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Putting everything behind a VPN seems like the solution selfhosters have landed on. That way you have some control over how quickly you have to respond.

You still need to manage that change to varying degrees. For every organization which can shift on a whim, there are many more which require mitigation. Normally, there are a lot o…

Anything that reduces the blast radius helps. There should still be a focus on further hardening. Most value comes from exploits that enable pivots. Attackers will focus on other v…

>> But they are so common, i don't know who designs them and makes me feel like 5yo. Often these are the product managers building follow-on features that don't get the usage they …

Prisoners do get taken in situations where they'd be taken without drones. Drones hitting support groups behind enemy lines are akin to airstrikes. When drones are used on the fron…

Integration points increase the risk of compromise. For that reason, I never use the desktop browser extensions for my password manager. When password managers were starting to bec…

My point is that they don't capture the effects you describe - unless designed in. There is little motivation to do that though because they can track larger effects which are alig…

>> Then before you know it, the devops folks have decided that they need to put a gazillion other services and an entire software-defined networking layer on top of it. I don't wor…

In enterprise, you have little chance of getting the real story from end users in many cases. IT will also tell you that things are used one way, only for analytics to tell you it'…

The reality is that most product leaders only care about the feedback that has visible consequences. If users aren't performing some action like quitting the app that shows in the …

I don't think this is always true, but it's true a lot. I think there are better descriptions than moronic as well. People use moronic when people are just as smart but have a diff…

They have a perpetual pricing option available alongside the subscription one. It's still worth thinking about the economics of this. How are they supposed to fund development? It'…

SQL Server 2000 was well received in the segments that mattered as a challenger . Oracle was in first place running on Unix. However, it was viewed as expensive and the procurement…

>> And "the community" isn't moving to Codeberg because Codeberg can't support "the community" without a massive scale up. People have a superficial knowledge of the space (I think…

This is an interesting point when the question is "how do I build a Windows app?" and a decision needs to be made. React is definitely one of the options that some consider when th…

One issue is that 95% of the integrations will be fine with the default configuration. The others including some with high profit potential will have weird configs that will frustr…

There can be different cohorts of students. If a student is at the point where they can start exploring iOS development they can perhaps have a swing at it with this machine. In re…

I found mixed results given underlying anxiety that hadn't been diagnosed at the point I was trying this. Talking to new people at work, while out pursuing hobbies, and around town…

We delegate power already. Is unleashing AI in some place different from unleashing JSOC on an insurgency in a particular place? One is code and other is a bunch of humans. You exp…

A big part of the problem is being permitted to teach this stuff. As a UK CS grad from the early-2000s, my observation was that academic staff recognized the need for these skills.…

I think it's reasonable to distinguish which side drove this. RAM prices are going up but it's not engineered primarily by RAM manufacturers. They are naturally jumping on the band…

Kusto is similar: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/kusto/query/

I don't believe that devs are the audience. They are pushing this to decision makers where they want them to think that the state of the art is further ahead than it is. These folk…

Even if you talk to users, you can do it the wrong way. Big companies are incentivized by the stock market to care more about new users than existing ones because their only focus …

It's not just about the language. The good money for these low-code tools is larger organizations which have deployment/hosting/compliance/maintenance concerns that need to be acco…