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by 0xmohit 10y ago
I didn't say that "people frowning about curl|sh are the same ones plugging random crap into the internet". That said, I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see a fair bit of overlap.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
It's common to see people frown upon seeing curl ... | sh Sad that we happily allow a black box to connect to our internet without any inkling of the fact that it might be used to attack someone, spy upon someone (ourselves?),
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
The post [0]. Related HN discussion [1]. [0] https://medium.com/@AdShadlabs/why-you-should-never-use-upwo... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Is there a video available elsewhere? Last I checked, it wasn't possible to download those from SkillsMatter.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Apparently he's the director of a company called "Background Wipe" Wondering if he would need the services of "Background Wipe" now ...
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Although sites like Upwork make money from both sides (probably more from freelancers), they are likely to support those offering work. Perhaps their line of thought goes like: Freelancers would always outnumber those offering work. Even if
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
If I were to guess this flaw was a result of monkey-patching to support 2FA that didn't quite consider different scenarios. I've come across a few authentication bypass vulns that seem similar.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
See LinkedIn Dark Patterns [0]. It explains how LinkedIn tricks one into sharing contacts. There we have it, finally signed up and signed in to LinkedIn. The next part of the new user experience is filling out your profile. Depen
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> Why wouldn't they do the merge now instead of 48h before release The idea is not to publicly disclose the vulnerabilities with too much time remaining for a release. I guess that two weeks are mostly required so as to minimize th
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> How does it compare to SICP? Both are intended for beginners, but HTDP probably a bit easier as compared to SICP.
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How to Design Programs(htdp.org)
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
I'd be tempted to say that `curl | bash` is as insecure as ./configure && make && sudo make install The logic in the article effectively implies that one shouldn't be installing an software without audi
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> an angry post complaining about English mistakes that is itself splattered with basic grammar errors The following on the home page [0] is hilarious: I also maked a sitemap for those who want to dounloud errything. [0] https:
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Maybe they are also using deep learning.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Github seems to be having issues. EDIT: https://status.github.com/ does indicate issues (with Github).
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
You could also try https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts to block ads. Quoting from the description: Extending and consolidating hosts files from a variety of sources like adaway.org, mvps.org, malwaredomains.com
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Earlier: We will not combine DoubleClick cookie information with your personally identifiable information unless we have your opt-in consent. Now: Depending on your account settings, your activity on other sites and apps ma
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Using Docker when working with Golang(blog.docker.com)
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
"Algorithm Design: Parallel and Sequential" [0] -- developed at Carnegie Mellon University. [0] http://www.parallel-algorithms-book.com/
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Go 1.7.3 released(groups.google.com)
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
I can't comment about the specific pull request, but the number of contributors is probably a reasonable indicator. Look at the number of contributors for Scala [0], Go [1], and Rust [2]. [0] https://github.com/scala&#x
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
We are basically filtering our audience down to people who can either invest plenty of time (to wade through the documentation/ask for help on the mailing lists and gitter), money (to pay for training or attend conferences)
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The state of the Scala website and documentation(groups.google.com)
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
That's correct. "The certificate chain is complete", says https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=vimebook.com
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
I am really amazed looking at how popular selfie-sticks continue to be despite causing injuries and deaths [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injurie...
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination I'll check it out soon.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
It was briefly used by MELPA [0] but they moved back to nginx. Performance, load appeared to be the driving reasons. (See their issue tracker for a bit of history.) [0] https://melpa.org/
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Do you really need a throwaway account to make a comment?
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
If you're working at a place where your "performance" is determined by the number of emails that you send at a given hour of the day, then you'd do yourself good by finding an alternative. (If you really love the place a
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
There were a couple of occasions quite some time back (circa 2010) when I reported issues to e-commerce sites: - trivial enumeration attacks that could be used to retrieve customer information (name, address, order, payment details, ...) -

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