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by pflenker 3y ago
I just realized it’s the same in German - lukewarm is _lauwarm_, and there is no antonym for it.
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by pflenker 3y ago
The SQL example relates to an acquisition that happened in 2013, and states that the vulnerabilities have been around for some time. The early 2010s have really been a different time in that regard.
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by pflenker 3y ago
One time working at a bigger company I received an email that was a very, very obvious, poorly made phishing attempt - in fact, so poorly done that I wondered if I could break the login form somehow. So I submitted bogus data to see what ha
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by pflenker 3y ago
It leads to less security as it is more likely that the new password will just be an old one with an incremented number at the end.
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Anglo-Zanzibar War(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by pflenker 3y ago|0 comments
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by pflenker 3y ago
„Popping up a keyboard“ as the user described is also not something trivially possible on the watch. That raised a red(ish) flag for me.
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by pflenker 3y ago
Typing „we are in control“ would go beyond the ghost touch issue, if we believe the first reporter.
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by pflenker 3y ago
While I agree with you in general, the behavior described in the article should not be observable without an actual hack.
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by pflenker 3y ago
I joined a company once where some APIS were, for some reasons, returning strings instead of booleans (e.g. "false" instead of _false_). One of the system returned a typo for some edge cases, e.g. "ture" instead of &quo
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by pflenker 3y ago
1) I doubt that you pay as much. I pay less than half of that and have a comfortable salary. Did you include the "Arbeitgeberanteil" (which is not part of what you are paying)? 2) You can't easily extrapolate that number to
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by pflenker 3y ago
Heh. I wonder if it is still tradition in universities to assign quirky network names to their machines? Would anyone even notice these days, as these names are way less prominently displayed these days? They greybeards who came before me
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by pflenker 3y ago
This works for me to an absurd degree. I sometimes remember, hours later, that I had some idea e.g. while showering or while brewing coffee. Returning to the bathroom or kitchen respectively helps me remember these ideas.
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The Math Behind Alice in Wonderland(thecuriousreader.in)
1 points by pflenker 3y ago|0 comments
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by pflenker 3y ago
It’s even worse - those who frequently buy hardware are small one-person companies who drive from building to building gig. They are very cost conscious and very mobile , so they are the most likely candidates to buy bigger quantities whene
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by pflenker 3y ago
Only tangentially related - one big hardware store chain in Germany ran bankrupt because they started to frequently ran „20% on everything“ marketing activities. The idea was to attract customers who would return when one activity ended, bu
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by pflenker 3y ago
I am a native speaker in German and I can tell you that while all the books you listed are children’s books, they are all quite old, and the words and phrases they use are weird, to say the least. Maybe grab a Lustiges Taschenbuch? They’re
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I wanted to tell you about my favourite Instant Messenger(flenker.blog)
2 points by pflenker 3y ago|0 comments
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by pflenker 3y ago
German trains also used to have actual chefs on board, but it proved to be very cost-ineffective. There was even a McDonald's on a train, called the MacTrain: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/streit-zwischen-mcdonald-s-u
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by pflenker 3y ago
There are exceptions, also in France. I think the most relevant one here is for medical reasons or body shape. So if you have a passenger who is exempt from the rule you have to live with your car yelling at you.
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by pflenker 3y ago
My train once stopped in Bremen because only one toilet was working and soccer fans were aboard the train. In Bremen we could all leave the train, go to the toilet there and resume our trip some 20 minutes later. That was a bizarre experie
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by pflenker 3y ago
What this article doesn't mention is that over time, cameras have made _huge_ leaps and bounds, while the author was transitioning through the phases he describes. It's likely that had he been already at the final stage of compete
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by pflenker 3y ago
Educate. Make up some kind of information that is easy for legit persons to exchange but difficult to look up online. In case of parents/grandparents, it can be information in their life which isn't available online (good luck fi
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by pflenker 3y ago
One angle is missing in this article: the judge stated that the intention by the lawmaker was to criminalize any kind of hacking when they have introduced the law, so it doesn’t matter how strong the password was or how good it was protecte
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by pflenker 3y ago
I had multiple discussions with German news projects around micropayments, and they list other, much simpler reasons why they don’t accept it: - depending on the payment method, the transaction cost is too high and eats up almost the full
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by pflenker 3y ago
Misunderstanding this fact that you described makes its rounds here in Germany every 2-5 years with media claiming that moderate drinking is good for your health because the mortality of the „no alcohol“ group is higher even though as you p
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by pflenker 3y ago
On top of what you mentioned in your first sentence, any ideas to improve discoverability are horrible. I hate it when Alexa does not play my podcast right away but explains to me how I can change episodes. I despise Alexa for telling me th
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by pflenker 3y ago
I think the author is too nit-picky here, as the phrase "no evidence" has a superficially similar, but nuanced meaning based on the context - _and this is fine_. It can't be the burden of whoever writes something to cover all
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by pflenker 3y ago
I can only guess, but my best guess is that one crucial part is performing the ID validation, which involves joining a video call with a company that partners with the bank.
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by pflenker 3y ago
Exactly. From her perspective, she had Task A: open a bank account for client SomeBank, performed that task and way later had Task B, apply for a loan at SomeBank. It's not at all suspicious to perform those tasks for the same customer
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by pflenker 3y ago
So the thing is - when you start at a new company you also need to submit all kinds of personal data - to the company you are starting in. I am a bit fuzzy on the details here but I think the data needed to open a bank account might be the

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