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by acatton 4y ago
CBC's Marketplace did an investigation about this years ago. https://youtu.be/bvlzZnhZhrc?t=858 TL;DW: this is widespread in most cities in Canada. Scammers just setup fake businesses on google to have your nearest loc
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by acatton 4y ago
These free tier offers will kill you on the bandwidth costs.
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by acatton 4y ago
LTS kinda garantees that the internal APIs will not change, allowing for upgrades without reboot using something like Ksplice.[1] (aka "Hot patching") [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice
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by acatton 4y ago
From the "other" tab: > DNS53 (IPv6) > 2a0f:fc80:: > 2a0f:fc81::
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by acatton 4y ago
These are pen-tests and black-box security audits. While they're definitely better than nothing, and they would show that their security is better than LastPass', the code was never audited.
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by acatton 4y ago
The part of the post about 1Password is basically "trust me, bro, a buddy of mine used to work there".
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by acatton 4y ago
> But further, a buffer overflow is practically impossible with a GCed language (especially a popular one) Because the JVM had no buffer overflow? [1] Also I purposefully wrote "buffer overflow & co" because buffer overflow
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by acatton 4y ago
> You should be able to know all the references to a variable, if you are careful when writing your program. The issue is: what if thread A and thread B hold a reference to the password variable? And you don't know in which order th
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by acatton 4y ago
When I see people running to 1Password, I'm really concerned. I don't know whether 1Password has somewhat of a following cult here or they're doing some astroturfing in this community. But 1Password claims are the same claims
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by acatton 4y ago
Usually security nuts like to override the clear-text string with zeros or random characters before calling free() on it. This way, if this chunk of data stays in memory (which is most likely the case with libc's free()) it cannot be r
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by acatton 4y ago
This doesn't apply to most EU countries. (Nuance: I'm not well versed in the legal system of countries part of the Bucharest Nine group, hence my "most") In most of the EU, buying land and houses is done through a notary
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by acatton 4y ago
Complexity is relative. I'm a ansible + packages kinda-guy, so of course k8s feels bloated. But Nix with "its compile everything and store the results in deep directories with sha256 hashe names, and if two programs depends on two
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by acatton 4y ago
What do you mean growing your system? “How do you run more service?” Or “how do you handle more traffic?” Or “how do you handle more complexity of the application?” All of these can be handled with any or many of VM images, containers, home
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by acatton 4y ago
Config can also be made reproducible with VM images, containers, home-built packages, configuration-management tools (ansible, puppet, …) or a mix of all or some of them. Nix/Guix is no silverbullet.
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by acatton 4y ago
There is definitely a sustainability and reward issue with some open source. But I don't think blockchain and web3 are in any way an answer to these problems.
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by acatton 4y ago
Debunking Tesla's cherry-picked argument will take more time than it took Tesla's marketing team to cherry-pick their truck and train data to make the math work in their favour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
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by acatton 4y ago
nit: AFAIK, "net promoter score" is derived from polling users with the question "how likely are you to recommend this product?" I think what you're describing (churned over onboarded users at month M) is the "
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by acatton 4y ago
cznic or modernc.org is just a name clash, AFAICT. They have nothing to do with cz.nic.
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by acatton 4y ago
cznic (aka modernc.org) again… This person or this collective have been transpiling C projects into Pure Go projects, like sqlite[1], libx11[2], xcb[3], and much more[4]… They use their own homegrown transpiler from C99 to Go.[5] I can only
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by acatton 4y ago
> In Europe where firing is almost impossible Assuming you mean the European Union by "Europe", this is 27 countries with 27 labour laws. I don't think this can be generalized. Only trade laws were unified in the EU. The l
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by acatton 4y ago
Europe is 27 countries with uniformized trade laws. There was never any uniformization on labour laws. GP made a huge generalization by saying "in europe" while talking about labour laws. It's like me saying "in asia, (s
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by acatton 4y ago
Maybe the article is partially right[1], but I'm concerned about the source of this story. unherd.com is a the-pandemic-is-a-hoax, anti-vaxx, cryptocurrency-will-save-us website mixed with some news in it. (calling it a newspaper would
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by acatton 4y ago
Hosted in Europe, but on AWS which is a US company bound by the patriot act. There are tons of decent european-based cloud providers,… like upcloud, Scaleway, exoscale or OVH to name the ones at the top of my head. I would love to know what
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by acatton 4y ago
Exactly, the cheapest and fastest way to get a book in Germany is most likely your neighborhood book store on the way back from work. (And if they don't have the book in store, they can order it for the next day.)
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by acatton 4y ago
TiKV is basically a layer on top of rocksdb https://github.com/tikv/tikv/blob/956610725039835557e7516828...
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by acatton 4y ago
Because if you've accepted patches you're not the author of the entire code base anymore. So it's not your own work, but a collaboration. This is why I never sign CLA. Since I'm basically signing my rights away.
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by acatton 4y ago
bitwarden server is mostly written by bitwarden's CTO. [1] If tomorrow bitwarden decides to do "a mongodb" (= violating the AGPL, and make it closed-source), you would have to spin up a new community to maintain the AGPL fork
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by acatton 4y ago
I'm not well verse in the US medical system. But in Germany, I get my injections from my doctor for which I can look up their license online. If I were to take supplements, which I don't, since I consider it to be pseudo-science[1
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by acatton 4y ago
Well she says this person is a nurse. So this person most likely introduced themselves as a nurse. So they are claiming they are a nurse until it's proven true, right?
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by acatton 4y ago
> At a long desk in the big main room sits an attractive nurse. She offers us an enhancer of B12 or NAD+, through a shot or an IV. > I get a shot of NAD+, which is supposed to be good for energy and metabolism. NAD stands for Nicotina

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