New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases — and Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions

Issue #111 — July 27, 2020

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New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases bleepingcomputer.com \| points: 522 \| comments: 331

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Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions devopsdirective.com \| points: 365 \| comments: 43

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Public asked to report receipt of any unsolicited packages of seeds vdacs.virginia.gov \| points: 358 \| comments: 265

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Facebook has blocked Dreamwidth andrewducker.dreamwidth.org \| points: 323 \| comments: 132

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Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019) soundguys.com \| points: 308 \| comments: 231

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Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps arstechnica.com \| points: 259 \| comments: 106

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OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub infoq.com \| points: 248 \| comments: 120

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Montreal is taxing churches (2017) montreal.ctvnews.ca \| points: 231 \| comments: 284

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How to effectively evade the GDPR and the reach of the DPA blog.zoller.lu \| points: 221 \| comments: 174

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What’s the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days for results? buzzfeednews.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 276

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WebGL Fluid Simulation paveldogreat.github.io \| points: 197 \| comments: 47

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Publishing thousands of police discipline records that New York kept secret propublica.org \| points: 190 \| comments: 63

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Basics of Haskell – Code and exercises github.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 23

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Small mail server best current practices bridge.grumpy-troll.org \| points: 184 \| comments: 79

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A Surprise AWS Bill chrisshort.net \| points: 184 \| comments: 234

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U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars time.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 236

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“The Far Side” Returns to a Weird World newyorker.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 114

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The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization arxiv.org \| points: 172 \| comments: 61

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Typometer: A tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors pavelfatin.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 96

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Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 150 \| comments: 125

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