Daily Tech News 4 July 2022

• Happy birthday, America! If there's one truth you should always keep close to your heart, it is this: Communists are not people.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, I really could have done without that sequence of events, though if Event C hadn't led me to discover Event D when I did, it could have been a whole lot worse.
  
  I'll just say I'm glad I bought that carpet washer and that it has a dry function as well as shampoo and vacuum.
  
  
  
• On the other hand, those LG UP850-W monitors I bought and still hadn't got around to unboxing? Pretty sweet monitors.
  
  
  
• Speaking of things we could do without: Bug bounty company HackerOne had a weasel in its midst. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The idea behind this is pretty straightforward:
  
  1. You spot a security flaw (might be another bug, but security problems are the big ones) in an online service.
  2. You report the details via HackerOne.
  3. The operator of the online service pays you for the information. And hopefully fixes the problem.
  
  Where this came unstuck is that a HackerOne employee decided to cut out the middle man - which is to say, HackerOne - and just sell the security flaws to the highest bidder.
  
  Which was very lucrative for them, right up until they got caught.
  
  Also, this year being this year, there's this stupidity:

  HackerOne notes that its former employee had used "threatening" and "intimidating" language in their interaction with customers and urged customers to contact the company if they received disclosures made in an aggressive tone.

  Sure, they stole security information and sold it to hackers, but they were also rude.
  
  
  

• Amazon has spent half a billion dollars on the first season of their Lord of the Rings prequel. (Indie Wire)
  
  Chances are it will suck. Chances are we will point and laugh.
  
  They could have done a Beren and Luthien mini-series - probably the most readily adaptable of the tales of the Second Age - but they wanted their own Game of Thrones.
  
  
  
• If you don't know exactly why you are using Kubernetes, you shouldn't be. (Jeremy Brown)
  
  Docker is understandable. Docker is just developers giving up on ever getting anything to install properly, so every application gets its own operating system, Kubernetes - which manages large numbers of Docker containers - presupposes that having large numbers of Docker containers is desirable in the first place.
  
  
  

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