jamespwilliams

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The dazzling rebirth of ‘architectural terrorist’ John Outram(theguardian.com)
1 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|1 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
> An official BBC statement added: "There was a technical glitch during training with our test ticker, which rolled over to live programming for a few seconds.
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BBC apologises after 'Manchester United are rubbish' appears on screen(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|6 comments
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On the Relation Between Outdated Docker Containers, Vulnerabilities and Bugs(arxiv.org)
1 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
For cryptic crosswords I’ve found https://www.crosswordgenius.com/ impressive (once you get past the kind of clunky UI)
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Sqlc – generate fully type-safe idiomatic code from SQL(sqlc.dev)
8 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|1 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
The advice suggesting storing config in environment variables isn’t great security-wise if your config contains secrets. From systemd docs: > Note that environment variables are not suitable for passing secrets (such as passwords, key ma
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Hare language LWN thread: “how do I know if my keys will be stored securely?”(lwn.net)
26 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|4 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
> Mostly used to recodesent null Is this line the victim of an overeager s/pre/code/g I wonder…
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PhotoSynth can connect the world's images (2007) [video](ted.com)
1 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
> iThenticateÂ® Unexpected place to see latin1 -> utf8 mojibake
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
Are there any legitimate reasons to have a particular file both as an input to a pipe and as an output? I wonder whether a shell could automatically “sponge” the pipe’s output if it detected that happening.
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by jamespwilliams 5y ago
Offa’s Dyke goes through my hometown. Devil’s Pulpit is a great spot on the path, you get a great view of Tintern Abbey, near the start of the walk. https://www.visitdeanwye.co.uk/things-to-do/devils-pulpit-p1...
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Super Simple Storage Service(supersimplestorageservice.com)
466 points by jamespwilliams 5y ago|155 comments
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Re: Concerns Regarding the Revised Article 45 of E-ID Draft [pdf](storage.googleapis.com)
2 points by jamespwilliams 5y ago|0 comments
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by jamespwilliams 5y ago
I guess they’re referring to AES-ECB, which is notoriously weak at encrypting images (it’s weak in general of course, just most obviously with respect to images): https://words.filippo.io/the-ecb-penguin/ . But I don’t
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by jamespwilliams 5y ago
I use alacritty every day, it’s the best terminal emulator I’ve come across. That said, it’s not perfect. For example it lacks font ligature support, and there appears to be no prospect of that being implemented. I don’t care about ligature
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by jamespwilliams 5y ago
I recently found an example shell session in the documentation for mysqlimport that uses ed: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysqlimport.html
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by jamespwilliams 5y ago
Shameless plug for https://vimcolorschemes.com/jamespwilliams/bat.vim
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OCSP Watch(sslmate.com)
1 points by jamespwilliams 5y ago|0 comments
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by jamespwilliams 5y ago
I think nearly everything at AWS uses s2n and not OpenSSL these days
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“Posting it to you is secure, as it's illegal to open someone else's mail.”(twitter.com)
87 points by jamespwilliams 5y ago|22 comments
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The CA/Browser forum’s website now redirects to a fake pharmacy(twitter.com)
1 points by jamespwilliams 5y ago|0 comments
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Juniper – an extension to the Go standard library using generics(github.com)
2 points by jamespwilliams 5y ago|0 comments
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The Logfile Navigator(lnav.org)
1 points by jamespwilliams 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Go 1.18 generic implementations of SliceTricks from the Go wiki(github.com)
5 points by jamespwilliams 5y ago|1 comments
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by jamespwilliams 5y ago
Michelin also gives out an award for 'good quality, good value restaurants', called the Bib Gourmand, which is worth looking into. Bib Gourmand restaurants are often still a bit more expensive than the average restaurant in a plac
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by jamespwilliams 5y ago
I don’t read anything celebratory in GP’s comment. And: > which is 100% his fault with no justification despite any provocation is at odds with your overall argument.
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by jamespwilliams 5y ago
Do you agree that storing passwords in plain text is a problem? My point is that storing passwords in a way compatible with using Digest authentication is essentially equivalent to storing your passwords in plain text, at least with respect
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by jamespwilliams 5y ago
Digest auth itself isn't very good though really, even ignoring the obvious problems of not using HTTPS. In the most secure configuration of digest auth, the server stores MD5(username:realm:password), and to authenticate, the server s

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