robomc

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by robomc 6y ago
Yeah it's not clear to me why exposing the ability to configure your firewall, protected by a keypair, to the internet, is safer than just letting someone bang their head against sshd, protected by a keypair, and presumably having had
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by robomc 6y ago
a desktop uninstaller messing with chrome cookies isn't a small bone imo
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by robomc 6y ago
love this extension. we recommend it for everyone at work as the zoom client is banned.
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by robomc 6y ago
yeah the claim that Rails is somehow "too much" for an API-only application smuggles in a lot of assumptions about what you might be using instead (and how good your team is at designing their own patchwork of libraries and how de
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by robomc 6y ago
that seems fine?
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by robomc 6y ago
We listened to the ones who were already employed to be in charge of this kind of thing, and we haven't had a case in 2 weeks, lockdown is over.
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by robomc 6y ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is something different. It's about adopting standards in order to break them and gradually lock people into proprietary variants. This guy is talking about just copying existing products.
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by robomc 7y ago
That's very theoretical though. The truth is, for most people, the police aren't going to be targeting them with this, and even if they do, well the police already have numerous means of invading someones privacy. Arguing that eve
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by robomc 7y ago
yeah who would want to use a random stranger's redis instance? what possible reason would you have for doing that?
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by robomc 7y ago
The big difference is that no bank will let you borrow 500k @ 3% to invest in stocks or whatever.
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by robomc 7y ago
People hugely exaggerate this IMO. If you're writing a lot of queries that can't be composed, with sufficient performance, in ActiveRecord, but can be in raw sql, then you've probably done something hair-brained else-where.
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by robomc 7y ago
particularly in ruby where your code can pretty much redefine anything anywhere else in the code whenever it wants.
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by robomc 7y ago
What would this accomplish? I use Linux for my computers but I still log into to numerous cloud services.
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by robomc 7y ago
They don't have to store them as plain text for it to be a problem. If they're not salted it's trivial to crack the hashes, and if they are all uniquely salted, while it's time consuming, they can still gradually crack t
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by robomc 8y ago
Do you think they'll kill him?
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by robomc 8y ago
I could publish someone else's music as my own, on Spotify.
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by robomc 8y ago
Also, more broadly, you have some degree of control over dying in a car. Like the odds of dying on the road while driving a modern safe car, legally and carefully, would be lower still again. Airplanes we cede all out control over safety to
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by robomc 8y ago
This is a kind of alarmist paragraph though - the malware probably isn't intended to primarily or specifically kill or harm people. If it's from a state it's probably intended to shut down industrial processing. That might r
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by robomc 8y ago
That's not quite fair. The sample output they're touting is really nothing other than false text (when it's coherent), almost all of which is in the style of news. So for the Ford analogy to be apt, Ford would have to have de
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by robomc 8y ago
Also forget the personal security team turning on you - if the shit really goes down, it's pretty hard to imagine New Zealand's national sovereignty holding up. As if elites in Australia, or in the actual pacific mil powers, are j
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by robomc 8y ago
"Sucks if you bet on black" - buying shares hoping for an earnings surprise to pocket some free gains is the middle class version of having a good feeling about a horse.
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by robomc 8y ago
but they'd just call themselves a "networking communications service provider" or something, or call themselves nothing, and people will still just use them.
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by robomc 9y ago
People are greedy and credulous.
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by robomc 9y ago
How does this tool help you work that out though.
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by robomc 9y ago
Well, the other option is to explain how it's like existing methods of delivering online functionality, but decentralised - a thing that nobody really values - plus also incredibly slow, fairly complex, and you have to pay for everythi
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by robomc 9y ago
It fundamentally undermines the trustless automated nature of smart contracts.
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by robomc 10y ago
Code as documentation only works if all your infrastructure is managed programatically, there are good tests, the code is good, and overall complexity is low. I mean, if your downstream partner calls up to say that the custom analytics feed
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by robomc 10y ago
But I assume that doesn't happen! Therefore it doesn't!
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by robomc 10y ago
Hey may not have viewed his actions as being a big deal - like, it's possible that they're not a big deal, outside of political hay-making. There's nothing in the thread to suggest he's trying to conceal anything meaning
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by robomc 10y ago
Isn't it more like having a median barrier? It's unnecessary if everyone drives competently, but it also successfully prevents people crashing through no fault of their own. It also breaks or complicates use cases like "chang

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