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by rixrax 8y ago
Out of topic, but how often do you have the ear of CEO: sytse, one specific wish for Gitlab that I have: please enable 'one-click' automatic LetsEncryptNow certificate creation for GitLab Pages with custom domain names (just like
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I just recently bumped to John Carmacks stories about Steve Jobs, among which he convinces him to adopt OpenGL[1] (HN commentary [2]). Thought this might be an appropriate historic reference here as OpenGL now appears to be on it's way
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And therefore I will vote with my $$$ and stay on GitHub until there is a real reason to do otherwise (and at that point enjoy the benefits of standards like git). Alas, like several others have pointed out, this doesn’t scale to GitHubs ot
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by rixrax 8y ago
GitHub is a venture backed company with some $350M raised according to Crunchbase[1]. As such, your options are pretty much limited to IPO, being acquired, generating crazy profits and buying out investors to stay private, or go bankrupt. S
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I wonder if Google will conduct a thorough internal investigation on the leak and on the internal opposition to this project? I would hate not to know if it indeed was fueled by non-US citizens from China, Russia and other countries with po
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Right. What you did is you documented (internally) what you did, and related decision chains. Before we used wikis, and way back we just wrote it up on paper and archived in folders. Good job and shame on your co-workers seemingly not engag
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Surely this is sarcasm. Just in case it isn't, it's only fitting to link back to what Moxie Marlinspike wrote about PGP/GPG: https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/ (HN commentary: https://new
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From the mouth of John Cleese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvVPdyYeaQU I realize I am not in tune with times, but it somewhat irks me that a lot of (generally) younger folk at work want to blog about every single task t
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Not are many Google employers American or European. So if I were of e.g. Russian or Chinese nationality, I would not want to partake into activity that in all likelihood can be used to advance 'wrong' interests. On another note, h
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by rixrax 8y ago
What about all the open source? I'l hazard that that quite a few instruments of war and mayhem run on FOSS. Is there a moral dilemma there? Should FOSS licenses make provisions for the type of use packages can be used for (I believe th
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by rixrax 8y ago
So you're saying it can be centralized too, as long as TOS says users keep owning their data? But even in decentralized model, you may think you 'own' you data (as in TOS), but surely it cannot just reside on computing resour
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I sound like a broken record, but in my humble view decentralized social network is even worse than centralized one. Key feature of any social network should be 'right to be forgotten' (e.g. delete content), and ability of network
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by rixrax 9y ago
>> Decentralized -> And no one else can remove your data So here's the rub: 1) you post stupid stuff, but by the time you realize this, you've already forgotten your password and the account recovery doesn't work, 2)
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by rixrax 9y ago
How/for what do people actually use Siri, or Alexa for? I mean I can't think of having seen anyone use them for a long time for anything but to either test them out for curiositys sake, or for demoing their new Alexa controlled dr
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by rixrax 9y ago
+1. If ever there was a place for a not-for-profit federal organization, this is it. Edit: Like others have pointed out, it's just beyond believe what information these CRAs hold on us.
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by rixrax 9y ago
This may sound controversial, but politicians should also limit credit reporting agencies to finite, fixed number of players. Like two or maximum three. Sometime after Equifax hack, I froze our credit on TransUnion, Experian and Equifax. Bu
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by rixrax 9y ago
Oculus says you will receive $15 store credit if you used Oculus between Feb 1st and when it went kaput. I don't see credit on my Oculus account? Am I supposed to have received it already? Or is this maybe because I don't have pay
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by rixrax 9y ago
> The car of the future will sell your data and also be vulnerable to hackers I see few things happening. There will be a time when modern connected car I own no longer receives software updates while it otherwise would remain a great da
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by rixrax 9y ago
Let's assume vendor A decides to donate their server code to public domain, or better yet a fully functional VM/container/... that can be booted up to host their old title(s). The question that comes to my mind is that who is
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>> - less precise trackpad than my 3 year old rMBP >> - palm-sensitive trackpad This! I sound like a broken record, but what is wrong with the PC manufacturers not getting the trackpad right/close(r) to how (well) Apple MBP
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I wonder how these techniques play along with random IDS/IPS/deep packet inspection/WAF/AV/DLP/web cache/proxy/load balancer/etc. devices that happen to look/peak into traffic that passes th
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by rixrax 9y ago
I admit. I am an introvert and I have by and large welcomed with open arms every advance in technology that has allowed me to deal less with other people. Maybe subconsciously I have reflected this to some of the work and innovation I'
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Duh. Spotter requires sign-up with an email address to receive the report. No Thank You.
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And... 8) Artists and craftsmen creating legitimate handcrafted products are under assault of [Chinease] mass manufacturers that appear to monitor items/craftsmen whose items sell fairly well only to offer their el-cheapo counterfeit &
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by rixrax 10y ago
Peach Fuzzer[p] and Synopsys Defensics[d] should fit the bill. Both are commercial. I'm not aware of any OSS grammar-based fuzzers that would be good for anything (ok; there is Sulley and some others which seemingly haven't been m
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by rixrax 10y ago
I too switched to Windows 10 from OSX about a year a go. Yet, in my humble opinion Apple still makes the best laptop hardware - all other things equal their trackpads remain unmatched. Thus I remain to be an avid MBP user where I first used
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by rixrax 10y ago
It's just like marriage: choose your partner carefully. In bad times, and in good times, you should remember to be true to each other and honor each other. And in the end, it still may not work out.
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by rixrax 10y ago
SIP is unsuited for any environment. It is a disgrace of a protocol and a hot mess at that. At it's foundation it was designed to be 100% NAT incompatible and since it's inception bandage has been added to address this and it&#x
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by rixrax 10y ago
Where it has always been confusing to me is what is difference between product manager and product marketing manager? It appears organizations views and expectations on this vary wildly as well.
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Montana TV station EAS system hacked a few years a go [1]. While I applaud for the humor, I am still in awe of how little attention this Orson Welles(ish) episode got. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQWtqJylMKQ

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