cnorthwood

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Casework, Code and Lash Extensions: How I've embraced LLMs, and my limits(chrisn.xyz)
1 points by cnorthwood 18d ago|0 comments
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British Library cyber incident review [pdf](bl.uk)
108 points by cnorthwood 3y ago|60 comments
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United Biscuits Network(en.wikipedia.org)
57 points by cnorthwood 3y ago|15 comments
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
You'd probably do it in the same way you'd do it with NAT, by using a stateful firewall blocking inbound connections (it's just that you get this for "free" with NAT)
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
ImageDownloadPreparer?
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
When I worked at the BBC, there was a substantial proportion of all traffic to the homepage which were just some devices checking for an internet connection. I believe as part of the move to HTTPS-only there was serious discussion over whet
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
Early in my career I was working for a well-known anti-virus firm. They had a crash of their Perforce servers and it turns out the backups were not good and the most recent good one was several months old. They painstakingly restored it fro
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
I was recently in New York as a Brit and was really happy to see the OMNY system which just allowed me to use contactless to traverse the turnstiles (for everything but the JFK SkyTrain) with no issues, similar to how metro transport works
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
There isn't one - the session identifier is an example of an opaque token
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
There are more ways to quantify impact than money.
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
When joining my current company I said in the negotiation phase that I'd like to do a 4 day week in exchange for 80% of the offered salary. They agreed.
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
Rutger Bregman in a big picture build a better world way. Shon Faye in the lens of individual liberty.
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
Culture Shift | UX/UI Product Designer / VP Sales / Head of Success / Business Development Manager | Manchester, UK ONSITE | Full-time Culture Shift are a tech-for-good SaaS provider of software that allows employees and
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
You're confusing TW with TWh. If running at full capacity that would be an additional 8760 TWh generated every year. Of course it won't be 100% utilised but it takes more of a chunk out of it then you suggest.
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
Consent isn't the only basis you can use for processing data under GDPR
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by cnorthwood 4y ago
Freehold houses aren't as common as you think, especially in London. Across England about a third of houses are leasehold.
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
Utopia for Realists, by Rutger Bregman
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
IANAL - but no, you definitely don't. What you do need to have in place is safeguards that any data on EU customers not hosted in the EU/EEA is subject to the same safeguards/level of protection outside the EU that it would b
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
I'm guessing the mansion was Kingswood Warren, where BBC Research was based before cuts relocated them to London: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
Point 1 isn't true. You've been able to send personal data (PII being the specific US legal term) to the US no problem - as long as you had "standard contractual clauses" (SCCs) as part of your contract with them that th
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
I don't think you can group Europe all as one. For example, in the UK credit cards give "section 75" protection which means it's often better to use a credit card than a debit one. https://www.moneysavingexper
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
It also included a serial number following the date part of 001 (also 002, etc)
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
because Log4J is also used by libraries. Which means you can configure the log level and capture logs from libraries and dependencies you use in a global configuration.
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
Fortunately this is the default in JavaScript world with both Yarn and NPM supporting lockfiles which have hashes and pinned versions. The problem is the sheer volume of dependencies and transient dependencies which makes it hard to reliabl
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
At present, a walk-up (no advance booking) peak-time first class ticket from Liverpool to London is £255. Standard class is £171. A walk-up off-peak standard class ticket is £66.10, and you can get it cheaper if you book a day in advance. A
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
would driving data/telemetry be categorised as personal data under GDPR? I assume cars could have multiple drivers so unless there's a clear way of deriving the person from the data itself it might be classed as anonymous and ther
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
I think we can look to the way we archive any other information, which tends to be libraries and archives. So in the first instance, make sure the Internet Archive has a copy. If you want to be even more sure, find a friendly library of rec
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
Discord ime
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
Terminating the local loop pairs takes up a huge amount of space, and there's still a lot of copper out there alongside the fibre
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
is this necessarily a bad deal? Governments can normally raise capital at significantly lower interest rates than the private sector, so if the private sector was making a profit on this, then the public should be able to do too, and then r

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