brianpgordon

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by brianpgordon 7y ago
If you take protecting your users seriously then any of their personal info counts as a "valuable" so yes, you should secure everything. And it strains credulity that you might be running any kind of actual business where it would
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
> if you want password-authentication, you must configure your cluster to communicate using certificates. You can start each node in "insecure" mode, but then can't use password authentication. There's a issue about t
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I think the idea is to show how much container functionality is actually available out-of-the-box from the operating system. It raises questions about Docker's billion dollar valuation when someone can come along and reproduce a bunch
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I don't think anyone has mentioned yet that this exact feature (with the "is" keyword) is actually coming to Java as a preview feature in Java 14- https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/305
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
That technique on page 3 of splitting off one of the powers and taking the result to be equal to the original reminds me of the proof that 0.999...=1 https://i.imgur.com/ECYa380.png
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I'm interviewing with them this week. Any advice/warnings I should know going in?
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
That's a good point, though Synology (my brand of NAS) claims that they've developed analogous corruption checks operating at the LVM level, so you get the benefits of btrfs (including checksum checks and RAID scrubbing) without h
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
My home NAS runs btrfs in RAID 5. The key is to use software RAID / LVM to present a single block device to btrfs. That way you never use btrfs's screwed-up RAID 5/6 implementation.
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Presumably the government will be incentivized to try to save lives in a way that simply doesn't exist for doctors and insurance companies trying to make a profit.
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
> Wrong. For people who disabled Cortana, it kept re-enabling itself automatically after updates. I think that problem is mostly gone now, but it was definitely an issue all the way up till earlier this year. I'm pretty sure this on
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Check out https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script/...
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
5. I police my startup items so that's correct, I've never had this issue. But yeah I know about Autoruns; that's an option too. Are you saying that since it's not built into Windows then it shouldn't count? I don&#
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I've always been skeptical of the Windows security model as a user but I didn't think it was that porous. Thanks for setting me straight. I found these articles explaining why it's so bad: https://tyranidslair.bl
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I'm no Windows fanboy but there's a lot of misinformation here. In the spirit of bullying the reader with a big list of points, here are some examples of incorrect claims in TFA: 1. It's not hard to disable Cortana and intern
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Were you using the same HipChat that I was? I recall the engineers at my employer (including me) clamoring to get off HipChat and onto Slack. Search was terrible, integrations/automation were clunky, and it was difficult to post code i
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
LXD looks really neat. The reason I didn't mention it is because I didn't know about it! What's the consensus on how mature/stable it is for real-world use?
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I set up an available-anywhere development environment, and so can you(briangordon.github.io)
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Well isn't the whole article asserting that NordVPN is routing traffic through residential endpoints to confuse would-be VPN blockers? I thought that the allegation is that there's no distinction between the Oxylabs network and th
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
It works perfectly for me. https://i.imgur.com/PFITtZT.png
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Funny-named type of wall? This reminds me of the ha-ha wall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-ha
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
To some extent, sure, but I think that extent is greater with Homebrew. It's my understanding that package maintainers for Debian, RHEL, etc are typically experts in the packages that they maintain. They overlay their own patches to en
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I suppose it comes down to whether the Homebrew maintainer who accepts the formula PR containing the hash is actually examining the upstream code in detail. I think that is unlikely; there's too much code for Homebrew maintainers to be
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Ah, I found it. On MacOS they rely on sandbox-exec which uses the sandboxing mechanism provided by the kernel: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/e2c76cce8e01fd80e0910d... https://github.com&#x2
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
How exactly is the file going to get tampered with if you're using curl-to-sh? Everyone uses HTTPS nowadays. Validating the hash is not really doing anything significant. As for ensuring that the package is well-behaved, could you elab
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
It seems like you're assuming that there's someone vetting these packages. For enterprise distros like Red Hat that's certainly true. Community package maintainers in, for example, the Debian project provide some safety as we
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I don't think the Earth is going to literally run out of anything, sure. We can always dig deeper, or prospect for more resources out in Siberia, or whatever. But there's something to be said for being concerned about being respon
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
> If renewables are so cheap then why is German and Californian electricity costs so damn high considering their respective investments into them? It's because they're paying more on other parts of their grids to keep everythin
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
> When I told Mr. Tan that I was alarmed to see my Airbnb messages and Yelp orders in the hands of a company I’d never heard of before, he responded by saying that Sift doesn’t sell or share any of the data it has with third parties. Wha
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I got "A mundane-looking door, pleads to be killed when the knob is touched." Hahaha
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Is it in a weird place though? Notepad has been under Start -> Accessories since the debut of the start menu in Windows 95. The only change is naming the folder Windows Accessories instead of Accessories.

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