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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> This is particularly important for those paying for bandwidth as it slashes that cost by 84% Feel sorry to read such a generic statement. > Full (strict): CloudFlare issues the certificate and they'll intercept your traffic, bu
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
# imagemagick is the best thing in the world Unfortunately, the number of vulnerabilities in ImageMagick has earned it another name, ImageTragick. https://imagetragick.com/ https://github.com/ImageTr
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Good to see that there are countries where the law works. In India, it usually doesn't [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Mallya
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
One may find the following resources useful for measures on how to secure one's infrastructure: - Security Guide: How to Protect Your Infrastructure Against the Basic Attacker [0] - 7 Security Measures to Protect Your Servers [1] [0]
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Follow up: https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2015/05/07/grepping...
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Grepping logs is terrible(asylum.madhouse-project.org)
2 points by 0xmohit 10y ago|1 comments
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Maybe somebody should try reaching out at +1.4083447484 to figure why the startup acted thus.
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Amusingly the `whois` records for wrkroit.com mention 1FOR.ONE CORPORATION as the registrant organization. Here is a snippet of the records: Domain Name: WRKRIOT.COM Creation Date: 25-aug-2016 Registrant Name: ISAAC CHOI Registra
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Guess this company needs to work on robots. Replace employees with robots and write a blog post: HOW WE WORK 24x7
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Ditto. I'm not a fan of Twitter but this doesn't seem to be off-topic. Those flagging this ought to read the guidelines [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Even lines such as var plus int64 plus = 0 could be written as plus := 0 -- The following if *url == true should be written as if *url -- Moreover, custom logger could be implemented to avoid code repetition.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Or maybe find a social engineering hack by way of which you can make others follow you (without them realizing it, of course).
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I thought that it was true about vi(m). A vi(m) user must always let others know about it.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
- Interesting that this has been posted six times [0] over the past 4 days - Earlier discussion [1] on the same topic posted elsewhere [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dev.to [1] https://news.ycombinato
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
This leaves you with something to think about: Can one assume that one can continue to avail such services forever? Maybe it is only a matter of time when (1) the provider stops offering services (selectively), (2) it becomes paid, (3) it
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Moreover, there are occasions when snippets from highly upvoted (and even accepted) answers on Stack Overflow should not be copied either.
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A collection of Scala best practices(github.com)
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Related discussion: Policy – A fork of the Scala compiler [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8276565
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> I just wish that Amazon could start selling cars directly. They are waiting for people to buy enough accessories that aren't suitable for their existing vehicles. Subsequently, they'll start selling vehicles that might be s
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> I bought exhaust bolts this way, and of course they didn't fit. The spacers on the bolts were longer than the OEM bolts, so fumes would go into the cabin. Lesson learned.. If one orders a spare that doesn't fit in the existin
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
A rust beginner could also look at Jonathan Turner's lessons from solving first 12 Project Euler problems. [0] https://www.jonathanturner.org/2015/10/lessons-from-first-12...
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
I love Python; it’s been my primary programming language for 10+ years and despite a number of interesting developments in the interim I have no plans to switch to anything else. "interesting" and "developments&qu
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Parallel – A command-line CPU load balancer written in Rust(github.com)
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> There are many many ways that your information can end up being referenced in an identity graph and be discoverable by Facebook Of course, it's not simple. Additional measure might include using browser extensions like Ghostery, u
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> nor there was a need for facebook to use these dark patterns with whatsapp Facebook needs to recover it's investment in WhatsApp. No?
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Most don't like hearing this: if you don't want your personal information to be shared, don't use these "social media" tools. I suspect that you'd be familiar with LinkedIn dark patterns [0] too. [0] https:&#x
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Exactly. Moreover, a look at the permissions required by Facebook app would reveal how much information it collects about you: Device & app history retrieve running apps Identity find accounts on the device add or
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
I suspect that you never checked what information they collect. On Android, apart from location the app requires following permissions [0]: - SMS (read, send, receive) - Photos/media/files (read, modify, delete SD card cont
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
What I meant was that given the current valuation is high, it's right to go ahead with an IPO. But you lead me into thinking: In order to justify $60B valuation, I'd have expected them to blow up much more than $100M.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Wonder what were the revenues from the monetization of collected data?

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