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3,590karma·386submissions·May 13, 2016
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Reminded me of Crash at Crush [1]; another deliberate train crash. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_at_Crush …
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> If you're a security practitioner, teaching yourself how to hack is also part of the "Hacking is Cool" dumb idea. Think about it for a couple of minutes: teaching yourself a bunch …
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I was about to ask for the same thing. All best practices within the security domain point towards multiple layers of security, simply to have some fallback if one mechanism is compromised.
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One of the first things you need to think about is the inclusion criteria. Wikipedia bases all its content on the following: "A topic is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list …
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We tend to avoid using github repos, but go for published packages from the usual sites; Nuget, Pypi, Npm etc, using Repository and Firewall from Sonatype to act as a proxy between us and the package …
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Just discovered this amazing work inspired by old classics such as Total Annihilation. tl;dr: Open source modern 3D RTS. Source appears to be located at [1]. [1] - https://github.com/b…
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Impressive for sure, but I have to admit that the first thing I thought it would be was the launch of the Apollo 17 lunar module: https://youtu.be/9HQfauGJaTs?si=2smTf9G3tomXPpot Film…
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Not sure about jfrog, but Sonatype does something similar. They basically hash all components/packages from a bunch of different repositories, and then tag the hash with various metadata you can …
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Wikipedia to the rescue: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_flown_by_Er... …
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VAT on EVs isn’t the only mechanism, there is also a one-time toll related to vehicle weight in the works.
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First thing I thought of was food commercials, where the goal isn't to replicate the actual looks of the food on offer, but rather what people would like the food to look like. [1] Nice video tho…
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Also reminded me of European Air War and Total Air War. Loved how you could affect the campaigns, at least to a certain extent.
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Absolutely, but I fear such a solution would lead to a lot of people signing just to be compliant, not beacause they did a thourough job reviewing. If we could connect it to a reputation somehow, it m…
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Yeah, that could work, at least for larger orgs. Not so sure the majority of users would comply with such sn extension, or even have the knowledge to review for eg. security issues. Having a working P…
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Norway here, but I didn’t get it. First guess was that foehn meant foot/feet, but I was way off according to the other comments
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This is a universal problem in most of package repositories regardless of language. PKI is difficult, and for it to work the users have to do some homework and place trust somewhere.
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> I am unsure whether a jet liner can descend to a breathable altitude (say, 10000 feet) and feed "fresh", or ambient, air into the plane. That seems like a nice redundancy to have and I …
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Even 100.000.000 isnt all songs. There is still loads of music missing, with changes hppening every now and then as labels pulls specific band lineups not covered by their agreements with Spotify. The…
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