mjthompson

11 ms·

31.
by mjthompson 5y ago
Very interesting stuff to read from the perspective of an unenlightened outsider.
32.
by mjthompson 5y ago
Clearly he's got some issues given the reaction. However, was he informed of the bug? Was there an expectation he would fix his own mistakes? I don't work in IT/Software Engineering - I work in law. But when I find fault in o
33.
by mjthompson 5y ago
The attention to detail is breathtaking.
34.
by mjthompson 5y ago
Oracle - of all businesses - got this right. I know, I'm in shock too. In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, after your credit is exhausted, you have to explicitly opt in to billing or else they stop all paid services for you. Moreover, you
35.
by mjthompson 5y ago
Possibly a disassociated elastic IP address?
36.
by mjthompson 5y ago
The big issue I see with IoT devices is the absence of routine and long-term software updates. When these devices run Linux or Android, they are generally outdated. I don't really see this as being a result of the specific operating sy
37.
by mjthompson 5y ago
Makes perfect sense to me. Hats off to the attorney that thought of that.
38.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Corporations enjoy signficant benefits of being in the state, including, for example, a police force that protects them from attack, and a legal system that will resolve disputes they have both internally and with others. They should pay re
39.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Can browsers please just disable tracking pixels already? I look forward to the day of reckoning.
40.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Also very confused by this. I was waiting for a part that explained how data was being accessed and managed during that window. I wouldn't really want a different, likely subpar system responsible for queuing and serving requests durin
41.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Thanks. I might have a look into doing it for mine, since that seems to make sense. I guess like you said you can just mount the fs rw, and then chroot in to run updates.
42.
by mjthompson 6y ago
I use 1Password and still pay for a Bitwarden licence to support development of a viable open source alternative.
43.
by mjthompson 6y ago
I think what was being said is the fact an app uses Electron rather than being native can diminish UX. I think it was clear enough from the post, at least from context. I'm actually a bit confused by 'the same UX across OSes'
44.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Why would you mount read only, out of interest? How do you keep packages up to date? And what about logging? I'd want to be logging connection attempts.
45.
by mjthompson 6y ago
You might want to add a qualifier to 'package managers', like 'good package managers'... which the Windows Store is not. It barely fits the bill as a package manager.
46.
by mjthompson 6y ago
I seem to recall at one point Sony tried to upstream stuff and it was knocked back for not being up to scratch. Netflix contribute back without any obligation to. But they track the development branch closely, making upstreaming easier than
47.
by mjthompson 6y ago
I've recently switched my home network jump box to OpenBSD. Still learning the basics. I didn't even know about authpf. I'm reading the docs now and it looks great. Thanks for sharing that.
48.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Terrifying
49.
by mjthompson 6y ago
I know solicitors a fair bit older than me (is, in their 40s) who made the jump and find they more readily gain the respect and trust of clients, and senior lawyers within the firm, by virtue of their maturity.
50.
by mjthompson 6y ago
I should have said that I don't blame any individual dev or sysadmin for failing to respond. It's a deeply entrenched organisational issue. Imagine fixing an issue on a Model 204 mainframe, with a perpetually dwindling number of p
51.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Not the first time they've ignored issues in myGov. This guy tried endlessly to contact them about a XSS vulnerability to deaf ears: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/revealed-serious-flaws-in-...
52.
by mjthompson 6y ago
I'm a lawyer. Very different, I know! I love IT and programming, but I knew if I made a life long career of it, I'd grow to hate it. I really like doing IT related things in my own way. I'd always want to do things to best pr
53.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Opening that documentation page gave me flashbacks. I made the switch out of IT to another field. Configuring a Shibboleth IdP was probably the hardest thing I ever had to do in my IT career, it really pushed my capabilities. SLO wasn'
54.
by mjthompson 6y ago
I think your point answered by this: 'Businesses' are 'consumers' in the app distribution market. Again, you are looking at it from the perspective of phone users, but that's not the market which I'm saying is
55.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Serving a 'text file' from a web server module seems to overcomplicate things in my view. More code || complexity == greater likelihood of bugs (including security bugs). As ironic as a security bug in a security.txt serving modul
56.
by mjthompson 6y ago
It is true that as a consumer, I can avoid Apple products. The real issue relates to the options open to app publishers, that is, people who want to distribute an app. There is no viable alternative for a company wishing to publish an ap
57.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Breach of contract claims, beyond the most simple scenarios, often involve difficult normative questions. It's unlikely a simple dispute capable of being resolved by a computer would wind up going to trial. It would be settled or be th
58.
by mjthompson 6y ago
MIT licence? Haven't they learned from others' mistakes? This sort of stuff should be AGPL licenced.
59.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Syndicated or unlawfully copied? This site doesn't look legit. Why would FT syndicate their content to a random WordPress blog? Very confused.
60.
by mjthompson 6y ago
Yeah, but suppose for argument's sake that your name is John Smith. I suspect pretty much every variant of that name is taken. So, unless you resort to an unreasonable suffix of digits, or a potentially unprofessional moniker, you&#x27

More ›