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by firloop 6y ago
Ditto, use opener for exactly this.
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by firloop 6y ago
In this scheme, how do you look up a row in the DB by the resulting encrypted ID?
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The Strength of Being Misunderstood(blog.samaltman.com)
111 points by firloop 6y ago|55 comments
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by firloop 6y ago
> We thus had a (very, very low) spending limit for this project. This is the reason for the Slate’s extremely basic webpage – it’s literally just a hardcoded HTML file sitting on AWS. Dirt cheap! (I had lots of folks write in offering t
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by firloop 6y ago
This is the initial report. For some of the key analyses and takeaways, you can see them all on this part of the ICIJ's website: https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/
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From a jumble of secret reports, damning data on big banks and dirty money(icij.org)
51 points by firloop 6y ago|9 comments
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by firloop 6y ago
If you want to launder money with impunity, don't do it in crypto. Just be a megabank. See: https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/ , or Matt Taibbi's writeup of it: https://taibbi.su
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The Chinchillas and the Gold Mine (2020)(undark.org)
1 points by firloop 6y ago|0 comments
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by firloop 6y ago
Just because a piece of code is licensed under GPL doesn’t mean that the copyright owner(s) can’t license the code under another license, aka the license to Apple. The issue comes when an entity is using GPL-ed code that they don’t also own
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by firloop 6y ago
I don’t want to re-invent the desktop. As a software engineer, I’m annoyed that I can’t do my entire job on my phone. I’d like to see dramatically better portable input interfaces. I’d even be happy if more love was paid to “desktop light”
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by firloop 6y ago
If you're looking for more information, see here: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/617484925547986944/npm-v7-series...
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by firloop 6y ago
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24767378
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by firloop 6y ago
I think Super is the author’s own product fwiw
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by firloop 6y ago
Articles like these (I've read a few), while well-intentioned, seem to contribute to self righteous ideas about video calls... As someone who has invested in a video conferencing setup, I don't really think it's fair to exp
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by firloop 6y ago
Also worth looking at their developer-facing status page, where a couple of their developer products are currently facing issues: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/
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Revenge of the Money Launderers(taibbi.substack.com)
3 points by firloop 6y ago|0 comments
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by firloop 6y ago
Pret is also in the US, have been before and didn’t notice anything that remarkable
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How House House Added Multiplayer to Untitled Goose Game(blog.playstation.com)
1 points by firloop 6y ago|0 comments
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by firloop 6y ago
Strongly second Rustlings. I found it to be quite fun — felt like playing a puzzle game... the pacing of the course is very well done. Once you get the fundamentals of Rust down, I recommend writing something multi-threaded. It's not t
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by firloop 6y ago
Normally I’d agree, but in this case Twitter abruptly ended the thread, hiding it behind a click to ask me if I wanted Covid-19 info and show me tangentially related content. https://imgur.com/a/LPXeSb4
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by firloop 6y ago
Certificate Transparency makes this significantly harder to do stealthily. I’m not convinced that Cloudflare is a deep state operation either, but Cloudflare's ability to secretly MITM is a position afforded to a select few, and certai
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Voxel Terrain: Storage (2017)(zeux.io)
3 points by firloop 6y ago|0 comments
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by firloop 6y ago
Sketch has the same subscription model.
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by firloop 6y ago
You need to compile your app with the new version of Xcode to target iOS 14, and you couldn't do that until the GM version of Xcode was released yesterday. Meaning that if there's any iOS 14-showstopping bugs, depending on the typ
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by firloop 6y ago
It's possible that the attack didn't happen through the regular oauth credential request flow — if the OP logged in to Facebook inside of an app-controlled webview, the app could have just exfiltrated the user's login cookie
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Analyzing Variation Models in OpenType(typeof.net)
1 points by firloop 6y ago|0 comments
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Payments Startup Melio Raises $144M to Fund Expansion(bloomberg.com)
1 points by firloop 6y ago|0 comments
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by firloop 6y ago
Instagram was acquired in 2012.
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by firloop 6y ago
Many gaming streamers on Twitch play music (at least at a low volume) while they stream. A blanket ban like this doesn't make me think that Facebook is going to get a significant part of Twitch's market anytime soon despite their
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by firloop 6y ago
Apple's blog post about their plans: "We are committed to ensuring users can choose whether or not they allow an app to track them. To give developers time to make necessary changes, apps will be required to obtain permission to t

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