iloveponies

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by iloveponies 12y ago
As a degreeless, high school drop out who works for a very large corporation that's not the case. In a time where many are screaming about shortages in skilled IT people, mandating a degree is only going to narrow the already small poo
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by iloveponies 12y ago
What for? Apple discourages the use of OpenSSL[1] and instead use their own open source library[2] which also has an API present inside of Cocoa and iOS. 1: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation&#x2
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by iloveponies 13y ago
I suspect mirror delay is less of an issue than you might perceive it to be. Many CPAN mirrors manage to stay within tens of seconds/no more than a minute from the main CPAN mirror that PAUSE publishes to.
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by iloveponies 13y ago
Of course not. It's open source, nobody would do anything malicious right?
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by iloveponies 13y ago
Also, I imagine the various regulation ISPs and hosting providers are obligated to inside the country - if customers can siphon off data that local officials disapprove of to another region easily, it puts Amazon in a difficult position.
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by iloveponies 13y ago
https://twitter.com/homakov/status/387805705669206016 https://twitter.com/homakov/status/345544666483130368 https://twitter.com/homakov/status/21863037023145164
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by iloveponies 13y ago
On the flip side, Homakov personally has incredibly bad OPSEC practices which would make me think twice for using him. There's a correlation between what you pay and what you might get.
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by iloveponies 13y ago
Yes, npm itself is the only reason why.
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by iloveponies 13y ago
No, actual whistleblowers should be covering their own asses as much as possible with informed decisions and good opsec/infosec practices and not trusting anyone or anything else which includes the press. If a whistleblower's iden
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by iloveponies 13y ago
Mandatory SSH keys mitigates the brute forcing risk, and turns it into a nuisance. My employer presently has this arrangement and has done so for a while. Bastions only get you in the door: different entrances for different environments, us
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by iloveponies 13y ago
It's far simpler to remove the need for passwords alltogether or at least minimise them than to offset the liability against your employees using security software correctly.
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by iloveponies 13y ago
2FA and VPNs are not exclusively the only way to secure things. X.509, bastion servers, airgaps that require physical access to a secure facility etc are also valid options, dependent on your systems and their configuration.
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by iloveponies 13y ago
Bike shops already do this in some places. In the UK and Japan at time of purchase you can register your bike with the police and it's handled by the store themselves. Both countries use the serial number imprinted by the manufacturer.
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by iloveponies 13y ago
The idea that code be "self-documenting" is naive at best. Action does not necessarily infer intention, and without explanation can lead to assumption. To reach the code we end up committing a process of thought should have occurr
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by iloveponies 13y ago
So... where are all the Syrian programmers? This website says none are available.
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by iloveponies 13y ago
The fact you have to have your screen on and unlocked is intentional and by design, otherwise there is plenty of potential attacks where NFC is used to exploit phones whilst it's in your pocket.
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by iloveponies 13y ago
They've had standalone systems like Edy and other systems tied into retailers on their phones for years. Given that Japan is hugely a cash based society, I wonder if this will really take off.
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by iloveponies 13y ago
Personal opinions of said founder aside, all three were bringing arguably trivial products to market where there already was a large presence of two or more players dominating (Twitter/Facebook/status.net for Pownce, HipChat/Campfire for Gr
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WhiteSpace-Strippers bot creating noisy pull requests(github.com)
1 points by iloveponies 14y ago|0 comments
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by iloveponies 14y ago
More or less. The more evidence of all communication of theirs and yours, the more useful it is as either plaintiff or defendant in court.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
The acceptance of this seems to vary towards the reliability and availability of transport (both personal and public) amongst other factors. Here in London where train frequency can be as little as 90 seconds but compensation payable to pun
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by iloveponies 14y ago
As someone who goes in and out of the UK on a regular basis, this is news to me as I've yet to be subjected to full body scanners.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
So I've experienced something similar minus the overcrowded room with British immigration. I watched the immigration official turn from apathy the moment I handed my passport over into passive agression with loaded questions ("When was the
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by iloveponies 14y ago
Sounds like this person needs to learn how to become an iOS developer. There is so many tutorials, guides and sample code out there and a very large portion of it is free. No, it's no easy. No it might not be as fast as getting a seasoned d
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by iloveponies 14y ago
It is never easy when people you know pass away, especially those younger than you. However, I'd argue it is more difficult when the situation happens at a much younger age for the realisation that the deceased were given less time alive th
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by iloveponies 14y ago
They repeatedly send you emails even if you don't have an account.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
Ryan caused a lot of drama not so long ago saying some things that escalated into quite a lot of people flaming him on Twitter - I'm unsure if this is why he's abandoned the other websites as well.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
Plausible reasons have already been suggested somewhere else[1], in summary chipset makers are creating dual purpose chips with dies that support LTE, but have fuses burnt and a cheaper price tag to restrict their usage. Even if you could r
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by iloveponies 14y ago
The implementation certainly differs. The US at least keeps copyright infringement civil unless significant damage or financial gain has been made from the infringement. In Japan, the police already go after infringers, irregardless of the
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by iloveponies 14y ago
Interesting how this will actually happen, given as all the popular Japanese p2p networks are encrypted - of recent their efforts have not been on downloaders but on uploaders since Perfect Dark is apparently leaking information on the latt

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