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by rosswilson 1y ago
This reminds me of https://github.com/jo-m/trainbot , a neat example of stitching together frames of passing trains to form a panorama. This frontend presents them nicely: https://trains.jo-m.ch
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by rosswilson 3y ago
This shouldn't be possible as the server-to-server request to Facebook to exchange the Authorization Code for an Access Token requires the client_id and client_secret to be provided. Facebook should (though I haven't actually conf
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by rosswilson 6y ago
It's called Insulation Resistance Testing and an electrician would typically use a device like a Megger tester. Here's a good video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsXUuuV4_sw
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by rosswilson 6y ago
You have to draw the line somewhere. Otherwise we'd be saying that HTTPS/TLS is not secure since the webpage is rendered to your monitor unencrypted. I agree with the parent quote: > I’ve found statements like these to not cont
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by rosswilson 6y ago
You might be interested in the full list of UK trail delay codes: https://wiki.openraildata.com/index.php/Delay_Attribution_Gu...
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by rosswilson 6y ago
Those extenders typically backhaul the traffic over a VPN back to the telco, so your router would never see the true destination (e.g. Facebook).
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by rosswilson 6y ago
I think they've always done this redirect. Release artifacts are uploaded to S3 and then their Rails app generates a presigned S3 URL that gives short-term access. This is because the artifacts could belong to a private repo, so access
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by rosswilson 7y ago
You should first consider what you want to achieve from this “revamp”. Are you facing some issue with your existing tech stack? I’m wary when I hear teams discuss a total rewrite of an existing application.
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by rosswilson 7y ago
I’m building a side project that has an enterprise customer, and the Enterprise Ready website was a good intro to the concepts that enterprises value: https://www.enterpriseready.io From my (limited) experience, one thing that e
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by rosswilson 7y ago
The article has quite a nice introduction to deep learning concepts, but the headline claim of building an ID card reader from scratch is little more than "use our API".
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by rosswilson 7y ago
Fibre Channel, I think: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel
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by rosswilson 7y ago
EC2 instances are now billed at per-second granularity, with a minimum charge of 60 seconds.
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by rosswilson 7y ago
If you received a HTTP 502 then DNS must've already resolved. Browsers typically will do a DNS lookup, and then try establishing a TCP connection to one of the returned hosts. Its only if it can't establish a TCP connection to a h
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by rosswilson 7y ago
Exposing whether an account exists is a risk, but the alternative is also a hard problem to solve. Sign In screens could throw a generic error that doesn’t reveal whether it was the email address or password that was incorrect, but what abo
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by rosswilson 9y ago
You’re referring to a mobile application that inherently has a slower release cadence - certainly for Apple with their verification process. A web app can be released multiple times an hour if the business has confidence in its automated te
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by rosswilson 9y ago
You really shouldn't be relying on security by obscurity to prevent attacks to your websites. If you check your access logs you'll see countless attacks that are unconditional, they'll just try the attacks without any kind of
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by rosswilson 9y ago
A lot of email providers support aliases using the + symbol. If your email address was foo@example.com, then foo+bar@example.com would also work and be delivered to your inbox. This is a good way of finding out what company sold your email
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by rosswilson 11y ago
Nor for me
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Sony PlayStation Network Wikipedia page defaced(en.m.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rosswilson 11y ago|0 comments
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New BBC Mobile Homepage(m.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by rosswilson 12y ago|0 comments
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by rosswilson 12y ago
How would turning the pinger off for a month help? It just means that the search operation stops for a whole month while they wait for the pings to resume. I don't understand how your proposed idea would benefit a rescue operation.
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by rosswilson 13y ago
Read about Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Airways_Flight_2120 ). An under-inflated tyre caught fire during take-off, the plane took off unaware of the fire, when the landing gear was r
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by rosswilson 13y ago
"so that it is really obvious to the user if they are directed to mess with things that they shouldn't be messing with" I think that as soon as an attacker tempts the user with: "follow these steps to access American&#x2
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by rosswilson 13y ago
London Underground use a number of signalling systems, here's a good resource to get started learning about them: http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/signalling.htm However, ultimately you could develop a super inte
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by rosswilson 13y ago
Doesn't DSG use their own custom made EPOS system? Eclipse? Do you have any experience with it and their security policies? I've had quite a few experiences as a customer at PC World when they've had "till failures"
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by rosswilson 13y ago
It's entirely possible that the "crosstalk" happened way before the calls every made it into Skype's domain. Skype will have a PBX somewhere that bridges the gap between Skypes IP protocol and the outside world of POTS a
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by rosswilson 13y ago
Sorry no. A service like this isn't something that passes my "can I do it myself" benchmark. Don't get me wrong, if I think a service provides some value that I either can't implement myself or would cost me too muc