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by lol768 5d ago
There are echoes of the incident that happened in 2023, here. There appears to be very little infrastructure in place to validate and reject bad data, without taking everything else down in a catastrophic failure. https://archive
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by lol768 15d ago
> Accrescent is the end goal for a secure and private app store but it's still in alpha Note that nobody (new) can submit to it today; the developer console HTTP 503s and is only available to an allow-list of developers.
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by lol768 18d ago
Yes, and the UK's industry body - Rail Delivery Group - has thoroughly screwed up distribution of the timetable data for this trial... so no online retailers (with the exception of BR Fares) will be selling tickets for the operation. H
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by lol768 1mo ago
Issues seems to be completely broken, just getting unicorns. Interestingly the API still works for creating an issue (but webhooks weren't fired).
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by lol768 2mo ago
They've also started revoking previously valid tokens. I can no longer use RedReader with the API client I had created for this purpose. The only winning move now is to start impersonating their app.
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by lol768 3mo ago
If you have a decent IDE, it'll offer you the ability to swap between the "old" and newer way of doing things when you encounter code written in one of the styles. I can't say I've had any issues getting code using
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by lol768 3mo ago
> Because Google has more resources to secure their browser They've kneecapped ad-blockers, when ad networks are perhaps one of the biggest causes of malware installs/page hijacking/other unwanted behaviour. I'm not s
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by lol768 4mo ago
Same, my Dad ordered it for me at the time; sits on my desk :-)
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by lol768 4mo ago
Yes; many (Alpine/Debian) containers in K8s on GKE for production rail ticketing infra in the UK. There's not tons of noise being made because for the most part it all, Just Works and that's fairly boring. Perf, memory usage
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by lol768 4mo ago
> The alternative would be that each school develop their own platform for this I worked at a university which did exactly this, in the UK. It was a bespoke platform which integrated incredibly well with the rest of the systems the unive
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by lol768 5mo ago
They already prevent advertising the sorts of foods that contribute to obesity to children, and encourage you to drink less sugary drinks by applying tax to them (though unfortunately manufacturers have responded to this by reducing choice
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by lol768 5mo ago
> They're great for big business at scale > They are wonderful for big business I (sadly) completely disagree with this. There are still so many basic things they don't expose, and it feels like you're fighting an abstr
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Ask HN: NordVPN "Threat Protection Pro": intercepting and breaking our web-app?
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by lol768 6mo ago
One of the first things I did when I was involved in the set-up of online support ticket system for a GB rail retailer was https://xkcd.com/806/ compliance. If the support request body contains the phrase "Shibbol
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by lol768 7mo ago
I'm confused, many of these examples state that they don't work in my browser (Firefox) - but the live demo works fine? Are the demos poly-filled?
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by lol768 8mo ago
I've found it to happen much more frequently than that, unfortunately. Usually it's because the modal is two DOM elements - a backdrop, that fades out the rest of the content and sits on top of it/prevents interaction; and th
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by lol768 8mo ago
Jeez, what a mess. Some of those issues have over 5000 events on them. I really hope that didn't send emails out to people.
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by lol768 9mo ago
I don't. YouGov's data suggests 77% of the UK populace has a negative view of the brand. Musk has destroyed its credibility.
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by lol768 9mo ago
This looks very cool, some immediate thoughts though: - "TiXL is an open source software to create realtime motion graphics" - pedantry, but software is an uncountable noun. You cannot have a software. - It wasn't immediately
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by lol768 9mo ago
Barclays have always played silly games with this stuff, they used to fund a whole team whose job it was to waste time on security theatre (this was nearly ten years ago).
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by lol768 9mo ago
Plenty of UK banks that don't require this, and whose apps will also work on a rooted device. Monzo will display a warning that sets out the fact there's an increased risk, and then lets you be an adult and choose to continue to u
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by lol768 10mo ago
I thought this initially too, but there's a comment on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2001758#c5 that suggests a belief it doesn't affect Firefox at all. So I don't know if the surface for these
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by lol768 10mo ago
> This is consistent with photo licensing On the contrary, I would say this is increasingly unusual nowadays. There are print restrictions on e.g. iStock content, but there's no attempt to "ration" the number of visitors t
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by lol768 10mo ago
This occasionally causes breakage though; because many cookie notices open up modal dialogs and disable scrolling.
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by lol768 10mo ago
> We are seeing failures for some git http operations and are investigating It's not just HTTPS, I can't push via SSH either. I'm not convinced it's just "some" operations either; every single one I've
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by lol768 10mo ago
What is the deal with Ubuntu and this version of .NET? Every since they got rid of the Microsoft packages feed, it's just been a complete mess. Ubuntu's own documentation states: > .NET 10 will be available in the Ubuntu archiv
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by lol768 11mo ago
> Update 7 Oct 2025: Some screen readers have been found not to announce updates to the tag
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by lol768 1y ago
I think you are correct. There were similar issues with Firefox rolling out SameSite=Lax by default, and I think those plans are now indefinitely on hold as a result of the breakage it caused. It's a hard problem to solve. > As an a
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by lol768 1y ago
The ship has very much sailed now with ballot SC63, and this is the result, but I still don't think CRLs are remotely a perfect solution (nor do I think OCSP was unfixable). You run into so many problems with the size of them, the upda
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by lol768 1y ago
It's such a shame that what was shipped there was so far off what the designs had suggested might be possible [1] Two years ago we were told: > We're going to build it right, and that means rewriting large pieces of our codebas

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