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by bostik 6y ago
Sometimes aptly called Socialist Capitalism.
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by bostik 6y ago
Not "will be". "Are". We understand what's likely going on under the hood and want none of it. https://twitter.com/ppathole/status/1116670170980859905
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by bostik 6y ago
I'm sorry, but in this case I disagree. Whether the device was smart or not is irrelevant. If there is a connected device in a supposedly otherwise secure network that allows traffic in or calls home, that device is an attack vector. P
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by bostik 6y ago
> Why is it that this argument only seems to apply to software? Maybe because software has a unique property: a practically zero marginal ("reproduction") cost. Hence software, and services that depend only on software are
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by bostik 6y ago
We should all remember to read PR statements with the assumption they aim to be technically true but come with an intent to deceive. Because what you quoted is a weaselly statement, and it neatly avoids answering the underlying questions. N
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> As a US citizen I honestly couldn't care less if the content of my website is criminal in Iran or Saudi Arabia. Doesn't need to be criminal, inconvenient is enough. Jamal Khashoggi's family should know.
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by bostik 6y ago
It's not just startups and/or SV. People generally don't like me bringing this up, but there is a good rule of thumb for everything in life: The only people who play fair are those who don't know how to cheat well enough
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by bostik 6y ago
> imagine Apache or Nginx would do that. Nginx will likely do something similar, very soon. It's not that long ago when F5 bought them, with clear plans to offer paid-only features while the core itself remains open. Give it anoth
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by bostik 6y ago
You are talking about a relatively "new" concept, called Frequent Batch Auction, or Periodic Auction[0]. I remember first hearing about these ideas in the mid-noughties (around 2004..2007), but then again, I was in a technical uni
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> I know why orgs install central management systems (ease of maintenance at scale). But when one system can be used to compromise all the nodes in an org, is it really worth it? If you think about it, the modern cloud-native approache
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by bostik 6y ago
> If you passed a law saying that twitch has to pay fines for false DMCA takedowns You have to dig deeper, beyond the platforms themselves: make it extremely expensive and dangerous to file copyfraud claims. As long as the incentives
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by bostik 6y ago
Towards the end of the article is a particularly good nugget of information. > Since then, there have been documented reports of individuals being reinfected with different versions of the virus. Yes, reinfections have been extremely r
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IIRC traditional brokers make most of their money off of interest on their float. I wish I could remember where this came up because without a solid reference it sounds utterly absurd.
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> Trading stocks doesn't lead people to physical dependence, nor does it typically ruin their lives. While this is true, what RH have done is turn trading into a form of gambling. That industry is HEAVILY regulated, and for a good
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by bostik 6y ago
True enough, you can't eliminate metadata (or as it should be really called: "traffic analysis"). And don't get me wrong, I think you're improving things. It's just that with something that advertises E2E encry
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by bostik 6y ago
> Even if I wanted to sell user data, there wouldn't be anything to sell. You might be surprised. You wouldn't need to sell user data, but there certainly is something of value from the cloud offering you (and your users!)
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> For some reason HN has this bizarre view of the world where it's full of pyschopaths out there to exploit developers. That's myopia, really. The world is not full of psychopaths to exploit developers. It's just unreaso
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by bostik 6y ago
> Should CI create a merged branch behind-the-scenes and run tests on that before allowing the branch to be merged? The answer to that is: yes. The final test cycle before landing code to master MUST be against the code that would be i
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by bostik 6y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE [REMOTE during the plague] (London, UK; also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small
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by bostik 6y ago
I remember spending quality time with coredumps and gdb back in 2012/2013, when a prototype supercar dashboard we were building crashed on certain CSS animations.[ß] The call chain went through GTKWebkit, Wayland and all the way to Pan
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by bostik 6y ago
At least the Finns are routinely turning this to their advantage. When there is an international (tech) conference in Helsinki, those flying in to the capital may be greeted with a sponsored banner: Welcome to HEL
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by bostik 6y ago
> It's called wither "Qt for Python" or PySide2. I dunno why it has two names That brought back some funky history. In the days of yore, when Qt 4.5 roamed the lands and 4.7 did not exist yet, there was a set of Python b
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by bostik 6y ago
There are bots (some even run by security and threat intel companies) feeding off of the firehose. For a public display of one type of scanning functionality, take a look at shhgit[0,1]. 0: https://www.shhgit.com/ 1: https
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by bostik 6y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE [REMOTE during the plague] (London, UK; also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small
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by bostik 6y ago
And that is actually how it's supposed to work. The last thing you want is unattended-upgrades silently restarting services (read: which can fail the start bit) behind your back. If the upgrade fails to restart nginx properly, your c
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by bostik 6y ago
> Using violence to attempt to cause a regime change without formally declaring war, sounds much more like the traditional definition of terrorism Or insurrection. Unless we're talking about some fourth-world wish-we-had-even-bana
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> I'm referring to actual ransomware that works, that's done for profit. From what I have recently learned, this may no longer be accurate. The latest Risky Business happens to touch upon the subject. Criminal groups in Russi
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Let me demoralise you. There are industries [ cough ] where (for a good number of jurisdictions) you MUST have the pentests and other audit-like engagements conducted by a specially approved operator. Think of a royal charter. These operato
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Thank you, good point. I did.
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I can guess. People lose or break their phones often enough. It is a routine thing in an organisation of just 120 people. Now imagine that instead of an educated and selective group, you are dealing with a pool of desperately partying, drun

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