roddux

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by roddux 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that PoC||GTFO is the successor to Phrack (at least in spirit). They list pastor@phrack.org as the submissions address.
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by roddux 11y ago
But if the file and site are both accessed over HTTP, it's possible for a bad actor to alter the file and then change the signatures+checksums listed on the page to reflect it.
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by roddux 11y ago
Nitpick: Why is the link to 'Atom' in the article just a link to a Google search for 'atom editor'?
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by roddux 11y ago
Honestly I don't understand the craze of wanting to put EVERYTHING in a browser. I'm sure in many cases (for game development at least) it's easier to do it native, not to mention a tonne faster and less resource-intensive.
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by roddux 11y ago
As an aside, clearly written code does a pretty good job of explaining what it does, but not why . Sometimes there will have been reasons for avoiding a particular method, which isn't made obvious by the code itself.
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by roddux 11y ago
I was thinking this was where the article was going, but the solution ended up being a lot simpler. It leaves traces and notifies the user, though... I suppose yet another way would be to make a copy of the executable before the overwrite,
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by roddux 11y ago
On the whole, good advice. Nothing new. However; "[on reusing usernames] .. Your username and password combination is a lock, and your username is half of it, so obscure it. " -- this bit is nonsense. This entire article could be
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by roddux 11y ago
Good lord, please don't share Buzzfeed tripe here. This is blatant advertising barely disguised as content.
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by roddux 11y ago
Sorry to be a pedant, but that doesn't mean the supplied binaries have been built with the exact source provided :^) Also, the binaries are being offered for download over HTTP with no signatures.
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by roddux 11y ago
Unfortunately the article linked doesn't go into much more detail than the headline. More in-depth article here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/76126951/being-frozen-...
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by roddux 11y ago
Which articles are you referring to in particular? I've not noticed glaring inaccuracies in any of the stories on El Reg.
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by roddux 11y ago
>who cares if you need twice the servers to run your product I couldn't help but wince at this. I feel like this isn't a healthy attitude with respect to programming.
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by roddux 11y ago
140454 combinations is pretty neat! I'm playing around with list comprehensions, so, duly: ["it's like %s %s game set in %s" % (a["name"],g["name"],l["name"]) for a in adjectives for g i
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by roddux 11y ago
Interesting suit. Seeing as Apple don't currently allow you to downgrade to an older version of iOS, I wonder what the outcome will be? Perhaps this is a jailbreakers delight in disguise.
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by roddux 11y ago
#1: Close my HN tab
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by roddux 11y ago
I haven't been able to access the .com/.se/etc in years, since it was blocked in ~2012 by most ISPs here in the UK. That said, proxies are but two clicks away and faster than connecting to a VPN.
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by roddux 11y ago
This happened to me in Vietnam. A police officer pulled over me and a friend as we rode past, then came up with a story about us having 'incorrect papers'. Later found out from the owner of the hostel that the same thing had happe
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by roddux 11y ago
Posted earlier with a slightly easier-to-digest summary at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753102 In short, he was arrested for securities fraud. This isn't related to his price-hiking antics, rather it involves
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by roddux 11y ago
I can barely imagine the price that information and access would have garnered if sold to a less reputable entity. In the end, $2,500 for access to all of Instagram's code and static content is a complete rip-off.
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by roddux 11y ago
Note: he was arrested for securities fraud, not related to the mentioned price hike. I for one hope the charges stick. That's karma for you.
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by roddux 11y ago
Wait, Edge does better on ES6 coverage than both Chrome and Firefox? Microsoft have seriously stepped up their game, especially seeing as it's now neck and neck for performance with Chrome: http://venturebeat.com/2015&#
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by roddux 11y ago
This is a neat operator, but my first thought was that I'd probably forget it's specifics and misuse it thinking that it checks for falsy variables as well. This wouldn't help you in checking for a blank string, say.
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by roddux 11y ago
Other than to-do lists (which are a favourite of most 'beat procrastination' guides that I've read) - what do you find helps? As a side note; I found this to be a great article on the topic: http://waitbutwhy.com&#
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by roddux 11y ago
This is the reason that I always take a very sceptical view on mobile contracts that offer "unlimited" data. I wonder if they'll be allowed to continue calling it "unlimited" here in the UK after this revelation.
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by roddux 11y ago
The introduction is almost identical: '[Pylsy/PrettyTable] is a simple Python library designed to make it quick and easy to represent tabular data in visually appealing ASCII tables'