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by chias 8y ago
They also seem to have stolen a number of graphics on their website. If you check their filenames, they have the default filename of when you take a screenshot on OSX. Then take this one for example: https://resecurity.com/w
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by chias 8y ago
Lab grown diamond... brand new Tesla... lab grown diamond... brand new Tesla... I'd go with the car, personally.
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by chias 8y ago
But there aren't even any signatures on that page. HTML is perfectly capable of displaying text with some bolded elements in four columns. Really all that providing this in image format accomplishes is: 1. makes it blurry on high-res m
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by chias 8y ago
The article links to this, though it's buried so I figured I'd resurface it here. How ideas affect value: https://sivers.org/multiply
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by chias 8y ago
This comment is not relevant to the content of the letter, but why on earth am I reading this letter in a low-res PNG?
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by chias 8y ago
I, too, would love to see this table :)
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by chias 8y ago
That wasn't the CEO speaking, that was the interviewer asking a question.
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by chias 8y ago
Now that you mention it, I agree, and don't recall having this discomfort in the past. I find it significantly less uncomfortable to read if I disable the custom font (Avenir Light).
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by chias 8y ago
Or you just check the box that says "only send to people at my organization".
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by chias 8y ago
Here is an example of a false fact-check by Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mississippi-fractions/ This is intentional. Click the "More information about this page" at the bottom of the article
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by chias 8y ago
Correct. Many hashing functions designed for password hashing build the salt directly into the output string, in order to make it difficult to accidentally hash passwords without using a salt. On the other hand, if you're just using a
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by chias 8y ago
> When using personal data is outlawed, only the outlaws will use personal data. This argument only works if you feel the thing being outlawed is good (it is most commonly used in the context of privacy). To your statement I would resp
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by chias 8y ago
The quiz shows you a scenario and asks you whether you think it's legitimate or not. That link is legitimate, so no, you fail ;)
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by chias 8y ago
It's a doctoral dissertation. Typically this means that it itself is not published in a peer-reviewed journal, but was reviewed and accepted by the person's dissertation committee. That being said, dissertations typically contain
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by chias 8y ago
Unless I'm misinterpreting, this apparently includes the people whose job it is to make the sausages (i.e. Okta).
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by chias 8y ago
I find this especially infuriating -- they even do it within a single product! https://i.imgur.com/aeaeuT2.png That's $0.98 / oz, but if you switch from fruit punch to blue raz it becomes $15.18 / lb, and if
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by chias 8y ago
> People make mistakes, we are fallible. Unless it's a felony, these things should not haunt people who have learned and matured enough to have not made the mistakes recently. Do you have a personal philosophical justification for s
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by chias 8y ago
Parent comment is referring to software vulnerabilities running on the box itself, not vulnerabilities in your website. When Apache or whatever it is that you use to serve your static website comes out with a vulnerability that allows RCE
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by chias 8y ago
It's funny this should come up, I've spent the last year developing a framework for the construction of CYOA-style adventures on a website I run. It's a creative-writing / creative-expression heavy community, so the ho
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by chias 8y ago
Simplify your life by moving your microwave to your bedroom, setting it to cook on the lowest setting for 6 hours when you go to bed ;)
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by chias 8y ago
It will take me about 10 minutes combined to set up the redirect in this proposal for all of my websites, with all of their varying auth paradigms. Implementing some API spec that itself lets you change passwords for each one? No thank you,
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by chias 8y ago
I'm surprised this isn't enabled by default. Under what circumstances would you not want to enable this flag?
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by chias 8y ago
Interesting! Thank you.
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by chias 8y ago
I would say AWS / S3 almost certainly uses them for backups. So, depending on your outlook, everyone who relies on S3 does by extension.
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by chias 8y ago
Hey, they can search my phone for a dumptruck full of money any day. While not as ideal as burning in court, that wouldn't be a bad precedent to set either.
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by chias 8y ago
What would you guess the going rate on the black market would be for an RCE on some error-log collection box that happens to be in use by Facebook? My guess is "less than $5000".
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by chias 8y ago
My intro to EE class used a nice analogue of water flow through a circuit composed of piping. We were encouraged to think of power as relating to a volume of water, resistance as relating to the thickness of a given piece of piping, voltage
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by chias 8y ago
I didn't. I was merely pointing out that "free speech" (as we know it) has nothing to do with what you are able to say, while you seem to be operating off of a different definition.
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by chias 8y ago
Free speech does not guarantee a platform for your speech, nor does it guarantee that you are able to say the things you want to. Even setting aside "private vs government", it doesn't even guarantee that the government won
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by chias 8y ago
> "Draw a random chord" is almost a pun No more so than 'pick a random point in a circle'. Note in all cases we're talking the uniform distribution. The question of using Cartesian coordinates, parametric coordin

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