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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
For those that don’t hear a voice in your head, do you get songs stuck in your head?
Comment · 7 years ago
If the WiFi has a login portal, you might not get redirected to it when accessing an https site. If you go to this site, you’re more likely to get properly redirected.
Comment · 7 years ago
It’s a book that really needs to be read twice, if only to fully appreciate those first 250 pages. They go from not making sense at all to being quite good.
Comment · 7 years ago
These steps didn't work for me; I failed at creating the self-signed certificate:

  yubico-piv-tool -a verify-pin -a selfsign-certificate -s 9a -S "/CN=SSH key/" --valid-days=3650 -i yubikey.pub.pkcs8 -o cert.pem -v
  trying to connect to reader 'Yubico Yubikey 4 OTP+U2F+CCID'.
  Action 'verify-pin' does not need authentication.
  Action 'selfsign-certificate' does not need authentication.
  Now processing for action 'verify-pin'.
  Enter PIN:
  Successfully verified PIN.
  Now processing for action 'selfsign-certificate'.
  Failed sign command with code 6a80.
  Failed signing certificate.
I haven't yet figured out what 6a80 means. Does this guide assume the Yubikey is in any particular state?
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
If I understand you correctly, Safari does this on both iOS and macOS.

If you click a link that opens a new tab and swipe back from that new tab, Safari closes the new tab and shows you the previous tab.

I’m not exactly sure of the behavior when you open a new tab, then go to another tab, then back to the tab that was opened and then swipe back, though.

Comment · 8 years ago
Like with anything, it should be evaluated based on what your needs are.

For a simple deploy you probably don't need Kubernetes or even containers.

If you are running containers, you'll need a mechanism for running them. And maybe at some point you want something to recreate them when they die or become unhealthy. Maybe you want to run multiple containers, and you want to do rolling deploys of them. Maybe you want to run them on multiple hosts and network them together. Maybe you want to be able to attach a persistent disk to some of them, or interface with some secrets management software. And maybe you want a single, well-supported API for doing all of the above.

There's a lot more that can be said about Kubernetes; it offers a lot out of the box as well as an API for extending it when you need behavior it doesn't provide.

Comment · 8 years ago
Think of it another way: the locals overwhelmingly agreed to change the rules because they probably understood that while they could adapt to the rule, outsiders probably would not be as well-informed.

Someone making a right turn after hours paints themselves as a potential outsider who doesn’t know the rules and, given the location’s history, is probably there to solicit sex.

I like that the community was empowered to make this change.

Comment · 8 years ago
> “He was, in my humble opinion, a technology genius, a computer math genius,” says Martha Walters Barnett, a former TLO chief privacy officer. “He was among the first to acknowledge … that insignificant, unrelated pieces of data, when put together in the right way, could become a powerful tool.”

Hmm.

David Burnham published The Rise of the Computer State (ISBN-10: 0394514378) in 1983. In the "Data Bases" chapter, he writes about how transactional data (when you swipe a credit card, when you pay a bill) that used to exist on paper only was then starting to be stored in databases by different companies which, with the rise of cheap and fast networking, could then be quickly and easily combined in previously unfeasible ways. He specifically calls out credit reporting agencies TRW and Equifax, and warns that "the astounding power of these records is not appreciated by the public, the courts or Congress."

It's a fantastic book, and I highly recommend it.

Comment · 8 years ago
These things are pretty but terrible to use as a customer. It's not obvious where the sensor for Apple Pay is and it's impossible to use with an Apple Watch. Philz Coffee and Blue Bottle have them in San Francisco and I much prefer the old card reader/Pay point.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
If you liked this article, I recommend his book, Chaos Monkeys, about his time at Facebook as an Ads product manager.
Comment · 9 years ago
Wireless charging.
Comment · 9 years ago
I have a 2015 MacBook and also use a HHKB Pro 2 Type S; both wildly different keyboards.

I think the MacBook keyboard is wonderful, though I prefer my HHKB. It requires a different method of hitting the keys, but I have no problem going between the two, or to any of the other keyboards I use.

I recall when Apple first came out with the thin aluminum keyboards that it took me some time to adjust from what I was using at the time, a Microsoft Ergo something or other with huge key travel and vague key actuation feel.

If you get pain while using any keyboard you should look into how you're using it, and why you're getting that pain.

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