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by yourcelf 3y ago
It may be a bit more zoomed out than what you're looking for if you're specifically looking at philosophical treatments of the practice of engineering, but Andrew Feenberg's "Questioning Technology" is excellent int
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by yourcelf 5y ago
`django-environ` makes a fairly simple effort[1] to strip starting/ending quotes off of literals. This will set the value of MY_VAR to the string `foo` (with doublequotes removed) in django-environ: MY_VAR="foo" Dock
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by yourcelf 5y ago
While we started off using `django-environ` to help manage environment-based/12-factor settings, we've moved away from it in favor of django-classy-settings. The biggest knock against django-environ is that it does not treat the
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by yourcelf 7y ago
Radio Gaga: A Mixtape for the End of Humanity, by Stefani Bulsara. An off-kilter, hilarious, inventive, and cutting apocalyptic sci fi novel about pop music. Writing style is like Douglas Adams meets Tom Robbins, through the lens of Top 40
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by yourcelf 8y ago
A problem we've run into with Radar is that it only kicks in when you attempt to create a charge, and not when you attach a card to a customer. This means that if your business model involves "try before you buy" or usage-bas
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by yourcelf 10y ago
Status in Ubuntu: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2...
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Scientists are copying US climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump(independent.co.uk)
16 points by yourcelf 10y ago|2 comments
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by yourcelf 10y ago
Indeed -- the demographics of Montana in particular are overwhelmingly white[1]. As of the 2010 census, 89.4% white, 6.3% native (many of whom live in one of the seven reservations Montana has, rather than the "star" towns of Bil
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A toxic web: what the Victorians can teach us about online abuse(theguardian.com)
2 points by yourcelf 10y ago|0 comments
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by yourcelf 10y ago
The TextSecure protocol is now named the "Signal Protocol"; it's developed by Open Whisper Systems. It is the protocol used by the Signal app on Android and iPhone, and as of this week, also used by WhatsApp. Here is an olde
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Tipsy, chrome extension for tips to publishers(tipsy.csail.mit.edu)
2 points by yourcelf 11y ago|0 comments
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by yourcelf 11y ago
See also "Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots." https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11454870-plotto http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146941343/plotto-an-algebra-bo...
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by yourcelf 12y ago
It's even worse if the sound is going through a digital (VOIP / cell phone) system. Most modern codecs for voice are using some form of Linear Predictive Coding[1] (e.g. ACELPC) which is basically modeling sound as a resonator at
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by yourcelf 13y ago
If you'd like MIT students who were impacted by the administration's callous lack of support, consider: - the MBTA "hackers", 2008: http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/mbta-suit-against-mit... -
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by yourcelf 13y ago
Would love to see this protocol for email as well.
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by yourcelf 13y ago
Moxie Marlinspike gave a fantastic talk on this subject in 2010, even down to the government mandated tracking device vs mobile phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk
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Simplifying OTR Deniability(whispersystems.org)
9 points by yourcelf 13y ago|0 comments
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Obama Calls for A Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights for the Digital Age (2012)(whitehouse.gov)
5 points by yourcelf 13y ago|0 comments
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NodeJS TLS implementation does not support for PFS(github.com)
1 points by yourcelf 13y ago|0 comments
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by yourcelf 13y ago
Here's a set of default templates I wrote. I respect the reasoning for not providing them, but implementing 15 templates to get started out of the box is a bit onerous. https://github.com/yourcelf/django-registrati
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by yourcelf 14y ago
Emphatically: yes. Those who collect stats on them find that they contribute a substantial portion of shares.[1] People rant against them often, probably because they wish they weren't effective, and they might not personally click them. B
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by yourcelf 14y ago
Got it, thanks. More detail at [1] mentioned by gingerline above: "the secure flag does not prevent a cookie from being overwritten. In fact, a HTTP site can overwrite a cookie with a secure flag, as long as the domain names are related app
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by yourcelf 14y ago
Github only sets their cookie for "github.com". What I'm suggesting is that they set multiple http-only cookies: one for "github.com", one for ".github.com", another for every subdomain you access -- "pages.github.com", etc. If there's al
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by yourcelf 14y ago
Wouldn't a solution be for the server to set its session cookie for every subdomain, as HTTP-only? For example, set "_gh_sess" for every requesting domain, whether www.github.com, github.com, something.github.com; and ".github.com" as well
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by yourcelf 14y ago
This idea goes back further than you might think. The "Stereoscopic Workspace", from the Architecture Machine group at MIT in 1983, was a prototype of this idea, surprisingly close to this implementation 30 years later. http://media.mit.e
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by yourcelf 14y ago
Indeed. A good way to increase diversity in hiring is to set a rule: your hiring process isn't done until you've received a minimum number of applications from various demographics that are underrepresented. You still pick the best applican
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Occupy Research General Survey faceted data browser(occupyresearch.net)
1 points by yourcelf 14y ago|0 comments
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by yourcelf 14y ago
See http://freedomdefined.org/Definition for a view (not RMS's) which extends the spirit of the Free Software definition to "Cultural Works", including art, music, etc. Creative Commons has adopted the language of "Free Culture Approved"
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If Hackers Didn't Exist, Governments Would Have to Invent Them(theatlantic.com)
2 points by yourcelf 14y ago|0 comments
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by yourcelf 14y ago
I think it's similar to http://isitchristmas.com/ . It's a simple answer that's always the same, to drive the point home: you are always the one responsible for your uptime, no matter whether you choose dedicated hosting, the cloud, your

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