maltalex

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Programming Sucks (2014)(stilldrinking.org)
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‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security(politico.com)
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by maltalex 8y ago
Can you propose a more current way of checking whether a thing tastes good?
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by maltalex 8y ago
You're thinking about authenticating your desktop, but what about authenticating the phone? The phone itself has access to a bunch of sensitive information, and is probably much more likely to get stolen or go in for repair. Perhaps th
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by maltalex 8y ago
It is neat, but only for SSH. Plus, they're a new company I never heard of. Why would I trust them with my SSH keys?
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by maltalex 8y ago
I wish more projects has walkthroughs like this. I’m not very interested in CPython internals, but there are other projects I’d love to see explained.
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by maltalex 8y ago
The encryption is a legal issue, not a technical one. Of course it can be circumvented like all forms if drm. The point is that by going around the drm, even if it’s by doing something trivial, you are committing a crime.
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by maltalex 8y ago
Nice job. I've actually been looking for more places to hang out with the HN crowd. I'm not sure about this approach though. Forums are too centralized and don't feel interactive enough. I'd much rather see a HN communit
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by maltalex 8y ago
Any channels in particular? I've seen mostly freenode mentioned everywhere.
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by maltalex 8y ago
There’s still some of that in IRC. IRC clients serve as a barrier that filters out a surprising number of people.
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by maltalex 8y ago
Not sure if that’s possible in practice. Every analysis would have to be written using several different software stacks... It’s probably doable only if the software is fairly simple or if someone has a lot if extra funding to burn through.
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NSA Operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report (2014)(youtube.com)
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by maltalex 8y ago
The backwards-compatibility is probably an institutional thing. I've dealt with a Microsoft storage library for Java once that had an absolutely idiotic bug - you'd store a certain value, but would get something slightly different
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by maltalex 8y ago
I don't understand all the negativity in this thread. Is this Microsoft's crowning achievement? No, it's just a stupid little historic decision that someone remembered and decided to fix. They even took the time to enable adm
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by maltalex 8y ago
You should reconsider the name. Not everyone will think of sonic boom when the word "boom" comes up in context to aviation.
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by maltalex 8y ago
> Once you move to a flat fee, this massive redistribution ceases. No one is saying that the fee should be flat. There are ways of selling roughly the same service for different prices - just look at air travel.
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by maltalex 8y ago
I wonder whether it's the same issue I had, but with both numbers AND letters. All I could enter were spaces until I rebooted.
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by maltalex 8y ago
> Sometimes I think the adjectives to describe some situations are too harsh. might be related to this: > I may be the only one with zero problems on Windows 10... Try spending hours (if not days) trying to bring your computer back to
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by maltalex 8y ago
> against my Linux experience on the same computer, where everything just works out of the box What machine do you use?
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by maltalex 8y ago
I've had a lot of issues with Windows update myself but the author's solution of "Murdering Windows Update" is not my cup of tea. I like my software patched. So while I don't have a good solution for Windows Update
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by maltalex 8y ago
... because Yahoo had an interest in leaking passwords? Security is expensive, breaches have to be made more expensive. That's the difference between a company's management thinking about security as a checkbox they have to fill a
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by maltalex 8y ago
Replacing passwords won’t suddenly alight large companies interests with yours.
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by maltalex 8y ago
Possibly not a hoax. Intel published this today [0]: > Protecting our customers’ data and ensuring the security of our products are critical priorities for us. We routinely work closely with customers, partners, other chipmakers and rese
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by maltalex 8y ago
> Today we’re excited to announce Asylo (Greek for “safe place”)
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Visual representation of IP address ranges blocked in Russia(rkn.ishukshin.ru)
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by maltalex 9y ago
According to the author's Linkedin [0] he's "Lead OpenShift Architect at Barclays" I get the security risks and the fear of malicious insiders at a company such as this. But having expensive, fairly high level employees
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by maltalex 9y ago
That's just one of the reasons why some intermediate levels of autonomous driving are scary. Drivers get a false sense of safety and stop paying attention. This case is just one extreme example, but I'm sure that many of the drive
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by maltalex 9y ago
I like to think of organizations as large living things. Just like people are made out of numerous living cells, organizations are living things made out of numerous living people. As such, they behave similarly to other living things is so
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by maltalex 9y ago
Actual paper: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/4/eaap9741 Title: "Most atolls will be uninhabitable by the mid-21st century because of sea-level rise exacerbating wave-driven flooding"
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by maltalex 9y ago
It’s a smart device with known (and unknown) vulnerabilities that’s always near the president. It probably has a browser, a camera, gps, and a microphone and it is always connected to Apple’s cloud. It’s a large attack surface if you’re a n

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