stevekemp

Some brief notes, to give a clue about details and scope: http://markdownshare.com/view/7cfb7f05-938b-4402-bb63-33217d... If that post still exists the job is still up for grabs.…

Some people do, because they don't know better. Others are trapped by circumstances. For example many users uploaded/stored coins at MtGox, and similar, because they wanted to trade them. …

> Like most companies, we don't post salary ranges for the positions in the job posting itself. Here in the UK I wouldn't even apply for a position if the salary (range) wasn't speci…

I might have been making assumptions on CouchDB which aren't valid - that remote users could query all documents (== pages) to get the comments. With my thing yes it can be crawled, since request…

Presumably that means that users can mass-scrape the submitted comments though? (Potentially allowing the email addresses users submitted to be harvested.) Other than that it doesn't seem like a…

I find that a very interesting solution, but I suspect I'd not use it in practice (to submit comments). Moving away from the browser to my mail-client to compose things would distract me and caus…

The biggest problem with static blogs is the lack of comments. I see this project uses either facebook or disqus which is a solution a lot of people like. I prefer not to rely upon external comment-p…

SEEKING Freelancer - UK - Web designer. I've got a photography portfolio that needs a refresh, static HTML preferred, but jquery can be used if you have nice effects. I've only got about fiv…

I hope my own collection of related tools is also useful? https://github.com/skx/sysadmin-util More focused on those a sysadmin might prefer than general-use, but contributions o…

Mulling over the idea of remote system administration as service: http://remote-sysadmin.com/

Trains in the UK are a nightmare when they're delayed. I spent seven years working from home, making a trip from my home to company-HQ every few weeks. The train information board would also say…

> (location bar?) I think you mean "status bar", but yeah they were all the rage.

Honestly when it comes to colocation the price of your hardware is largely irrelevant, as you'll be billed on a combination of power-draw and bandwidth. A cheap VPS will almost always be cheaper,…

Pricing largely depends on location. Certainly in the UK, and most of europe, receiving SMS is free. Sending them might be 10-12p per message, but in practice contracts allow "unlimited SMS(se…

Interesting perspective. I both write code, and contribute fixes. I've had my code end up in screen, emacs, and other tools that people use but I've virtually never advertised that. (To be…

Yeah that was pretty nice to see. My first thought on seeing this project was wondering how hard it would be to hook up to nginx, or similar. I don't really "do" PHP, so I'd prob…

Given my preference for blocking/detecting its submissions I'm not likely to have any use for it - but regardless thanks for the pointer.

I run http://blogspam.net/ which is a service which filters blog-comments in real-time for a "spam vs. ok?" result. The submission of comments is relentless, and automated. …

Cheers. The biggest issue at the moment is the horrifically ugly look&feel, but I'll aim to improve things soon.

The problem with the wordpress plugin directory is similar to the Android/Apple appstores - getting discovered is hard. There is very definitely a lot of fake reviews, and gaming, involved in mos…

To be honest a lot of this is depending on your application-type. In my case I run a website, and it has a proxy as the public-facing front-end. Requests are distributed "evenly" to one of …

One of the comments below did mention an insecure-by-default NAS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7232518 …

Too often though it is hard to determine who to contact - e.g. you have a random IP, you look it up in whois and you find it belongs to a cable-provider. You can't map to that to an individual, u…

Please do see the comment later down, about the "hosts allow" setting for the rsync-daemon. But in short you either need to restricted access by IP, configure a password, or disable the daem…

You may be on to something; I'm just wary that actually downloading from an unsecured share would be "unauthorized access", and there have been too many cases where linking to torrents …

That's pretty bad, thanks for highlighting it. I could certainly see patterns in the things that were exposed. A lot of hosts exposed either: * A single share called "squid". * A pair …

Either firewall the service, via iptables, or the ACL system that rsync supports natively: [foo] path = /srv/foo hosts allow 1.2.3.4, 10.20.30.0/24 In addi…