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by fivre 7y ago
After having the risks explained to them and having received our professional recommendation that they add application-specific logging that had no means of accidentally logging PII, one of our customers (a major bank) still insisted that w
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by fivre 7y ago
Lacking support for pretty much everything other than lines of text alongside a handle enables one of my favorite aspects of IRC: a 10-row terminal is more than sufficient for the entire client UI.
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by fivre 7y ago
You notably do not provide any better alternative. Show me some other technical question that can surface useful information about a candidate's knowledge in a typical 30-minute interview. The question is good because it both involves
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by fivre 7y ago
While interesting for reasons other than the end goal, I find it somewhat amusing that someone would hook code into the Spotify binary to provide, effectively, more or less the same data that Spotify's native Last.fm integration would.
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by fivre 7y ago
Do you have a companion tool whose purpose is to convince Excel devotees that modern, domain-specific tooling exists, and that they should stop pushing Excel because it's terrible for many tasks? My problem is less that no tools exist
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by fivre 7y ago
IRC is fine for conversations, though it's a different model of conversation than many mediums. All comments from different threads of conversation are intermixed, and you must separate them out mentally. This is very different from th
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by fivre 7y ago
Hell, I can deal with shitty microphones, I just wish people would figure out that you need to record all speakers' audio independently and not rely on Skype or Discord or whatever relaying it to a single location. Robovoice is the wor
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by fivre 8y ago
I'm doubtful of whatever sort of nonsense philosophical rationalization Dorsey comes up regarding how he thinks users should use, and should want to use the service. It's likely this: > And while Dorsey said he’s less intereste
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by fivre 8y ago
Napster created and popularized a la carte digital music downloads :) Apple just had the market clout to make labels acquiesce to doing it legally.
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by fivre 8y ago
Customers on some plan can upload a certificate of their choice, and generally have to provide the key along with it. Keyless SSL exists, but isn't widespread.
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by fivre 8y ago
OpenID may not be particularly common in consumer-facing services, but it is very much still in use for business applications. Almost every web application I use for work handles authentication through my G Suite account. This is probably e
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by fivre 8y ago
Speculation elsewhere (a Twitter thread I've since lost) is that car dealerships are simply uploading every possible US phone number as a "contact". It seems reasonable, and I can't really think of other reasons car deal
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by fivre 8y ago
Opening almost all YT links in a private/incognito window does WONDERS.
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by fivre 8y ago
I haven't read HTDP and can't authoritatively comment on it /have no idea how it compares to SICP, but I found this statement pretty ridiculous: > While SICP (yes, everybody uses the acronym) is considered a holy grail for
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by fivre 8y ago
Good news! You can! https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack/
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by fivre 8y ago
Prime Video has it with English subtitles: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071PF4WCM The official Lenfilm YouTube account has it also, but for some reason only with French subtitles. It looks like less of their catalogue th
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by fivre 8y ago
> However, phone hashes are sent, not clear ones. Somehow, the knowledge that the efforts to tie every trace of my existence together to help marketers target ads to me are done in a cryptographically secure fashion is not entirely comfo
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by fivre 8y ago
For consumer-facing eyeball ISPs, in almost all US markets, consumers have an extremely limited set of ISPs to choose from, typically a traditional telephone provider like AT&T or Verizon and a traditional cable provider like Comcast or
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by fivre 8y ago
httpie lacks a complete feature set in some cases, though day-to-day it's much nicer. I'll trade cURL's (admittedly clunky) --resolve, which is still necessary in some situations, for having native JSON pretty printing most o
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by fivre 8y ago
Having to occasionally work with Windows (or more accurately, support people using Windows for tasks that would much better be suited by Linux) makes me aghast at how bad its CLIs are at very basic interface things. People who work extensiv
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by fivre 8y ago
Many people do like living in densely-populated, urbanized environments. The SF metro area isn't Wyoming and pretending that it is won't make it become Wyoming.
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by fivre 8y ago
Perhaps not, but my experience visiting Moscow recently suggests that they're in perhaps a slightly better place? There are dense residential areas in various parts of the city, even if the housing stock is older and less than stellar.
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by fivre 8y ago
Cookie disclaimers at this point need to be taken to their logical conclusion: browser vendors and site operators should add a standard Yes-I-Know-What-Cookies-Are header to the next HTTP update, which can then be vomited at sites by defaul
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by fivre 9y ago
What copy editor let "Plochtchad Revolioutsi" and "Plotschad Revolutsyii" through as acceptable transliterations of "Площаь Революции" (and allowed two versions of the same station's name to boot)?
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by fivre 9y ago
Congratulations on inventing the newspaper.
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by fivre 9y ago
My experience with doing phone support for applications is that it is excellent if well-augmented, and absolute garbage otherwise. Due to a variety of factors, my previous employer provided about 50-50 phone and email support, often with
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by fivre 9y ago
http://bad.solutions is one of my favorite providers of Enterprise-grade software that is not remotely usable.
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by fivre 9y ago
Phone calls in isolation are terrible. I've worked as support for both older and newer service providers. For the older provider, calls reached support agents with all the customer's information readily available, and support agen
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by fivre 9y ago
Interesting. You don't use TTY devices then? I wouldn't be entirely surprised if those became less prevalent as telephone services decline in popularity, but I'd figured most of the deaf community used them still.
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by fivre 9y ago
This is a rather sensational title for an article that amounts to "Login.gov does not use FIPS 140-2-compliant cryptography". Its main argument (aside from point 5) appears to be that scrypt is used in multiple locations, without

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