herpessimplex10's comments

On: Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time

[herpessimplex10]

Until people stop building applications with hard dependencies on "other people's computers" this is going to keep happening.

On: Amazon has launched a major global crackdown on Fire Stick piracy

[herpessimplex10]

> but the real issue appears to have been the apps’ use of resource-monetization services that grant cybercriminals access to devices and residential IPs for malicious activity.

So the apps are malware that function as residential proxies.

Way to bury the lede.

[parsimo2010 → herpessimplex10]

RTFA. That was for the previous round of blocks, and those apps were restored after the offending behavior was removed.

The current round of blocks is targeting apps that support piracy even if they don’t have any other malicious behavior.

[leoh → herpessimplex10]

It's pretty incredible how many apps have this kind of functionality. There are some sketch af sites that sell access to these proxies. I took a look to do some web scraping a while ago. In the end, I just ended up using TOR with a Rust API and that worked a lot better and made me feel a lot less dirty, in addition to being free.

On: 3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf]

[herpessimplex10]

For all of computing eternity, the only person I've ever heard refer to it as a "diskette" is icon-lady Susan Kare.

[jmorenoamor → herpessimplex10]

Diskette or disquete was a popular term in Spain for floppies, both 3 and 5 inches. In fact everyone called the disk drive "disquetera".

On: FFmpeg dealing with a security researcher

[herpessimplex10]

Kindly do the needful and update ticket in Jira when complete.