troyjfarrell

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by troyjfarrell 9y ago
Do you have an opinion on Sandstorm's use of wildcard certificates and randomized hostnames for each application sesssion? [0] They insist that this provides many desirable security features. (Note that the free HTTPS certificates pr
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by troyjfarrell 10y ago
For non-native English speakers: “I could care less about $THING” and “I couldn't care less about $THING” mean the same thing. Each means that the speaker does not care about $THING.
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by troyjfarrell 11y ago
Version control is really cool for this sort of information. Unfortunately, pass leaks information in filenames, which is a pretty big problem for some uses. In my opinion, the version control needs to be built into the application to avo
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by troyjfarrell 11y ago
Is there a reason registrars aren't cryptographically signing these messages? That would give everyone a relatively simple way to verify that they aren't forged. I get that not everyone who will receive these messages are techni
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by troyjfarrell 12y ago
Fixing the indentation would also make the Python code readable. (For those who aren't aware, whitespace is significant in Python.)
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by troyjfarrell 13y ago
You should review the work NearlyFreeSpeech.NET recently did on customizable account recovery options. It's easy the best I've every seen. It works like this: 1) You decide how valuable the account is, the probability that you w
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by troyjfarrell 14y ago
It's actually very handy to keep your private keys in a VCS (along with other dotfiles.) I keep mine in a private repository. I don't worry about it because all my private keys are encrypted with strong passphrases.
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by troyjfarrell 15y ago
Python (the subject of the OP) is a strongly-typed, dynamically-typed language.
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by troyjfarrell 15y ago
This can be diplomatically difficult. The linked implementation only lists Taiwan as "Taiwan, Province of China". I could see this being interpreted in many different ways, with either side being insulted. (Maybe that's best.)