Well, that was a pretty cluelessly written article. The two things are entirely unrelated. The headline seems to imply that Apple changed its mind about the fraudulent activity and was wrong, but that is not what the details support.
Yep, I can’t speak on the decline of quality because it was a site that was early to dark pattern bullshit. It would show up prominently in Google search and then tease “you have to sign up to read the answers”. Uh, no. Reminds me of expert sexchange or whatever that site was that got smashed by stackoverflow for similar reasons.
I’m sure they have sufficient infrastructure to route elsewhere if Russian servers are inaccessible. I doubt anyway that servers in the rest of the world are typically served from Russia since that would be inefficient.
Yandex has a large office in Amsterdam. Not sure where its all served from but they have offices in 12 countries.
Interesting. I was wondering how it would work at all with such a thin atmosphere. The author could chill out a bit though.
I’m still confused about when there was ever a helicopter vs. just a rover
“or make a bad decision” is hilarious. Like say, insist that the company spend 4 years developing a bizarrely impractical truck that Elton himself said they “dug their own grave” with?
Musk said, adding that he’s “not looking for additional economics; I just want to be an effective steward of powerful technology.”
Oh yes, we all believe this techno Jesus crap at this point. Right.
A terminal is a physical device like a VT100. When people refer to a terminal today it’s almost always a terminal emulator running on a TTY, ssh on a PTY, a login shell or a GUI program.
There are plenty of benefits from remote working too, as well as drawbacks from office work, and it hasn’t been decisively shown that at-office work is always better. For some management styles, sure, I guess. The sort of work they do - website development, I’m guessing? - has been shown to be amenable to a remote work style. Advantages include being able to hire people from all over, not have to spend big money on an office, employees can save money on housing and cost of living (don’t have to live near a city center) and automobile (don’t have to pay for gas to drive in or maybe even have a car) and time of commute - rather than get up, shower, drive for an hour and park, they can just start work. If the employer makes tasks and time flexible, also child care, which can be crucial for some people (it can be very expensive). And if the employer really wants, they can pay people less and save those costs themselves.
Of course, some employees like it, some don’t - there are people who work better remote and some prefer being around colleagues. I agree the choice of offering remote work belongs to the employer.
Another classic kbin photo bomb. Is that Chris Christie?
Right… the technology conceivably has value as a way to digitally trade ownership and track authenticity. It just happens that it was used for a bunch of truly worthless algorithmically generated art that people got suckered into by hype.
Many agencies do that but it’s been established that the NSA simply takes data from companies of almost any size, domestic or foreign.
More like FBI or DEA. If the NSA wants it they just hack them.
People said the same thing recently when Tesla was required to do an OTA update in the US. The thing is that while they don’t have to physically work on each vehicle, it’s labeled a recall because it’s a regulatory action that compelled them to do it. Tesla didn’t decide to do these updates on their own - they were directed to do so by the government, first in the US and now in China.
There is no “ackshully” and he didn’t call anyone a liar. He just said a statement was incorrect.
Ah, right! The post is, amazingly, from today. Maybe even on 4chan posted by OP.
It kinds of works like shadow banning because defederation means one instance doesn’t get updates from the defeded one… but the defeded one can still be federated with the one that defeded them, so users on that can still see and comment on posts, but they aren’t displayed to people using the defeded instance. So they’re just posting into the void. But people on their instance and I guess other instances can still see them of course.
I originally read it as just saying ‘different instances’ and not stating a number of different instances. But that’s not the format 4chan uses for a quote reply (I don’t remember, isn’t there a number sign or something?) and that number would be way too large for a comment ID. So, yeah. I didn’t consider that someone could actually go there and find the post since I think of 4chan as /b where it all disappears after 2 hours.
That’s some dedication! Okay. I’ll accept I am incompetent.
I’d reverse it. “Security researcher who has been thanked by Apple for helping fix bugs in MacOS found to be a serial fraudster”
Absolutely no reason to suggest that Apple “forgave” him, or that it was a mistake. I hate whoever wrote this article.