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by shabble 14y ago
For those wondering about 'the second bug', I'm going to suggest that it's the lack of class Meta: fields = ('only', 'whitelisted', 'fields') which defaults the form to exposing all the model fields for modification, allowi
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by shabble 14y ago
'overriding' might be more suitable.
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by shabble 14y ago
Multi-version programming[1] (independent implementations of the same specification) is one of the classic solutions to this problem. Likewise for power, location, etc. If you really care about these failure modes, you'll have N different d
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by shabble 14y ago
There was an interesting chat-log[1] someone posted on /r/Django on reddit talking about dealing with South migration merging/conflicts, and other issues that crop up in a multi-person project. I'm curious about the best practices for data-
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by shabble 14y ago
Looks like it's already almost at £10k. Can/Do you have plans to add any additional features in addition to the existing 'stretch goals'? I'm sure everyone has their own pet wishlist for Things I wish South Did Better, and I wonder what an
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by shabble 14y ago
This is fairly well-known as 'structuring' or 'smurfing'[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring
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by shabble 14y ago
<pedant type="confused">emphatic?</pedant>
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by shabble 14y ago
...unless you define 'competent' correctly.
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by shabble 14y ago
Some of the narco-sub stuff in incredibly impressive given the constraints they're working under. They might spend ~$5M on a single-use vessel, knowing it's going to be maybe 1-2% of the total value of the trip, and the risk of re-use is to
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by shabble 14y ago
I can imagine a not-too-distant future where we have cloud hosting available[1] from flocks of solar-powered UAVs[2] loitering around the International Date Line, thus finally paving the way for >100% uptime. [1] http://www.abc.net.au/
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by shabble 14y ago
> Trademark infringement and copyright infringement are different things. Yes, I'm aware of that, and have edited original comment emphasise it. I had vaguely thought there was some provision in the DMCA for remedies for other types o
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by shabble 14y ago
Whilst (afaik) unrelated to the DCMA claim at hand, it is possible to trademark a specific colour, with plenty of examples at [1], and there have been controversial suits over 'infringement' in the past. My recollection is that colour tr
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by shabble 14y ago
There was a Wired article[1] I saw here a while back about some of the tech being developed to do this (and much much more) dynamically for sailboat racing, filmed live from helicopter(s). The technical challenges, as well as potential for
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by shabble 14y ago
I guess it might just be a bug in some (web-)mail clients which just stripped <img>, ... tags or something rather than all potentially url-referenced assets. Not certain though.
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by shabble 14y ago
https://emailprivacytester.com/ seems like a way to check how your usual clients fare with these various tracking methods. Or a cunning way of snarfing emails, I dunno.
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by shabble 14y ago
There are a few sneaky ways in addition to the per-user URL tracking image people have mentioned. There was some internet drama about facebook (ab)using bgsound attribute of html mail to detect even when people have disabled image viewing.
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by shabble 14y ago
> but presumably, you'll have your critical components backed by it Often, the way you discover something is critical is after the first time it breaks. Backups may help, but proper version history is probably going to give better ins
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by shabble 14y ago
Yeah, I've always felt nervous about doing whitelisting (and to some extent, things like fail2ban) for reasons like that. Having a couple of backup hosts / friends with shell-servers listed who you can bounce through might mitigate it somew
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by shabble 14y ago
> I'd also say that during the first five minutes you should set the default firewalling rules to REJECT anything and then only whitelist what is actually allowed. At which point your 'net connection blips and suddenly you wish you'd
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by shabble 14y ago
It may also be a result of greater stiffness required for the captive pop-tab opener to work properly. There's an interesting Slate article[1] about the complexity of what appears to be a such a simple feature; in order to achieve the force
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by shabble 14y ago
If bored, you could try probing those various little gold test pads on the off chance they have a debug port[1] somewhere. Then again, Apple paranoia makes that overwhelmingly unlikely. [1] http://www.devttys0.com/2012/11/reverse-engineeri
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by shabble 14y ago
Emacs has a nice package called expand-region[1] which works in a similar, although more context-sensitive fashion. There's a nice intro screencast by Emacs Rocks[2] as well. The context-sensitivity is handled by having a list of expansion/
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by shabble 14y ago
That was an interesting demo, thanks for the link. I can imagine it as a replacement or view onto the standard spreadsheet, and potentially as a learning tool for logics. I'm not sure how it would scale though, perhaps in a collapse/expand
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by shabble 14y ago
I'd love to see more editors/IDEs that operate at a higher semantic level than plain text. The biggest problem is of course interoperating with existing language/development ecosystems. I have pondered in the past about a language or platfo
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by shabble 14y ago
Given the well-established treachery of my finger muscle-memory, I'm much more comfortable with a hard interlock than something that relies on me checking the prompt. Definitely better than nothing though.
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by shabble 14y ago
That's where molly-guard[1] comes in; stops (or at least confirms) shutdown on protected hosts. Named after the Big Red Button Cover of hacker-lore[2]. I've heard of people doing things like having a terminal background colour escape sequen
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by shabble 14y ago
There's a basic interactive + theory overview at http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jeh/Simjava/queueing/mm1_q/mm1... (NB: via in-browser java applets, which most things have disabled by default just now)
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by shabble 14y ago
Stealth on the part of misrepresenting their origin as endorsed by the site owner, not stealth as in hidden from the site owner (an understandable mistake, given that both are at issue here). I am not a disqus user, therefore I have no idea
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by shabble 14y ago
See also: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-09-01-Iran-forged-the-w...
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by shabble 14y ago
The name itself seems to be air-force jargon[1] for "locate, identify, destroy". It also seems to be in somewhat common use in secops, there's a 4-part series from 2009[2] that looks much more interesting than the indefinite article posted.

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