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dankotanko1599on ExtendDB: An open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter

Now i can upgrade my applications which use the DynamoDB API with an Oracle server back-end without touching a single line of code?

dankotanko1599on Is burning alive a small price to pay for a button activated door?

What is wrong with mechanical doors?

dankotanko1599on Elon Musk's Mission to Take over NASA–and Mars

How can i profit from extra-earthyl humanoid expansionism?

Is it too early to register the domain for the SolarSystemPlanetFederation.com ?

Does the presence of a human on Mars confirm intelligent alien life?

When will the first Mars v Earth war be fought, and with what sort of technology will humans and martians fight with?

So many questions, and so few Tweets with which to X them with.

dankotanko1599on Oracle Cloud Hacked Twice, Denied Thrice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0

What the hell is security?

dankotanko1599on Oracle Cloud Hacked Twice, Denied Thrice

A bad week for Oracle - their health business and underlying cloud platform has suffered multiple massive breeches with damming evidence, and overt denial, minimisation of the matter.

dankotanko1599on Australia increasingly hostile toward secure messaging apps

I believe Signal also is unable to have a presence in Australia due to its "backdooring" privacy laws. Not sure how they deliver their app into Australian App stores?

dankotanko1599on UniSuper members go a week with no account access after Google Cloud misconfig

It's just mind-boggling that their architecture allows this to happen so quickly IMO. There are so many resources and dependencies, that completely nuking a cloud account cannot and should not be easy or fast... and should not actually be possible by the cloud vendor. I suppose they need to guard against anyone setting up costly infrastructure and doing a "runner" (allowing a credit card to lapse) - in that scenario - deleting all the customers data should be the absolute last resort - after it's been reasonably determined they are being malicious. How does AWS manage these scenarios? I'm sure they follow-up multiple times before hitting the nuke button. In-fact - they know and treat their "larger accounts" with special privileges and assurances. Unisuper is not a small fish.

dankotanko1599on Dune Genesis (1980)

Sounds like a job for a machiavellian mentat with aspergers and delusions of grandeur.

dankotanko1599on Dune Genesis (1980)

Imagine a political system that was filled with randomly selected people rather than those motivated by power. It could work. Since anyone can do the job of a politician imo... it's not like medicine or engineering that requires hard skills. :laugh:

dankotanko1599on Markov Chains are the Original Language Models

How can I take your course?

dankotanko1599on How can I verify if the code being run is the code presented?

This means Signal server must run on Intel CPUs with SGX enabled?

dankotanko1599on How can I verify if the code being run is the code presented?

This is awesome! thanks.

I guess for the back-end it's a little more difficult to verify? But i'm guessing Signal's security architecture is such that with a verifiable client build it would be tricky to mess with the server?

dankotanko1599on How can I verify if the code being run is the code presented?

I know companies and module developers _say_ they run the code which is publicly viewable on GitHub. But how can we be sure the server or client does not have additional code injected during the build process which would invalidate the otherwise secure framework they present to the public?

dankotanko1599on What Is Incoherence?

The way I see it, say if someone smokes cigarettes... And one day they are confronted with irrefutable evidence that what they are doing is bad/wrong/dangerous - their mind is then uncomfortably split between two conflicting ideas:

1. "I'm an OK person, I'm not particularly bad, I try and do the right thing"

2. "How can #1 be true if there is strong evidence to the contrary?"

I think you're right, hackit2, this is usually not verbally articulated, but FELT as discomfort.

This internal discomfort can be resolved either by:

1. Facing up to the facts around cigarettes - This is hard, this sucks. If you're smart you have to face up to all sorts of uncomfortable stuff, from governmental benefits of addiction to your own mistakes.

2. NOT facing up to what is real. But siding with a group/ideology/thinking mode which is working on the front of modifying reality. Investing time in trying to change reality through narrative or rhetoric or disproving.

I think this framework happens to us all on some fronts... I think the catholic church might have hit up against some of this stuff when the earth ceased being the centre of the universe. I think they may have chosen path #2, cause they had a lot to lose.

dankotanko1599on Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? • Hillel Wayne [video]

What if you design software which controls drones which build bridges? Does that deserve respect?

dankotanko1599on What Is Incoherence?

People are (usually) viscerally uncomfortable when they are in a state of cognitive dissonance, our brains are wanting collapse uncertainty or resolve some belief for some fleeting concrete idea or system to anchor to.