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It may be a bit more zoomed out than what you're looking for if you're specifically looking at philosophical treatments of the practice of engineering, but Andrew Feenberg's "Quest…

`django-environ` makes a fairly simple effort[1] to strip starting/ending quotes off of literals. This will set the value of MY_VAR to the string `foo` (with doublequotes removed) …

While we started off using `django-environ` to help manage environment-based/12-factor settings, we've moved away from it in favor of django-classy-settings. The biggest knock agai…

Radio Gaga: A Mixtape for the End of Humanity, by Stefani Bulsara. An off-kilter, hilarious, inventive, and cutting apocalyptic sci fi novel about pop music. Writing style is like …

A problem we've run into with Radar is that it only kicks in when you attempt to create a charge, and not when you attach a card to a customer. This means that if your business mod…

Status in Ubuntu: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2...

Indeed -- the demographics of Montana in particular are overwhelmingly white[1]. As of the 2010 census, 89.4% white, 6.3% native (many of whom live in one of the seven reservations…

The TextSecure protocol is now named the "Signal Protocol"; it's developed by Open Whisper Systems. It is the protocol used by the Signal app on Android and iPhone, and as of this …

See also "Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots." https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11454870-plotto http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146941343/plotto-an-algebra-bo...

It's even worse if the sound is going through a digital (VOIP / cell phone) system. Most modern codecs for voice are using some form of Linear Predictive Coding[1] (e.g. ACELPC) wh…

If you'd like MIT students who were impacted by the administration's callous lack of support, consider: - the MBTA "hackers", 2008: http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/mbta-suit…

Would love to see this protocol for email as well.

Moxie Marlinspike gave a fantastic talk on this subject in 2010, even down to the government mandated tracking device vs mobile phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk

Here's a set of default templates I wrote. I respect the reasoning for not providing them, but implementing 15 templates to get started out of the box is a bit onerous. https://git…

Emphatically: yes. Those who collect stats on them find that they contribute a substantial portion of shares.[1] People rant against them often, probably because they wish they wer…

Got it, thanks. More detail at [1] mentioned by gingerline above: "the secure flag does not prevent a cookie from being overwritten. In fact, a HTTP site can overwrite a cookie wit…

Github only sets their cookie for "github.com". What I'm suggesting is that they set multiple http-only cookies: one for "github.com", one for ".github.com", another for every subd…

Wouldn't a solution be for the server to set its session cookie for every subdomain, as HTTP-only? For example, set "_gh_sess" for every requesting domain, whether www.github.com, …