The first time I stumbled onto a big security vulnerability (exposed stripe/aws/play store keys. I was poking around an API a web app was using, and instead of hitting /api/v1, if you just hit /api it served them. I wasn't trying to do anything malicious), the very first thing I did was contacted a security researcher friend to ask about covering my ass while performing responsible disclosure.
You hear too much about people being persecuted for trying to point out security vulnerabilities. (Guess they haven't heard about "don't shoot the messenger").
(It turned out fine after finally managing to speak with someone. Had to ring up customer service and say "look, here are the last digits of your stripe private key. Please speak with an engineer". Figuring out how to talk with someone was the difficult thing)
What cloud backend are people using for restic? B2/S3/something else? I'm still just backing up to other machines using it (though I'd also heavily recommend restic)
I run restic with rclone, which is not only compatible with S3-like storage (which include many, like Hetzner, OVH, Exoscale) but many others, from mega to pcloud through Google Drive.
For stuff I care about (mostly photos), I back them up on two different services. I don't have TBs of those, so it's not very expensive. My personal code I store on git repositories anyway (like SourceHut or Codeberg or sometimes GitHub).
There exists a relevant, even German, quote:
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
― Otto von Bismarck (first chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890)
I would say that's kind of a conspiracy-y explanation. Big companies in Munich either have their campuses on the outskirts of the city so that people can commute and park without flooding the city or they have it in the heart of the city as that is seen as more prestigious.
Lots of companies have flip flopped based on this, and that's what happened in MS case.
Tbh not saying MS didn't play dirty in general, but not necessarily in this.
So I just searched the article for Finney to see why it claimed it wasn't him. It claims Satoshi was active after Finney had died?
What's that about? I used to be of the opinion that it was probably hal, but haven't paid too much attention. What's the counter evidence here? And why do we disregard that?
I am also not sure about Finney, but Hal saw his death coming so it is plausible he handed the reins to one more person he deeply trusted, and asked him to tie some knots but not to keep the show going.
Ooooh. I didn't know palantir was a tolkien thing[0] until just now! Oh god, that was my first guess but thought some more and it turns out that anduril is too[1]. (I was similarly unaware)
The irony is that "technology" in LoTR (both the arcane, Elvish variant and the more conventional "industrial" variant) always occurs either in cautionary tales or straight up as tools of evil.
E.g. the "Palantíri" were devices for long-distance communication and observation from an ancient civilization - which eventually got captured and corrupted by Sauron and turned into mind control / propaganda devices.
The depiction of the One Ring, is of course well known.
Tolkien himself also had some personal experiences with landscape destruction through industrialisation and experienced WWI, the "first industrialized war" firsthand, which I think gave him a profoundly negative outlook on technology.
Given all this, I find it sort of interesting that so many "Techies" are diehard fans of him, not to mention even naming startups after his works.
Torment Nexus goes again...
(There is probably some hypocrisy in his works, in the sense that only "modern" or "magical" technology gets that treatment. Everything at medieval or pre-medieval level is fine)
What are the complicated apparently contrived reasons?
It's not at all clear from the article.
All I really got from the article is "collabora are banned from contributing to open office, and aren't happy about it". What reason did they give? What's the actual reason you think it is (you mention things are contrived, so I assume there's another reason you think)? What's the libre office online stuff got to do with it?
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