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by vivan 4y ago
The source article provides much more detail: https://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-agents-targeting-drug...
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by vivan 4y ago
I used to report things like this that I had found, including cases where I can see people used the default "sample" config for security purposes, but I found that either people would not care at all, or massively overreact and so
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by vivan 4y ago
Other email providers don't allow recycling of account names - once they're gone, they're gone. That said, I do agree that using a domain you own is better practice. However, I have been burned there before - I used a .eu dom
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by vivan 4y ago
I cannot recommend fastmail to anyone for the simple reason that if your account expires and gets deleted, anyone can create an account with the same email address and take over your identity. This seems like a massive security flaw.
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by vivan 7y ago
What do you guys recommend as a good way to continue work undisrupted when GitHub goes down? A second remote mirror?
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by vivan 7y ago
Outlook add-on to give the ability to "undo" sending email. It just mimicked the functionality in Gmail where it holds your email for 10/30/60 seconds before sending, which gives you a chance to stop the message being se
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by vivan 7y ago
I guess it's a bad time to make a presentation to let us move from an on-prem SVN repo to GitHub...
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by vivan 7y ago
In this case, the value is the "surge_multiplier", which is indeed a float: https://developer.uber.com/docs/riders/references/api/v1.2/e...
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by vivan 7y ago
That was the main plot of Office Space. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
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by vivan 7y ago
It also has macroing functionality with profile switching. You could achieve the same with something like AHK but the Razer interface is easier for simple tasks.
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by vivan 7y ago
You would think that this is a fairly rookie error and that big companies would know better, but I regularly see this on Uber: https://i.imgur.com/qDACtG0.png
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by vivan 7y ago
As with most questions about stack choice: it depends.
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by vivan 7y ago
Huh, I'm on Windows and it auto-joined the meeting too, with video enabled. I wonder if this is because at some point in the past I opened a Zoom meeting and allowed Chrome to open the Zoom URI in the Zoom app?
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by vivan 8y ago
How does this work in line with your views on registration systems? I'm about to be releasing a product which also is a one-time digital purchase and I plan on just having a generous guarantee. I was planning on having no licensing sys
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by vivan 8y ago
My biggest inspiration is https://www.placecard.me/ by Cory Zue ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=czue ). He has been documenting the whole process very well both on Twitter ( https://twitter.c
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by vivan 8y ago
Interestingly the same author had a very different opinion when the same was happening to someone else. https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2018/09/g... > Although what Spotify has done
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by vivan 8y ago
I'm not saying Deliveroo isn't in the wrong here - they absolutely should have more defenses, but I still think this argument makes little sense. What if they have the defences in place but you choose to disable them? Who is liabl
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by vivan 8y ago
So if someone hacks your email because you didn't have sufficient protections in place, does that make the email provider liable? Seems like an argument that falls apart very quickly.
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by vivan 8y ago
Standard security practices: not allow delivery to a new address without reconfirming credit card details, sending email confirmation upon login from a new location/device, and in the more extreme cases, 2 factor auth.
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by vivan 8y ago
Do you have a source for that? If that is the case then pretty much every major website is in breach. Credential stuffing is rampant and very easy to do these days. It's not the website's fault that the user gave out their passwor
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by vivan 8y ago
It sounds very much like this journalist is trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. The real story is that Deliveroo does not handle fraud properly. This is a much lesser crime than what they are being accused of. The author wants to
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by vivan 8y ago
I have lived in central London for 25 years and never experienced this, nor do I know anyone who has. However, I know the problem exists and I have just been lucky. I am not claiming that my experience invalidates that of others - just addi
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by vivan 8y ago
I attempted to move to Ubuntu on my XPS 13, but couldn't manage to get the DPI scaling to work properly. Weirdly, if I run Ubuntu in a VM under windows it scales fine. There are still too many of these small problems to justify making
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by vivan 8y ago
Reminds me of branded t-shirts - people will pay you to advertise your company on their own bodies.
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by vivan 8y ago
My problem with FastMail is that if you stop paying for your email address, they recycle it. This means that someone else could potentially buy your old email address (if you migrate away) and use it for nefarious purposes.
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by vivan 8y ago
According to the BBC: >The court said other aspects of section 377 dealing with unnatural sex with animals and children would remain in force.
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by vivan 8y ago
Something to note here is that it is not just gay sex that is legalised - the prohibition was on "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" which included straight anal sex as well as oral sex. Of course, these are less impo
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by vivan 8y ago
There's a difference between developing on Windows and developing for Windows.
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by vivan 8y ago
That would mean they get published without any checks - an easy attack vector for malware.
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by vivan 8y ago
This is awesome - I was actually in the middle of building something similar (but not using Keybase for verification... that would have been so much better than rolling my own). I think this is a better solution.

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