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I've enjoyed playing around with this product, but I wish there was a tier between free and pro that added infinite drawing without such a steep price. I'm not really interested in the sync stuff, but would happily pay a little to add infinite grid to the features otherwise included in the free tier.
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Mostly just a toy to learn some AWS/Serverless and security stuff, but a tool similar to burp collaborator for dns / http canaries tied into a slack bot. Essentially request a new canary url, you get back a unique endpoint such as 123456789abcd.detect.domain.com, and any time there is a DNS request or http request of any kind to that canary url it sends a message to a slack bot with relevant info, and includes some geoip data and a static map image of IP locations (via mapbox static image api). Considering doing my own plugin for mitmproxy (similar to burp collaborator everywhere) that can be useful in looking for ssrf vulnerabilities. A couple tools out there that do this, kind of just wanted to build one myself for the learning experience.
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Comment · 9 years ago
Sorry I didn't intend it to be a gatekeeping thing or trying to define who isn't or is a professional. I apologize it was poorly worded.

I think a diagram better explains what I'm trying to say.

What I feel like Apple's target audience was in the past with their 'Pro' lines:

https://imgur.com/a/ydLdE

What I feel like Apple's target audience is now with their 'Pro' lines:

https://imgur.com/a/dGI9R

It still meets the requirements of a lot of professionals, and a lot of professionals are still going to use them. I'm not trying to say 'whether or not you are a professional is directly related to whether or not you use a macbook pro'. It is just that apple seems to be slowly targeting their "pro" lines more towards the consumer who like pro stuff side to capture more of that market than they are trying to move toward the professional side to capture more of that market. Instead of getting more ports and longer battery life at the sacrifice of weight, we get things like the touchbar and ever thinner machines that have trouble living upto the battery expectations. For a bunch of professionals that doesn't matter, it isn't what makes a macbook pro fit their requirements. But there seems to be a very vocal segment of professionals who sit on that left most edge concerned that what apple calls 'pro' is moving further away from meeting their requirements than closer.

Edit: it might be more clear to say the green circle is people who find a macbook pro to meet their requirements.

Comment · 9 years ago
I'm not in any way saying that a macbook pro (or any 'pro' thing) can't/shouldn't be used by professionals, or that people that use them are not professionals. It is just that I find more often than not when 'Pro' is used to market something, the primary audience appears to be consumers that want have a pro feeling, regardless of whether or not it was designed primarily for the requirements of a professional. If you are a professional and a Macbook Pro fits your requirements, great! It just feels lately that the 'Pro' moniker doesn't mean it is specifically designed with professionals in mind as the primary audience.
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My rule of thumb lately has been that if something is marketed as 'Pro', it is usually intended for average joe who wants to feel pro, not to meet the requirements of people that are actually professionals.
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"The critical firmware flaws came to light last year in an advisory that was sponsored by an investment that was betting against the stock of St. Jude, which was formally acquired by Abbott Laboratories in January. In the two days following the disclosure by investment firm Muddy Waters, St. Jude's stock price fell 12 percent. At the time, St. Jude issued a statement saying the Muddy Waters report was "false and misleading.""

This reminds me of the plot of Casino Royal where the villains short the stock of an airline / airplane manufacturer, then attempt to blow up the plane they are showing off to force the stock to sink. That is some questionable ethics, then again the investment firm is called "Muddy Waters" haha.

Comment · 9 years ago
Curious about your home setup, what ISP are you using at home that lets you have essentially a /25 block of public IPs, let alone 40GbE of bandwidth? Especially if this is costing you $500/month.
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