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by vntok 6y ago
Is Citrix ADC a security library?
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by vntok 6y ago
A single line of code allows any "sandboxed" program to escape from the sandbox. This is not what the word "sandboxed" means for any reasonable definition of "sandboxed".
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by vntok 6y ago
OVH last Wednesday, Oracle the very next day, Azure yesterday, GCP today... will a crime syndicate employing arsonists as well as hackers claim all these in a month as a demonstration of their capabilities?
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by vntok 6y ago
Most probably there's something else very wrong with your resume. The job being in high demand, your foot-in-the-door rate should be much higher.
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by vntok 6y ago
https://downdetector.fr/
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by vntok 6y ago
Yes it is truly amazing how bad people are at reading and how fast they are at reaching (bad) conclusions from they already bad read.
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by vntok 6y ago
Not sure what you are going for here. Indeed, reading a single sentence without considering context typically leads one to faulty conclusions. Note that the previous sentence in the parent post is "Consensus (probably, I am doubtful of
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by vntok 6y ago
No one here is arguing for replacement of military force, your brain got stuck by a common fallacy it seems. Notice how displacing some military force usage by changing the motivation or capability for intervention (for example to maintai
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by vntok 6y ago
This is the key insight. If you want not insta-news but deep, correct, insightful information, you should read publications that still employ multiple copy editors. I for one work with a bunch of newspapers where these roles are still highl
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by vntok 6y ago
If you create a folder in GDrive, share it with "anyone with a link" and then publish that link on Twitter, you will instantly collect porn, piracy & generally malicious files from all over the world. And your account will pro
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by vntok 6y ago
From the article: > So after a lot of brainstorming and ideas from HNers I finally figured out the culprit(s). > We have a live demo on our home where people can upload a test file. [...] > We also give all users a 20MB test storag
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by vntok 6y ago
Maybe this is a symptom of the world we live in?
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by vntok 6y ago
That problem already exists in the real world, where for example some paintings or gold necklaces are claimed by multiple countries, due to a lot of war looting and tomb raids. Each country may hold a legitimate deed over the piece of art,
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by vntok 6y ago
Not really. What happens when the sellers pass away and someone has to check the chain of transmission ? Do you have to go to each spouse in order and ask them to retrieve "you know, a big file full of numbers" somewhere in the de
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by vntok 6y ago
It is a bit like owning a protected building, for example a French castle. You "own" it in the sense there's an immutable paper trail that proves you and you alone are the owner. However, the castle being protected as a natio
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by vntok 6y ago
What scam are you talking about, exactly?
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by vntok 6y ago
Yes you do.
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by vntok 6y ago
As you wrote it, yes it is completely fine.
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by vntok 6y ago
> It's most annoying when this keeps happening after the user has bought a fridge, and is unlikely to buy another just yet On the contrary, the most likely moment any random person online is to buy a fridge is just after they bought
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by vntok 6y ago
This seems like hubris, although you might be correct. Is there a repository of your code that we could download and run checks on?
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by vntok 6y ago
Generalized mesh networks should solve this problem quite nicely in the next decade.
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by vntok 6y ago
> That's right, all criticism of bitcoin or cryptocurrencies is necessarily down to jealousy, and therefore can be safely dismissed. It all depends on the audience, but on HN in particular you are right. The site is rife with people
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by vntok 6y ago
> This motivates productive use of that capital. Nah. It motivates rational beings to spend that capital on anything at all, as fast as possible, because the alternative is a net loss of purchasing power. Deflationary currencies on the c
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by vntok 6y ago
> Nobody has ever been able to explain how Bitcoin saves the world from climate catastrophe by using 0.3% of all electricity. Why would you think that Bitcoin needs to accomplish that particular task? As far as I know ending climate chan
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by vntok 6y ago
Quelle indignité.
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by vntok 6y ago
> I mean, Firefox sends Do Not Track when in private browsing. So clearly it's trying to do more than just hide local history. It obviously can't guarantee it, but it's trying. You got scammed by Mozilla if you think that.
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by vntok 6y ago
This is a feature in corporate contexts.
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by vntok 6y ago
If the specs are bad, QA will find low quality spots of undefined behaviour (anything goes, ergo it's fine), or even actual logic issues in the specs. However the software is coded to specs, not to QA's own desires, so the bugs st
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by vntok 6y ago
Implementing "the law" is anything and everything but simple.
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by vntok 6y ago
Responsible drug users sounds like an oxymoron. Is there any data that shows those people even exist?

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