Saw an interesting case of this type of attack in the CounterStrike community earlier this week.
Someone setup a fake tournament website that asked the user to login with their Steam account. Then it launched what looked like a new browser window with the Steam login page, but was actually just a popover that had been elaborately styled, with window decorations and all.
I’d argue that the degree of portability implied by the term is very much context dependent. “Portable between Linux systems” is a perfectly valid use of the term, imo.
Do you take portable to mean a program that can run on every processor arch and OS available?
> Do you take portable to mean a program that can run on every processor arch and OS available?
The definition of the word "portable" is not the point of this comment thread (although if you want to hear my definition, see the reply to a sibling comment).
Let's take the context into account:
> hashworks:
While I support systemd timers over cron, AFAIK cron has stuff like @hourly.
> caiusdurling:
Some cron implementations do, it's not portable.
> bheadmaster:
Neither are systemd timers. I don't think there's a single system out there implementing the systemd timer interface.
User caiusdurling said @hourly is not portable between cron implementations as a way to discredit hashworks' argument about cron having @hourly.
However, that's a disingenious argument, because systemd timers aren't any more portable than cron implementations that use @hourly - in fact, there isn't a single system out there implementing the systemd timer interface except systemd.
> The arrogance required to tell someone that their experience is false is something I have trouble wrapping my head around.
It's my least favorite thing about HN, but it's one of the opiates of the internet. Alternate phrasing like "not in my experience" might be slightly better.
I still think "downvote to grey" is a regression vs. simply letting popular comments be voted higher.
It's human nature to think that our personal experience and worldview is representative of the general population, even though it almost never actually is. It's a thing we have to consciously be on guard about.
"We tend to mistake the limits of our vision for the limits of the world."
If you allow the misperception to take hold, it's a short step to concluding that anyone who isn't like you is weird or wrong in some way.
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