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pawson Servo Nightly Builds Available

While Gatekeeper is on by default and the ability to adjust it has been restricted to command-line only in Sierra, it is still possible to disable it.

pawson Servo Nightly Builds Available

I see where you're coming from.

Gatekeeper is nice in some important ways but seeing as it isn't free, I'd also be quite happy with just a SHA1 or similar signature to verify a binary with.

pawson Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

Congrats to the contributors and thanks for the hard work pushing this out!

Looking forward to Heroku working out of the box[1] and quiet assets moved to core[2]

[1] https://blog.heroku.com/container_ready_rails_5

[2] https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails/pull/355

pawson A Facebook Sixth Sense

Enjoyed reading through this, nice work!

pawson iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

This matches my experience on iPhone 5.

Since I was out of warranty anyway I opted to self-replace the battery.

http://www.onpaws.com/2015/10/fresh-iphone/

pawson Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2015-ruby-debugger-inter...

This is a video by Dennis Ulshakov, the maintainer. I haven't watched this in its entirety but it's only 20 mins.

pawson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2016)

SEEKING WORK - New York City or Remote

Sr. Technical Consultant

My name is Patrick. I'm an award winning developer with broad technical and business knowledge, most recently focused on building web apps that convert and perform at scale.

Authorized to work in US and EU, bilingual in German/English (native).

  • Full-stack web on mobile and desktop

  • Wide DevOps experience (AWS, Heroku, Vagrant, CI/Jenkins, self-hosting)

  • OS internals (forensics, Unix/Windows, network security/firewalls/Cisco)

  • formerly Microsoft and Princeton

Results:

  • ~40,000 users totaling ~$18 mil in donations (fundraising platform)

  • ~$1 mil/yr revenue (e-commerce site from scratch, non-physical goods)

  • $25k/yr hosting cost reduction by re-architecting AWS infrastructure

  • 200% improvement in forensics turnaround time by revamping imaging lab

  • 350% page speed improvement by rewriting JS & deps from scratch

Public-facing projects: http://revv.co, http://petwellnessreport.com, http://bfa.com

email: me at onpaws.com

github: github.com/onpaws

More info: http://iforgotyoursite.com

Mention HN, please.

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pawson Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

This.

pawson Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

Did I miss something? I run Yosemite and the latest Safari, including point updates, runs fine. http://www.macworld.com/article/2987211/software-web/apple-r...

pawson To hack an Android phone, just type in a really long password

OS X had a curiously similar screensaver vulnerability back in the early days. On 10.2.6 and earlier, attempting to submit a very long string (>65,537 characters if memory serves) into the screensaver password prompt would crash the screensaver and drop to the desktop.

Making exploitation much easier was how around the same time Cocoa widgets got emacs-style bindings like ctrl-k, ctrl-y, ctrl-a. Through combining these shortcuts an attacker could quickly and exponentially increase the input string length.

I never saw it documented online but I remember applying this same trick to logonwindow and OS X dropping into the so-called 'secret >console mode' -- full screen terminal, Linux-style.

Background: https://www.securemac.com/macosx-screensaver-security.php

pawson Japan Has More Car Chargers Than Gas Stations

"Three years after the Fukushima nuclear crisis all of Japan's 48 operable reactors remain shut, with no restarts scheduled."

via http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/28/japan-utilities-pl...

Worth keeping the big picture in mind.

pawson Microsoft Announces Windows 10

Paste in command prompt? This works today: Alt-Space, E, P

pawson JQuery 1.11 and 2.1 Released

That warning was bothering me enough that I ended up forking jquery-rails simply to drop in 1.11.beta3. Until jquery-rails gets updated (doesn't appear to be at the time of writing) this is an easy one liner:

gem 'jquery-rails', github: 'onpaws/jquery-rails'

pawson Onion Terminal is a Web Browser Unix Terminal

Happy to see the terminal-in-browser space get more attention!

Check out https://github.com/chjj/tty.js

pawson Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

Amen! Winamp was not only whimsical, but also one of the first widely adopted catalysts to the rise of the digital economy.

pawson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2012)

SEEKING WORK - remote or onsite (NYC) strong HTML/CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), PHP (WordPress & ExpressionEngine). currently exploring Ruby on Rails, Facebook/Twitter auth & integration. Handy at cross-browser glitches. Former Microsoftie.

github: https://github.com/onpaws site: http://www.onpaws.com email: me@onpaws.com (Pat)

pawson Wikipedia blackout page

Chrome's built-in JavaScript blacklist proves really useful today.

http://www.onpaws.com/2012/01/sopa-wikipedia-blackout-hack/