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by tomfitz 9y ago
When I see "0..n" I wonder whether the range is inclusive or exclusive of n. When I see "0..<n" I know the range is exclusive of n.
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by tomfitz 9y ago
If you find ByteBuffer's API awkward/insufficient, you might want to consider one of the replacements: * Netty's: https://netty.io/4.0/api/io/netty/buffer/ByteBuf.html as used by Nett
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by tomfitz 9y ago
How do you backup your git-annex repositories?
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by tomfitz 9y ago
Cryptography/Security: * General cryptography http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/ * SSL/TLS news https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/ * Cryptography concerns
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by tomfitz 10y ago
No. I use Google Keep to store URLs, typically with some note, for example: * "Specialized Sirrus bike rear derailleur. Model number: DO20. URL: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0047D192E/ " * 2015-03-01: Vi
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by tomfitz 10y ago
> new age money related philosophies Do you have any links relating to this?
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by tomfitz 10y ago
Great idea! This book is excellent, and though the principles are timeless, it would be a shame if the data became outdated. Sadly the source code for the book doesn't appear to be published. This is unlike David Mackay's otherboo
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A small, security-adjacent bug in Instagram(robertheaton.com)
1 points by tomfitz 10y ago|0 comments
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by tomfitz 10y ago
When I load tested async HTTP clients at the BBC (for 1000rps), both https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-asyncclient-dev/ and https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/ performed
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by tomfitz 10y ago
JDeferred, a promises library, is what CompletableFuture does, a recent addition to Java's standard library in Java 8. CompletableFuture is becoming supported in a bunch of other libraries: https://github.com/AsyncHttpC
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by tomfitz 10y ago
U2F and HOTP (Google Authenticator style 2FA) are not mutually exclusive. I have both enabled on the sites that support both. I use U2F when I have the key near me, and use HOTP on my phone otherwise (like you, my phone is typically closer
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by tomfitz 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_model
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by tomfitz 10y ago
I was a Fastmail customer for 3 years (2012-2015), but have since migrated to Gmail. I outlined the factors in this decision in https://gist.github.com/tomfitzhenry/d73fef19752cbf6ccdda3eb... .
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by tomfitz 11y ago
Thanks for letting me know. Yes, I'm using CloudFlare, for its trivial SSL, DDOS protection, and caching. I have CloudFlare's DDOS protection (the thing that causes captchas) set to "Essentially Off", the lowest availabl
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by tomfitz 11y ago
https://api.ctwatch.net/domain/ycombinator.com is an RSS feed of all issued certificates for ycombinator.com and its subdomains. Feel free to use that to check your own site's certificates! (It's possible to
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by tomfitz 11y ago
"Save to Pocket (mini)", an unofficial extension, can only "Read and change data on getpocket.com" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-pocket-min...
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by tomfitz 12y ago
Snapchat use ECB as the cipher mode of operation: https://github.com/thebradbain/snapception/blob/781ebb13cd7e... To see why this is a problem, see the ECB-encrypted Tux image on http://en.wikipedi
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by tomfitz 13y ago
tahoe-lafs, https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs , is "an open source, secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system." It has the server-level RAID y
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Breadth-first search with setTimeout(f,0)(tom-fitzhenry.me.uk)
1 points by tomfitz 13y ago|0 comments
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by tomfitz 13y ago
I have the same problem with the Android version. I'm just waiting it out, and hoping my session doesn't expire. :)
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by tomfitz 13y ago
You're right. My mistake. Search functionality on sites will often exhibit this. Maybe even stylised 404 pages would too.
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by tomfitz 13y ago
Also, the introduction of a 'Sed' monad was a lightbulb moment for me during this project: https://github.com/tomfitzhenry/hs-sed/commit/0eb7797439e54a... In particular, the changes in Execute.hs ar
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by tomfitz 13y ago
Relatedly, I have an incomplete Haskell port of sed: https://github.com/tomfitzhenry/hs-sed It parses a sed script into an AST, then interprets that AST. sed is simple enough that such an interpretor is easy to write.
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by tomfitz 13y ago
My understanding of the attack: Suppose the target web server has an endpoint /foo?probeMe=bar such that the HTTPS response will include 'bar' in the HTML. (Quite an assumption, sure.) Suppose the target web server compresses