BehindTheBarrier

If you're so convinced you know best, I invite you to start writing your own filesystem. Go for it.

Dude is seriously missing the point here. It's not about what, it's about how.

They are just more likely to be scam like, particularly since they can be assumed to be a file at a glance.

Even more deviously, crafty urls like this further hides what you are actually doing, like this:

https://github.com∕kubernetes∕kubernetes∕archive∕refs∕tags∕@v1271.zip

Hover it with your cursor, watch what that actually links too, no markup cheating involved. Anything before the @ is just user information. Imagine clicking that and thinking you downlodaed a tagged build, only to get a malware?

It's not the end of the world, but as a developer it makes great sense to just auto-block it to avoid an incident. The above URL is from this article, which says it's not as big of huge problem too:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/17/google_zip_mov_domains/

But it's kind of a death by a thousand cuts to me, because it's another thing with another set of consideration accross the internet ecosystem that one will have to deal with.

I know my job banned .zip domains as soon as they leared of it. It's an IT firm so they don't really care to take any chances, and would rather just make exceptions if needed.

Norway has something similar, you own the inside usually and the HOA own the outside, including the houses themselves. Live in one, largely a good thing but some things come slow since they need to be voted for of course. Generally worth it, since you get good deals on things like internet. It's cheaper but it's also something you usually have to use and the only option. Eg only that provider of internet.

I'm my case, they are also responsible for my balanced ventilation, my exterior doors and my water heater. So when the time comes, they handle it. Shared costs cover snow plowing, the shared community building, upkeep of garage, outdoors and the buildings, and things like water bills and taxes paid. In particular, HOAs purchases do not need to pay a 2.5% of the purchase price fee when you purchase a home. This itself saves you quite a bit, and makes up for some of the extra you pay in monthly costs. (but pretty much all of those are at least going somewhere that benefit you anyways)

The downsides are, there are special rules so some people that have membership may have a right to take over the winning bid in a sale. I myself used this to purchase my place, having gotten 10 years of seniority in "HOA company". You spend the seniority with your purchase, but also are not allowed to own more than one part. Also, no long term renting so there aren't any companies buying and renting out and things like that. You have to live in the HOA.

If I had a cent every time an artist on patron had their computer die on them and lost works in progress or all their old stuff... I'd afford a few coffees.

I think Destiny is a good argument. If D1 ends, then playing starting D2 won't be the full experience. And new players can start many years into a game. D1 is also stuck on a console, while D2 is so big they removed content from it. You literally can't play the base campaign in D2, a huge part of the story is no longer there. A great game that "you had to be there" to play.

It's the extreme case but leaving games to die instead of having at least the chance for private servers is sad and a loss for everyone long term that don't get a chance to play it.

If Reddit back in the day had asked a few dollars for me to stick with using 3rd party apps using the API I would have. But they did the opposite, so here I am. First time actually donating to something, a measily $2 dollars a month, but hopefully a start to fund some of the free stuff I use.

I still find it amazing people believe the same constant child like lying.

Everyone says... A close friend of mine said... A professor said... Everyone knows...

...That I have the bestest (health/speech/IQ/humbleness/big hands)

It's not the fart (speed) that kills you it's the smell (crash). A Norwegian English joke.

If you use it frequently, I suggest getting a GUI that have profiles or remember options so you don't have to mess with commands all the time. I wrote my own little command line wrspper which is Windows only since I don't have Linux to test on. Though it shouldn't take much effort to add support.

Makes it much more convenient when you don't have to specify things like archive (ignore duplicates), filename to be "artist - title" (where possible), download destination, etc. Just alt-tab, Ctrl-v, Enter. And the download is running. And mine also has parallel downloads and queue for when you got many slow downloads.

Not for the rapid update that broke everything.

See post incident report:

How Do We Prevent This From Happening Again?

Software Resiliency and Testing

• Improve Rapid Response Content testing by using testing types such as:

• Local developer testing

• Content update and rollback testing

• Stress testing, fuzzing and fault injection

• Stability testing

• Content interface testing

• Add additional validation checks to the Content Validator for Rapid Response Content.

• A new check is in process to guard against this type of problematic content from being deployed in the future.

• Enhance existing error handling in the Content Interpreter.

Rapid Response Content Deployment

• Implement a staggered deployment strategy for Rapid Response Content in which updates are gradually deployed to larger portions of the sensor base, starting with a canary deployment.

• Improve monitoring for both sensor and system performance, collecting feedback during Rapid Response Content deployment to guide a phased rollout.

• Provide customers with greater control over the delivery of Rapid Response Content updates by allowing granular selection of when and where these updates are deployed.

• Provide content update details via release notes, which customers can subscribe to.

Source: https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediation-and-guidance-hub/