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He wouldn't be the first. Speaking of which, whatever happened to Dart?

> John gives up. Concludes never to touch Node, npm, or ES6 modules with a barge pole. > The End. > Note that John is a computer scientist that knows a fair bit about the Web: He h…

Ones that happen in the world you live in, homie.

> a false sense of security is worse than having (knowingly!) no security at all. Agreed. If you know that you are insecure you're less likely to pass sensitive information over th…

Exactly. Not once in their diatribe did they provide a reason that they need those permissions. The fact that noone there knew why they were asking for those permissions in the fir…

> Of course it's worse when the user thinks the connection is encrypted when he actually has no idea who he's talking to. If a website previously using a self-signed certificate sw…

The level of brutality in your critique made me smile. Thank you for your vigilance and clarity.

Will the physical sound waves that I produce with my loud speakers cause Active Noise Control enabled headphones to "engage" with me? Could I adversarially engage with them at that…

Then again... won't that summed audio source be at the mercy of my loud speakers?

Yeah, you're right about ear damage coinciding with exposure time - short bursts would have to be very loud to cause real damage. And yes, it would be weird if a frequency range sp…

I've played with audio software for a long time and I recently experimented with Active Noise Cancellation. There are a few things to keep in mind: * A "live" ANC process has no co…

Another possibility for managing this would be to use a puppet agent / master setup, and use puppet directives to pin sensitive packages (i.e. the ones that comprise your applicati…