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by pledess 3y ago
Adding more structure to prefixed tokens could help avoid false positives when someone signs up for GitHub secret scanning. I notice that Pushover is apparently not signed up: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security&#x
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by pledess 3y ago
I'm surprised that a new merge tool in 2023 is still only about lexical code conflicts (such as competing line changes). I'd expect a tool for semantic code conflicts, e.g., developer A's PR extends the customer data structur
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by pledess 3y ago
I feel that the array starting index should be adjustable at runtime via increment/decrement overloading for either the [ or ] character. var var meanings = [42]! print(meanings[-1])! //42 [++! //temporarily chang
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by pledess 3y ago
It depends on whether your company provides an efficient way to submit information about payloads and outcomes. For example, if you can submit in a simple, high-level structure that's independent of the language used by the test engine
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by pledess 3y ago
It says "Usage of Chaosnet presumably waned as Lisp machines became less and less popular." That's basically true, but there was substantial Chaosnet usage from multi-user machines (e.g., UNIX, VMS, TOPS-20). Once you had a S
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by pledess 3y ago
Login prompts interrupt your flow, and make it more likely for you to be responsible for a security-relevant mistake. Depending on what your job is, this might include pasting sensitive information into email that has an incorrect recipient
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by pledess 3y ago
It's technically possible for tax preparation software to collect information about UI interaction (e.g., revising income downward before finishing) and send that information to the IRS. I don't know whether that occurs, and maybe
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by pledess 3y ago
Any thoughts on why it has exactly the same name as a popular source available project that's been around since the 1990s? earliest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/19991011120524/http://www.boos
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by pledess 4y ago
there may be a hint of which elections were of interest: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
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by pledess 4y ago
Indeed! But I'm still pondering why she didn't put this announcement on her YouTube channel. It could be: A. the message was more effectively conveyed as text B. all the comment spam in her January 2022 video (people asking for a
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by pledess 4y ago
Courts should be more concerned about whether a large U.S. private business such as Reddit is even allowed to use any unpaid labor: https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/whd/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp "Under
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by pledess 4y ago
I'd wear one if it were "Zephyr-based" in two ways rather than just one: https://github.com/mit-athena/libzephyr/blob/7f1981c62e9d381...
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by pledess 4y ago
All of this complexity (with "browsers also differ quite a bit in the importance they assign to different types of resources and loading methods," etc.) suggests one take-home message. It is very expensive to architect your web se
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by pledess 4y ago
Would it maybe help to extend https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/09/evolving-n... with new options, like rel="aigc" or rel="noTrainingOfYourLanguageModel" ?
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by pledess 4y ago
apparently one other factor is that long on-hold phone calls (by Southwest staff) count against FAA work time limits, and thus can prevent that person from serving on a flight - according to the former CCO of JetBlue (St. George) at https:
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by pledess 4y ago
I would've been tempted to send ChatGPT one follow-up request: "I've decided that I won't return home until I've completed all of these. Please solve the associated Travelling Salesman Problem."
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by pledess 4y ago
I wish user feedback could be incorporated into the AI model. For example, I entered what I feel is the most important business description of all time, the one from the 1996-02-23 Dilbert: "My company will hold village meetings to boa
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by pledess 4y ago
1. The concept of "no-code" seems important but is not mentioned on the website. 2. There is no example of a use case. Statements like "We push your data as an API to any server or app you wish" are too vague. 3. You sho
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by pledess 4y ago
Although "not ship work in progress" has many advantages, it interferes with "staying very close to HEAD of our dependencies" as discussed in the https://aboodman.medium.com/in-march-2011-i-drafted-an-art
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by pledess 4y ago
It looks like the U.S. trademark for "PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY" (Registration Number 2015027) has "Cancellation Date April 24, 2020" even though the one for "PGP" (Registration Number 1914615 - with the identical &
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by pledess 4y ago
It's plausible that ShotSpotter's main motivation is that there isn't much benefit (e.g., increased sales) to complying with the defense's request, but the costs could be huge, both for collecting the requested informati
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by pledess 4y ago
I believe that governments should outlaw this because it inherently frustrates access by persons of lower socioeconomic status. "Multiple user login using one device" - one device might be shared by an entire extended family. &quo
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by pledess 4y ago
In research by Stanford a few years ago, WebRTC was substantially worse than some other communication systems if the available data rate of the network connection varies in certain ways (e.g., the available data rate becomes lower for about
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by pledess 4y ago
You can, for example, take a look at their vulnerability reporting policy and how it interacts with plausible customer needs. For example, suppose I don't want the public to read my blog posts while they're still in Draft status.
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by pledess 4y ago
Agreed! It demonstrates how dramatically the answer changes depending on exactly how you ask the question. Suppose Lincoln could get $50 million (with those funds ultimately sourced from a criminal enterprise) in each of four different scen
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by pledess 4y ago
My thoughts immediately went to a hypothetical ethical question. Suppose that a ransomware threat actor saw the NBC story, felt bad that this happened to Lincoln, and offered to make (anonymously) the "transformational donation" m
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by pledess 5y ago
> It's up to Fedora to support Go 1.16 on its own. It may be worthwhile for someone to maintain a list of Open Source projects with an EOL cycle that turned out to be too fast for a popular Linux distribution, along with notes about
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by pledess 5y ago
The Philosophy professor is wrong. This is not a paradox. Anyone applying the Principle of Indifference needs to make a valid argument about why it is reasonable to measure the outcomes in a specific way. You can't just arbitrarily cho
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by pledess 5y ago
There isn't a great reason. It's just that the people who set the policy wanted to prevent lateral attacker movement at all costs. The VMs and the enterprise applications are in the same building, but no longer have network connec
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by pledess 5y ago
Our corporate IT folks have a Zero Trust Manifesto in which there are enrolled devices (laptops that remote SREs can carry around), there are enterprise applications, and there's connectivity between these (e.g., tunnel pairs). SREs of

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