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I believe this is what they call yasslighting: the affirmation of questionable behavior/ideas out of a desire to be supportive. The opposite of tough love, perhaps. Sometimes the very best thing is to be told no.

(comment copied from the sibling thread; maybe they will get merged…)


I believe this is what they call yasslighting: the affirmation of questionable behavior/ideas out of a desire to be supportive. The opposite of tough love, perhaps. Sometimes the very best thing is to be told no.

I imagine you’d go digging on a few sample beaches and then make an assumption about how representative those beaches are.

Think where we’d be without sand!


It's so much fun living through the steep bit of an S curve that we imagine it might last forever...

I get the feeling. The 90s in particular, maybe even until crysis went super fast. Then tech felt incredibly stagnant for over a decade.

But the time since 2020 feels much faster again. It's scary! But it's exciting.


On other hand not being hopelessly outdated in a relatively short time does have perks. It is cheaper to not have to update constantly and still getting decent performance.

Apple M chips?

I assumed the comment was about LLMs...

Agreed. Default Ubuntu is pretty much feature complete for mainstream users, as long as they don’t have to install it themselves.

When you stare into the vuln, the vuln stares back at you.

“It’s an older code but it checks out.”

We are green on opsec!

To be clear, this is a supply chain attack on everyone that uses Trivy, not a supply chain attack on Trivy. It was a direct attack on Trivy, exploiting components that Aqua had full control and responsibility for. The term “supply chain attack” has a connotation of “it’s not really my fault, it was my dependencies that got compromised”.

Of course, every entity is ultimately accountable for its own security, including assigning a level of trust to any dependencies, so it’s ultimately no excuse, but getting hit by a supply chain attack does evoke a little more sympathy (“at least I did my bit right”), and I feel like the ambiguous wording of the title is trying to access some of that sympathy.


The term “supply chain attack” has a connotation of “it’s not really my fault, it was my dependencies that got compromised”.

In my experience that is definitely not true, and I've never heard anyone use it that way. Even though you are correct in who the target was.


A supply chain attack is an attack on a provider of a solution that is then deployed further. The issue with a supply chain attack is that the ultimate victim brings in trusted software that was compromised upstream.

No. There’s a definition from the UN here if you’re interested:

https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/UNHQ/9626F6CEB2A92C9B8...


Ironically, the very concept of a “real man” is founded on the idea that a man should be defined by stereotypes rather than by sex, which puts manosphere enthusiasts and gender enthusiasts in closer epistemological proximity than either would care to admit.

I saw this coming, that's why I made this point, which you ignored:

> Could you give a couple of examples of what you would consider > "good role models for well-adapted men" ?

I'm actually curious.


Amy Coney Barrett.

Supreme court judge, mother of 7, still finds time to go to the gym.


I meant male role models for men (I'm sure you could find one). Not every man aspires to be the mother of 7 and go to the gym. (Because: remember that gyms are classist by design. [1])

But maybe lets talk about how Amy got called out by The Human Rights Campaign and 185 LGBTQ organizations for her "disturbingly anti-LGBTQ past writings, rhetoric and association with extremist groups." [2]

Or how about when The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights described her record as "fundamentally cruel," arguing she frequently sides with corporations over individuals and shows hostility toward established precedents like the Affordable Care Act.

At least Chuck Norris had no real impact on policy with his bigotry.

[1] https://www.leeboyce.com/truth-the-fitness-life-is-a-relativ...

[2] https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/the-human-rights-campaign...

[3] https://civilrights.org/resource/oppose-the-confirmation-of-...


Why does a role model for a man have to be a man? Besides, she's an exceptionally good role model even for traditionalist views of what makes a man, by virtue of being so accomplished in her career and still making time for family and health. Her record poses the question: what's your excuse? Men who are all-in on hyperfocus should wither before her.

Sure, there are people that hate her. Her own patron, our Dear Leader, probably hates her when she rules against his interests. All the more reason to respect her.


Sure, a woman can be a role model for a man.

Just out of curiosity, could you think of one man that could also be a role model for men and women?


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