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by nmjohn 3y ago
As another data point: I'm on ios 16.4. I see I have "AT&T Wi-Fi Passpoint" and "attwifi" added to "Managed Networks" - but I am able to disable auto-join for them. I wonder if that can be controlled b
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by nmjohn 4y ago
I've spent the vast majority of my career outside of front-end development. You're being extremely condescending and presumptuous so I will not engage further.
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by nmjohn 4y ago
> I want the decisions I make to last decades, not just a few years. I don't think that's a sentiment appreciated by most, though. Asking for an API interface to be stable for decades __across all future versions of the library
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by nmjohn 4y ago
Nope - public images are not affected - you never would have been able to download a relevant image if you weren't in the private org.
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by nmjohn 4y ago
Neither of your anecdotes match my own personal experiences - so I'm sure the general truth is somewhere in between. I've been responsible for millions of dollars of AWS spend over the last decade. I've had virtually zero AWS
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by nmjohn 4y ago
With AWS - failure means the instance is automatically retired, and your ASG causes a new instance to automatically be created and put in service without you having to do anything. With hetzner - failure means your monitoring detected disk
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by nmjohn 4y ago
mrna vaccines don't modify the human genome - this literally has nothing to do with the CRISPR topic.
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by nmjohn 4y ago
I assume they mean by default, employees do not have access to the KMS key necessary to decrypt the sensitive data. (They mention using an individual KMS key per customer) I suspect there must be a handful of SREs who, who could access it i
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by nmjohn 4y ago
You can't add %'s like that - the question allowed users to select multiple values.
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by nmjohn 4y ago
Keep in mind many of the salary transparency laws have minimum employee counts before they come into effect, and iirc, the new york one requires an existing employee being located there before it comes into effect. I'm firmly on the si
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by nmjohn 4y ago
> Do modern browsers check this though? It would introduce a large latency to each request, I bet none of the browsers do that. Yes they do. Only firefox doesn't.
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by nmjohn 4y ago
> Do you REALLY trust that some of these CAs aren't issuing sketchy certificates to their local intelligence agencies, as one of the Middle Eastern CAs was caught doing? A decade ago, probably. Today, with CT logging being mandatory
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by nmjohn 4y ago
When I first switched to osx many years ago, this was a pretty jarring change. I was used to alt+tab switching between all windows, and had muscle memory tied to that. Today, however, I couldn't imagine going back. Having separate togg
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by nmjohn 4y ago
> Very common in amateur coded websites. Also common in professionally coded websites.
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by nmjohn 4y ago
That example involved the attacker hijacking BGP. What protection does DNSSEC provide against that attacker?
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by nmjohn 4y ago
I've built numerous systems that could be called "beta programs" - and the goal of none of them was security related - but rather product feedback related.
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by nmjohn 4y ago
FWIW $10M is at least 1 order of magnitude, and in some cases 2 orders of magnitude higher than necessary in order to negotiate discounts, depending on services used.
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by nmjohn 4y ago
With https://twitter.com/rpilocator I've bought 5 4's at retail price over the last month. They are by no means easy to get - but with a little effort they are possible to get. (Unless you need an 8gb one, those s
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by nmjohn 5y ago
Given you only mention censorship/chilling effect and not privacy - why isn't 8.8.8.8 sufficient? Have there been instances of domains it censored and stopped resolving that I'm not aware of? I guess I'm confused on the
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by nmjohn 5y ago
I would say your comment (which is currently the top comment on this post) thread is not far off from what cwbrandsma is somewhat hyperbolically saying. > It always struck me as borderline scummy, since GitHub was of course aware of this
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by nmjohn 5y ago
I mean, have you bothered to look? It's not a secret nor in private. Defending eugenics in the comments: https://web.archive.org/web/20210419141913/http://esr.ibibli... Claiming black people have a
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by nmjohn 5y ago
ESR didn't get cancelled for microaggressions. It was because he has a long history of being utterly vile towards black people and women, amongst other very much not "just a microaggression" behaviors.
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by nmjohn 5y ago
If there is one domain registrar that nearly all neo-nazi websites use because no one else will do business with them, and the owner of said registrar also is a self-proclaimed neo-nazi - it seems pretty reasonable to claim epik primarily e
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by nmjohn 6y ago
Can you put some numbers on how much time is too much? I've never seen anyone go this far to avoid using a database for what sounds like the only "real" reason is to avoid testing latency (a problem which has many other solut
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by nmjohn 6y ago
Prior to a week ago, there hadn't been an attack against the US Capitol planned on the app while the owners defend the right of the planners to use it for that purpose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It should be expected that when historically unprece
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by nmjohn 6y ago
Does anyone know what happened with the stock options for early airbnb employees which were expiring this month (Nov 2020)? Did they find some legal way to extend the options, or did employees end up having to find the money to exercise the
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by nmjohn 6y ago
You don't charge for worker invocations on a L7 DDoS? How do you determine which requests to charge for and which to not charge for? Or is the claim your DDoS protection is good and accurate enough that there are 0 worker invocations t
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by nmjohn 6y ago
FWIW, for a long time I've worked roughly 11 to 4 and have not caught any flack for it, as I get my work done. It entirely depends on the company you work for. (I'm not saying my situation is common, just that it does exist.)
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by nmjohn 6y ago
They are 100% useless PR gags

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