trashfindhunter

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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
He wouldn't be the first. Speaking of which, whatever happened to Dart?
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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
> John gives up. Concludes never to touch Node, npm, or ES6 modules with a barge pole. > The End. > Note that John is a computer scientist that knows a fair bit about the Web: He had Node & npm installed, he knew what MIME type
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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
Ones that happen in the world you live in, homie.
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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
> a false sense of security is worse than having (knowingly!) no security at all. Agreed. If you know that you are insecure you're less likely to pass sensitive information over the connection. IMO the culprit is browser behavior. F
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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
Exactly. Not once in their diatribe did they provide a reason that they need those permissions. The fact that noone there knew why they were asking for those permissions in the first place is a huge red flag for me. Why are they asking fo
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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
> Of course it's worse when the user thinks the connection is encrypted when he actually has no idea who he's talking to. If a website previously using a self-signed certificate switches to plain HTTP - how will that help me v
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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
The level of brutality in your critique made me smile. Thank you for your vigilance and clarity.
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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
Will the physical sound waves that I produce with my loud speakers cause Active Noise Control enabled headphones to "engage" with me? Could I adversarially engage with them at that point?
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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
Then again... won't that summed audio source be at the mercy of my loud speakers?
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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
Yeah, you're right about ear damage coinciding with exposure time - short bursts would have to be very loud to cause real damage. And yes, it would be weird if a frequency range spontaneously inverted - the only scenario I can imagine
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by trashfindhunter 6y ago
I've played with audio software for a long time and I recently experimented with Active Noise Cancellation. There are a few things to keep in mind: * A "live" ANC process has no control over the environment from which it rece
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by trashfindhunter 7y ago
Another possibility for managing this would be to use a puppet agent / master setup, and use puppet directives to pin sensitive packages (i.e. the ones that comprise your application) to specific versions while allowing the rest of the