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Our modern lives are dependent on what’s provided to us by technology companies, who often have no direct incentive to “look after us” or even to keep us alive. Their business models are predicated on attention and consumption; and they can never have too much of it.
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When I was young and naive, I built a website for myself. It’s no-longer fit for purpose, and needs a facelift. This is the first part of a multi-part series, focussing on some of the design considerations of this new skouf.com.
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An unintimidating introduction to the dark arts of C/C++ vulnerabilities
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snyk.io
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4 years ago
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eng
Following the addition of C/C++ security scanning to Snyk Open Source, we discuss some common C/C++ vulnerabilities and ways to mitigate them.
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Do you know the difference between creating a class instance and initializing it? Would you like an interactive tour of the Python Pillow library? This week on the show, Christopher Trudeau is here, and he's brought another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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WFH Day 761 Thanks to my employer, I had an additional Day Off. To take care of myself and spend time away from my Computer. I went out for a hike up Mission Peak in Fremont, California. I heard about it and wanted to do it for quite some time. It was a great adventure. It was challenging, and I was tired like hell afterward. I got a sunburn on my face. Not great.
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In 1982, at just twenty-three years old and halfway through her architectural studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6. Exhausted by a recent breakup and with only a few savings scraped together from her job in a pub, a tent, a few clothes and some tools, all packed on the back of her bike, she was determined to prove herself.
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In 1982, at just twenty-three years old and halfway through her architectural studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6. Exhausted by a recent breakup and with only a few savings scraped together from her job in a pub, a tent, a few clothes and some tools, all packed on the back of her bike, she was determined to prove herself.
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In 1982, at just twenty-three years old and halfway through her architectural studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6. Exhausted by a recent breakup and with only a few savings scraped together from her job in a pub, a tent, a few clothes and some tools, all packed on the back of her bike, she was determined to prove herself.
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Plain Org v1.3 is now available on the App Store . The update receives a few features, bug fixes, and improvements. If you haven't heard of Plain Org , it gives you access to org files on iPhone while away from your beloved Emacs . I love org markup, but we (iPhone + org users) are a fairly niche bunch. If you're finding Plain Org useful, please help support this effort by getting the word out. Tell your friends, tweet , or blo....
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We have a Roborock S6 Pure robotic vacuum cleaner . It’s very nice having a device that more or less cleans the floors by itself. When it works. Ours stopped working a week ago, after working well for months.
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We have a Roborock S6 Pure robotic vacuum cleaner . It’s very nice having a device that more or less cleans the floors by itself. When it works. Ours stopped working a week ago, after working well for months.
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A tutorial, along with working Terraform code and Dockerfile, that you can use to deploy and operate your own Quake 3 server in an ECS task.
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We have a Roborock S6 Pure robotic vacuum cleaner . It’s very nice having a device that more or less cleans the floors by itself. When it works. Ours stopped working a week ago, after working well for months.
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A tutorial, along with working Terraform code and Dockerfile, that you can use to deploy and operate your own Quake 3 server in an ECS task.
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SnykCon recap: Automation for better compliance and faster feedback loops
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snyk.io
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4 years ago
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eng
Customers discuss how they used Snyk tools to automate elements of their software development process.
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Reducing overhead of large S3 file syncs with s3cmd (Misc)
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snippets.bentasker.co.uk
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4 years ago
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eng
I make quite extensive use of s3cmd from s3tools , historically I found it much more usable than Amazon's own CLI (though that's since improved), so the habits set in. The sync functionality in particular is useful and I've written in the past about reimplementing it for encrypted incremental backups . The sync argument works much like rsync. It's utility for incremental backups is obvious, but it also means that you get the ability t..
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Android is a disaster by design, and smartphones are cyberhumped at a hardware level, but functioning without one in urban society is increasingly becoming impossible. This thread is for discussion on making the best of it, revolving around libre alternatives to common apps, custom ROMs, cripppling your system, moving functionality to alternatives like notebooks, etc. etc. LinageOS device compatibility list https://wiki.lineageos.org/....
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If you know your user is asking for help show them the damn help
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nicolaiarocci.com
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4 years ago
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eng
One of my pet peeves has always been the many different, sometimes very original ways in which CLI tools handle help requests. POSIX sets the canon: -h or --help is how we ask for help. But no, some tools 1 want to be original at the worst moment: when their users are struggling, looking for guidance. It’s somewhat consolatory to learn that I’m not alone in this fight. The other day I landed on Clayton Craft’s blog. His [rant on the to..
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If you know your user is asking for help show them the damn help
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nicolaiarocci.com
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4 years ago
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One of my pet peeves has always been the many different, sometimes very original ways in which CLI tools handle help requests. POSIX sets the canon: -h or --help is how we ask for help. But no, some tools 1 want to be original at the worst moment: when their users are struggling, looking for guidance. It’s somewhat consolatory to learn that I’m not alone in this fight. The other day I landed on Clayton Craft’s blog. His [rant on the to..
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This is the Programming Employment thread, which exists for all general discussion regarding the topic. All discussion of employment not superseded by any more specific thread topic which isn't concerned with employment belongs in this thread. Do not create any threads for discussing employment, or they will be locked. It would be appropriate to discuss employment concerning a single language here, or in a thread dedicated to that lang..
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As I am writing my first blog post for Artsy, here is a short introduction on who I am: My name is Kaja and I am an engineer in our Berlin entity. As a Ruby-born programmer I am calling myself a backend engineer, but that also may change and is more about emotional identification and less about what I actually do (as you will see in this blog post). My background is not in engineering at all. In university I graduated in philosophy and hist....
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Learn how you can improve your GraphQL security using Snyk Code static analysis to find common and more complex GraphQL vulnerabilities.
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Running multiple seperate commands via seperate SSH invocations can be very slow, so we sometimes want to multiplex SSH sessions over an existing connection (i.e. re-use the connection). This can be particularly useful if you're shelling into a system which requires two-factor authentication as you'll only need to answer a challenge for the first connection. It's also useful if you're using something like ansible, as it can massively ..
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Minimum meaningful statistical level for the Mann–Whitney U test
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aakinshin.net
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4 years ago
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eng
The Mann–Whitney U test is one of the most popular nonparametric null hypothesis significance tests. However, like any statistical test, it has limitations. We should always carefully match them with our business requirements. In this post, we discuss how to properly choose the statistical level for the Mann–Whitney U test on small samples. Let’s say we want to compare two samples $x = \{ x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n \}$ and $y = \{ y_1, y_2, ....
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