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by Confiks 9y ago
A few days ago there was an article on HN about putting Radium in everything. It's good for you! It even shines in the dark. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-re...
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by Confiks 9y ago
I'm not too sure what "jumping on the goof-troop bandwagon" means to you, or what difference you are referring to. Cloudfare /did/ invest a lot of time communicating and trying to remedy the situations with the DDoS
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by Confiks 10y ago
In less click-bait-y headlines: "A record 2.6% of American employees now go to their jobs without ever leaving their houses". In more absurd headlines: "A record 2.6% of American employees now transfer to their jobs INSTANTAN
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by Confiks 10y ago
I think people, especially here on HN, recognize that humans in general are fallible, and I think the incidents you mention have been largely forgiven or forgotten, at least by the respective public of each company. Personally, I would be t
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by Confiks 10y ago
It might be used for special applications, but not for your typical server that is connected to the internet, simply because it's horribly slow compared to the virtualization support (VT-x / AMD-V) most modern CPUs offer since at
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by Confiks 10y ago
As the bug seems to rely on a maximum instruction length that is present in hardware x86 but not in QEMU's x86, the reach of this particular bug seems to be just the software emulated mode.
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by Confiks 10y ago
I'm interested. How do you use accomplishments specifically to teach how to code? Do you create exercised or projects that can be completed, do students build their own projects with certain accomplishments in them, or?
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by Confiks 10y ago
This might be considered similar to the DoS vector that was also present in the HTTP Public Key Pinning proposal [1]; an adversary seizing temporary control over the server can convince clients to not request a response from the server for
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by Confiks 10y ago
Hello human. This is a message from the Matrix. You've been in a coma for 20 years. Please write back. https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...
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by Confiks 10y ago
> [do you] remember the question about a “talking pineapple” on a New York test in 2012? This story about "The Hare and the Pineapple" seems to have been debunked credulously some time ago: http://ideas.time.com&#x2F
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by Confiks 10y ago
No, image inlining is quite old, and base64 is not a very efficient encoding, although gzip might make up for the ~1/3 increase in size. You'd think HTTP/2 server push would stand for this, but I can imagine inlining is still
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by Confiks 10y ago
I always make sure to keep a `git log` in my terminal scrollback buffer, so I can easily `git reset --hard` back to some revision. And if that fails there's indeed always the reflog to fall back to.
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by Confiks 10y ago
A bit from Libreboot that is relevant: https://libreboot.org/faq/#firmware-hddssd > HDDs and SSDs are quite complex, and these days contain quite complex hardware which is even capable of running an entire operating
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by Confiks 10y ago
In a "magic rite" where they did "exorcize the Spirits of murder, violence & creephood". It was an "EXORGASM!" http://historiadiscordia.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04&
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by Confiks 10y ago
> It failed to convey it for me when his girlfriend started audibly indenting by hitting the spacebar 8 times... I'd go nuts, who wouldn't? I remember when I got into coding Runescape autoclick bots when I was 14, in an arcane
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by Confiks 10y ago
tl;dr: StartSSL would issue certificates for sites like Github and Dropbox, and practically any site offering OAuth2, without having to have control over the domain. StartEncrypt by StartCom/StartSSL has a LetsEncrypt-like verification
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by Confiks 10y ago
While the other examples in the article are fitting, obtaining a pet is the one example that is almost exactly like when buying a gun in the US: when buying a puppy from a private seller, you don't have to go through any checks.
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by Confiks 10y ago
This was a nice time-sink. The solution is to either disable updates if you haven't updated already, or switch to the canary release.
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Source maps are broken on Chrome 51(bugs.chromium.org)
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by Confiks 10y ago
The key can in fact be changed, in exactly the way you are describing. That the key can not be easily changed doesn't make it a non-key.
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by Confiks 10y ago
It's good someone finally took the effort to write this up. When discussing some security by obscurity measure, other people almost invariably come up with the "security by obscurity is bad" slogan without having spent much t
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by Confiks 10y ago
Yes, I have always wondered why this happens the way it does. I haven't experiences being redirected through them, but it seems that on logon one is being randomly selected. They all are in the same 216.58.212.* subnet (now and here) b
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by Confiks 10y ago
> How enormous? Give me a number. > I need a number > The number? The article places annoying attention to quantifying "workload estimates", whatever that even means. Because the written interview is so verbose, we know t
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by Confiks 10y ago
I've been using ansible-vault to solve this problem in our infrastructure repository. A symmetric vault key is encrypted using gpg, and Ansible's vault_password_file is set to to an executable shell script containing `gpg --batch
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by Confiks 10y ago
Awesome overview! Incidentally, Craig Costello is giving a talk at Radboud University today about the paper (4 May 15:30, room HG00.062).
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by Confiks 10y ago
But then, by which mechanism does Homebrew notify GA that I have opened a terminal tab? There is a curl command executed every time, and I see a connection to GA with Little Snitch. Is there some way to see the caller of a process? htop dis
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by Confiks 10y ago
What is the mechanism in which Homebrew inserts itself into every shell session anyway? I had expected it to be loaded somewhere in some shell initialization script, such as .bashrc or .bash_profile, but I couldn't find anything.
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by Confiks 11y ago
> On that note though, can you pump HTTP 2.0 traffic through a TCP listener? I haven't tried. Yes, we're using that right now with Proxy Protocol to see the original requester. When using a TCP listener, you're of course f
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by Confiks 11y ago
"If this feels “so 2015” to you, we did start building the app in early 2015 and went down the centralized RESTful API route." If the author considers that route to be "so 2016", what would the 2016 Newest Thing be?
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by Confiks 11y ago
I always see these non-intrusive side channels being applied to asymmetric cryptography. From using a microphone to listen in on GPG RSA private keys, to now the difference between point adding and point doubling in ECDSA. But I wonder if t

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