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mimgon Hackers who broke into Equifax exploited a flaw in open-source server software

It was my understanding Atlassian tools like Jira and Confluence do not use Struts. Is this correct?

mimgon Idyll: Interactive Document Language

A somewhat similar in concept using attributes in markup is Tangle [1]

[1] http://worrydream.com/Tangle/

mimgon Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information

In the case of Equifax customer data was given to them by creditors. Customers had no say.

mimgon Building account systems

> Users are always identified to you by email address, phone number or both...

An account system using phone numbers may have a negative impact to privacy. For some people a phone number is attached to a real name and address. Also it is not uncommon for a person to change their phone number from time to time.

mimgon X.com

Vary: User-Agent header, caching servers should consider the user agent when deciding whether to serve the page from cache. [1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Va...

mimgon Questions the FBI Uses to Determine If Someone Is a Likely Terrorist

>> Showing an interest in terrorist events: everyone.

What they meant by the question is not what you believe it to be... interest != concern. I would say almost everyone has a concern but not an interest.

>> Substance abuse. Almost everyone.

Sure. I wouldn't say almost everyone.

mimgon How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and profitability

I would hope this is just poor execution on the manufacturers behalf and will eventually realize that making the battery an upgradable module would be a great selling point. However, based on experience I don’t see manufactures wanting to sell better batteries when they can make it exclusive to newer models. I think after the proliferation of EV’s we will see a lot of aftermarket batteries with significantly better specs.

mimgon Verizon will control Android updates for Google Pixel phones it sells

Back when I had a Windows Mobile smartphone the carrier I had controlled the updates. Upgrading from winmo 6 to 6.1 took months. I think allowing carriers to control updates will negatively impact user experience.

mimgon Golo – a lightweight dynamic language for the JVM

Interesting language. The comprehensions are a neat feature and similar to Python in syntax. No support for ternary or assignment operators. The lambda syntax is not very intuitive if you have no arguments and more than one statement to execute.

  let e1 = {
    return "e1 called!"
  }

  let e2 = -> {
    return "e2 called!"
  }

e1() has expected behavior but e2() does not and e2()() has expected behavior. Not sure why?