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In the email I got from AT&T regarding this data breach was: "Protecting customer data is a top priority. We have confirmed the affected system has been secured. We hold ourselves …

This story reminds me of the time I accidentally/naively set up a ssh honeypot when I configured the router I was using at the time (this was a long time ago) to forward incoming S…

I still remember when a co-worker told me that the biggest problem with C is that programmers are terrible at memory management. Given the number of memory corruption bugs I encoun…

I see the article mentions Solaris, an OS that I am very familiar with, which had me thinking about the memory corruption detection Solaris offerred. Among the development features…

I've been using OmniOutliner for a long time, mostly to take notes in an organized fashion and I'm pretty happy with its functionality, however one thing it doesn't provide is spli…

I'm not sad to see it go. What I vaguely remember about macOS Server was that macOS upgrades were fraught regarding whether the macOS Server would function normally afterward requi…

I've been using Firefox for a looong time. What convinced me to choose that over any other browser is the following: A. It ran on macOS AND Solaris (which I worked on for a looong …

When I read "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will." I thought, what an elitist (and libertarian) idea to assume people would be able to afford and manage a se…

I'm using Pushover ( https://pushover.net/ ) to send notifications to my Apple devices. To make use of it easier on command line I wrote a simple Python script which I've found to …

I'm guessing use of 2FA internally could have prevented this intrusion but that's a hassle so...

Another case for universal adoption of 2FA.

On my Mac I use a utility called Quicksilver that has an option to record and recall copies I've done then shows me a list of the last 10 copies from which I can drag one of them i…

Good point. As a long time (lived here since 1979) Austin resident I can tell you that it's a lot of fun to live here, in particular for someone in their 20's or 30's. There are a …

Creating and maintaining a large software project that "features" differing crypto strength depending on the country it's being shipped to is a HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS! I know because…

I would refer people to these two posts about this subject: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/09/five-eyes_int... https://boingboing.net/2018/09/04/illegal-math.html Basi…

I like OmniOutliner for MacOS as it makes it easy to reorganize my notes.

That may be the reason but I would point out that many companies that sell high end systems and OSes (IBM, Sun/Oracle, etc...) at some point require the customer pay for supporting…

Man, in the last couple of years I've been counting myself lucky in that I bought a late 2012 Mini with the fastest i7 offered. It appears to be downhill for the Mini from then on.…

The problem, for me at least, is I don't want anyone smearing their greasy fingers on my display. I like seeing things on a clean display so I would never buy a laptop with this "f…

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This reminds me of what another programmer told me a long time ago when we were discussing C; "The problem with C is that people make terrible memory managers.". So true.

Doesn't yield anything particularly useful for: [[ -f /tmp/foo ]] && echo yes

I loved the visualization plugins for Winamp. I remember throwing parties using Winamp to play the tunes and projecting the visualizations on a huge screen. So good!