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Globz

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full stack dev

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Globz··on Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates
When I visit paypal and open up the console I see the following warning :

The SSL certificate used to load resources from https://www.paypalobjects.com will be distrusted in M70. Once distrusted, users will be prevented from loading these resources. See https://g.co/chrome/symantecpkicerts for more information.

Globz··on Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
There's a firewall between the CAN bus so it cannot be affected at all by the MCU.
Globz··on What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]
It happened here in 1998 in Montreal, Quebec

It did cost over $2B to rebuild the network.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ice-storm-1998-1.446...

Globz··on Show HN: CSS Scan – Instantly check or copy computed CSS from any element
This is really GREAT! The timing is perfect, I have to rewrite a whole bunch of CSS for a project and now I can easily pick and choose what I want to port over to the new layout.

Thank you!

Globz··on Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly
Just to add some weight to your opinion about Redux being cargo-culted take a look at this video

https://youtu.be/S6lwJ6Rixnc?t=6m

Globz··on A legend reborn: Microsoft brings back the iconic Classic IntelliMouse
MX518 for life, this mouse has been used daily for over 10 years and I have a spare one just in case I need to replace some pieces, which never happened so far.

I do no longer use it for gaming since its now outclassed but it is now being use in my office and may one day die in peace after such a long life span.

I wish they would upgrade the internals and keep the same design which is honestly reliable and comfortable, I have never owned a mouse which fits my hand like this one does.

Globz··on Learning to program is getting harder
You couldn’t have said it better, I had the same kind of learning path as you did and I believe it makes everything a lot easier to understand since you can clearly see the full spectrum of what you are dealing with while programming and usually it helps open new doors so you can explore a problem from a different angle since you have a deep knowledge of your stack available to you from the start.
Globz··on Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting users watch videos
This! It their job to fix this mess, the burden of finding a better alternative doesn't lie with us.

I have no once of guilt related to blocking ads, if you can't pay the upkeep of your website and you haven't found any meaningful way for user contributions then that's on you and if you still serve ads because that's the only sane solution for your monetary problem then you should expect some users to block those ads and conclude that both parties did what they thought was best given this horrible situation.

Affiliate links are great and more people should really consider going back to this model.

Globz··on Microsoft forced users to install a password manager with a critical flaw
Well unless you are talking about TrueCrypt "next" - https://truecrypt.ch/ then yeah I guess this one is safe but I was talking about the original version from - http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/

WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt.

The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.

Globz··on Microsoft forced users to install a password manager with a critical flaw
Yes but because I sync KeePass over Dropbox I want to hide the true content of my data and + it adds another security layer to break before getting to my Password vault.
Globz··on Microsoft forced users to install a password manager with a critical flaw
KeePass + VeraCrypt container, never failed me. Before that I used TrueCrypt but it is no longer trustable.
Globz··on MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike
How is the value of a coin created if there’s no miner or exchange, does it have a fix fiat price? Would you buy the coins with real cash?
Globz··on Coinbase Wants Wall Street to Resolve Its Bitcoin Trust Issues
I paid for a VPN service in 2011 for 0.19 BTC / (~5$ USD or something back then) which is now worth over $3300 USD at today's price...to me it shows that we are not dealing with a currency, if all you can do is hold and avoid spending it in fear of "losing" money then it has no real value except selling at the right time so someone else can buy your share, hold it and eventually sell it and so forth..
Globz··on App sizes are out of control
Yeah it is a problem, and so far the way most companies fixed this issue is by releasing a 'lite' version which of course is probably not feature complete but will be significantly faster to update and load.

If you are on a good network you probably won't ever notice such bloat until you run out of disk space or bust your download limit (Canada)

If I find an app to be too big for my taste I normally fall back to the web version if it exist at all but even then its hit or miss because sometimes the web app is pure complete garbage or worse than the app itself.

Globz··on Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era
I have access to my password manager at all time, thanks to https://minikeepass.github.io/ on iOS!

You can even sync your database to all of your devices by storing it inside an encrypted volume for extra security.

Globz··on Stupid security things
I am not using HipChat but I am using Trello and now that they have been acquired by Atlassian I wonder if they linked all of Trello's accounts to an Atlassian ID?

  As an added precaution, we have reset your Atlassian ID 
  which is used to access all Atlassian services
Globz··on ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network
is there a particular reason why ALL of them are using the same subnet 192.168.200.*?
Globz··on PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
Good to know, this is not our use case at the moment, we mostly generate PDF of 2-3 pages long.
Globz··on PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
I have been using it for almost 2 years on a production server to generate html orders to PDF on the fly, such an amazing tool.
Globz··on PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
PhantomJS enabled us at the time to bootstrap a big project at work where at the end workflow the app had to turn HTML orders to PDF on the fly, eventually we moved to WKHTMLTOPDF (https://wkhtmltopdf.org/) which is much less hungry with resources but nonetheless PhantomJS played a huge role during the early days of the project and was easy to setup. If I remember correctly the only down side was to find the correct format for our HTML template so PhantomJS would render proper page break and repeat the header for super long orders.

I can understand why stepping down is the right decision, maintaining such project by himself is an amazing feat on its own and even more when it proves to be useful for so many companies. Sadly when it becomes your second job you might always be on the lookout for a clean exit and such opportunity just became a reality.

Good luck in your future projects Vitaly!

Globz··on Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
Yes I still do, at this moment I have 3413 bookmarks across different folders, coding, work, recipes, Gaming, etc.

I am currently running Bookmark Checker (chrome extension) and did set the parameters to "error connect" and at this very moment it is reporting : "Bookmark check status: Total bookmarks : 2238 of 3413 error connect: 2117"

so many dead links :(

I did not know about pinboard and I am really tempted to give it a try so I can do a full html archive without the fear of losing again 2000+ bookmarks in 5 years from now.

Globz··on Trolling the Entire Internet
Church of Fudge, enough said. It isn't a website...but a video anyway haha, I remember "Tub girl" and lemonparty.org

Anyway I am past this "searching phase" for shocking material, I bet it is really creepy nowadays.

Globz··on Password Rules Are Bullshit
Hotmail did that my super long password, it freaked me out at first and I had to guess where the cut-off happened because I couldn't find the damn password length.
Globz··on Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue
Exactly, they could be doing some kind of hacking tools rotation by burning all the ones which are most likely to get patch shortly because they have been reported and thrown in with a mix of obsolete tools which have been already been replaced by more efficient attack vectors and at the same time burning a big bag of tricks for all the other nations already using these vectors or in the process of developping such techniques/tools.
Globz··on Show HN: Gutenberg – Modern CSS framework to print the web correctly
I am using wkhtmltopdf for turning HTML orders to PDF for my company, I have no page break problems and printing is working like charm.
Globz··on The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (2011)
Only in DF you can talk about turtle reproduction....

here's a bug related to turtle pond going extinct :

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=2780

"Since turtles were my only source of shells, which are ever so important for moods, I am keenly feeling their absence after a few years. I went ahead and modded my world so that hoofs and horns can be used also for shells, (which is actually very cool btw, its awesome to have an artifact decorated with Elk Bird horn.)

However, my ponds were filled with turtles early on, and I accumulated many shells that unfortunately rotted away. It seems like fish populations are regenerating, but turtles are not among those, and since I found that odd I decided to report it."

"Pond turtles lay eggs, which might contribute why they will only breed in off site statistics if that's any relevance.

DF structures used for dfhack only implies that eggs that are hatched go into certain classes, and entity ID is one of them for intelligent species (crow men eggs layed and hatched on site belong to you etc., underground egg laying races have been in constant decline since they were added because of this until recently)

Egg layers have always had a hard time repopulating due to dependency on a object to breed which limited and stagnated them in world gen (made easier by spontaneous population regeneration in world-gen recently). I cannot recollect if its possible to offer pet pond turtles nestboxes to use by pitting or pasturing enough of them in a contained area as a alternative or even if they have additional orientation/marriage barriers to overcome we are not aware of.

All gendered vermin breed (or apparently breed, they have the prequesite animal tags but its uncertain whether they become pregnant whilst in the game world before leaving for the site population tally and being replaced with a new generated creature in their momentary existances, or even if they do become pregnant at all with child/adult born states) hermaphrodital or non-gender typical vermin are usually accounted for by being virtually innumerable to compensate for no breeding on site. Technically if the female pond turtle could get off the map by dissapearing and being replaced whilst pregnant it could spawn additional turtles slowly.

Fish are very visible with ASCII symbols and can be seen in murky ponds and rivers for periods of time if a example is needed, if they are close together they are in the capacity to breed and keep the numbers up. Drop a sizable amount of caught vermin fish into a empty pool and it should sustain the fish in theory as they repopulate with compatible mates in that area.

Similar designs have been used with isolated cave spider rooms with wild vermin which appear to be self sustainable and harvested with burrowed animal trappers & web collectors. "

Globz··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
My Atom keep crashing and the log says it can't resolve :

https://atom-installer.github.com/

is there a part of this hosted on S3? I cannot open Atom anymore, it keep crashing on the check for updates screen...

Globz··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
Yes Trello is down and they are using S3 :(
Globz··on Vulnerabilities in Password-Manager Apps
We need the same kind of investigation for iOS, this kind of research was so much needed because after all this is where we store all of our entire internet identities, good job!
Globz··on Design a Perfect Search Box
I think of this symbol as a way to find a needle into an haystack. You have so much data that you a need to "zoom in" to a precise location in order to find what you really need.
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