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When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
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#292Apart 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!
Interesting, I liked the story but got the opposite impression you did. At first the humor was amusing but I felt like the relentless, extremely heavy sarcasm dripping off every sentence quickly turned it into a slog and even started to make me wonder which parts were genuine vs. joking. Not great.
It seemed like a lot of words to say "His reservation code is visible on his ticket and I typed that into the website and saw the data they sent me". I do like how you got to see all the false starts though, which is more realistic than just knowing what to do immediately(ie trying to scan the barcode and then finding the data just printed in ascii)
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#293Apart 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!
Interesting, I liked the story but got the opposite impression you did. At first the humor was amusing but I felt like the relentless, extremely heavy sarcasm dripping off every sentence quickly turned it into a slog and even started to make me wonder which parts were genuine vs. joking. Not great.
For me it was funny at first, then it was too much, but then it became funny again, like a joke repeated enough times.
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#294Is it just me, or did anyone else try to clean up their monitor from dust, realizing eventually the "dust" is the websites background image?
TFW your monitor is dirty enough for you to not notice the dusty BG image.
Could be worse. I'm pretty sure some of the dirt on one of my monitors is actually dead pixels.
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
I laughed out loud multiple times reading this and sent it to some friends whose senses of humor I respect and the consensus is this is funny.
I shared this with some of my friends, and we all agreed it was obnoxious. So, where do we go from here?
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#296Lately 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…
I think the Windows registry has this, doesn't it? Not really applicable to this use case, and do far as I know it's world-readable (acls are applied for writing, not reading) but it does have per-key ACLs (not sure about per-field).
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is how military redactions have been done forever. If a soldier writes home to his family and includes classified details (“I watched the sun rise over Mt Vesuvius yesterday but today we are moving west”) the censors just cut out the text with a knife.
Wouldn’t that mean they were marching into the gulf of Naples?
Obviously they wouldn't want the enemy to know their troops are amphibious.
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#298Nice. 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…
Blacking out is the correct thing to do.
Not cutting it so that it becomes transparent since this may still preserve the color component of the RGBA-pixels, even if it is invisible and blended with a black background.
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#299This is easily top 1% of all writing on the internet
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#300I would encourage anyone interested in this article to read it thoroughly to the end. This is one of the most satisfying articles I’ve read recently and I really enjoy the author’s unique sense of humor.
Try some of james mickens articles: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens They are written in a similar style, I really love them.
Thank you for this. I ate the entire mango.pdf and was still hungry.