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by Rygian 2y ago
You don't only need a VM. You also need network isolation from the rest of your network (unless you already expose your whole network as routable on the Internet).
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by Rygian 2y ago
That reasoning can be restated as "it's already really bad, so why not make it a bit worse".
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by Rygian 2y ago
"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the eve
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by Rygian 2y ago
Consider the alternatives. Anyone else exploiting such a vulnerability would have worse intentions.
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by Rygian 2y ago
Using assertions to validate malicious input is not a valid software engineering choice, unless one can guarantee that the assertions will always be active in the production code.
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by Rygian 2y ago
The other day I had a senior developer tell me that he uses assert to perform critical security checks (eg input validation logic, size of input less than size of buffer, ...) and therefore his code is secure. I asked if the compiler preser
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No Way Down: Chemical Release at Wacker Polysilicon [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Rygian 2y ago|0 comments
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by Rygian 2y ago
Meal money in France is credited (either as vouchers or as a separate credit card-like card) that can only be spent either in restaurants, or to spend in supermarkets. Supermarkets are only allowed to sell a limited list of goods that quali
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by Rygian 2y ago
On the subject of French plurals, you also get some counterintuitive ones: - Egg: un œuf (pronounced /œf/), des œufs (pronounced /œ/ !) - Bone: un os (pronounced /os/), des os (pronounced /o/ !)
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by Rygian 2y ago
It's a whole subject in language design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)
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by Rygian 2y ago
How do you run your linux apps on your iPhone?
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by Rygian 2y ago
I think the technical term is enshittification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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by Rygian 2y ago
Related, on a broader level: “Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. Thoughts of a Biologist” (Jean Rostand) http://evene.lefigaro.fr/citation&
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by Rygian 2y ago
Luckily for everyone involved, he married his own wife, not yours.
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by Rygian 2y ago
Voice recognition might be abused to reconstruct your voice and have your recorded voice saying things you never said. Maybe.
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by Rygian 2y ago
The footnote #3 in the article (called as part of your quote) covers the different ways to uppercase ß with more detail.
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by Rygian 2y ago
Same could work with microphones. Every spot of the space would have a different resonant characteristic. Or microphone+speakers, where every device can self-assign an ID, echo it over speakers, and then everyone triangulates everyone else
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by Rygian 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, and realize my comment was not really clear. Any training curriculum needs to include exponential back-off as a core concept of any system-to-system interaction. Ben was let out of school without proper training. Kud
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by Rygian 2y ago
Reading this excellent article put me in the mind of wondering if job interviews for developer positions include enough questions about queue management. "Ben" developed retries without exponential back-off, and only learned about
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by Rygian 2y ago
I initially confused the title with Maskerade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maskerade
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Pirates of the Caribbean hijacked America's metric system (2017)(npr.org)
31 points by Rygian 2y ago|51 comments
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by Rygian 2y ago
Seems to be a Mexico thing indeed: https://dle.rae.es/tabique
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by Rygian 2y ago
"Tabique" is Spanish for wall, as a general noun. (Synonyms: muro, tapia, pared) "Tabique de Hostion" is a misspelling, the word they wanted to write is Ostión [1] (synonym with "ostra" for oyster). "Hosti
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by Rygian 2y ago
I find it interesting to read these UX patterns and ask myself "would the same UX pattern work for a local-first application?". I find that in most cases, a local-first application would have a more predictable UX, because most ac
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by Rygian 2y ago
I fully support the block, delete, report junk approach. Spam should never be in the "better ask for forgiveness than ask for permission" bucket.
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by Rygian 2y ago
The article mentions that "The figure Cato received reflected a “placeholder” that was automatically generated by e-citation software"
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by Rygian 2y ago
It was LRU page eviction, that's why you don't remember :-)
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by Rygian 2y ago
That's where certification (Articles 42 and 43) will come in useful.
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by Rygian 2y ago
I really agree with the backdrop painted by this article: - Meta discovered the discovered internally. - Meta fixed the issue without delay. - Meta took steps to show "absence of evidence" of abuse. (Does not mean "evidence o
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by Rygian 2y ago
Money is not the issue here. If something different, call it 'X', had a similar impact on life, then people would gable with 'X'.

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