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I built my initial programming/security skills by making PC game cheats, and now that I'm actually working in the software industry on other stuff I decided at the beginning of qua…

Terraform is really good at describing how infrastructure should be provisioned (VMs, load balancers, dns entries, networking, etc). Provisioning software on a VM and keeping it in…

Github issues and milestones for me. Generally I put all features, ideas, bugs, etc into small granular issues that I can ideally complete in a day or two. I’ll group them into mil…

That knowledge is becoming increasingly low level though as we build further abstractions over it. If you're working on a network you probably aught to know how TCP works, or at le…

> If you need to constantly look up informations, it means you have no long term knowledge of anything. I don’t think this is a very charitable interpretation of what GP was trying…

Idiotic policy. Side projects are one of the best way to learn new skills (they're the entire basis for my current skillset in this industry!). I often find that I import lessons a…

Definitely this for me as well. When I was younger I was at an interesting crossroads with my freetime where I'd either program or play video games obsessively. I decided to try pu…

History is filled with constant examples of longstanding traditional arts and practices being invalidated and surpassed by technological advances. It seems that Go is one of year 2…

I couldn't care less about this rich person's beach nor the people who want to surf on it, but I do care about the property rights issue at play here and how it intermingles with p…

Academia is almost entirely based on trust and reputation, which we're seeming to discover is not a useful heuristic if your end goal is a net gain in uncovering the truth of the p…

These systems are useless. Of the many flaws: 1.) Simple alteration (change a pixel in MS paint) or encryption of content bypasses the filter 2.) Patching out the filtering routine…

Does anyone find Kickstarter’s conflating of corporate ethics and adherence to far left political positions disturbing? Diversity hiring, “salary equity”, and other such policies a…

> The new Apple‑designed U1 chip uses Ultra Wideband technology for spatial awareness — allowing iPhone 11 to precisely locate other U1‑equipped Apple devices Interesting. Will thi…

> the clear argument is that, because drawing a line is hard, we shouldn't call for any action against those who have stepped over it. I think you're putting words in his mouth. He…

Are you referring to the sudden boom of the general public dumping their money into cryptocurrency hoping to get rich? Hell, I’ll bite here and assert the same as my parent comment…

Is this insinuating that winning victimizes gambling addicts? If so, I don’t understand that connection. Gamblers are making a personal choice to bet their money, other gamblers sh…

All this to get an app to make "do any of my contacts also use signal" requests? You could probably just figure out what endpoint the mobile client calls and imitate them yourself …

Wow I actually thought of building a tool similar to this for CTFs, specifically this feature: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/wiki/Automatic-detection-o... This is REALLY cool. …

I've used protobufs in the past and I REALLY want to use them now, but the human readable aspect of json has always kept me coming back. If I want to perform some rough tests of an…

No, but they currently index ftp links.

A lot of Google hate in this thread. Normally I'm on board, but I think you guys are making a big deal out of nothing. When I click magnet:// links, my bittorrent client opens. Whe…