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by mdhb 2y ago
The irony here is that they have undoubtedly undermined their overall security posture in a meaningful way here. Imagine singling out a group of people who previously had no ill will towards you for targeted harassment and that this exact s
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by mdhb 2y ago
I love it personally and with gRPC I don’t really have much of a need for any kind of backend framework at all. I just follow the guidance at aip.dev and raw dog it using language primitives for the most part.
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by mdhb 2y ago
You are cherry picking things here. If this is some ideological thing for you I’m really not interested in having that conversation. The health of the two projects genuinely isn’t close at all. Comparing what they are actually both shipping
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by mdhb 2y ago
I keep seeing this coming up and I have no idea where it’s coming from like it’s some self reinforcing feedback loop based on just utter bullshit. If I am remembering correctly the headcount on the Futter team literally changed by a single
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by mdhb 2y ago
What the fuck are you talking about? This literally never happened.
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by mdhb 2y ago
comments about job markets aside… The first and the third paragraphs really haven’t been true for some time now. Flutter is absolutely production ready as a cross platform GUI.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Not op but I’m developing an application with this exact approach as we speak, although my backend code is in Dart also. You can also do gRPC over Unix domain sockets too if you’re sticking with desktop but overall I really like this approa
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by mdhb 2y ago
If you’re doing some super intensive data processing or have specialist use cases then yeah, sure feel free to write that part in Rust, C or whatever you like. That’s literally what this package is about. Unlocking that use case for you alt
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by mdhb 2y ago
I’m too lazy right now to get into all of the specifics but just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I’ve been doing web development since 1997 and the difference between React and Flutter is like day and night. It’s genuinely hard for
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by mdhb 2y ago
Great example of the RWNJ crowd where everything is a conspiracy against them all the time so that they never have to answer questions like why their family won’t talk to them anymore.
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by mdhb 2y ago
I don’t know if maybe you missed what I said but the point I was making was that you can’t actually get the full picture of the situation from Apple’s information alone so I don’t know how sending me a link to a PDF that their marketing mad
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by mdhb 2y ago
We are talking about the US context here specifically and the legal process they have set up in place to ensure the rights of their citizens are balanced appropriately against the country’s national security concerns. If you’re making a lar
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by mdhb 2y ago
If you had read absolutely nothing other than Apple’s marketing material I can see how you might come to that conclusion.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Secret warrants only in the context of counterintelligence and counterespionage investigations that target foreigners. Which in that particular context I don’t know what else would possibly be considered a reasonable alternative. The vast m
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by mdhb 2y ago
This is actually one of the more important developments of the web platform I think in a long time as it’s the first genuine competitor to advertising and the surveillance capitalism nonsense that brings when it comes to monetisation. It no
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by mdhb 2y ago
Sick burn I know but just to be clear this isn’t a Google thing but a W3C standard that they are implementing.
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by mdhb 2y ago
That didn’t work out great for the record. https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/04/30/the-german-indu...
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by mdhb 2y ago
Presenting the latest and greatest idea from “The Free Speech Platform”. It’s truly difficult to explain in words how embarrassing the video from their CEO is. You really have to see it yourself in order to believe: https://x.com
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Twitter to sue advertisers who “illegally boycotted” the platform(twitter.com)
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Apple's 'Find My' service" dubbed super creepy surveillance tech"(fudzilla.com)
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by mdhb 2y ago
One of the main problems I have with Apple is that their entire approach to privacy seems to be much more of a how can we fuck with our competitors rather than a serious attempt at what they claim. Just lots of very convenient positions the
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by mdhb 2y ago
Is there something special about this unlike the million other AI companies that justifies putting some company’s press release on the front page or was this the result of unnatural voting patterns?
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by mdhb 2y ago
Hint: they don’t and their entire business model is actively reliant upon deceiving naive junior developers as far as I can tell.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Zero disagreement here whatsoever. I have story after story after story of people who should have known better who got done for really silly shit. I’m only making the argument here that that specific technique has some real limitations and
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by mdhb 2y ago
Yeah, I mean like a lot of things in security, it’s better than nothing. But you would have to be very undisciplined or uninformed to get caught by this. There’s even an argument that all you’ve done is tipped your hand to the adversary tha
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by mdhb 2y ago
I don’t know this for sure, I’m just going from memory from an operation the Dutch pulled off when trying to take down some darknet market places where they used this technique. But basically they would embed a remote image inside the file
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by mdhb 2y ago
I’m currently in the middle of building one at the moment precisely because of how limited I found canary tokens. I also have a lot of security knowledge (mostly from books rather than practical experience) from non infosec case studies lik
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by mdhb 2y ago
I mostly agree with this, but I think there is also a very pragmatic angle here where we need to acknowledge: 1. Advertising is really the only successful economic model of the web at this point and has been for more or less its entire exis
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by mdhb 2y ago
Can you give some examples or “hard progressive” influence ops that have come out of China, Russia or Iran? That’s really in direct opposition to their stated aims and it just seems like a false equivalence.
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by mdhb 2y ago
I don’t know what you mean here by advanced? If you mean the sheer amount of fuckery they have to do in order to make it work with JS perhaps you have a point. If you mean expressiveness or consistent or soundness then no, it’s actually ver

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