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by dendory 10y ago
Being part of design meetings, it's amazing how many endless customizations and workflow adjustments people like project managers and consultants like to request for a new piece of software. But when it comes down to it, most users don
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by dendory 10y ago
Obvious question I know.. but why were the SSNs of sailors on some HP contractor's laptop?
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by dendory 10y ago
I think there's multiple things there and I don't think taking any particular stance is wrong. I love technology, in the sense that if I get a problem to solve which makes me dig deeper into an area to figure out how things work u
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by dendory 10y ago
Pretty much every router is sold with UPnP turned on. Many IOT devices use UPnP to open their interface to the world.
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by dendory 10y ago
I don't consider myself a programmer, just someone working in IT that writes a lot of code, and to this day when I want to write any type of web page or web based "app" PHP is my goto tool. I can write my HTML and add PHP log
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by dendory 10y ago
In the short term, there's always a lot more risks in scraping an old system and spinning up a new one, especially in large complex organizations. However, in the long term you're really better off with modern systems. So it reall
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by dendory 10y ago
Private key stored in a passworded file on an encrypted disk, plus a key fob as second factor. Pretty hard to get better security.
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by dendory 10y ago
It's a bit of a catch 22, if you lose your iPhone then you need some way to locate it / erase it without having your iPhone. I don't think it's a big deal, you should have backups anyways. One thing they could do is, if
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by dendory 10y ago
I'm not sure I get the point of this article. Travel nomads are a real thing, and more and more numerous. They typically don't have a lot of money and often work at local menial jobs or by doing freelance gigs online, but then aga
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by dendory 10y ago
I made https://dendory.net/coding a while back as a cheatsheet of syntax between languages.
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by dendory 10y ago
Guess it's luck that I started using Python when they released 3, and went straight for that!
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by dendory 10y ago
A long time ago I started to use the iPhone music app. Then I quickly discovered that songs sent to the iPhone could not be sent back the other way. This was just the beginning of Apple's lock-in. I got out of it right then and there.
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by dendory 10y ago
It's all fine and good to point out how insecure SMS is, and various ways that 2-factor auth may have been improved, but I think the bottom line is that when your adversary is the government, police and telecom provider working togethe
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by dendory 10y ago
It's interesting to see how Google, a company that has arguably some of the best engineers in the world and the most brilliant technologists, still only makes a decent revenue on online ads. All of their other startups are losing money
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by dendory 11y ago
In Quebec a lot of our modern taboo words are religious themed. Unlike many other cultures however, it's not religion that made them taboo, but rather the fact that we had a heavier than most religious presence in our political and edu
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by dendory 11y ago
I think the security aspect is the best option. If a CEO can't access some proprietary web app and is told "You need to use browser X that supports DRM", then they will be "Why isn't that already installed on my sys
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by dendory 11y ago
Too bad that content outside the US is a fraction of what's available in the US.
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Data Loss on EBS Volumes in AWS US-GOV-WEST-1(reddit.com)
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by dendory 11y ago
I remember using AVG many years ago when it was a decent product. I recently had the displeasure to have to install it again. AVG Free right now is malware, plain and simple. It highjacks your home page in every browser, changes your search
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by dendory 11y ago
I really cringe when dealing with spaces, which is a real problem since I code in Python a lot, which cannot deal with a mix of both. I don't understand people using 2 or 4 spaces at every line, it's so much slower. Sure the first
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by dendory 11y ago
You'd be surprised. While the -official- code will typically always get QA'd and reviewed, there are plenty of cases where custom code for a specific use case is done by one engineer and bypasses the proper channel because of dead
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by dendory 11y ago
I wonder if non-TLS based VPNs could be used around that? And if those are blocked, how hard would it be to build a SSL over HTTP proxy outside the country?
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by dendory 11y ago
Ironically, just this week I had several cases of attempting to install Python modules with pip, and every error that came up had to do with compiling parts. Then I used apt-get to install binary packages and they all installed just fine, i
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by dendory 11y ago
Password rules are needed, otherwise passwords would be even worse than they are now, with people going back to using '1' or '1234'. They just need to be better designed: Must have at least 16 chars, OR Must have at leas
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by dendory 11y ago
HP is everywhere in the enterprise, from servers to desktops and every peripheral in between. I doubt they are going away any time soon. But as tech evolves, it does seem like the company is being left behind. I predict another IBM in the m
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by dendory 11y ago
Ironic how Twitter, who turned their backs on developers years ago, are now forced to backpedal now that they are in decline. The same day, YouTube turns their back on content creators. A preview of things to come?
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by dendory 11y ago
Registrars can say whatever they want, it doesn't mean anything until the domain is properly listed in the TLD's main database, in this case VeriSign.
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by dendory 11y ago
If a company can reasonably show they own a trademark for a name in a region and should be awarded a domain, registrars will give away the domain. There has been plenty of cases where even old domains were taken away.
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by dendory 11y ago
I rely heavily on Evernote. I actually thought about making my own notes system before, but the native apps and doing synch right is a hard thing to do, especially when talking about a complex system of notebooks, notes, tags, file attachme
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by dendory 11y ago
There are tons of cases out there of clear abuse of the legal system, where the facts are as close to black and white as you can get. This doesn't seem like it is. From an outside view, reading about employees who had access to trade s

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