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by kerblang 7y ago
The article appears to say that you must sign your requests with a symmetric key. To verify the request, the server needs the same key, right? So the server needs a copy of every single user's encryption key. The server _could_ just st
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by kerblang 7y ago
> Maybe you don’t need request signing? A bearer token header is fine If you're going to insist on symmetric key signatures, yeah. Otherwise a symmetric signature would be the same as using symmetric encryption to store user passwor
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by kerblang 7y ago
I was surprised that autonomy came in at only 11%, although they only allowed 3 answers... I'm all for growth myself, but I've always found that people who have some confidence in what they're doing also want autonomy.
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by kerblang 7y ago
You can buy the t-shirt and be one too https://www.spreadshirt.com/digital+gangster+unisex+tri-blen...
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by kerblang 7y ago
Done more than once before, this one even has an explanation, which matches some of the guesses people already posted I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufq2Eb78kSU
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by kerblang 7y ago
> where leisure time is used no longer for self-perfection or acquisition of more social status My understanding of these instagram folk is that it's definitely about social status and very often about making money. "Influencer
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by kerblang 7y ago
Interesting, but how do they assign this authority? Anything to cite?
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by kerblang 7y ago
Maybe the problem is that ever since google the only metric anyone has bothered to devise is "popularity", which was never a particularly good indicator of truth to begin with.
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by kerblang 7y ago
The parent poster's grammar is kind of bad but I think their idea is to expose only views, not actual tables, so there is some degree of dependency immunization. Views are a pretty good poor person's substitute for an API right &a
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by kerblang 7y ago
It sounds like there is some performance-based argument getting shouted over here - something to do with blocking I/O (not blocking ads) - what exactly is google proposing?
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by kerblang 7y ago
Back in the 90's some guy wrote a paper explaining that programming languages are in fact _design_ languages; whereas in most other kinds of engineering, drawings are the superior design tool, in programming, language works better. Emp
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by kerblang 7y ago
What I'm talking about here is not academic database technologies in laboratories, but the typical mysql/postgres/oracle/sqlserver production world regular programmers live in. So yes, I know pragmatic strategies for avo
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by kerblang 7y ago
It seems grossly irresponsible to encourage the use of serializable without even mentioning deadlocks. I guess you won't have deadlocks if your db interprets as serializable as "lock the whole database on transaction start",