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Comment #24823598
> if you thought it was safe The problem is that companies introducing chemicals into a clothing product aren't required to show that they're safe, at least in the US. So consideri…
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Comment #24823546
It's more about what happens when you toss your phone into the landfill after two years, and the mountain of dead electronics starts leeching toxins into the groundwater. https://w…
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Comment #21686796
Login.gov | REMOTE or Washington, DC | Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers | Full-Time | https://login.gov Login.gov gives the public simple, secure …
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Comment #20868883
Login.gov | REMOTE or Washington, DC | Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers | Full-Time | https://login.gov Login.gov gives the public simple, secure …
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Comment #20587720
Login.gov | REMOTE or Washington, DC | Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers | Full-Time | https://login.gov Login.gov gives the public simple, secure …
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Comment #20328119
Login.gov | REMOTE or Washington, DC | Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers | Full-Time | https://login.gov Login.gov gives the public simple, secure …
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Comment #19972819
If there's not an obvious security contact at the agency, you can always report vulnerabilities to US-CERT, which has overall responsibility for connecting reporters to the right r…
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Comment #19800886
Login.gov | REMOTE or Washington, DC | Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers | Full-Time | https://login.gov Login.gov gives the public simple, secure …
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Comment #19546806
Login.gov | REMOTE or Washington, DC | Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers | Full-Time | https://login.gov Login.gov gives the public simple, secure …
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Comment #19111605
This is a poor way to handle library upgrades that are guaranteed to break any existing compiled binaries. Frustrating that my PR to create readline@7 was rejected. https://github.…
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Comment #10207280
The white "Access Denied" page is to help you empathize with Jony Ive, still trapped in a white room after all these years. https://www.change.org/p/apple-free-jony-ive-from-his-wh…
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Comment #10046672
It's interesting how your eye naturally groups the pentagons into the larger primitive unit, like the pinwheels of type 5. Wolfram Alpha also has some things about tiling: http://w…
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Comment #9849203
Enforcement of nameConstraints is inconsistent at best. I experimented with name constraints a couple years ago for a private CA project, with the idea that I could restrict the pr…
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Comment #9430513
It's interesting how Comcast's track record in complying with regulatory requirements from past deals may be a major factor here. I wonder if they would have been able to muscle th…
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Comment #9430479
Pretty interesting stuff. I do wonder how much internal collaboration there is on topics like HTML5 video & WebM. The benefits of owning end-to-end both browser and server for driv…
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Comment #8794454
Stripe checkout does use an iframe from checkout.stripe.com for the payment form.
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Comment #8090971
I'd love to hear theories for what might have installed it. If anyone still has that certificate, it would be helpful to export it and email it to support@stripe.com. We've worked …
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Comment #8090818
If this is anything like the issues we've seen at Stripe, the problem is probably an obsolete cross-signed root in your login keychain. It's caused by a certificate with CN="DigiCe…
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Comment #7808327
+1 I'd love to see your notes. I found that when I was learning git there were two concepts that were crucial: understanding the staging area, and understanding the very basics of …
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Comment #7808298
Honestly I can't imagine how we ever used HipChat. The Linux client is abysmal, and the IRC/Jabber integration is also terrible. Slack is really the best I've seen.
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Comment #5673393
Not sure what the schedule looks like in general, but last night I waited ~10 minutes after the advisory watching the packages show up one by one. Still faster than any other sourc…
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Comment #5306678
We're working on it! :-)
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Comment #5035591
There's an enormous difference between serializers that make any effort at all to be safe, and those like Ruby's YAML library, which make no effort. Python's YAML, for example, exp…
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Comment #4449841
While they're not great, chroots are much more powerful than most people give them credit for. The trouble comes when people think you can keep a root user contained in a chroot.
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Comment #3861773
We're working on it. :-)