It's an Atlassian Statuspage style oddity, the title is too long for a single line and it's put an ellipsis and linebreak. But the ellipsis has overwritten the end of the content on the first line. Full title shows on the home page.
The entire post is clearly LLM generated. I get that a person clearly put together some thoughts, but prompting an LLM to 'turn this into a blog post' is the kind of low effort content I thought was not appropriate for HN.
At least bringing up the underlying method (restrict to contributors) has spawned the discussion about how that's probably a bad idea on the security side.
Well it is a .ai domain and they run some kind of AI product (unclear what exactly) so I guess they just don't see an issue with that sort of thing. I don't know if people are happily reading stuff like this or if they just get the "AI summary"
It's definitely a fake bait post, what they're describing isn't even possible in the way they said. The post and the OP comment replies even look LLM generated as well. They somehow have a good reason why every legitimate suggestion can't work.
The account was commenting on the satirical sysadmin subreddit yesterday, so they know what makes a engaging story.
LiveKit Cloud uses virtual compute and networking across multiple (USA based) cloud providers. DigitalOcean, Google and Oracle at minimum. They each have servers all of the world of course, but the controlling entity(s) parent companies are all based in the USA.
Latency shouldn’t be a problem, it's handled by a global CDN.
Proton including that part about geopolitical instability implies that Meet is does not fall under the USA's CLOUD Act - that would be wrong. The metadata of any Meet call could be handed to USA authorities, for example the participants date & time, source IP and useragent of each member. The call itself should be E2E encrypted.
Proton Meet relies entirely on LiveKit Cloud to run https://proton.me/meet/privacy-policy which uses virtual compute and networking with DigitalOcean, Google and Oracle.
I don't any signs that it's a bot, or that the comment was LLM generated. It's pretty safe to assume they made an alt to make that comment, as they didn't want to take a negative opinion towards a conservative author on their main. i.e. trying to avoid controversy.
This website is slightly to the right of reddit these days; what exactly would expressing a negative opinion about a conservative blogger do to their main account?
My suspicion was some affiliation with a current or future implicated individual.
I figured it was someone who just cared enough to make an account.
Yeah, this article seems fine, but looking at some of chris brunet's other articles has me a bit O.O
First time I've run into this with a HN share in a good long while. Not that the article shouldn't have been shared, ofc, but.. it certainly puts me on guard.
Yes, I'm saying that HN is very far left, which wasn't the case just a few years ago. It's mostly a progressive echo chamber at this point plus some interesting tech news.
I didn't immediately see a red flag that would make me discount all of their work. It's clear what the author's general opinions are. They're entitled to them of course.
I've had Windows Server VMs soft crash and hard crash on Azure. Some soft-lock and a restart via Azure gets them back. Some times the only fix has been to power off / deprovision - then power on again (i.e. a restart didn't fix it). It's not common, but I've encountered it multiple times. These are with operating systems that were created in Azure from their images.
