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by redbeard0x0a 7y ago
"Military Grade Encryption" Immediate giveaway that its just PR...
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by redbeard0x0a 7y ago
I think the most important hire for this startup would be a brilliant marketer. It would be an uphill battle because a vendor isn't going to want your service if their customers don't even know to ask about it. It would be 99% edu
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by redbeard0x0a 7y ago
don't make a table called Transactions that everything needs to go through to balance. It will create a bottleneck that slows _everything_ down (I'm looking at you Axapta/Dynamics AX - at least older versions, dunno if they e
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by redbeard0x0a 7y ago
Driverless cars need to get here sooner rather than later.
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by redbeard0x0a 7y ago
Everybody who gets a smart thermostat needs to keep their old one in a box for the day the server gets EOL or the device and/or network gets hacked. When that happens, you aren't going to be able to go to HomeDepot and buy a new d
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by redbeard0x0a 7y ago
The best analogy of finished software I have heard is this: > Software is done, like mowing the lawn is done. We live in an imperfect world, if we want to keep ourselves safe and prevent bad actors out of our data/technology. Update
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by redbeard0x0a 7y ago
Removing the BlueJeans from your machine is a little more involved because they actually used launchd. launchctl list Then you need to find where the plist files are (i.e. com.bluejeans.app.detector.plist). You can disable an entry from lau
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by redbeard0x0a 7y ago
> How do we prevent/contain states go rogue ... By using different fuels. The fuel we currently use (enriched uranium) was chosen because we could also use it to build weapons. A different fuel (i.e. thorium, etc) could be used that
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by redbeard0x0a 7y ago
The mobile network providers can say you visit netflix, but it cannot determine what you are watching. This data fills in certain holes in data sets that companies cannot get.
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by redbeard0x0a 7y ago
This might be an interesting case with GDPR now in effect.
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
One problem with the aggregate household income being added up is there isn't an accounting for worked hours (basically doubling the hours by having 2 people working for a company). A different, but simple comparison would be to take m
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
"Protects" you. It just gives some penalties to the companies for gross negligence, kind of like the GDPR is trying to do for all of personal data in the EU.
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
The JWT has a built-in field called exp, which is the time the token is expired. This is built in. However if you need to 'expire' a JWT token early, there isn't a good way to do it. If your token has a JTI, then you could ad
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
Such as a company knowing better than to keep their servers patched, to have a process to make sure their servers are patched, to have a process that shows a list of servers that are _not_ patched, etc. There are a lot of really stupid mist
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
Splitting up the "wire service" from the "Internet service" would be another way of dealing with the issue. Regulate the wires (making it so any ISP could start up and use the wires). Then the market could differentiate
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
Traversing a list of 100,000 users/sessions in a db to pull up the session is a different beast compared to traversing an in memory list of 10-100 revoked JTIs in redis. It is a lot less data to store and optimize (the full session vs.
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
I've been paying for Youtube Premium (was "Youtube Red") for a while. While there are product placements and sponsorships in videos, not having to watch ads placed in the middle of videos is awesome. It makes YT a million tim
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
> Large Penalty Maximums This is needed, otherwise there is no real reason to actually protect personal data. Equifax losing the personal data for 50% of Americans should have resulted in major penalties due to the nature of their securi
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
> I'm honestly not trying to be edgy here, and I'm well aware that this isn't going to be everyone's (or even the majority's) bag We forget that people are extremely varied, there is room for everybody. An infini
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
It wasn't far from what the FCC called the repeal to net-neutrality: "Restoring Internet Freedom" Order - https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-restoring-internet...
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
> Companies are easier to not do business with. Some companies, however at a certain point, it becomes extremely difficult to not doing business with specific companies. For example: describe how you would stop doing business with Equifa
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
Hard to "hack" your machine by typing things when you step away for a minute. Also makes it harder to capture your passwords by looking over your shoulder...
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
Same here, I switched to Dvorak 14 years ago, I was having problems with my wrists and this change fixed most of that. I can get around a qwerty machine pretty well, typing on my phone (qwerty) seems to be fine since I don't seem to us
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
Fortunately, this is not the actual S3 domain, but one that is very similar. s3<dash>amazonaws instead of s3<dot>amazonaws. Regardless, this is still shady.
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
No, Google got in trouble for mandating other companies/products to include Google products (gmail, chrome, etc) in their products (Samsung Galaxy 9, LG whatever phone, etc). Apple doesn't mandate any other company to change somet
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
Looks like CBS is bringing back Picard for a series - https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/1025840545216823296
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
Software getting recreated, sometimes without the security promises (linux containers as they started vs. solaris zones) the previous solution had. To be fair, Google didn't really need the security in linux containers, they didn'
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
samba can use fingerprinting to detect what you are watching, even if you are watching using a roku (and have somehow opted-in to samba on the tv itself). It can even detect games, etc.
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
Hey, I see they updated the styles at some point. This is awesome!
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by redbeard0x0a 8y ago
Also, the cost associated with running a company is a lot lower now than it was in the past. So it is also easier to last longer than 2 years.

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