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by SeldomSoup 7y ago
I don't think it does you any good to be honest here. The conclusion most employers would come to is that you're not cut out for CS work.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
Riseup also has a comprehensive guide on setting up a secure hidden service: https://help.riseup.net/en/security/network-security/tor/oni...
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Tor hidden service operators: your default Apache install is probably vulnerable(wireflaw.net)
3 points by SeldomSoup 11y ago|1 comments
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
As someone whose desktop needs are pretty simple, I agree with this assessment. If you want a *nix that's point-and-click configurable, looks nice, makes it easy to install software, and generally doesn't get in your way, Mint is
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
Chrome does many things right. I use Firefox and am ecstatic about the new extension architecture, for example.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
The French Revolution saw so much bloodshed for so little change (for the ordinary people at least).
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
Absolutely. Two days ago (before the open source announcement), I begrudgingly started learning Swift for a school project in iOS development. Now I'm itching to dive into the language.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
> court-approved Remember, this a secret court, whose judges are likely highly biased in favor the government, with secret proceedings where only the NSA gets to make a case. Not exactly a legitimate safeguard. I also have reservations a
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
> If you want to erase a drive fast then use the following command (where sdXXX is the device to erase): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdXXX bs=1048576 Question: is there a disadvantage to using a higher blocksize?
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
We account for ~4% of the world's population and ~25% of the world's prisoners.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
> I wonder what world you all live in in which this is a bad thing. The world where we all depend on secure communications for autonomy of our own lives?
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
No, you'd just need one increment after all of them. An increment in every else-if block is redundant because only one condition can be executed per loop.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
With the current code, you would need a counter increment for every if statement.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
It's a cryptographic mechanism. MS has a private key they apply to each Windows update to mathematically prove A) they're the ones who issued it and B) the content was not modified in transit. (I am not experienced in cryptography
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
Seems like a redundant flag. Many utilities are perfectly fine reading from stdin if no [file] is specified, without any kind of -f flag.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
Oops. That's one detail I missed in all those API tutorials. Thanks.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
How does this miss the point of REST?
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
Each one of an infertile individual's parents belongs to its own species.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
Same deal for Howard County, MD. We had to get up at 6 to be on the bus by 6:30, and it was pitch black outside in the winter months. Luckily I had an forty-minute bus ride, which provided the opportunity for some extra rest.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
> The idea is you apply styles to elements through JavaScript. Great. Now simply reading a page without JS will become impossible, let alone interacting with it.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
Interestingly, the author goes on to recommend if(rc < 0) goto fail; as a countermeasure for that breed of bug.
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by SeldomSoup 11y ago
You seem to be right ( https://i.imgur.com/VBfbvOv.png ), but I thought sites accessed through HTTPS, like Google, are never sent as referers.