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by bsuvc 2y ago
We have switched to chrome boxes and chrome books for our aging parents. It's not perfect, but at least they are less likely to get viruses or spyware, which was about every 6 months with Windows. What is it with older people and their
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by bsuvc 2y ago
Yeah, in a way I was being tongue in cheek about it. The truth is that internally they probably don't like using their own solution for key management. I usually opt for environment variables for secrets, which I know isn't awesom
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by bsuvc 2y ago
Agreed, 100% I'm definitely not defending it, just saying the red tape in some orgs can be nearly impossible to defeat. This problem should have escalated as high as needed though to bypass the red tape and fix the security issue immed
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by bsuvc 2y ago
It sounds like the credentials were embedded in code, so the fix probably involved all the steps of any production code change and deployment. I'm not defending it, because it is abysmal, just explaining probably why it took so long.
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by bsuvc 2y ago
Didn't Microsoft create Azure Key Vault for storing and managing secrets? Why in the world would they not use it? > The researchers notified Microsoft of the security lapse on February 6, and Microsoft secured the spilling files on
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by bsuvc 3y ago
> as opposed to just punish and ruin people lives for their mistakes for the sake of making random commenters on internet feel good That is a strawman. Besides (potentially) rehabilitation, prison serves to protect the populace from dang
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by bsuvc 3y ago
> OpenAI has taught me that no one gives a shit. Scrape the entire internet if you want, and use the data for whatever you feel like. Cloudflare gives a shit. My household had to use our 5G internet for most things for a week or two unti
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Not "parole" but his sentence can be reduced. From the article: > There is no possibility of parole in federal criminal cases, but Bankman-Fried can still shave time off his 25-year sentence with good behavior. > "SBF m
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by bsuvc 3y ago
It sounds like the author got her account suspended after sharing ("distributing" in Google's view) the book's sexually explicit content. Here is Google's Program Policies document that their Terms of Service refere
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by bsuvc 3y ago
> Perhaps, but I suspect “read my lips, no more taxes” and Ross Perot taking a large chunk of republican voters might have more to do with it. Your analysis is correct, but the quote was slightly different: "Read my lips, no new tax
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by bsuvc 3y ago
As an open source creator and contributor, something about this author's post bugs me. Maybe it is his condescending words "why do people bother...", or that we are "working for free" with the implication being that
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Requiring special characters is just another type of security theatre.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
A new terminal is nice, I guess. But all I ever wanted was simply the ability to disable line wrap. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-212620/Allow-a-use... Nobody gets promoted for implementing a line wrap
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by bsuvc 3y ago
It does solve the problem. Leaders need be held accountable, not to fix the past, but so that other leaders will make better decisions in the future. In this case, it is a lesson that if you destroy your engineering culture and sacrifice qu
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by bsuvc 3y ago
I don't think this limitation is exclusive to Apple though. As far as I know, there is no way to edit a hosts file on Android either. Is there?
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Hmm. My experience with prime shipping is exactly the opposite, but I think I must live near a distribution center. In fact, just yesterday I ordered some vitamins for overnight delivery and they actually showed up in 3 hours, so sooner tha
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Huh. I was taught this in Software Engineering (2 semesters) in my CS degree, which was a required "capstone", so to speak, and focused on how to build real world software. Some of it can't be taught though, any more than a c
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by bsuvc 3y ago
This reason for "hire to fire". Incentives are weird.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
I can't believe I scrolled this far down before seeing a comment like yours. I'm not saying I've done everything in the list, but have done many of those things without thinking twice. And the rest of them, I likely would not
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Not sure. We haven't used the WASM version, but it is possible that it works better. I still think there is a rug-pull risk by Microsoft, so not sure I would choose it for that reason alone.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Here is my personal experience. I've been working on a large-ish Blazor (Server) application for about a year. The choice to use Blazor was not mine, but I went into it with an open mind. For context, I have used React and Angular in t
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by bsuvc 3y ago
I'm always amazed when people feel the need to say to the world what they're thinking, especially when it is personal, and when the situation is controversial like this. Is there anything to be gained, reputation-wise or any other
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by bsuvc 3y ago
It should be possible to periodicallt crawl the ring participants and exclude them if they don't have the footer, right?
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by bsuvc 3y ago
I love this idea. Does anyone know of a similar riff trial related to irritable bowel syndrome and gut health?
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Every team I've been on has abused CSS, specifically overusing the !important keyword. Many people just don't get the cascading part of CSS.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Yes, I can be like that from time to time.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
I know it is the actual title of the article, but is "ripped" really an accurate word to use to describe what is happening here? > "VBScript is being deprecated," Microsoft said. "In future releases of Windows, V
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by bsuvc 3y ago
In light of recent AI advancements, deciding not to buy a search engine seems like it might have been a good decision. A lot is going to change in how search, and the associated business model, works in the next few years.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Context: P.T. Barnum, 1880 https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/mone...
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by bsuvc 3y ago
The example code is vey simplistic, so of course that linear code is more readable, but the idea doesn’t scale. I think you have to consider things like reusability and unit-test-ability as well, and having all your code in a single funct

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