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by snowwolf 9y ago
Normally the conservatives would never be able to push this authoritarian agenda so openly, but a unique set of circumstances has given them the opening to push through some of their most extreme objectives. The Conservatives are the only m
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by snowwolf 9y ago
If you have contacts at Heroku (which you must if you got on the CI private beta), then ask to get on the other private beta they are running now (Hint: Slack)
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by snowwolf 9y ago
I'd maybe disagree that there is "no security gain from tweeting about this". I think there is a security gain from warning people that an urgent security patch is on the way so they should prepare themselves/their organ
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by snowwolf 9y ago
Malicious actors are far more proactive already about watching for security patches and reverse engineering them to work out how to exploit unpatched systems. Once a patch is released the cat is out the bag, and the only solution is to patc
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by snowwolf 9y ago
Yeah, I don't get this. The announcement on twitter contained zero information apart from "there's a remote code exec vulnerability on windows". Which I think you could confidently say at ANY point in time (about ANY sys
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by snowwolf 9y ago
That's the point though. Everyone has their own somewhat unique requirements. A traditional bank can't cater to every persons individual needs/wants. It would be nice to have somewhere these scripts are discoverable so you ca
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by snowwolf 9y ago
How about streaming your transactions to a budgeting service to approve or deny if you've gone over budget for the month. Or build your own rules to deny certain transactions if you are approaching 0 balance. I think there are lots of
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by snowwolf 9y ago
A more in depth look into what data is collected by a security researcher: https://bscc.support/files/bc_privacy/bose_connect_privacy_e...
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by snowwolf 9y ago
That is one less generous interpretation of the policy. However, knowing Amazon are fairly big proponents of Lean/Kanban/Systems Thinking, I suspect the intent is actually a different one. The alternative interpretation would be:
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by snowwolf 10y ago
Firstly it wasn't their only campaign promise. Secondly they didn't win so had no mandate. Thirdly it was a coalition and the Tories had a slightly stronger mandate. Finally they had to compromise on some things to achieve other a
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by snowwolf 10y ago
I really don't get this line of thinking at all. In any coalition compromises are required. Yes the Lib Dems made a campaign promise not to increase tuition fees. But (and this is important), they DID NOT WIN the general election so th
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by snowwolf 10y ago
Are you sure they are safe? Historically they may have been, but this election will be different and many Tory supporters may not feel like giving them a manifesto for a hard brexit. Labour are a disaster, so I suspect the Lib Dems may bene
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by snowwolf 10y ago
For the types of places this device will appeal to (small businesses where individual transactions are less that £30), contactless is taking over (in the UK at least) so this is less of a concern I think.
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by snowwolf 10y ago
I'll just leave this here: https://twitter.com/politico/status/836289081080430592/video...
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by snowwolf 10y ago
I think that's one of the big problems the Kodi team has with these 'fully loaded' boxes [1]. People buy them and they work for a week, and then the streams break, etc. and these people have no idea how to update them so they
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by snowwolf 10y ago
Upgrading database versions is mentioned briefly in the article, but is pretty much a show stopper at the moment for some databases. e.g. Postgres ( https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/37 )
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Facebook accepts slightly mis-typed passwords(pbs.twimg.com)
71 points by snowwolf 10y ago|40 comments
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by snowwolf 10y ago
Ahh, the paradox of being the market leader. Remember when Chrome tried to innovate with how we use bookmarks? [1] People cry out for innovation, but then freak out when said innovation happens. This is why disrupters are so successful - th
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by snowwolf 10y ago
I thought the same, but was it intentional or rather just oversight?
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by snowwolf 10y ago
If the only reason Google have banned this from the Web Store is because it violates the Single Purpose Policy ( https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/single_purpose ) - i.e. Blocking AND Clicking Ads, then an interest
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by snowwolf 10y ago
Restart your browser and you will see the extension is no longer installed. This is deliberate on the part of Chrome (Firefox does this too) - It is to prevent malicious extensions from using the developer mode as a backdoor to install them
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by snowwolf 10y ago
Yeah, I'm just speculating on the reason it was removed from the store - But that's the more interesting question. Why was this particular extension removed? There are loads of other Ad Blockers that do what this extension claims
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by snowwolf 10y ago
Chrome has been going this route for a while now as it was getting so much flak for poor performance, security issues, etc. that was actually because of maliciously installed extensions. Their only option was to only allow extensions instal
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by snowwolf 10y ago
The ESC key should hardly be a deal breaker for Vim devs - most remap it to caps lock on a Mac because it's easier to reach. The 13" model has a version that keeps that row anyway. And the Touch Bar does still have a function key
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by snowwolf 10y ago
Yes, but the prices in the US have increased too. But in the table in the article, they are showing a 22% difference in price between US and UK for the Macbook Pro, which is not true.
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by snowwolf 10y ago
This headline is misleading/disingenuous. They are taking the difference between the base price in the US excluding taxes and the UK price including VAT to calculate the difference, rather than the difference between the NY price - whi
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by snowwolf 10y ago
A good initial step is not to have a default password. There was a time when all routers came with a default password and people were told to change it. They didn't. Now most new routers come with a randomly generated unique password p
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Extracting LastPass Site Credentials from Memory(techanarchy.net)
3 points by snowwolf 10y ago|0 comments
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by snowwolf 10y ago
Apparently you haven't been on the London Underground at rush hour. The escalator halls aren't long enough for an orderly queue to form on one side when a tube offloads its passengers.
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by snowwolf 10y ago
This. Systems Thinking teaches us that optimising a small part of the system (walking up the escalators) can have unintended consequences (bottlenecks/queues elsewhere) that result in the time through the whole system to be slower.

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