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by minitech 8y ago
Depends on what your strategy for manually designing passwords is (yes, it’s that bad). But anyone who can figure out how to use this bash script can figure out how to use one of the `< /dev/urandom tr` scripts, pwgen, or a p
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by minitech 8y ago
Use secrets.choice instead of random.choice, since only the former is backed by a CSPRNG.
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by minitech 8y ago
Generating passwords with $RANDOM seems like an incredibly bad idea. In bash, it’s a Lehmer RNG seeded with the current microsecond and PID – and the seed is 32 bits. sort -R kind of saves it because it uses /dev/urandom + ISAAC,
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by minitech 8y ago
(Actually, replace “trusting a new service” with “trusting 3+ new services” – it’s probably hosted on AWS or something, and https://idbloc.co/privacy mentions that mail is forwarded with MailGun.)
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by minitech 8y ago
Why remove the hyphens? If that’s wanted, there’s the more direct: crypto.randomBytes(16).toString('hex')
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by minitech 8y ago
> I’ve recently launched https://idbloc.co which aims to help deal with this Nice! I just started working on the same thing, and it would be great to be able to drop the project… except trusting a new service with your e-mail
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by minitech 8y ago
It still has to be readable.
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by minitech 8y ago
Don’t try to deflect by putting words in my mouth. > Not only in the West How?
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by minitech 8y ago
> Muslims still have no idea, what is a hatred in the West. It’s stunning to read this. Are you really claiming you haven’t seen hatred towards Muslims? > hey have no idea how Christians were/are pushed around in the West And the
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by minitech 8y ago
> How about fullstack developer using entirely different technologies on the server and client side. That sounds completely normal.
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by minitech 8y ago
Chromium certainly shouldn’t die. However… > Do we really need a duplicated HTML renderer? Hah. Yes, and if there’s a point when we don’t, I vote we keep Servo instead of Blink. (There won’t be.) Although it’s possible I’m replying to so
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by minitech 8y ago
We agree that people leaving due to serial harassment is bad for communities. Do you disagree that harassment is an issue even when it doesn’t cause people to leave? Because that’s what it sounds like, and it sounds ridiculous.
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by minitech 8y ago
> If a group of players does not play because they feel unwelcome, THAT is the thing that matters What, in terms of profit? (And in the next paragraph, competitive advantage, really?) That’s a very narrow view of what it means for someth
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by minitech 8y ago
Privacy, both in reading and publishing.
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by minitech 8y ago
(1) isn’t client-side. > $.getJSON("/cgi-bin/trypandoc", { from: from, to: to, text: text },
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by minitech 8y ago
> It is beyond me why my home directory ended up up containing a node_modules directory, package-lock.json, a yarn.lock file (I have never even consciously used yarn!), Sounds like there’s a bigger problem.
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by minitech 8y ago
Doesn’t seem very accessible or effective when targeted, though.
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by minitech 8y ago
It’s valid to omit </html> (<html> too, for that matter).
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by minitech 8y ago
Because writing new OSes is hard and writing new OSes where existing software that people want to use keeps working is even harder.
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by minitech 8y ago
The issue is that 9999999999999999.0 == 10000000000000000.0. You need to pass a string: Decimal('9999999999999999.0')
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by minitech 8y ago
> Since, of course, the RHS might have a side effect on the location of the LHS. That’s a reason it matters which one is evaluated first, but not a reason to evaluate the RHS first.
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by minitech 8y ago
Popular as it is, C++ is still a pretty special case. Not many languages have references like it. (I personally don’t use any.) int a = 5; int& b = a; b = 6; // a is now 6 Allowing an lvalue argument to be changed
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by minitech 8y ago
Disabling CORS in your browser is not representative of production. Serving CORS headers is.
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by minitech 8y ago
> remember that that nonsense included explicitly the suggestion that one problem with tracking might be when you "get involved with a terror group" No, it was about someone (“beaker53”) who could be confused for a known person
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by minitech 8y ago
This is almost certainly just a me thing, but just in case: I got some Bluetooth headphones that seemed to sound terrible wired, but it turned out to that the cable had to be pushed and rotated to lock into the headphones at that end. If yo
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by minitech 8y ago
> Frankly, that's an entirely appropriate way to deal with security. No, it’s not. You don’t have to be perfect, but “critical vulnerabilities and half the owners don’t care” sounds a long way from approaching perfect. This is why w
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by minitech 8y ago
> Javascript/... dismal debugging support. Eh? I thought JavaScript debuggers were pretty good.
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by minitech 8y ago
Yep, this happened to me when I created a separate account for travel. Immediate, permanent lockout.
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by minitech 8y ago
> Ya know what else they can do? Play Rick Astley on your Sonos speakers while printing 1000 pages of porn from every printer, casting Rick Astley music videos to every TV, getting Comcast to forward you piracy warnings and deleting all
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by minitech 8y ago
You might already be aware, but %-formatting with bytes is back as of 3.5.

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