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by fredley 7y ago
I always cover my hands and make it as hard as possible to detect my PIN even when there's no one around for this reason. Skimmers are already small enough that they can be fitted inside the machine, completely invisible from the outsi
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by fredley 7y ago
'Mobile Proxies' like https://oxylabs.io/mobile-proxies (no affiliation) allow you to use large pools of mobile or domestic IPs to scrape. It's expensive, but not prohibitively so. Once you've got a mobi
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by fredley 7y ago
Hakanuchi
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by fredley 7y ago
Depending on the system, I think you can find out who owns the lock.
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The £7,500 dress that does not exist(bbc.co.uk)
18 points by fredley 7y ago|11 comments
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Detailed Maps of Urban Transport(carto.metro.free.fr)
1 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
There's no way for me to verify that what you're running is the same as what you have in GitHub. And for anyone else running it. You should disable this feature.
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by fredley 7y ago
'Log in with Google' asks me for my google account and password. Wat. No. You should never, ever be asking people for this information, even if you're transparently passing it upstream. This is a tier-one no-no.
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by fredley 7y ago
In order to not be trivially defeatable, it sounds quite hard. You can't, for example, use sequential blocks of ids — far too easy for a counterfeiter to reverse-engineer valid ranges. Which means that you either generate them through
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Drop Table “Companies”;-- LTD(beta.companieshouse.gov.uk)
38 points by fredley 7y ago|7 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
An excellent primer on modes of Government, how they arise, and how this perpetuate is this CGP Grey video, Rules for Rulers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
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by fredley 7y ago
I mean with regards to Facebook in particular, bad settings can cause genocide . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-45449938
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by fredley 7y ago
Jaywalking was invented by the car industry, I wonder if they'll double down on it again: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
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by fredley 7y ago
No mention of the Harbourfront Adventure Playground in Toronto, in the 70's and 80's, a very famous example of an unsafe play environment: https://www.blogto.com/city/2017/09/adventure-playground-tor
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by fredley 7y ago
This seems to imply the finished product is somehow not a joke. I think the finished product is one of the best jokes I've experienced in years.
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by fredley 7y ago
Not only that, despite the extreme technical limitations underpinning the device, they built a dev environment that was a joy to use, and an API that was intuitive and powerful, supported by great documentation. Pebble really was something
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by fredley 7y ago
Get your EOL'd Pebble unEOL'd with Rebble! https://rebble.io/
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by fredley 7y ago
Clip art for the 2010s (2020s?). I love it!
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by fredley 7y ago
You can't frame things like this without talking about misfortune in the same terms. Lots of things can happen that are 'unluckly', but are vastly skewed to certain demographics. Being unlucky like: * Receiving little or no s
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Camouflage from Face Detection (2010)(cvdazzle.com)
2 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
https://cvdazzle.com/
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by fredley 7y ago
Facial recognition is almost universally trivial to defeat as an authentication mechanism. A colleague had a Microsoft Surface with facial unlock. I could hold up my phone to the camera, with his Slack profile picture fullscreen, and it wou
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Brexit – What Next?(jonworth.eu)
2 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
If you don't test your backups, they're not backups. But I guess in this case if you don't have backups at all, you also don't have backups... 1 is 0, 2 is 1, etc...
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by fredley 7y ago
The DUP are against it. Britain will only leave with a deal if Parliament vote for it (They voted down Theresa May's deal three times). What happens if they don't vote for it is the Boris Johnson will, by law, be forced to ask for
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by fredley 7y ago
Ironic, given that Buzz was essentially killed on day one by the decision to auto-follow your most frequently emailed contacts, like the person you're having an affair with, or your ex-wife, or your lawyer.
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by fredley 7y ago
Fancy space, lots of perks, terrible place to get stuff done. Glass walls mean everywhere is loud, you can hear everyone's phone calls on the entire floor. Desks were wobbly, offices cramped. Once they hired a steel band to play in the
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Differences between the 1900 and the 1904 date system in Excel(docs.microsoft.com)
3 points by fredley 7y ago|1 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
And he moved the company to Singapore.
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Northern California hit by mega power cuts over wildfire fears(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments

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