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by mattbee 9y ago
What if TFL did it? They have a £11bn budget, they license taxis, run the buses & tube. They could perfectly well build a taxi-hailing app, integrate it nicely with the Oyster card system, or mandate it, or build an API for other taxi
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by mattbee 9y ago
Bytemark | Platform Engineer | York or Manchester, UK | Remote OK | Full Time, £32-40k https://careers.bytemark.co.uk/positions/14 Edited hilights from the full ad: We're looking for a Linux expert to maintain our
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by mattbee 9y ago
http://www.htmlandcssbook.com/ taught me the groundwork despite its age. Lea Verou's CSS Secrets is a great book to pair it with - will show you lots of avenues of CSS and layout ideas that you'd never have found
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by mattbee 9y ago
@mholt is being exceedingly generous to the whingers on this thread, on top of the generosity he's shown in writing Caddy to start with. It's not 2005 any more, Sun Microsystems is long gone. You won't raise any money from a
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by mattbee 9y ago
I thought this community could recognise passion, hard work & genuine innovation, but wow, the comments on this thread. This team might not make their investment back, but they're shipping a game and a work of art in a way that li
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by mattbee 9y ago
I ... don't think that's correct :) It's clearly a hacker showing off a milestone in their development, what's wrong?
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by mattbee 10y ago
As a small competitor to Racksapce in 2010, designing a replacement for our (then) 8-year old VM structure, Bytemark bet against Openstack from the 1st announcement and spent years building something the-same-but-different. It wasn't
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by mattbee 10y ago
Random ideas to solve this: Get phishing sites on Chrome/Firefox's red-flag lists (presumably this already happens?) Show a country flag in the URL bar based on the language/alphabet of the URL Change the URL bar colour for p
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by mattbee 10y ago
They already know. The same thing happened to someone I know in the UK, a few years back. He was arrested at dawn and put in a cell for a whole day after an offence was committed from the IP address under his control. He said the officer i
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by mattbee 10y ago
On the flip-side, never let one of your staff leave your company so unhappy they write a hit-piece. As a CEO you'll know if your company has been a less-than-great manager to a member of staff. (If don't have lots of written evid
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by mattbee 10y ago
Amber Rudd is the UK's Home Secretary not just any minister. "We need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted Whatsapp." She has said she is "calling in" te
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Bytemark's anonymous interview process(careers.bytemark.co.uk)
2 points by mattbee 10y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 10y ago
I don't mean they are learning from observing attack traffic, they have access to the command and control traffic. That means they could know about an attack before it happens. They could know how long it will last, who the target wi
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by mattbee 10y ago
It's not a game, it's policing your own network and keeping your business activities legal. My network has run an abuse desk for 15 years and there are no feasting piranhas (what does that even mean?). Cloudflare definitely alrea
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by mattbee 10y ago
Cloudflare sells protection from the internet attacks through its network. The same company and network facilitates the organisation of those same attacks, and helps keep them anonymous. That's a high-tech protection racket.
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by mattbee 10y ago
This assumes that the Bad Guys hadn't noticed the bug before Tavis, and hadn't started intensively mining Cloudflare for data.
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by mattbee 10y ago
I ... didn't say any of that.
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by mattbee 10y ago
Another implication: they could be using their access to these sites' traffic to prepare their own infrastructure for attacks before they happen. There's nothing about their hosting of these sites that doesn't reek.
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by mattbee 10y ago
Cloudflare isn't just a security hole in the middle of the internet, they're a protection racket. If you wanted to pay to DDoS a site, search for "booter" and you'll get a list of sites that will take another site o
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by mattbee 10y ago
Yeah there is some real baby language: "But this is indeed a case of differing visions – neither better than the other, just different." OH PLEASE! Joel clearly wants to be transparent about this, but the core of you the reader
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by mattbee 10y ago
100% the same - Chrome might be the faster browser, but it doesn't matter when it's hobbled with ads. I imagine that's even more significant when you have an older phone.
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by mattbee 10y ago
In short - if you've got a few giga of RAM free, can very much recommend to brave HN users if you're stuck in a rut with your email and like to self-host. I actually met @HerraBRE in Reykjavik last month and talked about privacy a
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Switching to Mailpile – the search and privacy-focused webmail client(blog.bytemark.co.uk)
3 points by mattbee 10y ago|1 comments
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by mattbee 10y ago
This piece tells me more about the author than it does any of his unfortunate users & students. He lacks any understanding of his users' needs and sneers at them rather than try to improve their understanding. No wonder he's
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by mattbee 10y ago
On holiday in Iceland with my wife right now and it has been 100% cloudy the whole time :( We're going to the Aurora museum as a consolation prize. Very impressive pictures though!
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by mattbee 10y ago
Facebook have to respond to Data Subject Access Requests in the UK, which oblige them to send you every piece of personally-linked information - for a maximum £10 fee. I did this with my bank a few years back and got back a box file full of
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Microsoft Ireland data sovereignty case awaiting rehearing decision(techdirt.com)
3 points by mattbee 10y ago|0 comments
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The Headington Shark(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mattbee 10y ago
What you get from text + availability of source code = a set of practical documentation that shipped right where you needed it. Microsoft forgot (and still forget) the documentation for Windows - if you want a nice A-Z reference for the boo
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by mattbee 10y ago
Bytemark | bytemark.co.uk | On site | York, UK | System Administrator | Full Time | £22-28k This is a technical support position for people who can boast Linux and customer service skills in equal measure. We're looking for a problem s

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