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by jsiepkes 5y ago
It is kind of sad that the biggest red-flag the letter is a fake is that the company takes responsibility for "our faulty security system". No company (at least in the west) would ever say such a thing. Other then that the boxing,
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Coca-Cola, it's got what plants crave! [1] https://youtu.be/ZMHfBobgLSI?t=70
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Should be noted that a portion of this (valid) criticism applies specifically to the most prominent "container" implementation; Docker. Not containers as a whole. For example resources isolation with the Solaris / Illumos con
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
It's an interesting read but as they acknowledge themselves the attack surface is probably pretty low. > Sharing certificates between a Webserver and an FTP server is almost always dangerous if an attacker has write access to the FT
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> I was also considering working for your company when considering changing forms, but I never would after hearing about this episode. Some personal reflection might be in order here before making harsh judgements. Your current employer
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
There will be people who will (probably unwittingly) turn this feature on in their HP preloaded Norton. These people will start to wonder why their PC is suddenly so slow and makes so much noise. I wonder if organizations such as HP are goi
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
True, but then again this was 14 years ago. People can change. Steve jobs had just launched the first iPhone when he made that blog post. That feels like a life time ago.
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> if I had a company I would consider adding something into contracts that we cannot fire people due to past controversial statements. It's not that people think you need to pay for your past "transgressions" (in their eye
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
First OTRS goes closed source and now Phabricator decides to call it quits. The Wikimedia foundation seems to be a bit on a bad luck streak regarding some of the OSS projects it uses. Would be really cool to see a Phabricator fork though. E
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Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid(nltimes.nl)
622 points by jsiepkes 5y ago|328 comments
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> The original Blizzard allowed the community to play with their games beyond the intended main experience of the game. Blizzard has never been afraid to come down hard on it's fans. I think they may have even invented it in 98 with
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> Milieudefensie voor Veranderaars (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) For anyone wondering "Friends of the Earth Netherlands" is not a translation of "Milieudefensie voor Veranderaars" (the name of the organisation).
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> We intentionally designed that system for creators to be able to describe what they were streaming, not who they were or what they stood for. We have maintained this distinction since that time, and we were wrong. And giving people a l
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Believe it or not but people were also excited about the Windows Vista release. People were literally lining up at stores and stores had special nightly openings.
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> Trust is a thing that is becoming more and more important these days with more and more of users secrets going through our devices. How many hardware backdoored PC's have you encountered in your life?
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Salesforce outage: Global DNS downfall started by engineer trying a quick fix(theregister.com)
3 points by jsiepkes 5y ago|3 comments
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
I agree that it is weird to go on a rant on UI design on a site which clearly leaves as much to be desired as this one. It often amazes me how little barrier people seem to have to point fingers instead of first reflecting on themselves and
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
On the other hand western Europe is the biggest donor to the Palestinians [1]. There are words and then there is action; If the (Arab) world wanted a Palestine state it would have been there by now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
None of the technologies you name had that big of a negative effect on society while they were maturing. We are a decade in with cryptocoins and 98% of the things that cryptocoins have currently accomplished are a net loss for society. A ne
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> but cryptocurrency/blockchain in general are real, useful technologies. Whats the last time you bought anything (besides other coins) with cryptocurrency?
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> This is largely a myth, please provide an namespace-related CVE that has gone unpatched to support your argument. What I mean is that if you use LXC namespace's as a container it is going to be an insecure container. Simply becaus
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
In my opinion Linux hasn't caught up. * Namespaces don't come close to FreeBSD jails or Solaris / Illumos Zones. There is a reason Docker hosters put their Docker tenants in different hardware VM's. Because the isolation
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Gaddafi wasn't some saint but saying he had the same motives as Idi Amin is somewhat ignorant of history. Gaddafi was mostly driven by trying to strength African and Arab unity to better stand up to western countries. He attempted to c
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
I doubt they could verify it otherwise they could have simply stated they have verification the key wasn't compromised. Instead they said an "investigation has not revealed evidence" which can mean anything. Just looking at a
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
Let me start by saying I don't feel like I fully understand what happened here but this thing makes me think. I understand that only signing stuff offline on a air-gapped machine is too inconvenient but I think automated (unattended) s
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
I find the boundaries which the "On Politics At Work" blog sets to be very narrow and centered around what that the author thinks is the most pressing issue. The author names 4 points out of which 3 are about equality on the workf
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
> Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers said the new agreement will save Wisconsin taxpayers “a total of $2.77 billion compared to the previous contract, [...] So now all of a sudden we need to look at NOT giving tax deductions as a win where as
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
> Now, obviously telco equipment can be used for spying, but there's absolutely no allegation of wrongdoing here at all. That's incorrect. The report made by Capgemini stated that there were clear boundaries as to what Huawei w
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
> Or they can complete the DMCA counter-notice process, and if that is unchallenged or successful, be reinstated that way. If I was a US resident I would, but I'm not a US resident. If the DMCA claimer decides to challenge my counte
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by jsiepkes 6y ago
Nobody has started a project with Ant in the last decade. Of all the Java projects on Github Ant is probably not even 1%. > Oh and now I have to make it work in the IDE too, click through a billion menus and dialogs, You click "Proj

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