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691.
by billpg 8y ago
I was hoping to read an explanation of how encrypted SNI works. How can the server know which key to use without knowing which domain is being asked for?
692.
by billpg 8y ago
If I were appointed name-taker in that situation, I would never actually take any names, only ever reporting that everyone remained silent. Reporting someone for punishment, even if deserved, would only ever come back badly on me. (Unless I
693.
by billpg 8y ago
This is a common argument in the UK regarding Brexit. Enough people have turned 18 already since the 2016 referendum to outnumber Leave's tiny winning margin.
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by billpg 8y ago
You could split the package of data into chunks and place multiple notches on the bar. You'd need to include enough information to allow the chunks to be sorted into their original order for that to work. As if this were a practical me
695.
by billpg 8y ago
Freenet?
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by billpg 8y ago
I'd invent JavaScript, but this time do it right.
697.
by billpg 8y ago
That's basically right. I view GET/PUT/PATCH/DELETE/CREATE as simple wrappers around SQL commands, with validation and authorization checks. POST is a call to do something with that data, which might include changin
698.
by billpg 8y ago
The way I think of it is that GET, PUT, PATCH and DELETE all deal with data, whereas POST is a call to action. It is a little unfortunate that we don't have a CREATE verb (distinct from the update-ness of PUT) and we need to use POST f
699.
by billpg 8y ago
I look forward to hearing how blockchain technology could have prevented this.
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by billpg 8y ago
Feedback.... I wanted to send a bit into two separate components and I was looking for some sort of "hub" object. It wasn't clear (to me) that you could connect many lines to a single node. Removing lines takes a lot of click
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by billpg 8y ago
I would like to see a world where I can park at work or at my friend's house, I plug the car in, wait for the light to turn green, and I walk away. In that time, the car and the charging station have talked to each other and arranged t
702.
by billpg 8y ago
Scientists discover the world's biggest "if".
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by billpg 8y ago
The pro-Brexit people must be happy with this news. "No, don't pay any attention to our complete lack of planning despite us wanting to leave the EU for decades. Pay attention to this thing they've done instead!"
704.
by billpg 8y ago
Cron-as-a-service?
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Man goes to prison for attempting to hijack web domain at gunpoint(engadget.com)
3 points by billpg 8y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 8y ago
Do you have a link to the "ipv4 with longer addresses" proposal please?
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by billpg 8y ago
(I'm not a lawyer, nor am I member of that group.) Essentially, the referendum was advisory, an interpretation confirmed by the Miller case. The act passed in response to that case does not include a clear decision to leave the EU. Thu
708.
by billpg 8y ago
These people would disagree... https://twitter.com/a50challenge
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by billpg 8y ago
Articles like this could be summarized down to "Because duuuh!" If you're an adult and the type of person who doubts the shape of the earth, I don't think anything a website says would convince you.
710.
by billpg 8y ago
Dear database developers, please don't get hung up on string lengths. I'd be very happy to ask the DB for (say) a UTF-8 string of up-to 80 bytes. That means I could store 80 ASCII characters, 40 two-byte characters, 20 four-byte c
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Pulling the rug out from under an internet protocol(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
3 points by billpg 8y ago|1 comments
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by billpg 8y ago
I tried learning PHP so I could make use of the large marketplace of cheap commodity web hosting, but I stopped after realizing that my life was too short for this. So now I use C#/.NET for my personal websites.
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Is your API broken?(blog.hackensplat.com)
1 points by billpg 8y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 8y ago
One thing I don't quite get... Say I've kidnapped someone and the ransom has been paid. I could release the hostage but then there would be someone with knowledge of my operation out there walking about. If I killed the hostage in
715.
by billpg 8y ago
I think if something was published in the past ten years, adding the year is unnecessary. It is still close enough to "now" to be irrelevant.
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by billpg 8y ago
What if a robot concluded it had to acquire the car to prevent a human from being harmed?
717.
by billpg 8y ago
Or "How I learnt to attribute my own failings to others."
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The Making of an Evil Genius(blog.hackensplat.com)
1 points by billpg 8y ago|1 comments
719.
by billpg 8y ago
Oh good. There aren't enough of those. (eyeroll)
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Falco T310 Unleashed(blog.hackensplat.com)
1 points by billpg 8y ago|0 comments

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