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by dsp1234 10y ago
www.firefox.com has a score of C, with a recent F score in their grade history. It looks like this is a really strong set of security requirements. According to their stats, 87% of sites tested have an F score, and only 1.47% have an A- or
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https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/24/distrusting-new...
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"Preview 2" is the tooling version (command line tools). The tools (such as the dotnet command and related binaries) are versioned separately from the framework itself. This allows the team the ability to release new tooling vers
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From the roadmap: "Because of this, if you follow our repositories you will start to see .NET Core 2.0 versioning."[0] As an aside, I find it helpful to think of .net standard as an interface (API definition, no code), and .net co
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The point was for the browser to warn the end user about password re-use. The browser doesn't need javascript to see the contents of a password field, or to show an indicator in the browser's chrome. It's the browser. If yo
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Firefox has started to do this recently "Note that is warning in the url bar is only in Firefox Nightly and Firefox Developer Edition. This has not been released to Firefox Beta and Firefox Release."[0] So this is not a securit
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Shower Thought: Why doesn't the browser hash the inputs for all password fields, then compare them when attempting to submit a form, and alert the user that they are doing something insecure?
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I mention it because I've seen it happen multiple times over my career.
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This code will work on all UTF-8 encoded strings… which is the bulk of the strings found on the Internet if you consider that UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII. Note that the first set of code (and possibly the rest), only work as the space, n
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Note that Daniel Negari is the CEO of XYZ LLC which is the owner of the registry. As for the other two... https://ceo.xyz/
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4 and a half years is a lot of time. Taking that comment at face value means accepting the assumption that Github's PR UI hasn't changed in that entire time.
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WorkPro Quantum 9000 Series I find the mesh back and seat invaluable. I've used it for about six years now with no problems. https://www.amazon.com/WorkPro-Quantum-Ergonomic-Mid-Back-Ch...
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mssql has this in the Database Engine Tuning Advisor https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174202.aspx
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This response implies that it the reduced available need be malicious, it could be non-intentional as well. ex: During an emergency I connect to public wifi because mine is not working. That wifi has a MITM proxy installed by the owner (be
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It's not just the domain name, it's the full URL. Which could contain embedded username, organizational and/or sensitive information. FTA, which is clearly more than a domain name: https://accounts.google.com&#x2F
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the role of "acceptable racism" Coming from experience, there is no alternative to "accepting" racism (or sexism) in the military. If a superior officer or enlisted personnel makes a racist/sexist joke directly a
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Another point of data, on mobile, navigating to reddit.com: T 0: white page T 5: to see the reddit header with logo, the rest of the page is still white T 16: to see the bar stating that I should use the app, click on the tiny mobile site
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The outer lanes are the left and right lanes. Which implies that, given 3 lanes, someone is passing on the right. At a base level, given more than 2 lanes, there is a difference between "stay out of the left lane unless passing",
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I work in VBScript inside of classic ASP and the statement, "Also anytime a functions scope terminates, all its memory immediately goes away." , is true there. I doubt anyone would suggest that VBScript is a functional language
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Does anyone know if this provides point in time restores? For example, if one of our PCs was hit with crypto ransomware yesterday at 5pm, backup ran at 10pm and the newly encrypted files were backed up. Is it possible to recover the previo
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The issue mentioned in your linked article is different from what's mentioned up thread. The article deals with "what is the role of the very left lane". Upthread it's about using non-outer lanes (inner lanes) as the p
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Eric Lippert[0] is doing an "excessive explanation" of this paper[1], where he breaks the entire paper down, line by line, with examples that C#/Java people would recognize. It's nice for people like myself who are stro
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Domain fronting helps prevent network-level blocking. It does nothing in the face of a court order directly to Signal.
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Startups don't hire generalist to do anything. More anecdata. I've worked as a generalist my entire career, always in companies with < 200 people. Mobile, web, desktop, api, windows, linux, embedded, javascript, sysadmin, n
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Have a public track record (company policy, actual actions) of preemptively dealing with the topics that those groups care about (sexual harassment, glass ceiling, transgender friendly accommodations, etc). I don't think that falls un
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HN comments from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13387551
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FTA: "WhatsApp server has no knowledge of whether users have enabled the change notifications, or whether users have verified safety numbers." If it's off by default, then the answer is likely to be near zero, as it often is
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The flip side of this, is that you couldn't have done this: "I decided to leave my job and get an ACA plan for my family, while trying to bootstrap my company." Before the ACA, because you couldn't have gotten any health
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The nice thing about git is that it's distributed. You can place as many mirrors as you like. If you make the project and repo names the exact same as the official ones, then switching between them can be as easy as replacing a hostn
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Have a local git server, with an automatic process for pulling in the repositories that are your dependencies. Then use the repos from that local git server instead of github directly.

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