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This is going to be a tough sell to your marketing dept I think.


It's usually the marketing department asking for e-mail addresses in the first place.


Is it though? Think about zuckerberg's "dumb fucks" quote.


The site guidelines are here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Jokes aren't explicitly against the guidelines either, but I think the site likes to emphasize high quality content that will not alienate people who don't understand obscure references.


Username checks out.


The slider of funding rounds is a neat idea but it's kind of hard to read in chronological order without mentally keeping track of which items appeared each time I slid it forward.

Would love to see a plain, non-javascript version of this content.


I've had a few instances of firefox on Mac and Linux starting to spin up the fans, and show high CPU usage, and I've had trouble pinning down which tab was causing it.

Is about:performance the best place to do this or is there something like Chrome's task manager that shows CPU and memory usage per page, and per extension?


By fling, do you mean the two-finger horizontal scroll to move back and forward through history? If so, I miss it too.


I've enabled this on my Linux laptops (settings are the same regardless of OS) to get that functionality in FF:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Fire...


That's in macOS System Preferences. I use it all the time. Go to Trackpad / More Gestures and check "Swipe between pages". You can also control how many fingers you want to use. I set it to three fingers so that it doesn't conflict with horizontal scrolling.


I mean the bouncing when you overscroll vertically.


The same claim is made about this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8


It's not nothing, but it's interesting to note that the amount they spent is dwarfed by the amounts currently being spent by top democrats (and Trump's re-election campaign), several of which are in the low millions of dollars.

> According to Facebook, the IRA purchased over 3,500 advertisements, and the expenditures totaled (sic) approximately $100,000

I think everyone would like to know how much actual influence it had in the election but I'm not sure we will ever know definitively.


This report might be interesting as well.

https://disinformationreport.blob.core.windows.net/disinform...

The two biggest caveats about it in my mind are that 1) all the data was provided voluntarily by the tech companies, with no indication of how they determined what was a Russian account, and 2) they don't really have any way to measure what actual impact it had on the election, or how effective the disinformation campaigns were


Doesn't it depend on how close the election was to begin with? If it's very close, you may not need to move the needle very far to change the outcome.


> content that is far-right, racist, and highly partisan, one has to wonder what effect they’ve had on the EU election conversation space on Twitter over the past few weeks. [...]

I'm not familiar with the reasons of the outcome in France, but this whole election has been dictated by far-right, racist and highly partisan reasons in my country. When you wonder why you got a result from a huge number of people you need to analyse the data, and analysts are noticing that ...

"The League of Matteo Salvini gets a resounding 30.75% of preferences in Riace , the municipality of the Reggio area guided until a few months ago by Domenico Lucano and known throughout the world for the model of reception and integration of migrants that was practiced there."

"Even in the island of Lampedusa , at the center of the migration phenomenon, the League wins. Matteo Salvini's party gets 45.85%, more than twice the Democratic Party that launches Pietro Bartolo, the migrant doctor, among the candidates in Strasbourg."

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

> Doesn't it depend on how close the election was to begin with? If it's very close, you may not need to move the needle very far to change the outcome.

There are 12 points of distance between the 1st party (extreme right) and the 2nd (pro immigration). The territorial distribution of votes in favor of the extreme right is aligned with the cases of uncontrolled and non-regular immigration, cases that the population lives in the area and which have little interaction with the (old/new)media.

This doesn't mean that disinformation attempts are not happening, they're. But the outcome was predictable, and it's difficult to argue that there is a correlation with ..Twitter.


Digging into this a bit more and reading between the lines of the nytimes article, it sounds to me like EternalBlue was indeed used as part of the attack chain, for lateral movement. It was not the only exploit used, nor would the attack have been wholly prevented without it.

https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/113232602124240076...


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