From a LinkedIn post by someone I don't know apparently in reference to news about this incident...

That IP is an EOP IP. It’s also the egress IP for the press pool guest WiFi. The system that had the residential proxy infection belongs to a news org based in NYC.

(said post had no citations, so I guess I'll leave those as an exercise for the reader.)

So this is wandering a bit from VPNs, but..,

opening Colin Jensen's answer to How do Mormons view the Council of Nicaea and its influence on mainstream Christianity? Why might some reject its teachings? on Quora.

And also

opening David Christofferson's answer to How does the LDS church’s definition of God and the Trinity differ from mainstream Christianity? , also on Quora.

Maybe it's not intentional, but it's curious that only item 5, "McAffee'", is hidden behind the "Read More" link.

Reddit took the small step of notifying J Doe that there was a relevant subpoena. The motion linked from the summary was filed by Doe's attorneys (paid for by a nonprofit organization, of which Doe may or may not be a member, not by Doe themself).

I recently stayed in a furnished rental during some business travel. The lease move-out checklist included an item "sign out of all accounts on the smart TV".

... if it's done right, of course.

But then again, I also implemented time restrictions on my children's accounts with a cron job that killed all their processes at bedtime. And I insisted that, as a condition of being able to play Roblox, they had to "friend" me and their siblings in the game. (But Roblox doesn't even support Linux. grumble, grumble...)

You're probably misremembering 2004. The "Acquisition Central" webpage only had a teaser annoncement that several systems would be migrated into it in 2011, and the actual go-live was in August 2012. On August 14th, 2012, the system homepage still carried a notice that

(I actually worked on that project, from 2010 to early 2013, but you'll note that I cite only public information above.)

For the last couple years, the male subset of my children's church youth group used Discord for coordinating activities, and I learned about my daughter's activity plans via email. As of last month, both subsets are moving to WhatsApp. I'm not sure if this particular change is "too little, too late" to have kept them, or if indeed it drives some of the youth and their parents away faster.

There's a proposal to build a "small" (24 MW) data center literally within walking distance of my home. utility press release newspaper article I haven't submitted my own public commnent on it yet, and I actually might be weakly in favor of it. It's "different", planning to use the waste heat as part of the city's municipal hot-water supply (used to heat State Government buildings and other downtown buildings).

The site in question is currently deep-discount overflow parking for the city's minor-league baseball stadium and downtown offices, but in fact even before COVID the parking garages were never full for some reason, maybe telework, maybe overall government size reduction, maybe some work moving elsewhere in the state, maybe more people carpoooling and using mass-transit. Across the street to the south is a recently rebuilt Wendy's, and then the freeway; to the east, an oil-change place, and then a railroad track. Some houses within hearing distance, but a lot of noise already.

I have a nonzero reputation on Stack Overflow, but I haven't written an Answer since May 2024 and the last of my Answers that has more than one upvote is from 2020. I for one hope it does weather the storm, but the high bar to making a "good" contribution is a challenge.

And the comparison to Wikipedia is apt in some ways; but Wikipedia also has a lot of content on history, politics, and religion, and in the past had (perhaps still has) some editors who wanted to make sure certain modern social causes were mentioned in all related articles. Stack Overflow itself doesn't have that. The subject area is purely technical.

From their status page...

> Oct 20 1:26 AM PDT We can confirm significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue also affects other AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region as well. During this time, customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases. [...]

> Oct 20 12:51 AM PDT We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue may also be affecting Case Creation through the AWS Support Center or the Support API. [...]

The number might also be somewhat inflated by people who have a "work" account and a "personal" account, or an "employer" account and a "contract client" account, or who have switched jobs within the past year.

But you can sue the manufacturer of a hammer if it's sold with a defect where the head appears to be attached and it actually is likely to fly off in normal use, and some guy buys it, uses it, and the head flies off and hits his buddy in the face.

If a professional news reporter or lawyer uses ChatGPT and doesn't check their sources or citations, that's on them, but if some random person tries to use ChatGPT to obtain current news or legal advice, the developers and owners of the service are ultimately responsible, and "how much" is a question of fact, not something that can be decided pre-trial.

(Speaking hypothically about what the law should be. I Am Not A Lawyer...)

For distinguishing between "legitimate advertisers" and "shady, definitely con artists", sure.

For distinguishing between e-mail I actually care about and e-mail I'd like to insta-delete and not see any more, not so sure. On my work account, I get email from supervisors, coworkers, colleagues, external business partners, external salesmen. For the most part, only the generic sales pitches from external vendors have "unsubscribe" links. And on my personal account, I get email from family, friends, open-source collaborators, volunteer-work collaborators, religious associates, former colleagues, businesses I'm dealing with, lawyers I'm dealing with, and recruiters. There as well, the truly personal messages are unlikely to have "unsuscribe" links, while the generic advertisements for things I'm not even interested in often do have a purported "unsubscribe" link.

Both my church and a non-sectarian youth development organization I'm involved with seem to have gotten caught in the spam-fighting crossfire this year. Each had a system that allowed members of the organization to send e-mail to other members; in the church, for local leaders to reach their own congregation; in the youth organization, for "unit leaders" to put items on a calendar, which would send out reminders at a set time before the event. The youth organization's systems were actually put on a well-known spam list, and I've also heard reports from people who just didn't get messages I sent through the church's system. On the other hand, mail from the "unofficial" channel of my personal address to the same people seems to have still gone through during the same timeframe.

Two weeks later, yes the static parts of the website are up, but important functions (including the "Forgot my PIN" login flow) are still broken. And calls to the main Customer Service number listed on the website get a short mesage "We appreciate your patience as we work to upgrade our Customer Care systems as soon as possible..." (in English and Spanish), followed by hangup.

(I am not a Boost customer, but I have a close relative who is. We'll be switching her to a different carrier as soon as we can figure out how to port her number, which was originally her landline number. I did reach a live person by calling an alternate number, but that person said due to the "internal system error" even they couldn't do anything.)