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by bostik 6y ago
> shorter wire format - but that's such a weird thing to optimize for. As odd as it sounds, this one I can actually understand. I'm pretty sure the designers come loaded with painful experience on request header bloat. They m
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by bostik 6y ago
On a quick glance, this looks like an implementation nightmare just waiting to happen. Opaque handles everywhere (okay, that simplifies stuff going over the wire). Union types in protocol payloads - the spec calls these "polymorphic JS
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by bostik 6y ago
Well... Money is a necessary requirement, because it buys visibility in all forms of media. But if we calmly look at what went on, Trump did more than just blast himself out to everywhere he could. Yes, he's an unhinged demagogue, but
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by bostik 6y ago
If you're debugging weird latency problems, I'd recommend to start from relative timestamps. Then filter to just one or two TCP streams that exhibit the problem and go from there. Inspect packet contents. The packet dissectors are
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by bostik 6y ago
I'm not taking that bait. Ask yourself: who were responsible for putting him on the ballot in the first place? And why? Because from looking where I am (read: not in the US), the correct choice in 2016 elections would have been "n
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by bostik 6y ago
I argue that democracy would be better if politicians cared about what people want. Not the top-of-their-head soundbite wants, but the actual needs driving those individual desires. Ironically enough I believe that the current democracy w
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by bostik 6y ago
> Sure, but those laws don't require 2FA Funny that. The PSD2 regulations in Europe do.[0] The downside is that they don't mandate properly secure 2FA, so we have a mishmash of SMS, time-based tokens and whatever else passe
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by bostik 6y ago
They are not supposed to, but this is the real world. Not the ideal one. I know at least one corruption scandal where judges (2) were getting paid to deliver verdicts in certain way.[0] That was so egregious that it broke the news. 0: http
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by bostik 6y ago
So, like Yahoo Pipes for the 2020's?
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by bostik 6y ago
> Alternatively they may perhaps start connecting to cellular networks, which would be a lot harder to evade. Just wait until 5G is ubiquitous and new TVs come with embedded cellular modems in them. They they won't need to piggy-b
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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
Terry Pratchett would be proud. He even formalised the universal battle cry: "remember the atrocities done to us to justify the atrocity we are about to commit!" As would another, earlier British author. Can you remember when yo
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by bostik 6y ago
Sure, sometimes you do get an obviously easy pick. But what I'm talking about are the amateur snuff clips where a small group of men armed to their teeth and dressed in camo stand in front of tied, bound and kneeling young men, the lat
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by bostik 6y ago
The problem is much bigger than that. Can you tell the difference between terrorists and war criminals committing an atrocity, and a militia of freedom fighters delivering their brutal but understandable form of justice? Can anyone?
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by bostik 6y ago
> Take the profit out and they would start following the law. That fails miserably in the callous world we live in. Petty criminals break the law. Professional gangsters skirt but operate within the law. The true kingpins write the law
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by bostik 6y ago
Really, you should not be using passwords at all . We have key-based authentication for a reason.
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by bostik 6y ago
It's the 95-5 rule. 95% of a given population ruin the reputation of the remaining 5%.
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by bostik 6y ago
Pray that you never have to enter domains where the security audits and assessments must be always done by an "approved supplier". We have had to cancel engagements with suppliers who I have thoroughly enjoyed working with, and
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by bostik 6y ago
> static analyser working using only an understanding of the language [...] looking over the ast The part I quoted is called "tainting". Or if you are more academically inclined, "data flow analysis". When it works
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by bostik 6y ago
The underlying issues have been known for quite a while. There was a fantastic talk in CCC at 2016 about the airline booking systems and the various bits of information you can glean from them.[0] 0: https://media.ccc.de/v&#
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by bostik 6y ago
Simple: devote more resources. People, money, teams, management support . Even if the rational reason for being slapdash is lack of resources and lack of focus, that means the company is not investing enough on addressing the underlying pr
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by bostik 6y ago
I am surprised this segment (admittedly picked from Ars's secondary writeup) hasn't made a splash: "It's why I've seen priorities of escalations shoot up when others start threatening to go to the press, and why I
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by bostik 6y ago
> We need a top down approach to limit damage to nature and make sustainability the "GDP" of tomorrow. I'm ready to say that most us know, instinctively, what the solution needs to be. It's just that we are morally
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by bostik 6y ago
Fair enough. Now that you mention it, I remember how during the height of the lockdown cardboard pretty much ran out. People bought more stuff online (lots of cardboard in packaging), while there was no waste paper collection to fill the de
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by bostik 6y ago
> Like in the UK, Tesco have just inexplicably switched from using cardboard egg containers to plastic ones. Is that my fault? If you keep buying them, yes. Tesco's beancounters (who are legion) are certainly going to keep track o
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by bostik 6y ago
At least you should have in-house automation flagging potential SAR cases. Then have compliance staff review those and escalate the valid ones. We have a setup like that in place, and we're a gambling operation. A broker-dealer handl
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by bostik 6y ago
> was There's the important bit. Code can be wrong, but it gets less out of date than its comments.
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by bostik 6y ago
"Say, that's a nice business you have there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it." And it's the organised crime that is associated with mafia tactics...
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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
> outlaw targeted advertising You're thinking too small. Targeted advertising deserves to die in a grease fire, but a proper solution is to universally make an individual's personal data their property and require companies t

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