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I imagine it's non-trivial. I think it would involve (in case of iOS): 1. downloading the binary 2. jailbreaking the phone to extract the binary (pretty sure this is necessary on i…

In the case of Signal, I imagine people assume all of the following: 1. the protocol between client and server is setup in such a way, even if Signal wanted to store interesting in…

https://www.security.nl/posting/34165/%22Beveiliging+ING+mob... > "Het authenticatie protocol ziet er goed doordacht uit. Er wordt niet vertrouwd op SSL of TLS. In plaats daarvan g…

Isn’t it strange that you have to make a disclaimer like “please don’t judge me?”. Quite literally 1/2 of the USA voted for Trump, should you automatically be ashamed of that? (It’…

Why is keeping a chat history important? I don't take notes of IRL conversation I have, they're ephemeral. Not trolling, honestly curious :-)

Christopher Hitchens (a Brit, can we still call them European?) would disagree with you. If you have a few minutes, check the beginning of this talk [1] about free speech. He treat…

I speak from experience, unfortunately :)

However... it can also trigger new behaviour because programs / services run for longer than normal because deployments aren't being refreshed as frequently as normal.

The Von Neumann extractor mentioned in the article is interesting. There are other approaches too. I once implemented an algorithm to remove unknown bias from a bitstream in a stre…

Define 'secure'?

I refuse to believe that people care more about the monetary and legal consequences of killing another person than the moral aspect. Hypothesis: Dutch drivers are more careful arou…

You primarily watch out because you don't want to kill someone else.

It works in Houten, The Netherlands [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houten Come visit! >The design principle of separating cycling and walking from car traffic has been pushe…

I remember hearing about Michael Burry [1] also looking into aquifers and future water shortages. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry > Burry has focused much of his at…

An iron man is a triathlon, you are looking for steelman! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/steelman

I didn't believe the 22 MiB download but it's true. 156 requests and 26 MiB with an empty cache. Oh my.

Stripe has (what looks like) a great tool to help with this: https://stripe.com/blog/accessible-color-systems It'd be fantastic if they could open source it, are there any Stripers…

What's more depressing is that this official has GMail open. How ridiculous is that? Which defense minister outside of the USA uses Google Mail? After Snowden, really? I want to fa…

The intransigent minority [1] strikes again. Perhaps the tech community should grow a spine and stand up to the minority that demands these sort of changes. That is: if the tech co…

It's in an image so you can't text search :) https://media.wired.com/photos/5fa04a3d8239757e365803ec/mast... Bottom right under 'additional information'. I had heard that the AT wa…

The police poster mentioned "was only able to hike 10 miles a day". Makes me think it's health related, 10 mi / day is absolutely abysmal for a normal thru hiker. Most aim to do th…

If it were rational, it would also be falsifiable. Let me ask you: what would have to happen for you to rescind your belief? Also; at the risk of starting a discussion about religi…

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the interesting parallel with religion here. Belief in a deity is also --in some eyes-- totally irrational. It can cause similar harm and sometim…

Thanks for the corrections, suggestions, and comments everyone! @twic Thanks for the correction. Didn't know this wasn't a Hibernate but instead a Spring Data feature :-) @watt You…

So much this. ORMs? That way lies madness. For example if you use Hibernate in Java you can end up writing stuff like this: interface MyRepository { Page findEntitiesByIdAndCreated…