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mstrem

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About mstrem

Product at Cloudflare. Tech person at dodify.com and Spesati.com.

Recent public activity

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    There is no such intent from us to throw around our weight. The team is challenged with a very hard task of balancing protecting web assets VS ensuring that those same assets remai…

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    Comment #43380675

    We expect the user agent string to be present, that yes. We don't have any logic based on it's contents though (except blocking known bad ones) and we don't have any exceptions for…

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    Comment #43380388

    Michael Tremante here. I'd like to address some points openly as I'm personally mentioned in the forum. I reached out to the Pale Moon community on behalf of the team to try and re…

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    Comment #34867828

    Our DDoS mitigation is separate yes and will still work.

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    Comment #30056215

    No. Cloudflare is configured as a reverse proxy in front of the site. So traffic reaches the Cloudflare edge first, then it is proxied to the origin on Azure unless the file is ser…

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    Comment #29913031

    I also don't have many interesting things to say. I also don't think I'm a particularly good programmer. But yet I have a blog. Mostly to improve my writing. And to give me an addi…

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    Comment #23703144

    I feel this is a generalisation. A lot of coding assignments are unrelated to the actual work and have no value to the potential employer besides assessing skills.

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    Comment #12455261

    With my dad being an airline pilot and having grown up in the "pilot community" I must say that this style of living is probably by far the exception rather than the norm. My famil…

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    Comment #12101997

    what is he fleeing from in France? => nothing. France is a great place. However, I have lived both in the UK and in France. If I had a choice, and if I was looking for asylum, I wo…

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    Comment #11524154

    I think the OP just added CloudFlare when the site was overloaded earlier...

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    Comment #11393827

    Right, I personally literally change my resume based on each application focusing on the experience which I think would be most relevant for each position. I also change the introd…

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    Comment #11393726

    I somewhat agree with your statement. Mainly because I personally put a LOT of effort into each job application and I would not be able to apply to more than 2-3 jobs a week. Takes…

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    Comment #7636722

    This is typical, I have just done the whole process myself a few weeks ago from scratch (fresh CentOS install) and now this comes up. However I do not regret it at all. I had Linux…

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    Comment #7608410

    For some context - I hope they just have forgotten to renew their domain (which is still very bad). The client software does not connect either though - and they do no answer the p…

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    Comment #7561219

    Disclaimer: I have a number of free StartCom certificates. However, even though I own some certs with StartCom, I personally think this comment has literally no basis. Looking at t…

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    Comment #7550201

    From the CloudFlare blog: "This bug fix is a successful example of what is called responsible disclosure". I just discovered this now and yum info openssl Yields 1.0.1e as availabl…

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    Comment #7445994

    True, however you could require say 4 users to block a comment out and this maybe would mitigate the problem a little? I think the point I was trying to make was that by turning it…

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    Comment #7445860

    This seems quite drastic to me. Personally I don't have a lot of Karma (and I don't really care to) but every known and again I post a comment and usually I hope it provides a good…