That's a long read, has anyone got a blurb so I know what I'm getting myself into?
When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
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Re: When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
#192Nice. Here's a similar personal story with a PSA that sometimes blurring is NOT sufficient. A friend of mine posted on Instagram a picture of a U.S. visa (or something similar; it was probably five years ago) to announce her trip to the U.S., and she took care to blur out sensitive information such as her passport number. But a Gaussian blur is easy to reverse and I successfully unblurred it and told her my discovery…
If using for example Word you can conveniently just change the background text color to black. /s
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#193Lately I am thinking about building a framework for web APIs where the database stores the owner, group and other's rights for each entity. The framework will then fetch data based on the user and fills the models based on the rights set for each field. Exactly for the reason shown in the article. I believe right now it is still too difficult to do this in any framework. That's why developers take shortcuts and just…
Take a look at Postgres roles, I think they are similar to what you describe. This should allow you to set row level permissions per user. Not sure how well that scales.
I know postgrest uses it.
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#194>> Instagram, in case you don’t know it, is an app you can open up on your phone any time to look at ads).
Nailed it.
Re: When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
#195Nice. Here's a similar personal story with a PSA that sometimes blurring is NOT sufficient. A friend of mine posted on Instagram a picture of a U.S. visa (or something similar; it was probably five years ago) to announce her trip to the U.S., and she took care to blur out sensitive information such as her passport number. But a Gaussian blur is easy to reverse and I successfully unblurred it and told her my discovery…
> I personally recommend blacking out (add a black rectangle) instead of blurring Real life document workflows can be really tricky. What if one is required to print or photocopy the obscured document? Devastating for printer's toner or cartridge lifetime... In some cases opaque grayish rectangle does the job.
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#196Apart from the really interesting content, this is an extremely good read, strikes me as the right kind of balance of information and keeping you entertained. I really enjoyed this writing style!
Since we're sharing views on the writing style - I found it off-putting enough that I had to quit halfway through.
It's very tiresome to read, with _way_ too many digressions and jokes.
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#197I found his advice to Tony on how to get better with computers remarkably insightful: > I said there probably was a book out there about “the basics of IT”, but it wouldn’t help much. I didn’t learn from a book. 13 year old TikTok influencers don’t learn from a book. They just vibe. > My mum always said when I was growing up that: > There were “too many buttons” She was afraid to press the buttons, because she didn’t…
Yes! I call it cat-like thinking, after watching our cat walk all over the keyboard. She wouldn't look at the keys or the screen.
I can't remember how many times I've heard "I can't log in, the machine is locked", when there is literally 1 button Switch User, and clicking that 1 button does it. "Oh, I didn't think to try that, it said it was locked.."
Entering newlines in a textbox? It's.. shift-enter, or alt-enter, alt-shift-something. Multicursor? It's.. shift-up? Alt-up? You just try 'em. Cat-like
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#198I can't believe I read this whole thing only to find out at the end that this dumbass thinks the earth revolves around the sun. I wish I'd known we were dealing with a wacko from the start so I could have saved 20 minutes of my life.
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#199Nice. Here's a similar personal story with a PSA that sometimes blurring is NOT sufficient. A friend of mine posted on Instagram a picture of a U.S. visa (or something similar; it was probably five years ago) to announce her trip to the U.S., and she took care to blur out sensitive information such as her passport number. But a Gaussian blur is easy to reverse and I successfully unblurred it and told her my discovery…
> I personally recommend blacking out (add a black rectangle) instead of blurring Real life document workflows can be really tricky. What if one is required to print or photocopy the obscured document? Devastating for printer's toner or cartridge lifetime... In some cases opaque grayish rectangle does the job.
I generally edit the sensitive part out and match it to the background of the document looks much cleaner IMHO.
However, I agree that it requires some quick hand in image manipulation software.
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#200That's a long read, has anyone got a blurb so I know what I'm getting myself into?
Search for "tl; dr". It's a section at the end of the page with the summary.