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by pimterry 4y ago
> Is organizational or technical debt good for the company? No. Is it good for the individuals creating it? Oftentimes yes While technical debt in itself is not a good thing, choosing to take on tech debt in return for delivering quicker
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EU Funding for Mobile App Traffic Interception(httptoolkit.com)
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by pimterry 4y ago
> Why does a package manager need to track their users at all? According to https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics they use it to measure how often formulas fail to install, to get overall metrics on which OS versions are used,
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by pimterry 4y ago
I don't think that's true - AFAICT there's no EU law banning analytics. EU law just restricts storing & processing _personal_ data (GDPR) and storing unnecessary data on machines without consent (ePrivacy/'cooki
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by pimterry 4y ago
Ah, neat, ok! I'll take another look. For now I've been testing out Posthog ( https://posthog.com ). They seem more focused on this use case - they let you do arbitrary queries and build graphs over all event data withou
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by pimterry 4y ago
As in the post: they're intending to drop the GA part entirely within 90 days, and it sounds like the new metrics are entirely anonymous, and so not covered by GDPR etc. IANAL but as far as I can tell that should avoid all legal concer
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by pimterry 4y ago
Whilst Plausible does look great, one of their main goals, as I understand it, is to focus on simple core analytics for websites, not general-purpose do-it-all analytics for everything. If you're not a website, and so your metrics are
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by pimterry 4y ago
I replaced my previous Thinkpad X1 carbon with a Framework 12th gen recently - vast improvement, runs Linux better than any other laptop I've ever used, I love using it, and I _love_ how repairable & upgradeable it is. Highly recom
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Unlocking security updates for transitive NPM dependencies at GitHub(github.blog)
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AIs as societal zero-day exploits(blog.rinesi.com)
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Is there a fixed virtual address that the system promises never to use?(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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Weird Science(hackerfactor.com)
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by pimterry 4y ago
14 minutes later, it now has a salary range: > $175K-210K base compensation 'Post about the problem on HN' shows its power once again.
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by pimterry 4y ago
> It was SUPPOSED to enable me, myself, hosting my videos, on my computer(s) and making them available to whomever I want to, including everyone. I think maybe you misunderstand PeerTube? It is exactly what you say the internet should be
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Experiment: The costs of slow build times(github.blog)
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by pimterry 4y ago
If you don't then the certificates usually aren't usable at all. All modern browsers should reject certs from any root CA if the cert isn't correctly included in a CT log.
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by pimterry 4y ago
> what keeps them from creating certificates which claim to be issued before December 1st, even after that date? See https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic... for the actions proposed
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by pimterry 4y ago
You could receive a spearphishing email from an AWS lookalike address, which includes a link to the real AWS login page, which you auth to legitimately but which then sends your credentials to somebody else. This has a link expiry problem,
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by pimterry 4y ago
Hi HN! I've been working on adding in-depth Docker support to HTTP Toolkit for literally years (I added it as GitHub issue #1 when I started the project - https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit/issues&#x2F
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Show HN: One-click HTTP(S) inspection and mocking for any Docker container(httptoolkit.com)
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Match Cutting at Netflix: Finding Cuts with Smooth Visual Transitions(netflixtechblog.com)
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by pimterry 4y ago
Is that true? The headline here comes straight from the human study. From the article: > The human data, obtained from an epidemiological study that monitored 3,000 individuals for about 20 years, indicated 72% less metastatic cancer in
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by pimterry 4y ago
> So does this mean cancer cells are so hungry for sugar that they can't survive even a short term dip in sugar availability? It's not a short-term dip, according to the article: > "Examining the cells of these organs,
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by pimterry 4y ago
Yep, that's typically how this works - there's a small immediate fine for the current issues, but there'll be rapidly increasing fines in future if the issues continue beyond a reasonable timeframe to get this fixed.
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by pimterry 4y ago
Something worth noting that a lot of comments are ignoring here: while this fine is coming from the EU, these kinds of data protection rules are _everywhere_ now - this is no longer really EU-specific. The reality is that it's not an U
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by pimterry 4y ago
The article, directly referencing the proposed legislation, says: > developers of critical products may not perform self-assessment and need to involve third-party auditors
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The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever broken(pluralistic.net)
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by pimterry 4y ago
For me, it's largely replaced Twitter already. I mainly used Twitter to see what was going on in tech & open-source and discuss development topics, and comfortably 50% of the tech people I followed on Twitter have now set up on Mas
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by pimterry 4y ago
> even late pre-Musk twitter was far more tolerant than mastadon. for example, any instance hosting the harry potter lady would get defederated from by 90% of the network, I guarantee you that. As a user of the network in general though,
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by pimterry 4y ago
> Most tracking now comes from the "legitimate interest" purposes that you need to actively object to This is briefly touched on in the article: in the first graph you can see that the "Legitimate interest claimed" vi

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