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by RegW 11y ago
Agreed. As a one time hardcore C developer who went soft and has used Java for well over a decade, I'm struggling with the borrow checker. I was hoping that Rust would allow me to switch back to developing native apps without the memo
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by RegW 11y ago
I agree, but the point I was trying to make (perhaps unclearly), was that the username can be checked against a list of blocked patterns at account creation time.
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by RegW 11y ago
There can always be some checking that happens as part of creating a new account. Remember that to be effective, the follower needs to be able to find the new account when the old one is closed. They will do this by searching for an obviou
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by RegW 11y ago
Not as tenacious as the bod who is now manually creating @TurMedia336 to @TurMedia99999999. But, one might have thought that Titter would have blocked creation of these accounts already.
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by RegW 11y ago
> One area Google has recently focused on is app indexing, which brings content from apps into its search engine Hmm. I wonder if the search engine is going to phone home anything it finds interesting in your local files.
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by RegW 11y ago
So if the way the receiver gets hold of your public key is by a link in the signed email, what's to stop an attacker changing the link to a fake key and re-signing the email? Hmm. Why don't we have a standard place on our domains
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by RegW 11y ago
> Why? ... because we don't call out those that do, praise them and give them our custom.
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by RegW 11y ago
Well, right from the top of the page: "The NASA patent portfolio is available to benefit US citizens." True, it doesn't seem explicitly say anywhere that only US companies can apply. But even if was the case, would this real
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by RegW 11y ago
Potentially dumb question from a backend dev: Is there a way to get stats about page loading from Timeline, that could be used to automatically ensure that the load times are not creeping up, and breaking NFRs?
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by RegW 11y ago
I think this is a matter of value. If someone puts work into an article, then it must be disappointing to find credit being given to a pile of dross attached to the bottom, by people who can't be bothered to think before they type. I
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by RegW 11y ago
Agreed. 16 people post the same comment 45 seconds after the article goes online (without reading it properly). 8 people post more thoughtful but identical comments 15 minutes later. I wake up 16 hours after the article goes online and post
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by RegW 11y ago
True - none of our politicians are going to take on the gorilla. It would only hurt them and us. So if it wants the gorilla gets to set the rules for everyone else - vote or no vote. That's democracy - the biggest democracy wins.
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by RegW 11y ago
America's sheer size and influence dominates the world. Even in fields that are not of concern to the rest of the world, countries tow the line to keep this gorilla happy. And of course - you might want to travel: https://e
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by RegW 11y ago
> This article points to another bit of the technology stack that Apple doesn't own - LLVM IR. Hmm, I saw the "LLVM owned since ~2005". What exactly does the article mean by "owned"? Perhaps, Apple owns it in th
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by RegW 11y ago
Hmm - the Java attack seems to assume that a JMX server has not been configured to authenticate requests, can be connected to using RMI and has no class loader security manager. I'm not sure this is really a problem with the Java langu
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by RegW 11y ago
> Has Google's search improved since the launch of Facebook? Hmm - don't know, but I can tell that https://duckduckgo.com has.
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by RegW 11y ago
I administer 2 non-profit domains that use google services. When google started randomly merging all my email/youtube/blogger/appEngine/googledocs accounts together I got into a right gtempaccount.com pickle. I thought
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by RegW 11y ago
FB do try. I took me several attempts to create an account with an obviously bogus name. In the end I had to share a name with 312 other bogus people.
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by RegW 11y ago
For accounts that are unimportant to you, it seems logical to learn one complex password that you use across all these sites. However, there is a danger that an account is actually more important than you suspect - perhaps it gives away a
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by RegW 11y ago
Brilliant - so that's how the my copy of Mike Oldfield "Boxed" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxed_%28Mike_Oldfield_album%2... ) was supposed to work. As I didn't have the cash to buy a quad player
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by RegW 11y ago
um - best not to wonder too loudly.
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by RegW 11y ago
There was an interesting talk on Radio 4's Fourthought recently by an ex-cop. "Peter Bleksley, a former undercover policeman fighting drugs crime and an ex-drug addict, argues that the only answer in the so-called "war on dru
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by RegW 11y ago
I believe that everyone is entitled to make a living from what they do, and that ads support much of the creation of the content I want to read. So for sometime I only used AdBlockPlus to block particular ad venders that really got my goat
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by RegW 12y ago
A better explanation in "Yes, Prime Minister": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_d_vMKswE ... and perhaps relevant to the discussions of states tampering with other people's satellites.
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by RegW 12y ago
I remember years ago the SunOS documentation used to have a ping joke: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19504-01/802-5753/6i9g71m4p/index...
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by RegW 12y ago
Is there (somewhere out there) a protocol for a distributed social network where participants have control?
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by RegW 12y ago
An OS controls access to common resources. Otherwise, our processes are just collaborating and if one screws up we get Windows 95.
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by RegW 12y ago
You're right. I'm being lazy and should look beyond the pre-installed apps. Perhaps, Big G are actually trying to encourage some diversity in the market by only pre-installing apps that people are wary of using :-)
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by RegW 12y ago
> It can't do GPS without using your phone's cellular data or a mobile hotspot. This isn't just a GG problem. This is general Google problem, and something that seems to be growing. Until a year ago I had an old Nokia E5
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by RegW 12y ago
I have come to find the whole circular debate about DRM particularly boring. So much so, that I won't bother to read the whole article or comments here. Yes, DRM is always broken - eventually, but yes it does work - sort of. It is a

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