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This reminds me of https://github.com/jo-m/trainbot , a neat example of stitching together frames of passing trains to form a panorama. This frontend presents them nicely: https://…

This shouldn't be possible as the server-to-server request to Facebook to exchange the Authorization Code for an Access Token requires the client_id and client_secret to be provide…

It's called Insulation Resistance Testing and an electrician would typically use a device like a Megger tester. Here's a good video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsXUuu…

You have to draw the line somewhere. Otherwise we'd be saying that HTTPS/TLS is not secure since the webpage is rendered to your monitor unencrypted. I agree with the parent quote:…

You might be interested in the full list of UK trail delay codes: https://wiki.openraildata.com/index.php/Delay_Attribution_Gu...

Those extenders typically backhaul the traffic over a VPN back to the telco, so your router would never see the true destination (e.g. Facebook).

I think they've always done this redirect. Release artifacts are uploaded to S3 and then their Rails app generates a presigned S3 URL that gives short-term access. This is because …

You should first consider what you want to achieve from this “revamp”. Are you facing some issue with your existing tech stack? I’m wary when I hear teams discuss a total rewrite o…

I’m building a side project that has an enterprise customer, and the Enterprise Ready website was a good intro to the concepts that enterprises value: https://www.enterpriseready.i…

The article has quite a nice introduction to deep learning concepts, but the headline claim of building an ID card reader from scratch is little more than "use our API".

Fibre Channel, I think: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel

EC2 instances are now billed at per-second granularity, with a minimum charge of 60 seconds.

If you received a HTTP 502 then DNS must've already resolved. Browsers typically will do a DNS lookup, and then try establishing a TCP connection to one of the returned hosts. Its …

Exposing whether an account exists is a risk, but the alternative is also a hard problem to solve. Sign In screens could throw a generic error that doesn’t reveal whether it was th…

You’re referring to a mobile application that inherently has a slower release cadence - certainly for Apple with their verification process. A web app can be released multiple time…

You really shouldn't be relying on security by obscurity to prevent attacks to your websites. If you check your access logs you'll see countless attacks that are unconditional, the…

A lot of email providers support aliases using the + symbol. If your email address was foo@example.com, then foo+bar@example.com would also work and be delivered to your inbox. Thi…

Nor for me

How would turning the pinger off for a month help? It just means that the search operation stops for a whole month while they wait for the pings to resume. I don't understand how y…

Read about Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Airways_Flight_2120 ). An under-inflated tyre caught fire during take-off, the plane took off unaware …

"so that it is really obvious to the user if they are directed to mess with things that they shouldn't be messing with" I think that as soon as an attacker tempts the user with: "f…

London Underground use a number of signalling systems, here's a good resource to get started learning about them: http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/signalling.htm However, ultimate…