!codecels what does the button do

We have a winner. Answer pinned

Awarding 500 per funny or great idea as judged by me

“On Wednesday, users reported an account that had a slur as its handle. This handle was in violation of our community guidelines, and it was our mistake that allowed it to be created,” the company said. “40 minutes after it was reported, the account was taken down, and the code that allowed this to occur was patched.”

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scotthirleman_hey-jay-graber-paul-frazee-emily-liu-rose-activity-7085339319925633024-uLEw/

Hey Jay Graber, Paul Frazee, Emily Liu, Rose Wang you have an incredibly bad anti-blackness problem on your platform. It says you are hiring. Where is the posting for your head of Trust and Safety? Why is this such a big problem every week or two it seems? If you don't want to run a social media platform, split the company in twain and go focus on the protocol and fund the platform with another team that cares. Or do you not care about marginalized groups?

How have they STILL not said a word? Take accountability, apologize for how bad this was, and advise the specific roadmap plan and options of how they’re fixing it, request feedback from the Black users, and then make adjustments based on there. Having one space for my Black friends to be able to enjoy as much as I have been is worth everything to me and most of my friends.

I am shocked, shocked that the man who made Twitter a safe haven for Nazis and other white supremacist terrorists for years is back to his plausible deniability games.

Also, if these folks weren't able to figure out to block creation of account names featuring the #1 most toxic slur in the English language used against Black people? I think we need to understand that they didn't want to do it.

Twitter

has some coverage but hard to find because it bans mention of Bluesky The users are tired. Apparently it's not just about nigger but also about sex workers and Nazis https://x.com/webdevMason/status/1680334434283974656

Orange site

Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36706856

Fun comment from that thread

There's an MLB player named Kiké Hernandez and there's been some fretting over his name, including calls for him to change it. Which is... something.

// Needs additional work to add more words that should be cought and regex added to catch common variations
const slurs = [
   "chinaman",
   "chinamen",
   "chink",
   "coolie",
   "coon",
   "eskimo",
   "golliwog",
   "gook",
   "gyp",
   "gypsy",
   "half-breed",
   "halfbreed",
   "heeb",
   "jap",
   "kaffer",
   "kaffir",
   "kaffir",
   "kaffre",
   "kafir",
   "kike",
   "kraut",
   "negress",
   "negro",
   "nig",
   "nig-nog",
   "nigga",
   "nigger",
   "nigguh",
   "pajeet",
   "paki",
   "pickaninnie",
   "pickaninny",
   "raghead",
   "retard",
   "sambo",
   "shemale",
   "soyboy",
   "spade",
   "sperg",
   "spic",
   "squaw",
   "tard",
   "wetback",
   "wigger",
   "wop",
   "yid",
]

I don't have a Bluesky account. Is apparently invite only, mainly through reddit and Linkedin. I don't have a reddit account.

If someone wants to check in try to get account from /r/BlueskyInvites

@BraveShill

>Getting a high amount of paid internet traffic from Asia

>Server was hosted in and while there are some minor discrepancies in traffic received on my tracker and what is actually billed it's still within an acceptable range

>Did an oopsie on the server

>Decide to spin up a new one and randomly chose one located in Frankfurt

>"Shouldn't be an issue because it's 2023 and Frankfurt's probably closer to Asia in terms of distance "

>Traffic drops by like 50% while I'm still billed for the same amount as previously

>"Darn it I probably need to bid higher "

>Traffic still half of what I am paying for

>"Maybe I just need to optimise the configuration on the server "

>Still getting BTFO-ed

>"Guess I should pay more and upsize the server even though it doesn't make sense "

>Same

>For some reason ended up on some page that shows global ping statistics

>Frankfurt to Seoul 297.96ms Frankfurt to Tokyo 235.42ms Frankfurt to Hong Kong 202.29ms

>Portland to Seoul 115.82ms Portland to Tokyo 85.77ms Portland to Hong Kong 132.56ms

>

I know this has mostly been a result of my own stupidity but the company I was using for serverrs didn't have any presence in Asia and the burger servers were generally fine

But I didn't think that there would be so much difference in latency using Europoor servers vs Burger servers

FRICK

ok so blender is very easy to install everywhere (windows mac linux) and it has embedded python and it has GPU integration

is this the solution to python environment setup we have been searching for ??????????????????????? pic.twitter.com/qjFLL71IwC

— prerat (@prerationalist) July 14, 2023

i'll publish it to https://fsdfsd.net/ when i'm done

This video from Reddit shows a behavior we experience *often* with AVs in our neighborhood. This is not a legal maneuver and a driver could be cited for breaking CVC 21950 "Failure to Yield" if they did the same thing. pic.twitter.com/8aqAusKs83

— Parker Day (@desertflyer) July 7, 2023

moar: https://x.com/DavidZipper/status/1676968755522588682

I started working as an engineer in a HFT firm a few months ago, and all of the guys here love telling wacky and possibly-made-up stories to me so I thought I would share with my friends on rDrama

In no particular order:

Testing schmesting

One team doesnt believe in testing, they just make a change and then hit prod to see what happens. I literally could not believe this is even allowed under regulatory laws, but then I found out they trade crypto so that explains that I guess.

This has resulted in, among other things, attempting to place orders for $3trillion, and submitting 40 thousand orders to the exchange with "🙂" as the execution ID due to char pointers pointing to garbage memory.

Ctrl-C

At one guys previous firm in the early 00s, they were running a fairly sophisticated prop trading business across the world (USA, Athens, Tokyo).

Because it was the early 00s, literally every machine relied on a single service, running on a box in the middle of the office

One day someone who sits next to this random computer decides they want the monitor for themself, so they ctrl-C the single process powering the entire firm and unplug the computer. This causes all trading (and cancelling, which is the scary part) to stop working for 25 minutes.

The next day when the guy came into work, every single key on his keyboard had been ripped out except for the Ctrl and the C keys.

Filing at the strip club

A LONG long time ago, one of the guys used to be a pit trader. This means that instead of electronic trading, you did your trading by waving your arms and yelling at a broker from across the room.

Old pit traders are easy to spot at any firm, since young traders are pencil-necked nerds , and pit traders are borderline-r-slurred gigachads who can actually tell a joke.

Anyway, he told me about how one time he was making fun of one of the brand new electronic traders, and pressed a random button on the guy's keyboard as a prank. The way it was set up was that whenever a trade went out, it would make a little "beep" sound. There were a dozen or so computers, so there would normally be a beep every couple seconds (this was early days, so they did hardly any electronic trading).

After this pressed the button, every single computer in the room started going "BRRRRRRRRR" non-stop, until someone could flag the brokers (who were in a different floor of the building) and beg them to cut the DMA link.

Afterwards they had 100s of pages of trades printed out, and had to sit in the office with the brokers until 4am with a marker pen, crossing out individual trades one at a time.

At 4am, the guys decided to go out to a strip club, and they dragged and the brokers with them, forcing them to sit at a table at the strip club and keep going through all the trades while everyone else had a fun time.

Fuck it

NOR-way pic.twitter.com/qk9YrlVCOW

— Samū~ → RFR 🇧🇪 (@SamuuuFox) July 13, 2023

First off, I know, Reddit-tier meme title.

But I must CONFOOS

1TB is enough for me and I've only needed to use 2TB storage twice in my life.

I just upgraded all my devices around the house to USB-C, this means everything from vapes to flash drives too.

I literally cannot see past 60FPS, and 30 to 60 has never been a huge deal to me. All that fuss over slightly smoother animation? Really?

https://t.co/xIcnZ6JC8y pic.twitter.com/LL6kGOdWGP

— Flo Crivello (@Altimor) July 12, 2023

Been tryina up my game instead of being lazy and coasting. I'd like to follow security people but most are just shills for their stupid Udemy course. What are some good security people to follow? Maybe a groomercord server(s) too?

Right now I follow NahamSec and enjoy his content. Also watch this guy hack and he's cool but not on very often.

StackOverflow lets anyone flag posts that they think are off-topic/spam etc, and then the unpaid, elected jannies can decide whether to approve or reject the flags.

In this specific situation, a user flagged an answer that contained "a gibberish text that is in no way related to the question and a link to a crypto exchange website".

They didn't get the response they expected:

I got a rejection for the flag with the generic rejection reason "Rejected - a moderator reviewed your assessment but found no evidence". This was not only very surprising for me, but also disappointing and demotivating.

They want answers and they're concerned about how it will look on their permanent record:

So could someone please explain to me why this flag was rejected? Or was this a mistake on the part of the moderator? A mistake which, I should note, shows up negatively in my flagging history.

In a later comment they refer to seeing the rejected flag as "like a slap in the face".

Wait a minute, aren't the jannies meant to be on strike? Why are they still cleaning the flag queue?

I support the strike, but on the other hand I just cannot stand spammers.

lol @ cleaning a multi-billion dollar tech company's spam queue while you're meant to be on strike from your unpaid "job".

GNU+Linux bros I don't feel so good

!codecels discuss

Lemmycels:

https://lemmy.world/post/1384729?scrollToComments=true

Google has updated its privacy policy, openly declaring that everyone's data can now be utilized to train the company's AI models, as long as said data is considered "publicly available".

Learn more: https://t.co/w3THO2r1mI#google #ai #artificialintelligence #aichatbot #bardai pic.twitter.com/O01OlpGh4W

— 80 LEVEL (@80Level) July 10, 2023

but don’t you dare use more than 30 seconds of a copyrighted song in your youtube video.

Context (for nerds)

This happened yesterday. For those unaware, InfluxDB is some database offering no one cares about. Unfortunately that's not true because some people care about it People cared so much that InfluxData (the developing company), about a decade ago, jumped in the SaaS game and made their own cloud offering to host InfluxDB instances. For some reason, this was considered a good idea and people used their service.

Quite suddenly, some European region and some Asian region containing InfluxDB instances were shut off. Normally, deprecation of services are well advertised by a vendor. This isn't the case here and it's why I posted this: the CTO jumped in on HN to try to do some damage control. He is also a co-founder, according to his HN profile and by his own admittance. What does he have to say?

Hi, cofounder and CTO here. We notified everyone via email on February 23, April 6 and May 15th. We also offered to help migrate all users. I realize that it's not ideal that we've shut down this system, but we made our best efforts to notify affected users and give them options to move over to other regions. If you've been impacted by this, please email me personally and I will do my best to help out: paul at influxdata.com.

Drama

To summarize why this is r-slurred: Paul here notified his customers that they would permanently shut off products they pay for by sending only three emails. In enterprise, this is supremely r-slurred: emails are likely to be caught by a spam filter or never read.

HN agrees and gets angry:

This is insane.

...

This screams either gross incompetence or straight up negligence. This is such a solvable problem (as many here have already mentioned various solutions), but I'm honestly just flabbergasted that this is a problem that is even being discussed here right now.

As a DBaaS, the data of your customers should be your number one priority. If its not, y'all need to take a hard look at what the heck your value proposition is.

We weren't impact by this directly, but you can be sure that this is going to be one of the topics for discussion amongst my teams this week. Mostly how we can either move off InfluxDB Cloud or ensure that our DR plans are up to date for the rug being pulled out from under us from you guys in the future.

\

Paul, are you actually for real right now? Did you really just say "We deleted all your data, and its your fault. We did whisper into the wind three times, you should have heard it. No, there is no chance of recovery"?

\

Hi Paul, email is one-way communication and not guaranteed to be delivered. At a minimum you should have monitored who did and did not respond to the email with some kind of action and those that did not should have more effort expended to be able to reach them. Finally, you should have kept the data for a reasonable amount of time (say 90 days) post shut-down so users that did not get the notification could download it. What you've done is super rude and if I were still a customer in an unaffected region it would definitely be reason enough to leave because it's pointless to sit and wait to see how you'll deal with my data when the time comes. Better to preempt that and leave while I still have control.

For anyone who thought this was purely incompetence: no. They just wanted to save money :

We get an email address because we need to contact our customers. After that we make best efforts but if people can’t respond to vendors they pay money to, we’re really at a loss. I realize that shutting down a region isn’t good. It’s not what we would have preferred, but we had to do it for the business. And we made an honest effort to contact all customers to help move them.

Plenty more rage in the thread. Meanwhile, on their forums, a developer advocate defends his piggy's actions;

Hi all, I am ever so sorry the closure of these clusters has unexpectedly hit you. To confirm the information given by support. Communication was delivered in the following ways;

The UI was updated with a closure message for these regions.

The https://status.influxdata.com/ website also provides the notification.

We sent out emails on the following dates:

Feb 23, April 6, May 15.

We understand that a scream test would have been another form of communication that we overlooked. Some of the reasons for the closure of been outlined here: [some Slack link]

Conclusion

It's pretty rare to see cloudshit companies implode like this, and even more rare for representatives to directly engage in communities that would assuredly shit on them. Thus, this is funny.

Interesting. IBM doesn’t want to continue publicly releasing RHEL source code because it has to pay its engineers? That seems odd, given that Red Hat as a successful independent open source company chose to publicly release RHEL source and pay its engineers for many years before IBM acquired Red Hat in 2019 for $34 billion.

And perhaps that is the real answer to the question of why: eliminate competitors. Fewer competitors means more revenue opportunity for IBM.

Who the frick knew in 2023 Oracle is the good guy for Linux.