JackRabbitSlim

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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
Give me 10 years and hind-sight and I'll have your answer.
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
Fair point, but then plenty of people were using hosted solutions for their naive PHP apps too. Managed solutions don't prevent poor/improper configuration in either case. The managed hosts and/or their tools probably helped
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
I get the feeling K8 is the modern PHP. Software that's easy to pick up and use without complete understanding and get something usable. Even if its not efficient and results in lots of technical debt. And like PHP, it will be criticis
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
So inversely, it is the right solution for police to permit lots of crime in well-off areas. “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
“[t]he more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.” -- Justice Hugo Black, majority op
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
Yes, but no. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/pet2004-fpd.pdf tl;dr The signal from a DVI cable can be detected but at much more reduced ranges. See also; RAGEMASTER (Snowden leak) a range extending implant for video ca
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
On the subject of email verification; Why not split the difference. Verify but give a 24 or 48 hours grace? I noticed you said "meaningful" impact and not "no impact". If your optimizing this seems like the best of both
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
Increasing user productivity and usability by any % doesn't directly translate to revenue. Steering users to premium features or ad click-throughs does directly translate to revenue. Revenue driven design will win every time.
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
I know. Lets move it all that annoying complexity to yaml/json/XML config files! Now look at this app I can write in 30 lines of code with this framework! Oh and 500 lines of yaml across 2 dozen files but look the "code"
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
“But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” -- George Orwell, 1984
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
This is pretty much it. Let's frame the proposition differently to get people to consider it from a new perspective. I can verify the OS install media with trusted publishes using signing keys and PKI. I can't do a god damn thing
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
Not exactly. That's why those same vendors work so hard at disabling root access for exactly the reasons outlined by the article; root can wreck it or maybe read out keys, or a million other little things because ALL of it is predica
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
Not "Best Practice" according to whom? Cloud vendors selling lock-in services? From an architectural perspective how is a bare VM at a remote data center worse than indeterminate/unknown intermedate layers of a proper &quot
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
From what I remember, each disk was roughly a single "island". I think they tried to keep it semi-logical but I doubt it was as effective as they would have liked.
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
Point of fact; A touch interface digitizer and the LCD screen are two separate components just often glued and sold as a single unit. Replacing a digitizer, or a screen should be no more difficult than swapping out an analog component with
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
I had CL fiber. VLAN tagging; The vlan tagging value was so high, OpenWRT didn't support it so I was left with the useless middle box. Your mileage may very.
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by JackRabbitSlim 6y ago
You have the privileged position of having something to lose. To a significant portion of our population, fighting over scraps is already the reality. What exactly is irrational about a kid with 300k in debt and no job hoping that a collaps
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
> The math states something much more general, and often much deeper, than some mundane for-loop Eh? Code can be just as generalized and "deep". The code may (probably) not be usefully executable, but it could describe any conc
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
DuoBango https://github.com/DoubangoTelecom/doubango Use with any standard SIP client. It can be stand alone or part of a PBX... It can be crabby to build and as others have pointed out it's gonna need a bit of ho
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
TL;DR S. Korea traded privacy and freedom for security.
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
It's one of the most powerful weapons authorities can swing at anyone at anytime . It's dead simple to poison some website, insert a thumb drive, or just flat out lie and put it on a device after the fact and make any target an
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
No. The difference is those with means can accept the risk of asking for more. It's not simply that they ask, its that they survive when/if it fails.
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
"Where do you have the greatest degree in equality?" The answer to that looks very different in 2020 than it did in 1970. "Look at the wage rate between the foreman and the worker in Iussia" - I have, a foreman in the US
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
Can you? What does China tell us about Republics, given that it is the Peoples Republic of China? What does North Korea tell us about democracy and repulbics, given that it is "The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea"? No? But we
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
I still remember one of the funniest lines from the old movie "Dead Man On Campus": "This is my brothers Ritalin, It's great for staying up and studying just don't try to write an English paper on it"
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
off the top of my head? a) Shared data source; each service writes pid/state to a file in the shared data store. It could be a single directory in a single server setup or a dedicated NFS/SMB server for hundreds/thousands of
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
Commercial DVRs already sign video as its recorded and have for years. It's more about chain of custody/location and time verification. Video authentication can't be used to tell if a video is real because it may just be a &q
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
Every "good" example you cite is a publicly funded entity except DV which caused a teacher to kill himself in 2006 with an unverified story about child abuse[0]. I think you may have inadvertently bolstered OPs claim. [0] https:&#
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
The real world has a base set of stable frameworks on which everyone can rely, such as physics. Software must implement not only a thing but the entire universe in which that thing operates. Everyone claiming tooling or funding or this or t
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by JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
If an aircraft's engine dies mid flight pure physics of falling generates speed and the plane at speed generates lift so you slowly descend in a (semi) controlled manner. In a flight sim you just plummet to the ground unless someone th

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