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by vinay_ys 4y ago
If they solved only discovery, handshake and hole-punching problems and made relay optional, it would be more useful. Also, for relay, if they provided store-and-forward and also scatter/gather topologies, it would be more useful.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
In India, it is illegal to operate an open unauthenticated wifi. All public Internet access requires a secure auth and you have to present a government ID to the operator to get access. (This applies to getting a mobile SIM card or landline
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Does anyone have a day-to-day use blog/site that passes all the tests like this?
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Gitlab gives you private repositories with pages.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Traditional Indian architecture has separation between outer zone and inner zones with different walls and roofs. Basically outer walls and attic roofs can heat up (and cool down with airflow) while inner walls and roofs will remain cooler.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
The same attack can be mounted against your corp IT admin in charge of your Cloudflare account.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
This blog post doesn't read like rest of Cloudflare posts. It is very beating around the bush and doesn't get to the point at all. Please consider updating the blog for clarity and brevity.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Since life on earth is affected significantly by the movements of Sun and Moon, the calendar has to be based on both their positions relative to earth. The calendar system invented in ancient India does this. Check out this illustration in
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Building systems that can scale efficiently requires careful design and implementation. I have seen teams relax the efficiency requirement and manage to handle high load by pre-scaling-up the provisioned capacity of their systems many hou
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Isn't it the job of the representatives in a representational democracy to have working mechanisms to understand what their constituents' demands are? Shouldn't such mechanisms be equally accessible to all constituents irresp
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
What's Microsoft's interest in this? They don't have a big search or ads business. What are they doing with Consumer data?
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Do you mean something like this: https://github.com/agherzan/yubikey-full-disk-encryption
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Slowing things down is the right approach when resetting/reissuing/rebinding auth devices.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
To start with, let's say you have your corp laptop and corp phone (both are access devices and both should have device bound certificates), and your yubikey for webauthn, and your corp photo-badge and your government issued photo ident
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Forking process per request in a request handling server would be one example where process fork time would add to request latency. (this would be happening during worker process pool expansion).
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Irrespective of your intent, you will get flagged if your total transacted volume in any given period is abnormally high compared to average retail banking user. If increase.com were a bank, they have regulatory reporting requirements to fl
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
> The happy fact of the matter is that the vast majority of actors in the economy seem to be pretty well-behaved. That's mainly because, in most countries, to become a participant in a regulated financial system, you have to meet th
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
This is super important – if you are a chartered/regulated bank that's functioning currently then whatever you claim has merit. Otherwise it is just another software project that's going to struggle to get adoption because th
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
If twitter implemented the following, it would take much of the steam out of this case: 1. Restricted/conditional/temporary access to production systems with extensive centralised audit logging. 2. Handled phone# and geo-location
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
> India had an agent working within Twitter Without proof, this is pure propaganda. India is a sovereign democracy with its own laws and regulations. India required all media platforms acting as intermediaries to have three permanent job
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Time will tell who is right. I find it weird that they are pushing back on this. There's plenty of poor quality paper publishing with shoddy peer-review. We need more peer reviewers who are openly critical, not less.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Haproxy is definitely under-appreciated for the amount of heavy lifting it does in a high-scale deployment.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
After going to the end of a long post, I'm disappointed to not find any latency or throughput efficiency metrics. Author seems to claim he has a very popular high-traffic blog and it is super fast, faster than all the popular web serve
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
In the last 200 years, definitely for sure.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Something like 95% of money in circulation is money borrowed from future. Only a small fraction money in circulation is already earned money.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Yep. Exactly. We want to be able to silence the compiler for a few iterations while the code is taking shape and then cleanup all the compiler lints in later iteration. In production CI pipeline, we can have all compiler lints on. This capa
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Let's take the case of regular consumer with just one smart phone (let's say iPhone) as their only digital device and they don't have another phone/laptop etc. In this case, if the user lost their phone, then recovering
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Most general case consumer explanation is likely this: No more passwords. Your biometric authentication along with your Apple/Google account on your iPhone/Android phone is all you need. A more detailed blurb would be: You sign-up
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
In the next couple of years, I expect FIDO2 Passwordless Auth to be ubiquitous, natively supported by all OS platforms. Built-in authentication credentials managers within Apple and Google/Android platforms will get more focused attent
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
> I think mac users have been happy so long as the actual machines last about 8-10 years before becoming obsolete, which they generally do. Phone users can make do with 4-6. This is exactly right. My MacBook Pro from 2013 is still runnin

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