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by rurcliped 5y ago
This is covered in a Harvard class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9KFrFp_HZ0&t=110s
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by rurcliped 5y ago
The paper says "all three of OpenSSL, LibreSSL, and BoringSSL have been gradually increasing in size since the 2014 fork, to the point where LibreSSL is now roughly the same size as OpenSSL was at Heartbleed's discovery." The
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by rurcliped 5y ago
I feel that it should have Feb. 2, 2000 - CERT publishes the first advisory about cross-site scripting https://web.archive.org/web/20000302105858/http://www.cert.o... (on the https://thehistor
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by rurcliped 6y ago
Microsoft apparently doesn't want "log in" to be used, and favors "sign in" instead: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/a-z-word-list-t...
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by rurcliped 6y ago
maybe automatically switch from dark mode to light mode at sunrise in Uganda, and switch back at sunset?
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by rurcliped 6y ago
That's AdSense, described here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/72857?hl=en A brand deal occura when a video creator, or her management team, separately signs a contract with an advertiser. The adve
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by rurcliped 6y ago
A brand deal appears like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9mPTQDF7Ok "This video is sponsored by Tempo." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0nTI-lwU1Q "This video is created in partnersh
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by rurcliped 6y ago
The ballot question is actually about the "Right to WebApp Development Competency." Voting yes means you believe that, after a "Such platform shall be directly accessible by the owner of the vehicle" law passes, webapp d
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by rurcliped 7y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22851998
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by rurcliped 7y ago
I don't work in this field, but the authors seem to be suggesting that hydroxychloroquine makes some things significantly worse. Patients who took hydroxychloroquine were much more likely to "need" supplementary oxygen. Howev
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by rurcliped 7y ago
I'd expect that there's significant spread of COVID-19 by persons who go to a convenience store with the primary purpose of buying a lottery ticket. Public lotteries continue to have benefits but I believe that, on balance, we nee
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by rurcliped 7y ago
> We are considering using other unused address ranges, including the otherwise wasted 0.x.x.x 0.x.x.x is currently incompatible with WordPress: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/641c632b0c9fde4e.
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by rurcliped 7y ago
I believe this idea is extremely important for improving software through contributions from capable but disenfranchised persons. I just want to suggest one minor process change that could be valuable in many environments. 1. Everyone is en
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by rurcliped 7y ago
When thinking about whether a company is environmentally responsible, I'd look for something like "We have regular independent audits of our business processes to ensure that any job that can be performed from home effectively is
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by rurcliped 7y ago
EFF is incorrect that there are "basic guidelines" for authentication to websites that are integrated with physical-security systems, in which "locking the account until the owner can be contacted" is reasonable. The leg
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by rurcliped 7y ago
The problem often isn't ability to automate. It's that the workers closest to the problem have an overwhelming disincentive to automate. Suppose I have a low-level job in Peloton operations. Our Phalange Team must ensure that, bef
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by rurcliped 7y ago
They're ignoring the truncation problem. If I tell someone to look at the https://w3.org/something/6287297 URL, is that really correct, or did I botch a copy/paste of the https://w3.org/someth
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by rurcliped 7y ago
There are some customers who have "pain points" and may deserve "empathy" but are much less likely to reveal this to your call centers. Persons with certain mental health concerns don't use Netflix streaming because
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by rurcliped 7y ago
I think PSAPs should release a list of the most common questions they ask 911 callers. My kids basically know how and when to call 911, but they definitely aren't trained on the best answer to the "is this a house or an apartment&
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by rurcliped 7y ago
The coolest cybersecurity job that ever existed was the cartoonist for JVN iPedia. There were dozens of security alerts with these cartoons, although I think only from 2007 until 2010 - for example: https://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja&#
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by rurcliped 7y ago
Perl is good for a competent coder who doesn't work as a developer, occasionally has a one-off coding task, and wants to incorporate a code excerpt from the web and immediately execute it (and then throw the code away). Languages with
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by rurcliped 7y ago
This didn't come up in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20363705 earlier this month. That "FreeBSD - A lesson in poor defaults" post said FreeBSD's OpenSSH port has "The NONE cipher is somewhat
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by rurcliped 7y ago
WordPress doesn't allow 0.0.0.0/8 in some contexts, as an attempt to block some types of SSRF: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/abcbee954f4d8baa... If allocations in 0.0.0.0/8 happen
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by rurcliped 8y ago
Many people browse the web from an employer who has rules about what types of pages may be accessed. For example, a person applying for a job with my team may include a link to a web page about their job-related background -- portfolio.html
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by rurcliped 8y ago
I'd be happy to pay. I don't because I object to the NYT privacy policy: "we gather ... a history of the pages you view ... We automatically combine this collected log-information with other information we collect about you .
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by rurcliped 8y ago
New hires have trouble understanding that, occasionally, we have a valid business reason that a piece of code simply must EXIST. Yes, almost always, we want the code to exist and also be correct, or maintainable, or have other desirable pro
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by rurcliped 8y ago
It's documented at https://www.nacacnet.org/globalassets/documents/advocacy-and... as "if a candidate has been admitted Early Decision, then the college may notify the candidate’s high school and other c
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by rurcliped 8y ago
Is there a citation for EFF's claim that "Originally used only for government websites, .US is now open to anyone with a connection to the U.S."? RFC 1386 section 1.3 says "In the past, the computers registered in the US
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by rurcliped 8y ago
In my area, local journalism had a sharp decline as soon as the publisher began requiring Facebook authentication for comments on the online stories. Previously there had been at least a dozen comments on any major story and now there are a
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by rurcliped 8y ago
If you want this added to the standard of care, then work on having it introduced at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Seriously.

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