justin_oaks

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by justin_oaks 2y ago
Yes, great works of art can and should be preserved by making images and data freely available. How much of that is being done? Quite frankly, I don't know, but there are a number of museums that make their collections available to vie
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
Am I the only one disgusted by the number of "University of ___ Press" or "___ University Press" entries in the list of publishers that got books taken down? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that universities aren
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
I'm just happy that I can put the days of CVS, Subversion, and Perforce behind me. While Git has its warts, it's firmly in "good enough" territory.
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Please provide justification for your points of view. People making value judgments without providing reasoning makes for boring reading. And boring reading is a hig
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
> Doing it at your company likely won't go well This has been my experience. I led a book club at one of my jobs and it was poorly attended and those who did attend hadn't read the book. My guess is that there is just a low per
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
I'll disagree on these grounds: 1) HTTP can be modified by a man in the middle 2) It's better to default to requests and responses being private, even if you're only using a non-commercial/institutional service. You coul
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
I appreciate the author calling this out because creating an HTTP-redirect-to-HTTPS is something I'll do almost without thinking about it. "If it has HTTPS, I'll set up an HTTP redirect." Now I know that I need to think
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
> the pcTattletale client api returns raw aws credentials. it's intended to allow screenshots to be directly uploaded to the storage bucket, which is already terrible enough on its own, but it's worsened by the fact that these
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
You don't? If that's the case, can you explain why?
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
Not often, but the problem with poor security is that it is vulnerable to the "smart cow" problem. The whole herd will stay in the fence until a smart cow opens the gate. Then the whole herd gets out. Once a security vulnerability
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
I once worked for a company with a security-related product. Security was not a high priority at that company. The software developers had no security training. The process for improving security was basically "fix something when it wo
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
I didn't know "undocumented worker" was a race.
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
And as usual with Google, you have no recourse.
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
Indeed, this needs to be factored into your threat model when considering the security of your data. Sometimes people forget that part of security is availability.
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
I'm wondering if it's literally about hockey or if it's a euphemism for something else
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
One of the benefits of privacy is that you're free from someone misinterpreting your data. This is why my cloud-stored backups are encrypted prior to upload.
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
A professional balances the need for quality with the urgency of the task. Your example shows a clear imbalance that indicates the person is not a professional; that person is someone who can't be trusted with that balance.
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
"We'll fix that later" is at best a hopeful fantasy, and at worst a lie intended to manipulate. It doesn't happen. We need to be clear here. If what needs to be fixed is something that will inevitably cause serious probl
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
I believe that having talent and caring about the company are orthogonal attributes. One may care about the company until the company shows it doesn't care about you. If an employee is loyal to a company that isn't loyal back then
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
A cabinet maker has the option to say no because they're the one in charge of accepting the job AND implementing it. At least that's the way the article made it sound. Most of us are cogs in the machine and are given much less aut
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
> If the technical debt is a problem, 1) we shouldn’t have put it in there, and 2) we should include it in our estimates and address it. Yes. Don't tell your boss that you'll need to take time to address technical debt. The bos
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
> this could be the last job we ever work I interpret that as "This is the job that kills you."
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
"All models are wrong, but some are useful" -George E. P. Box The exception DOES indicate that the model could be more accurate to cover cases, but the most important thing is whether the model is useful. Newtonian physics may be
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
I'd like to give praise for the "Target User Group" section on the homepage. Not only does it say what users the app is for, but also who it is NOT for. I think this kind of information is invaluable in deciding whether or no
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
I agree that it'd be much more useful if people did that. Without that information, I assume that the books that are mentioned more than once are the ones that I should look into.
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
For those who are familiar with using the *nix du command, ncdu is like a nice step up. Finding what is using your disk space naturally requires repeatedly descending into directories and checking what is using up most space. So having TUI
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
Considering how many HTTP requests the web interface takes, I can see a dedicated Confluence client being a big win.
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
I recently had a coworker point out VisiData: https://www.visidata.org/ It has a huge number of data formats it can visualize, but I haven't taken the time to go through them all. What I do know is that it is great for
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
lazydocker [0] is by the same author as lazygit. I'm thoroughly familiar with the Docker CLI, but sometimes it's just easier to use a GUI or TUI for some things. In particular, I use lazydocker for cleaning up volumes or images th
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by justin_oaks 2y ago
Sounds like something comparable to LazyGit. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

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