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by vageli 7y ago
You can also encrypt the state with KMS (for example) and manage access to the key to prevent casual access to your secrets in statefiles. Uploading encrypted values in state is interesting though and using keybase for that is awesome!
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by vageli 7y ago
> That's a lot of effort that only protects against a fairly specific type of error. You'd still be vulnerable to phishing or to accidentally modifying the account number the 2nd time. If everybody paid their bills that way and
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by vageli 7y ago
> Our laws will never catch up; those devices watch lawmakers too. > I can imagine a late afternoon meeting in a lawmaker's office. The lobbyist shows the lawmaker almost his entire day, to demonstrate the "benefit" to
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by vageli 7y ago
> A police officer can testify to statements you made or actions you took that will incriminate you. But if the defense counsel asks them to testify to similar statements or actions that will exonerate you, the prosecution will object to
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by vageli 7y ago
> Who cares about the dmca? Just ignore it and live consequence free The people distributing the software are at greater risk than those downloading it.
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by vageli 7y ago
> Eliminating duplicative or wasteful structures are “synergies” whether that’s engineering, sales, support, manufacturing, or G&A staff, real estate, or basically anything else that has a fixed cost component. I would characterize t
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by vageli 7y ago
> SELinux has been able to solve the problem of "if a policy says X can't get to Y, prevent X from getting to Y" for years. Regular UNIX permissions have been doing the same for decades. (Yes, SELinux and regular UNIX perm
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by vageli 7y ago
> If we cared about fights of the rich if you just were allowed to take previous assertions at face value and kept the process tight things would move more quickly. > ie, if in previous cases / situations you claimed to have no c
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by vageli 7y ago
Is there anything stopping a sex offender from taking out a classified ad in the paper or a missed connection on Craigslist? This doesn't seem isolated to web properties so the framing is a little odd to me.
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by vageli 7y ago
> I will never understand why basic authentication in ES was locked behind a X-Pack license. That's always seemed absolutely bonkers to me. Security is an enterprise feature. Dealing with this now trying to enable SAML in a few SaaS
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by vageli 7y ago
This was fascinating and something I've never given even a passing thought to. I had long imagined most skeletons were plastic replicas and not the real deal. Thanks for sharing it!
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by vageli 7y ago
> Imho, if you're successful without working hard, you have "hacked" the system, and like any form of hacking this should be punishable, in this case e.g. by degradation. > If only we had a system where (special) judges
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by vageli 7y ago
Many people would characterize this misconception as the lie of the American dream. I don't know if there ever has been a time under capitalist systems where things like inheritance, etc (which would unlevel the playing field, as it we
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by vageli 7y ago
I replied elsewhere in the thread, but in a tldr kind of way: I think next of kin should get the organs (or the estate, as another commenter mentioned). In the case where there is no next of kin and the deceased did not express their wishes
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by vageli 7y ago
That's fair—while I think the state should be the owner of last resort (as in the case where no next of kin are available and the deceased did not leave a will or similar documentation of their wishes), I think the ownership of a decea
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by vageli 7y ago
> That's amazing! I'm super happy for you and your family! > Your comment gave me pause because it reminded me that it is opt-in not opt-out. It is an election cycle, I wonder if we could convince one of the candidates to sw
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by vageli 7y ago
> Capitalism is about rewarding work, risk, etc not having parents who can afford to send you to a better school. Since when is capitalism _about_ rewarding work and risk?
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by vageli 7y ago
I guess one way to make things equal is to remove opportunities, but that seems like a step backwards.
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by vageli 7y ago
Abusing the public trust instilled in an office undermines the very foundation of society. I couldn't agree with you more.
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by vageli 7y ago
> The worst thing that happened was that Amazon killed one of their employees. Covering that up and not punishing them for it was bad, but let's keep some sense of perspective here. I would argue the actual cover up is much worse, a
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by vageli 7y ago
> So now there is land in CA that is not federal or native-American land, but it is not subject to CA laws. That's the part that doesn't seem logical in this. Just wanted to point out that this kind of arrangement exists alread
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by vageli 7y ago
> This is just me, a non lawyer, talking. But I kinda feel like the SCOTUS cases you reference were wrongly decided. When CA asserted its public easement over tidal lands it's hard for me to see why a taking from a regular piece of
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by vageli 7y ago
They can always pay to express their displeasure—even better if a cut of the price is shared with the user (but that would introduce other issues).
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by vageli 7y ago
From your post it sounds like you do consulting or freelancing. If I may, how long do these engagements typically last? I've flirted with the idea of short periods off in between jobs (FTE though) but have typically kept up ~2 year eng
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by vageli 7y ago
> >At that level of depth you just hand it over to the CSS champ or the DB champ. > Developers are blaming other developers for not knowing everything they do because businesses forced them to learn everything (Fullstack), but that
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by vageli 7y ago
> Hm, good question. COPPA is pretty old so I'm wondering if "digital consensus by creating the account" is good enough or if you would had to send some more formal document (letter, fax with signature). I would doubt the
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by vageli 7y ago
> Fair enough. But that doesn’t really change my argument? I think the point (which bears repeating) is that suspects are not criminals until proven so in a court, and it's important to be careful in our language, especially in our
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by vageli 7y ago
> Which is always true, at least in the US. The police are allowed to lie to you during questioning. They are allowed to claim they have evidence that they do not have. No amount of lying on their part will invalidate any "confessio
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by vageli 7y ago
> I always thought this is why things in your mind are safe. The reason never seemed philosophical to me, simply that there is no way to prove the difference between not knowing and not telling. This seems like a natural but dangerous ar
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by vageli 7y ago
> now this won't work for devices secured by password that don't have an outside reset but for online accounts want prevents law enforcement from spoofing the system? The power to subpoena evidence from the service is powerful

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