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bgc

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    Well-written, I appreciated the absence of the kind of over-excited writing you often see in these kinds of posts. At least with the second app (admittedly judging by that UI) this…

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    Comment #48600858

    This is not a Google-wide thing… this is from Google’s Context-Aware Access product, which is configurable in Google Workspace environments. OP should direct their ire at their cor…

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    Comment #48310615

    The November report mentioned in the article goes into (disturbing) details: https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissio...

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    Comment #48089347

    That episode is indeed based on this event: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111175/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv

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    Comment #45924216

    The cdn-cgi endpoints are documented here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/cdn...

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    Comment #45618102

    Another fun Zendesk “feature,” that, to my knowledge, has never been fixed is if you CC it on a thread with any other email address that auto-replies, it will get stuck in a loop a…

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    Comment #44829216

    https://archive.is/7uiOo

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    Comment #43531284

    https://archive.is/192Wu

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    Comment #41105820

    > does there exist a well-defined secure subset of CSS such that we don't have to worry about weird vulnerabilities? I don’t know the answer, but if it is “no,” would it be feasibl…

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    Comment #37475490

    You’ll still have the ability to install arbitrary drivers and support software obtained directly from the manufacturer, this change only means that Microsoft won’t automatically s…

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    Comment #36308685

    Holy moley, my first “real” computer ran 98SE and had BLACK ICE, which behaved exactly the way you described. I remember I would take the IP addresses of the “attackers” and plug t…

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    Comment #36263110

    Maybe so, but regardless of the facts this would almost certainly not be worth pursuing… In the US, courts are generally prohibited from enforcing foreign libel judgements against …

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    Comment #35097953

    An interesting tidbit from the Bloomberg live thread[0]: >The FDIC prefers to close a bank over the weekend, shutting it down on Friday and reopening Monday, Steven Kelly, senior r…

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    Comment #35097046

    60 Minutes followed an FDIC takeover in 2009, including when the agents actually walked into the bank’s headquarters: https://youtu.be/TAE8i40A5uI

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