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Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto

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It's not fun, I got hacked through an archived git repo, for when I was learning to use AWS, following tutorials and whatnot.

Forgot about it for years, then out of nowhere got hit for 27k...needless to say I said good luck collecting that shit.

They waived it all granted I logged in and deleted all resources that were running as well as removed all identities. Sure as hell I did that and saw a ton of identities out in the middle of nowhere. Fucking hackers ran up a shit ton of AWS sagemaker resources trying to probably hack some dude's wallet.

Every time I see a tutorial on how to deploy x in AWS, I get pissed. The newbies need to learn about administration before they start deploying shit on cloud infra.

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Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules

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Twitter’s lawyers argued that the company made only an oral promise that was not a contract, and that Texas law should govern the case, according to Courthouse News, which first reported the ruling.

Are you shitting me? They argued that it was a fucking lie so they shouldn't be charged? Also no one gives a shit if you're a Texan company...But you're doing business in California with California residents, you have to follow California rules. Else don't do any business in California.

Can't fucking believe that not honoring an employment contract is not a fucking violation in Texas...Go figure.

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'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap

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Hmmm you're not going to be making 150k a year in a shit fly over state.

I moved from the Bay Area to the East side of Washington near Seattle, folks here don't make as much as I do for sure, at least not on average. We both have good salaries so we can afford a lot of things. We essentially got to keep most of our bay area salaries.

But even then if we need a big repair we still have to sit down and plan out the money.

I can't even imagine what it's like for folks around here.

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Lawsuit time 🇺🇸🦅

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Former healthcare to software engineer working on a master's here. My colleagues who were licensed back in healthcare weren't all of the same quality. They all made mistakes at one point or another, some pretty bad some minor. There's no difference though, minor could just as well become major.

The way they get around it in healthcare is by throwing more people at the problem. You have a physician who is good at pointing in the general direction of the problem and a solution, then you have all the auxiliary staff who will narrow down on the solution based on their field. But at any single point all of them could fuck up, or one of them could.

Now that I'm a software engineer and I've written enough code to do stuff. I can confidently say that licensing will not solve this problem. Especially if there aren't enough people involved. Which is probably what was missed in the beginning.

Anyway long rant over.

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How safe is self-hosting a public website behind Cloudflare?

Cloudflare tunnels are layer 7, so it's not unlimited access by any means. This also means that certain things will break btw, for example if your website uses websockets to load information, that isn't supported.

Next, I'd put the computer that is going to be hosting into an isolated vlan of its own and access via external URL only.

If you're going to use docker images, make sure to vet that they're updated often and always spin up the latest.

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You can’t even pay people to have more kids

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Hmmm I'd like to stay at home and I'm the man. We both earn about the same, she earns more. I don't trust daycare workers. You optimize for what you value, if you value economics you're simply not going to optimize for what's best for the child. Because at all the cross roads where the biological needs or psychological needs conflict the economical value you'll not be making those choices.

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Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto

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Funny thing I had a paranoid freakout too before I got hacked on AWS, I had bought a visa gift card and that's what I put in as a payment card on AWS. Of course they know where I live and could still screw me, but they would have to do it on their own dime.

They make it really hard to leave or just use a specific service only. I use them for DNS, objectively it's supposed to be cheap AF pay yearly, but now I have to pay $2 a month just to do all the auxiliary stuff to notify me that I got hacked.

I'm buying a server rack soon and just got a full symmetric fiber line put in so I can do my own hosting.

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Hospital Price Gaps Show Just How Broken the US Health-Care Market Is

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Do you think that running to the ER for a heartburn or tummy aches is something that is acceptable?

We are smart enough and wealthy enough to provide quality, timely care to everyone, if only we could get rid of the greedy idiots in charge.

If not solving a problem makes money...then the problem will not be solved...ever. That's basically it in a nutshell. Capitalism needs greed to work and that is fine if kept in check. Obviously it's not kept in check though. The folks that would do that are compensated by the very folks that make money from the dysfunctional system.

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You can’t even pay people to have more kids

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As opposed to now? That's literally what happens here, no one wants any of these old fucks' laws. They were born when the first plane was taking off and haven't kept to date with anything in the modern world. We have no choice because the only people who seem to have any time to do anything in this country are the old people. Therefore we get shit on for simply trying to exist.