aplorbust

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by aplorbust 5y ago
"Why would I want an Alexa app installed to potentially repurpose my phone?" You wouldn't. However if you were ambivalent and did not care one way or the other, or unaware of the change, then of course you would not bother t
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by aplorbust 5y ago
1. They have betrayed user trust in the past and continue to do so. 2. They have been sued by the FTC, paid millions in settlements, and failed to prove that they did not break the law. 3. They are currently being sued by the DOJ and many
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by aplorbust 5y ago
Do the parents understand that spying on people is how the industry makes money? Surely, "the industry" would not spy on people without a "business" reason. There seeems to be a belief by every participant in "the
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by aplorbust 8y ago
Not sure. However theres various endpoints offering "dns looking glass" service that allow pipelined HTTP/1.1 queries.1 With this "DNS over HTTPS", given a page of HTML containing pointers to various domains, using
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by aplorbust 8y ago
"... a MITM can simply reset the connection until the client retries with SNI." That doesnt happen when I fetch https://example.com without sending a servername in ClientHello. For the majority of TLS-enabled websites
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by aplorbust 8y ago
"They don't reply "hostname not found", or "nope, no such host", or anything similar..." "hostname not found" was meant to be a general term for failure due to not sending the correct servernam
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by aplorbust 8y ago
"There is no way to detect the ability to avoid SNI..." Assuming one is using an SNI-enabled browser. I dont use an SNI-enabled browser to make the first encrypted HTTP request. In fact I didnt even say I was using a "browser
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by aplorbust 8y ago
Not all TLS-enabled websites require SNI. I customised an https client so I dont use SNI unless a website requires it. With all due respect, 100% adoption of SNI seems like some sort of popular myth among certain web forum commenters. Perh
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by aplorbust 8y ago
Stupid question: With -1, how would I suppress the return value? Use a function? k)a:{-1@?0:`:input;};a[]
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by aplorbust 8y ago
Anecdote: I frequently use kdb+ for small tasks. For me, its in the "all-purpose" category. The limitations are only in the ability I have to use it. For example, removing nonconsecutive, duplicate lines from a file, such as a C
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by aplorbust 8y ago
I have always wanted to make a set of reusable, "erasable" index cards, perhaps constructed out of "whiteboard" material.
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by aplorbust 8y ago
"... the skill most in demand among physicists, biologists , chemists, geologists, even anthropologists and research psychologists, is facility with programming languages and "data science" packages." If I wanted to pro
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by aplorbust 8y ago
"patch will attempt to determine the type of the diff listing, unless over-ruled by a -c, -e, -n, or -u option.Context diffs (old-style, new- style, and unified) and normal diffs are applied directly by the patch program itself, wherea
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by aplorbust 9y ago
/I wonder/s/HTTPS/TLS/
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"A strategy devised by Myhrvold the salesman was just as significant. He laid it out in a memo to Gates in 1992: "Regular upgrades are important for both revenue and loyalty...A feeling of progress and improvement is necessary t
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"It's their privacy being deprived." I wonder if anyone will be surprised when they learn how HTTPS and HTTP/2 will be used to push more advertising to users and exfiltrate more user data from them than HTTP would ev
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by aplorbust 9y ago
The ECMAScript standard actually has a section on "Context- Free Grammars". In that section and subsequent sections there is discussion of tokens, terminals, nonterminals and productions. If a web application developer using Jav
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"One binary to rule them all." But if one is using a shell to launch that binary, then IMO there are two userland binaries: the shell and the binary being launched. In that case, the second binary depends on the first. Lets assume
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Thanks for the answer. That page acknowledges the issue, which is all I was curious about: "Getting back to the online search, being conscious of not wanting to send the wrong message to people, immediately before the search box I put
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Remove Javascript and links to Javascript files that load ads, etc. Preserve only the desired content: text describing the boards, links to manufacturers websites, links to images.
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Maybe try something like this, if adblocker is failing 1. curl -o 1.htm http://www.electronicdesign.com/embedded-revolution/ryzen-boards-reign-embedded-world-2018 2. sed -i '/<p>/,/&l
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by aplorbust 9y ago
What about the logs from queries submitted via the HIBP website form? "Another idea I'm toying with is to use the Cloudflare Workers John mentioned earlier to plug directly into Blob Storage. Content there can be accessed easily e
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by aplorbust 9y ago
What does he do with the logs of all the passwords submitted in searches?
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"Why Developers Should Be Force-Fed State Machines" https://shopifyengineering.myshopify.com/blogs/engineering/1... I always thought all computer science students had to take a compilers course, or some
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Example: sdow true false Output: {"isSourceRedirected":false "isTargetRedirected":false "pages": {"161711": {"description":"Value indicating th
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by aplorbust 9y ago
In case you receive the following message "Sorry internet hipster, this little side project requires JavaScript." here is a quick example of how to get the pages the "traditional way"[FN1]: #/bin/sh
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by aplorbust 9y ago
I always found it odd that one "needed" a large amount of software (Windows, IDE) to program something so small. Additionally, the IDE is often under the control of the manufacturer. I understand there are good reasons why this m
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by aplorbust 9y ago
To finish the story with some original thought, lets ask why this tactic works. Perhaps it works because of the expense of determining which patent claims could realistically survive a motion to dismiss, i.e., the hourly rate of the patent
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"1. Even if you don't do SNI the hostname is on the certificate that the server sends." What if the certificate contains an IP address, instead of hostname(s)? This can alleviate reliance on (third-party controlled, e.g., IC
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"Any way this could be done without requiring Javascript?" Could be done many ways. Lets imagine you like text, you dont mind reading something somewhat structured and regular like json and you dont need all the html, css, etc.

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