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   by aboutruby 8y ago

   https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/buffer-under-re... Affected Versions: Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier Ruby 2.5 s
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   by aboutruby 8y ago

   Also, usual reminder that Sci-Hub exists and has all the research papers available for free from any journal.
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   by aboutruby 8y ago

   "Looking for Ruby/Elixir developers" -> They just want Elixir developers but put Ruby to have more applicants. And in general there is a lot of keyword stuffing in job descriptions.
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   by aboutruby 8y ago

   I was curious and just did that :) https://gist.github.com/localhostdotdev/48ed13972c3e5391a47f... (small sample of ~1500 localized tweets)
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   by aboutruby 8y ago

   I see there is interest in this observation so I used a little ruby (.to_s(2)[-22..-17].to_i(2)) to get the datacenter id. Then ran it on a few Twitter accounts: https://pastebin.com/w8Dnj5kM It does work, and it's goi
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   by aboutruby 8y ago

   That's quite amazing! One thing is that the data center ids are in the tweet ids, so it could be used to get a rough location of Twitter users.
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   by aboutruby 8y ago

   That's awesome! Would love to use it on popular ruby gems to make sure they are secure (including Rails). Also having a free plan is perfect for experimenting. I predict this company will be a huge success.
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   by aboutruby 8y ago

   I remember having to build one with solr, that was a mess.
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   by aboutruby 8y ago

   I thought everyone agreed that :thumbsup: on the issue replaced the +1. Also the Github staff does read those issues.
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    Metasploit(github.com)

    1 points by aboutruby 8y ago|0 comments
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    What does he really risk if found guilty of contempt? I don't think the SEC is going to settle again
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    Here is a helpful chart of USB versions and their connectors: https://preview.redd.it/s9dun6a1xmpz.png?width=960&crop=smar... e.g. USB 3.2 has the same connector as USB-C edit: I personally care far more about the conne
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    https://outline.com/tHvr8P (I got "We've detected unusual activity from your computer network" with a captcha.)
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    A lot of people say you don't need Heroku when you have Docker images, but Heroku actually takes care of the vast majority of vulnerabilities for you.
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    Probably having .htaccess / .env / database configuration / files that are not supposed to be public be exposed. For instance, Rails has a public/ folder for files that are going to be served. And jekyll hides files by p
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    Reminds me more of Faker: https://github.com/marak/Faker.js
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    With some automated formatting: https://pastebin.com/7F2Leqy1
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    Over 8k marijuana convictions in San Francisco dismissed with [ ] algorithm(edition.cnn.com)

    1 points by aboutruby 8y ago|0 comments
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/starbucks/comments/ah2m1d/if_i_have... (I couldn't find any other one than the one linked in the article).
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    For those used to shock sites from 10-20 years ago, this is very different, I'm not going to link to anything but the disturbing content is on a few whole new levels. I can't even imagine doing this job. This should be 100% automa
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    Its 4GB max file size was a pretty big problem near its end of life.
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    In my current case I have highly unstructured data stored as a jsonb in postgres with some basic fields for indexing. So the database doesn't have a schema and making many tables for each variation of the data would take an enormous am
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    Also I learned recently that Australia's internet is getting more censored every year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    Anyone has experience with multi-hop VPNs?
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    Some people are working on optimizing ruby "bytecode" (what the VM interprets): https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/02/19/register-trans... I'm pretty sure the same concepts could be a
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    Why not accept donations then redistribute them to those causes? Also I recommend https://www.givewell.org
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    On a sidenote, looking at their Github, they publish a lot of names / emails in the git logs (~100). Some are encoded / anonymous, but most are real looking names and plausible email addresses.
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    Thanks a lot, I should have googled it, I would have seen your previous comment mentioning it which has complementary information[1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447355
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    I did some basic testing (capture an image on a warmed up macbook webcam) and the LED lights up for ~1.6s for each capture. The bigger problem is that if you are looking elsewhere / not in front of your computer you wouldn't notic
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    by aboutruby 8y ago

    I'm continuously impressed at the quality of the software coming from Discord. By far the best messaging user experience on desktop there is. Discord already uses Cloudflare, I'm curious what they think of Workers. edit: I'm