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by jdsalaro 5y ago
> I think you're kidding yourself if you think a company that gets "hacked" by off the shelf cryptoware is going to step up their game enough Still, this might lead to their first solid security hire that can bring about c
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
I'm really interested in learning more about the process of putting existing research into practice as a process from an economics and innovation point of view. Does anyone have book, talks and other material you'd suggest looking
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
"License, motherfucker" I know the vulgarity of the statements is tongue in cheek, but this one has been reinforced lately by the "MIME Magic" debacle[1], mama mia. [1] https://github.com/mimemagicrb&#x2F
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
I went in thinking "meh, let's check" and was surprised and quite amused about the "wholesomeness" of what could have been a very strange encounter. He seemed respectful and she seemed unbothered by the whole ordeal
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
Thank you!
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Texas a&M Drops “Race” from Student Risk Algorithm(themarkup.org)
1 points by jdsalaro 6y ago|0 comments
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
Can you elaborate on how and why err==nil changes in your second case? A link to the docs would be helpful. Thanks!
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
> Over the years there have many reports from cleaners to plasticizers, phthalates, and various other chemicals as endocrine disruptors but no one has put a sufficient measure on the problem so that we can move foreword - put regulations
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
Try KSnip, I really recommend it since Shutter and Flames not have been buggy for me in the past.
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
I've evaluated Netlify for my blog at https://jdsalaro.com and I'd advise against that unless you're missing a CMS on your static site generator. Other than that I personally felt it didn't bring much to the
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
> build higher altitude solution that could leverage git/MD/whatever but with free/opensource/selfhosted/alternative tools Not that I disagree with this, but that goes almost directly against "Mak[ing] that
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
The only middle-way sort of solution I found a long time ago, even before joining the company, while looking where to host https://jdsalaro.com was to use GitLab, they being open-source and quite public about their, now our, val
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
> They fill a similar role to prosecutors that field drug tests serve to cops[1]: they aren't meant to be accurate, they exist to give the the cops legitimacy as they proceed to do whatever it is they wanted to do to you. In the cop
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
> This is very painful part of our work GitLabSec team-member here, ^ this 100%. Our Trust and Safety team works really hard to keep up with spam. For those interested in how they do so, you can read more here[1]. We are also working on
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
It varies: generating inconvenience(for fun or hate towards a particular service), spreading scam URLs(leveraging existing trust relationships), SEO and improving discoverability of their projects (porn, streaming of pirated content, etc) a
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
Strictly speaking the former. You could, however, say it's both since submitted issues trigger an e-mail being sent to people following the project.
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
How can anyone possibly think this is a good idea? This is such a bad decision that it almost disappoints me more than Ubuntu's relentless push of the badly broken and poorly designed Snap ecosystem.
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
> Capability based security, for example was something that allowed you to run any program, with no danger to your system. It's not part of any common OS. They had it at Xerox PARC, but Steve Jobs chose not to take that part. For Fr
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
I'm sorry but this saddens me to no end, even I did better science during my BSc and MSc; it's not just disheartening, it's frightening. Reading this almost made me feel ill to my stomach. I don't know what else to say a
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
> How is the current "notion of IP for software" not sustainable? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/stupid-patent-month-st...
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
It's absolutely surreal.
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
Thanks for the heads-up! Edit: too late to delete and re-submit D:
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Storage Cabinets on a Computer (2016)(eff.org)
2 points by jdsalaro 6y ago|6 comments
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
> QAnon is just more fun. As a counter-example, to me being right or approaching truth consistently and in a repeatable manner is much more fun than believing whatever I want to believe. I know which beliefs I'd like to be true, but
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
"Makes broad, meaningless and demeaning generalizations about language and its creators by alluding to their inability to capture the world's complex nature while doing that very same thing by means of rigid categorizations and st
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
> If things ever got extremely horrible, I used to have a friend that worked at google but she no longer works there. The other person I knew that works at google stopped responding to my tinder messages, so I'm pretty much doomed t
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
That's a very good point. Actually, I just thought about something in the context of this conversation: one's absolute top priority, both in life and tech, should be to stop the bleeding[1] that emerges from problematic circumstan
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
> Thanks, I totally agree. Just to be clear I'm not saying it's malice as I don't believe that. I'm just saying the end result is the same so one should consider them a hostile actor for purposes of threat modeling. N
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
"never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" and all that, but after the events and the almost perfectly orchestrated behavior we've seen in the past and last couple of weeks it's becoming
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by jdsalaro 6y ago
> I think another take away from this article is “don’t allow users to upload malicious files to your domain” I disagree, at which point did we all accept Google's role as defacto regulator and arbiter of the Internet? Why should we

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