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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Don't use that then. Tell that vendor their security posture is bad.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
this doesn't scale – what happens when you want to add another piece of information? how do you change the schema for all the names?
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
heh. no, don't use IPs either. You use well-known service names and use a dedicated service discovery mechanism to reach your service nodes in a resilient and scalable manner.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Yes, it is much easier to build and scale a general config service that can serve keys (like names in dns) and associated config snippets with versioning and expiry/go-live timestamps etc. Such a service enables us to build on top of i
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
DNS is for friendly names; friendly to humans using web browsers. Using DNS for machine to machine communication is not essential complexity. Every chance I get I eliminate DNS from internal infrastructure and a whole lot of things get a lo
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Even if only genuine hotspot apps got the entitlement, it is not a user-friendly privacy-first design. Such API use should trigger a user-visible permission dialog before apps get background-notified and user should be able to select the on
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I get the warning "your contact key has changed.." all the time with various contacts on WhatsApp. What am I supposed to do? there's no clear next steps to debug / report of suspicious activity. In such cases, users get
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Why does Apple couple iMessage with rest of iCloud? Why is iCloud and iCloud Keychain being on a requirement for secure iMessage to function? That seems like a poor design choice to me. For someone who cares about their communication securi
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
In the past with Java 8 JFR wasn't free for use in commercial production environments. So we built our own profilers. It's nice that with NFTC, Oracle allows you to use JFR in production from Java 11 onwards. But they can revoke N
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Just a couple of decades ago, I started with 64kbps ISDN uplink on copper twisted pair and 2Mbps sat downlink, serving 100 computers in a college campus browsing center. That was clearly web 1.0. And a decade ago, I was doing pairs of redun
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
You can deal with this problem only if you are very disciplined about it, like GenX and prior generations were with their physical photo albums and paper financial records. At some regular cadence (say weekly or monthly, whatever is your ba
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
The author's framing can be misunderstood in so many ways that it is not a useful shorthand at all. There can be no absolute rank order of these tokens. Firstly, in this framing, the "dev" is not one person but it is a collec
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Do you work for the company?
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
This!
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
..much better in what way?
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
G.657B standard cables have a pulling (stress) bend radius of 5mm. So, you can abuse it quite a bit and it's fine. Also, while it is abused during installation, at rest, it is not under so much stress and usually have a sturdy casing t
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Most irritating thing the Amex did recently to me is to call me from a random number and then proceeded to ask me for my personal details like date of birth etc for "verification purposes". I promptly refused to provide any detail
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
hmm, WhatsApp rings my phone more than regular phone network and like me billions of people pick-up WhatsApp calls everyday.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
A bank that never calls or messages via traditional phone/mobile network and never uses email is the best. Always use secure in-app communication. And use secure device binding + password/pin + biometric authentication for access.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
We have FTTH everywhere in India and seeing how fiber is installed in all kinds of nooks and crannies, I can tell you that fiber is more resilient than you think. And frankly, I have experienced far less Internet outages with FTTH than I us
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
What happened over the weekend is a death and rebirth, of the board and the leaderships structure which will definitely ripple throughout the company in the coming days. It just doesn't align perfectly with how you want it to happen.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
There's a whole new generation of engineers for whom this is new news. Enjoy!
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Ugh. A quintessential engineering mind is always curious, critiquing and questioning everything and will always want to know the why of the what and ask why not an alternate what. Such a mind be motivated by a higher purpose – finding meani
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I went to cardiologists for a mild burning sensation in my chest area, post recovery of my first & only covid infection, in early 2022. They dismissed my concerns. A year after recovery, I resumed my routine strenuous exercises, and I n
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Rack level disaggregated compute-memory-storage-accelerator architectures allow for dynamic partitioning/aggregation of hardware to suite concurrent workloads and their evolution over time and make it easier to achieve both cost effici
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
The personal traits required to find a job are different from that to perform well at a particular company & role. That's the sad truth. So, people voluntarily leaving won't be correlated with performance low or high. Also, pe
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I have cleaned contacts everywhere with electronics alcohol wipes. I see that the pins inside the left holster are not as protruded as they are on the right holster of the case. I have tried to pull it gently with a tweezer but it has not h
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
This is indeed a cautionary tale. But soon enough, this taking out electronics at airports will be a thing of the past as more and more airports deploy luggage scanners like the ones at Dubai airport where you don't have to take anythi
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
My one year old AirPods Pro has a problem charging the left ear pod. And, this is my 3rd AirPods in as many years. I have promised myself that I won't buy another one once its battery dies like the previous two AirPods.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I didn't know chrome didn't allow self-signed certificates. Since when?

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