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Two thoughts from reading this article: 1. Yes, "porting attacks" (where an adversary convinces your carrier to port your phone number to his/her own) are a real threat. You can mi…

Similarly, I read the headline and thought, "What kinds of workloads do restaurants run on servers?". Oh boy.

I got really excited about Taskwarrior and set up a server and accounts for all of my teammates. But we quickly found that we were spending more time logging our tasks than we were…

And yet the comments from her lawyer detail reveal how much money she's donated to which charities. So much for anonymity! Between that, her gender, her home town, and even the nam…

Your comment is super important, I don't think everyone who read it realizes how elusive its warning is. I'm young and already excuse myself by saying that I don't mind having just…

I love how simple this is, but does it support including email attachments? I couldn't determine that based on the content of the website. EDIT: similarly, does it support MMS in a…

This is awesome, I've always wanted something like this. Zoom is the killer feature.

I spent about 15 minutes just having fun with the mood, theme, artwork, and "feel" of the game. I had intended to spend two minutes tops. This is an engrossing and genuinely wonder…

Weizenbaum's rhetoric is powerful, especially during his takedown of "if I don't do it, someone else will". Although I think his view is from a pretty "high" technological perspect…

When I look at downloaded minified JS files in my browser's dev tools, there's a button to de-minify/pretty-print the JS. What is the advantage of the source map?

I majored in math in undergrad, and I always daydreamed about solving difficult mathematical problems despite a lack of formal training. I even had a teacher that I had to "pretend…