm?

Freedom of speech, as denoted in the United States Constitution, is a set of limits around the government behaviors. U.S. Government behaviors.

The dose makes the medicine.
What a drama queen. He says Twitter is important for freedom of speech but it is not even open, it is walled garden just like FB, IG etc.
Don't you need `slate-react`, `slate-history` and other plugins too?
Twitter (and Reddit, and Facebook) is like beans. Beans are a great nutritious tasty food of you know how to prepare them. But if you eat raw beans directly out of the package from the producer, you will get sick or die.
I used to immediately throw away half of any load of bread I'd buy because it would always have gone off by the time I got that far down. I would love to have moved that half to a paper bag instead and given it to someone else.
Pretty sure you can discuss cons of vaccinations as long as you don't delve into conspiracy theories / claims without scientific backing.

Edit: But I do recall the COVID origin discussion being quite a censorship trainwreck.
“Social media” in the traditional sense? Maybe not. But social website? Absolutely!
> So why should they have the power to essentially remove ideas from public discussion?

A private company is not required to publish your rants on the current state of underground mole peoples' infiltration of the highest offices of the world's governments. If you somehow get it onto the platform, and they are made aware of it, they can unpublished it.

Just like the NYT is not required to post every opinion piece that is submitted to them.
Some of us don't want to give Microsoft our phone number just to play a game we bought from another company.
Simultaneously, Twitter is an algorithmic echo chamber. I had the opposite experience: fear porn scaremongering throughout the pandemic with microchips in the vaccines, 5G nonsense, graphene in the vaccines, the evils of Bill Gates, and far more. My interest in Twitter has declined massively year-on-year. I used to use it as an IRC replacement with hashtags in TweetDeck in place of channels. Now all the fun stuff is happening on Matrix protocol in Matrix Spaces.
I apologize if I was unclear - the post I was replying to was making a general statement about moderation, and so was I. Some level of moderation is essential to keep good user experience. I do not know enough about twitter’s particular moderation policies to comment on them. It is possible (and likely) that they could be improved - but I do not think removing all moderation would be an improvement.
Yeah, I'd roll with Node/Deno and use Lexical that way. :)
Problem is, there's lots of unsafe code that casts *mut T to &mut T (usually after checking T is valid and whatnot). If &mut T didn't use capabilities, this kind of unsafe code would end up not taking advantage of the CHERI capability checking, which would be unfortunate.
Not really to be honest. If you've got an RFP to respond to right now then it's a little too late.

That said, I've never had an issue copy pasting the answers to similar questions. As long as you answer the question with the answer!
He means tremendous financial potential under his leadership.
not really. if you're in a steady state (like discord was) you wouldn't see any spikes. you'd have a consistent utilization. if you start allocating heavily then you would potentially see an increase. which makes sense, you're increasing your workload, utilization needs to increase. but still not necessarily a 'spike'
Music is absolutely duplicable ad infinitum exactly in the same way as software. I really don't see a material difference between recording an album in a recording studio and writing a program at a desk, or writing a book for that matter. Amazon makes good money selling books digitally. In fact I could even argue that an MP3 file and an eBook or any digital content are forms of software you run on an interpreter.

As for the value in software, I used to work for a software vendor that developed planning software for cellular radio networks. It would load up effectively an image file of terrain data, with each 'pixel' representing a square of terrain giving a height, then there was a database of cell site locations, antenna heights and orientations, etc and it would generate maps of signal strength, interference, etc. Really cool stuff. A lot of the value in that software came from experience, expertise and real-world testing and validation by radio engineers.

A lot of high value software encapsulates a lot of expertise by people other than the programmers. Now I'm in finance, but the software we work with gets huge amounts of input into it's design and specifications and validation from the users and customers who put in a massive investment of time and energy and expertise to ensure the software is fit for purpose. That work absolutely adds value, without it the software couldn't exist or have any value.

The idea that software is some miraculous exception to economic reality is a mirage. Free software purists discount all of that, which is why libre software is irrelevant in so many product categories. All of that input, beyond just programming, has to be paid for somehow and the fact is commercial software is capable of rallying the investment necessary to pay for all of that and create useful products.

The libre movement also completely misunderstands the nature of rights. In principle yes the owner of a computer has the right to determine what software runs on it and how it executes, but equally we routinely give up our rights or accept restrictions on them in return for benefits all the time. When Stallman goes to work in return for being paid he gives up his right to stay at home with his family or go to a bar with his friends. He gives up the right to be intoxicated. In theory he has free speech rights to say whatever he likes, but certain forms of speech in a work place that would otherwise be protected speech will get you fired or prosecuted. Why should we not choose to give up some of our rights over our computers in the same way? Very few rights are absolute like that (not none, but very few), because we can reasonably choose to accept limits on them.
Who doesn't love that blog. The only thing missing is the wicked, savagely funny commenters from fuckedcompany.com

I would be happy to see that again.
> Pursuant to the last major thread on the topic, I was thinking further about it, and realized that the vast majority of progress civilization has made has been under conditions much more regulated in terms of which ideas may propagate. We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it does today, where authorities are being undermined like this and casually dismissed by people with no knowledge of the respective fields, etc.

I don’t think you have evidence to support this either. Really hard to say when progress in a civilization happens, and how it would be different if norms were different.

Just because historically speech has been controlled doesn’t mean anything. Slavery also was well accepted and “progressed” civilization, but most people don’t want slavery in the modern world.
Neither is favored, git-annex solves problems that git LFS doesn't even try to address (distributed big files), at the cost of extra complexity.

Git LFS is intended more for a centralized "big repo" workflow, git annex's canonical usage is as a personal distributed backup system, but both can stretch into other domains.

In this case git-annex seems to have a feature that git LFS doesn't have that would be useful to you.
That'd only apply to today's answer. Now they're able to tweet the answers for the next week.
$43 billion to stop some kid from tracking your flights.
Yep, I created a time tracking tool that syncs with Freshbooks for my contract work. No one else ever used it and I never tried to market it. But it made tracking my hours 100x easier, and I learned go in the process.
This is something much different from the previous claim (that companies are as powerful as states). None of this means that the company is more powerful than any state.

And regardless - no business is going to send you to prison, while the state can. No business will shoot you, while the state can. So even in this interpretation of "how much can they fuck up my life" the state wins.
Can't be worse than current leadership or direction of Twitter...
The "why" here ... or at least the reason for me to flash my Chromebook BIOS and install Gallium ... was because my Chromebook went EoL by Google and I wanted to see if I can keep it going for a while.

Gallium is an amazing piece of work, and the documentation is superb, but it's starting to show that it's on a very out of date base and there's no sign of a new version for some time. The efforts seem to have slowed down, which is a shame.

It leaves me wondering if the main patches and drivers in the kernel fork could ever be merged upstream. Maybe there's some technical or legal reason why not, or maybe it's just the work required and nobody has the time.

Either way, I hope it remains possible to run old Chromebooks for a while yet! They are often decent, cheap hardware if a little slow.
English instructions (programs) are Verb-Object with no Subject.
I feel quite confiscate that Ruby has Symbols because Strings are mutable which causes issues for when you hold on to something but you also give out a reference.
Only you get the benefit of a whole, new organization of people to shame you into submission independent from your already binding social organizations. How wonderful.

Edit-and I emphasize shame because the number of people who agree with everybody on earth is vanishingly small. Meanwhile, twitter does push your content to potentially everybody on earth. And we know that the people most likely to respond to content are those who disagree with it.
My male roommate is like that. He cannot deal with these minor irritations. Makes my life difficult often
Rogue ONTs either fire out of time slice and break other packets or just stick on and jam the OLT.

The OLT can often pick out which ONT is doing it.
Drawing equivalence between Twitter bans and government censorship is the height of western privileged ignorance.
ITA powered the backend flight search functionality for virtually every OTA, even if the ITA Matrix website wasn’t popular among end users.
It used to be manufacturing, back when you'd ship a cardboard box to a store once a year. I think the delusion we have today is that the internet-enabled model is somehow superior. It just seems to introduce more problems, and forces companies to expend a much greater amount of money, effort, and maintenance to get the same result consistently.

I feel like the next great revolution will be selling updated software only once a year. No privacy implications, no persistent security concerns, no data hoarding, no advertising, no connectivity issues, no addictive social gamification or micro-payment or subscription service. Just a fully-functioning rock-solid program on your local device, developed by a small team, sold to millions of people. I'd pay premium for that!
Here's the main Prof going over the full system plan briefly (2019):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwCakHZTejs
But there's no way to reliably cold read a name, so it has to be done via trickery (basically, already know the answer).
Has Musk made it clear why he thinks Twitter doesn’t serve the goal of free speech with explicit reasons? I don’t follow him so he may have mentioned them in the past.
Prolog also have symbols (called "atoms"). Erlang too (influenced by Prolog).
Someone who:

- is deeply dishonest

- manipulative

- narcissistic

- is known to have outbursts of rage during which he shouts and insults employees

- is known to publicly humiliate employees

- has been reported to physically assault an employee

- takes revenge against journalists, Twitter users or divers - the forms of revenge includes doxxing, personally asking the person's employer to get them fired, publicly accusing the victim of pedophilia

- is a narcissistic attention whore who has complained in leaked emails that the media don't talk about him enough

- has no empathy
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Mostly but not entirely off topic, just something I thought about this morning, a hypothetical feature of twitter.

Imagine being able to flip a switch (a “green profile check mark”) that would disable banning and muting features for you. And will only allow another green check marks to engage in conversations with you.

Will this help break the echo chambers, or will it create a tyrannical majority? Both?
Free speech absolutism doesn't mean you can get away with any crime just because it involved you saying something.

Even free speech absolutists agree that falsely yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre in order to cause a fatal stampede is (and should be) a criminal act. But the crime is not the utterance of the word. You could commit the same crime by setting off a fire alarm. In either case, the crime is in the action of tricking a group of people into stampeding.

Similarly, impersonating a police officer is illegal. You could do this by lying (telling a gullible person that you are a police officer), or by wearing a police uniform in public. The criminal action is tricking people into thinking you're a police officer, whether you do it with lies or clothes. Lying itself is not illegal, but a lie may constitute an action that is criminal.
He owns about 70 million shares. Before he announced his stake, the stock had a daily trading volume of about 20 million. I agree it's not super slow, but also not super fast. Probably a reasonable speed given the volume.
> if they did a bug bounty program, they'd go bankrupt.

Ha! Classic Telco. I've seen some in my country and they are an impressive mess of legacy (and many times redundant because of all the M&Âs) applications and undocumented integrations made by an army of low paid outsourced integrators.

Also, low effort mode overall, like your CISO friend there, who probably just wants to survive for sufficient time too jump ship.

His bug bounty speech doesn't hold, as they can start with a very low bounty and increase over time to get the interest of higher skilled people and reach more complex bugs, having total control over spending.

Also, Black hat experts probably have those already mapped and are selling them to the highest bidder, and with privacy regulations getting stricter that "bug bill" will come to them sooner or later.
Electricity and Sewer can and will be cutoff if you do not follow the terms of service. If the electric company discovers that you do not have a circuit breaker you will be cutoff.
> In some ways, huge tech companies are more powerful than governments

Sure, but in other ways, they are not.

They do not, for example, break the government's monopoly on force; tech companies generally cannot compel you to pay taxes or imprison you. If you make them unhappy, mostly the worst thing they can do is ignore you -- and unlike a government, they cannot force others to ignore you, and they cannot much affect your life outside of their own transactions with you.

The centralization of multiple forms of power is more concerning than the mere existence of power in separate spheres. You say "maybe they should?" but collaboration between the organization that controls force and the organizations that control speech seems like an opportunity for much more substantial oppression.
I've solved that problem by not going to any articles on Medium
Not when the government lobbies the companies for certain viewpoints.
> Although Carter’s used solar panels have been dispersed throughout the world, solar panels returned to the White House grounds under President George W. Bush.

> In 2003, Bush quietly installed a 9 kW solar system on the grounds maintenance building. He also installed two solar thermal systems to supply electricity to the White House, one to heat the spa and one to heat the pool.

(I assume "electricity" is a typo in the last sentence and they just help to heat the water, but not sure).

The poster here then praises him for doing similar on his own property because doing the sensible and cheapest thing is an act of political bravery apparently.
Most of the programs I wrote were for my own needs. I've open-sourced many of them, but some are really just for me and closed-source:

- A scraper to get thousands of quiz questions from popular German TV shows and then import them into an Anki deck.

- Sync app between Foobar2000 and Plex playlists.

- A script to enter Steam giveaways for me. After winning over 1000 Steam games and DLCs, I've turned the script off (mainly due to playing more console games lately). I might do a write-up about this one someday.

- A movie management web app. It's been running for 7 years with low maintenance effort.
It used to teach people bad coding practices and it had outdated information. It has improved but I am not ready to recommend it to anyone I like.
Nice! Dont you have a problem occasionally wanting to play some Doom on the side? :'D
Step 2 is the key.

Don't take a call just because the recruiter asks for one. They're just trying to extract as much attention from you as possible because they think extracting lots of attention from you is a positive signal and increases their chance of closing the deal.

Ask for comp upfront. Only go forward with those who disclose comp in your desired range. This will eliminate 99% of the wasted time in your job search, if you're not doing it today.
> I don't think so - unless you mean always interning all strings. The point of symbols is you can do a single address comparison. How can you do that if you could have two strings that are the same but have different addresses?

You intern all the literals (which includes lexical symbols) and are 99% if the way there.
Because the public was informed by the news. However, now that some are demonizing the the media or "The Main Stream Media" people trust it less.

This was properly done to prevent the public from being informed about bad actors.
That’s what he’s selling.
What I missing about this is that is he actually going to take it private or fold it to some other company with massive over valuation like Tesla... In later case it will make money for him, because people are stupid... In first case it really seem expensive wasteful thing, billions buy lot of lobbying power...
You are conflating the concept of free speech with "free reach."

At least in the US, you have always had the right to create your own web site and say whatever you want. That right should never be taken away. However, another privately-run website should never be forced to broadcast anyone's content to hundreds of millions of other people.
The Germans want to reinstate Trump’s Twitter account, too?