Posts tagged with "linklog"
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Ruby rest-client Gem Hijacked
We stand on the shoulders of giants, but the giants don’t use two factor auth. https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/713
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Are more expensive helmets safer?
Surprisingly there’s not too much correlation between price and safety though you should clearly not just buy the cheapest thing on Amazon. https://blm.io/blog/motorcycle-helmet-safety-price/
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Google Uses IRC for Incident Response
Thought it was very interesting that in case of extreme reliability Google turns to my favorite chat communication tool pre Telegram. https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/managing-incidents/
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Alexander Shulgin: The Godfather of Psychedelics
Alexander Shulgin had a license from the DEA to produce any schedule 1 substance, and managed to discover over 200 psychoactive compounds before his license was revoked. He was (and still is) the first private citizen to ever be granted a license like this from the DEA, generally they are reserved for pharmaceutical companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin
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What OSS Maintainers Owe You
I’ve been seeing lots of blame for the latest JS/NPM fiasco thrown at the original author, and I’d just like us to take a moment to read this post from one of the creators of Clojure; as well as this quote by Dave Thomas when he was at Gig City Elixir in my town of Chattanooga TN. In OSS,
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Ken Thompson Hack
Every few months/years I remember this happened and it scares the hell out of me. http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
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Crooks install skimmer on POS in 2 seconds
Wow. I knew skimmers could be installed fast but this shows just how easy it is. https://boingboing.net/2018/07/09/crooks-install-skimmer-on-poin.html
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Death Breaches PayPal’s Terms
Other breaking news: Suicide is illegal and punishable by death! Ok, hyperbole… but still, we should honestly get a grip on the extent of our automated email. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44783779
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TopicBox
From the creators of Fastmail, who I love and pay to host my email. I honestly don’t know what to think of this. Is it slack but for email, or email for slack, but isn’t slack supposed to help alleviate the need for email? https://www.topicbox.com/
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I added support for SQLCipher to the sqlite3-ruby gem
I’m just so happy this was accepted. You can now use SQLCipher with ruby when installed using –with-sqlcipher flag. You can also check whether or not the gem was compiled with SQLCipher by using the top level static method now available SQLite3::sqlcipher? https://github.com/sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby/pull/232