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by amatix 11y ago
Indeed, "The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI's request." https://twitter.com/CountyWire/status/700887823482630144
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by amatix 11y ago
Pure speculation: I wonder if v2 of the Secure Enclave was going to do just that, but Apple wanted to make sure there weren't glaring software flaws in v1 before they lock themselves out of the chip for good.
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by amatix 11y ago
worse. If this becomes "normal", then rather than the CTO or CSO or VP iOS Engineering having to unlock the code-signing keys to sign releases (presumably via N of M), it'll have to be automated so that "oh, the FBI ne
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by amatix 11y ago
Seems to drive Spotify on my OSX without me doing anything special... ?
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by amatix 11y ago
ACMs roots are cross-signed by Starfield (GoDaddy iirc), while they wait for their inclusion in the browser roots... so I can't see a difference with LetsEncrypt? AFAIK either you have the processes/tech in place to secure your CA
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by amatix 11y ago
From the updated OP: > The authentication of the server host key prevents exploitation by a man-in-the-middle, so this information leak is restricted to connections to malicious or compromised servers.
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by amatix 11y ago
The only thing I've had trouble with is suspend/resume/etc on OSX which seems to hang gammu occasionally. I used the cheapest E170 I got from Ebay, the hardest part was messing with all the unlock tools to get it to play with
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by amatix 11y ago
I recently used gammu[1] to receive SMS messages on OSX using a Huawei modem, then forward them into iMessage[2]. Gammu's written in python and works great on Linux. Goal was to have my old foreign number still able to receive SMS (rec
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by amatix 11y ago
Though AFAIK Australian and Malaysian taxpayers are picking up the search cost? Whereas Malaysia Airline's insurers are picking up the cost of the plane & family/crew compensation...
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by amatix 11y ago
> The login request is always sent via https, even when you are using the site over plain http. So your password should always be encrypted. Though it doesn't stop someone (eg. malicious software on a wifi router) altering the logi
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by amatix 11y ago
Even more dodgy: Dick Smith was promoting gift cards through December with a "bonus 10% value"[1]. No problem -- except in receivership, gift cards rank as unsecured creditors and already aren't being honoured (even though th
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by amatix 11y ago
you can do quite a lot of customisation if you split out automation messages into channels - each channel has per-user-device notification preferences
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by amatix 11y ago
> the stupidly high price of Slack. really? $7 per active user per month? How little do you pay your staff? At the median wage, save an average of 90 seconds a day per person through better communication and it pays for itself. And it&#x
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by amatix 11y ago
number of users? price? which direction?
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by amatix 11y ago
JIRA without spending the time to correctly set it up to match your workflow/approach/business is a complete waste -- for companies who do invest that effort upfront (and evolve it over time) then it usually works great.
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by amatix 11y ago
Built-in multi-master replication is the only real missing piece there, AFAIK every other replication base is covered well natively. Besides that, sync & async replication has been there nicely since 9.2. 9.3 added timeline switches, ne
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by amatix 11y ago
eh? Parent didn't say anything about race/nationality - "what you really need is a cook skilled in traditional Mongolian cuisine? It's completely plausible that such a candidate can only be found in Mongolia"
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by amatix 11y ago
http://www.charlesproxy.com is great — http, ssl, throttling, decoding, filtering, replays, substitutions... It has it all. Works everywhere.
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by amatix 11y ago
They were talking about making offline & alternative OSS clients (via an open API) so that if they were legally forced to change the Javascript (which currently does the encryption) that it wouldn't affect the integrity of the serv
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by amatix 11y ago
Getting a flat white in the UK is truly painful (as a recently emigrated NZer)
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by amatix 11y ago
"My hovercraft is full of eels" http://lost-in-translations.amanjeev.com/lost-translations/2... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Hungarian_Phrasebook & https://www.
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by amatix 11y ago
or "lets have new capacity in place a month before busy Halloween" ... progress slips... the project manager pushes and everyone forgets the reason for the original date.
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by amatix 11y ago
I've long pondered about accurate hyperlocal (200m?) terrain/wind/tidal models for inshore yacht racing - including measuring the frequency & direction of shift, and combining forecasting/modelling with live readings
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by amatix 11y ago
> I think optional seat belt laws as found in some parts of the US can make some sense there (owing a lot to the fact that there is no single payer healthcare...) Wat? So because the taxpayer isn't directly picking up the healthca
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by amatix 11y ago
As a consumer, surely you have a fairly legitimate comeback with "the fuel economy & power is now rubbish, I'd have never bought the car in the first place if it was like that"? Pretty hard for VW to prove otherwise, and
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by amatix 11y ago
though, hotels often do themselves no favours here. If an aggregator has rooms for $200 a night and the hotel gets 80% of that, you'd think the hotel would take 100% of $200 from a direct booking, but often it'll be $300+... Conce
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by amatix 11y ago
Was launched at a local event ( http://gathergather.co.nz/ ), and popped up on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6904743 -- IIRC there was a US version someone released a bit later, but I can't fi
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by amatix 11y ago
http://www.backofanapkin.co.nz/ is a brilliant idea for this sort of pre-company-formation thing -- at a minimum it forces you to spend a few minutes thinking about what happens if things don't work out in a team/
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by amatix 11y ago
Would be nice to apply this to EBS snapshot storage too, that can add up mighty-quick.
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by amatix 11y ago
Ipython is amazing. "requests.get??" will show you the source (works on modules too). "%pdb on" is another fave to drop straight into the debugger with uncaught exceptions.

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