Steam has a hidden debug console that allows users to rollback any game to any previous release via the `download_depot` command. It's not remotely as user friendly as when a publisher adds an old version of a game as a beta branch that can be easily switched to in the UI, but as far as I know there's no way to prevent its use.

that only works as long as the old depot is still there, and it usually is just to make it easier to delta update.

The Kinect is great at full-body tracking for VR, Microsoft was just a decade too early in their attempt to bring the technology to market.

> Another method that we will leverage is pay-per-use public cloud instances. With this, anyone can spin up RHEL images in the cloud and thus obtain the source code for all packages and errata

How does this approach not require them to agree to the ToS/EULA mentioned earlier in the post?

they themselves never created an account in red hat site, that would require then to accept either the ToS or the EULA..

They spined up an VM in some service that started an red hat image with the required license already in place for that image..

it is the vm provider that is bound by the EULA, not RockyLinux..

They are bound by the ToS for the VM provider they are using, that does not prevent them to get the sources from Red Hat..

Reddit should have stuck to the Craigslist model of simply just existing as-is, selling a reasonable amount of ads and premium subscriptions, and only having the minimum number of employees required to keep the site up. It never needed to be and shouldn't have been anything more than that.

Yet another brand gone to shit in the name of "exponential growth" or some other term investors want to hear. No one considers whether their business should fit a model that prioritizes sustainability.

I was thinking of craigslist too. They resisted ebay, and change for change's sake, and ... well lots of things:

  People tell us what they like about craigslist including:

  - Giving people a voice
  - A sense of trust and even intimacy
  - Consistency of down-to-earth values
  - Simplicity
  - No charges, except for job postings
  - Freshness of the material
  - No ads, particularly no banner ads

https://www.craigslist.org/about/mission_and_history

The .NET Framework is not quite the same thing as .NET, and they have separate Wikipedia pages which reflect that distinction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET

I was recently looking into this exact topic and found Dexter[1], which also uses HypoPG.

[1] https://github.com/ankane/dexter

I would be shocked if Etsy/Spotify/whoever else wasn't cutting a deal for a significant discount, getting these name brands on GCP is great PR for the platform.

You don't even need to be a name brand to get discounts.

Of course, but I'm sure being a name brand helps them negotiate a larger discount.

Given the alternative of handing out my SSN and hoping for the best, I'd be more than happy to use this for banking and related services. Presumably, third-party use would be covered by some form of ToS, and maybe we'd see actual repercussions for leaking data that originated here.

Even if you're not concerned that the government might get a list of all the sites you log into, what about arbitrary login revocation? Suddenly someone gets a brain fart and decides that everyone on the terrorist watch list shouldn't be able to use this service? Now you're locked out of all the accounts you used this for, even if you're not a "bad guy".

This is why I don't use "log in with google" or log in with Facebook" -- I don't think those companies are evil (I use them both) but I can't afford for them to accidentally or absentmindedly deny me access to other services.

With the government you have free speech rights, so you can sue them if they close your account. With private companies you have no free speech rights and they can close your account whenever they want.

So account closure seems like a positive point of government-controlled login.

Look up the secrecy and lack of oversight over the so-called "terrorist" watchlist and the calls for scope creep, and see if you are so confident about those first amendment rights. I'm sure failure to log in would not be considered a first amendment right.

I agree that the government should be a far more dependable provider than any private sector organization. But the recent (last 20 years) enthusiasm for scope creep has not been encouraging.

Does the government deny passports or driver licenses/IDs to people on those lists? Because that would be the equivalent here.

I'm not saying the government wouldn't do it. I'm saying you would have constitutional basis to sue, which you don't have for companies.

Some lawsuits against the no fly list have been successful. https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/victory-no-fly-l...

I'm not sure that it would be seen as equivalent here given the overall push away from net neutrality over the last decade. I could see many government officials making the (out-dated) argument that the internet is a non-essential service and you online profiles are not as critical as physical government-issues IDs.

Edit: Forgot this post was a couple days old, working through my HN backlog haha

Government action could let you sue under (say ) free speech protections.

You can't sue FB for account termination

Repercussions? For the OPM hack, I got a form letter and a year (I think, I didn't use it) of credit monitoring. That was some of my most intimate information. That was a huge invasion of my privacy. I didn't even get a phone call. I didn't even get a sincere apology.

Just as an FYI, I think they extended the period to 10 years. I agree that it was handled poorly!

I froze my credit. I am in a position where I don't need credit and can get credit by virtue of assets if I did need to. I was, for lack of a better phrase, pretty pissed off. I got a form letter and something about credit monitoring in one of those weird security envelopes, as I recall.

Ten years? Yeah, that'll help. I pretty much admitted to everything I'd ever done, on those forms. It wasn't just me impacted, it had names of my friends and family. Then, I'm guessing it had all the notes I didn't see, from things like the interviews.

I don't have any real enemies, or any reason to be afraid, but that makes me no less angry and feel no less violated. Meh... I try to let the anger go, so it only pops up when I discuss it. There's nothing I can do to change it. I do consider it the greatest violation of trust ever enacted on me by the government. There was no reason for me to even be in the system any more, I am retired.

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Oh well... If you can get away with it, freeze your credit. This does, curiously, impact your credit score. The peace of mind is worth it. Sorry for the novella.

This thread is the digital equivalent of why every attempt so far to set up a sane ID system in the US has floundered, leaving us stuck with the worst possible solution, SSNs.

Wouldn't it be entertaining if the SSN leak was just a really clever PR boost for the Trump administration?

I'm certainly entertaining conspiracy theory level ludicrousy, but it is entertaining.

The EquiFax thing would only be good PR for Trump's administration if they used it as an attempt to push through legislation that would prevent these kinds of things from happening in future - like a reasoned and functional (and minimum privilege) national identification service - while Alex Jones-types would normally be up in arms I think they would support it it Trump sold it as the system additionally to make it easy to identify illegal immigrants and members of the "alt-left".

But why June 21, 2006, specifically? According to Wikipedia, there was a circulated Pre-RC1 Vista build (but only the first of 3) that was built on June 20th, and June 21st was the first day of summer that year, but neither of those seem like good reasons to pick this date in particular.

It was the first version in which they bundled all the third-party drivers.

Previous beta releases only had a very limited set of drivers.

Microsoft greatly remodeled the driver model in Vista so that's why drivers can't be older than this date.

Vista represented a big (for Microsoft anyway) hit to the backward compatibility of drivers (for DRM-CreateProcess related reasons IIRC).

Much more than that. For example, both audio and video drivers had massive rewrites and rebuilds. Video drivers received a lot of tweaks for DirectX 10. More importantly, MS pushed the entire audio stack to use the User-Mode Driver Framework [1], which resulted in a lot of changes in how audio drivers access the underlying hardware.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Mode_Driver_Framework

Seconding Convox. It's also worth noting that the tooling is open-source, and they profit off an optional-to-use closed-source web interface which has free and paid tiers.

I'm one of two developers at a very young startup, and the one responsible for backend + devops stuff. I simply don't have the time to learn a more complex tool like Kubernetes (not that I didn't consider it) while also working on the actual product. Its simplicity has been a bit limiting on occasion, but they're happy to accept PRs for well thought out changes. I recently had a PR merged regarding UDP ports and ELBs that should make microservice architectures much easier and cheaper to implement.