If you can upload a custom file to a domain/subdomain, bluesky social (Jack Dorsey's new twitter) uses it to verify you are the owner of the domain. Chaz uploaded his custom file to their Amazon s3 bucket and now since he was the first one to do it, his account is now associated with Amazon S3.
Hacker News discourages "editorializing" the title, which means there's incentive to repeat what's being linked to exactly.
Most of the time, it's a good thing, but in cases like this is where this falls over.
(You can also see this in the other direction parent comment, for what it's worth, "Jack Dorsey's New Twitter" isn't really accurate, as far as I'm concerned. It is more informative overall, though.)
FWIW it seemed obvious to me. I think a minority of people who play in this space can’t conceptualize others’ understandable ignorance of the norms and axioms.
That's the whole point. Chaz uploaded the file to his own s3 bucket. He is one of thousands (millions?) of people who could have done the same thing with their own s3 bucket. He was the first.
If you can upload a custom file to a domain/subdomain, bluesky social (Jack Dorsey's new twitter) uses it to verify you are the owner of the domain. Chaz uploaded his custom file to their Amazon s3 bucket and now since he was the first one to do it, his account is now associated with Amazon S3.
It's ridiculous that this is not in the title.
Hacker News discourages "editorializing" the title, which means there's incentive to repeat what's being linked to exactly.
Most of the time, it's a good thing, but in cases like this is where this falls over.
(You can also see this in the other direction parent comment, for what it's worth, "Jack Dorsey's New Twitter" isn't really accurate, as far as I'm concerned. It is more informative overall, though.)
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FWIW it seemed obvious to me. I think a minority of people who play in this space can’t conceptualize others’ understandable ignorance of the norms and axioms.
https://xkcd.com/2501/
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>Chaz uploaded his custom file to their Amazon s3 bucket
their is who exactly? and why does bsky associate it with the s3 domain if it's just a file in a random bucket?
That's the whole point. Chaz uploaded the file to his own s3 bucket. He is one of thousands (millions?) of people who could have done the same thing with their own s3 bucket. He was the first.
I would argue this is worse (and more hilarious) than Musk buying and giving out checkmarks for people.
I did over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820670