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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/stedaniels; my proof: https://keybase.io/stedaniels/sigs/aTqjvGTx-EbsRDrgqT7BxOJiW24ao8WKISx1X8Aq6aA ]

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stedaniels··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
Automattic 1177 - https://automattic.com/about/

GitLab 1275 - https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/

stedaniels··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
On Android/Chrome homepage is just the logo, burger menu, white screen and then scroll down for footer.
stedaniels··on Show HN: Pragli, a virtual office for remote teams
This looks great, I'd love to get my colleagues on board. Where does the future lie? What's the pricing?

Cheers

stedaniels··on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus at Zerodha
I was more amazed than amused :-)
stedaniels··on Ask HN: Looking for someone to help create a trusted CA
Being a reseller puts you in the path to being a trusted CA.
stedaniels··on XB-1's wings are officially closed out
Nothing says Unsubscribe like a newsletter from a company I don't know about a product I've no idea what it does.
stedaniels··on Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims
If all the users data was going through the VPN, Facebook defacto knows what the user is doing on the web making that suggestion moot. It's the on device activity they want.
stedaniels··on Radical surgery permanently extends your legs
Your friends being concerned about your well-being and speaking to you about it are much better than those who don't.
stedaniels··on Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?
Please don't take this the wrong way, but could you qualify your advice instead of rant? That'd be really helpful.
stedaniels··on Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?
This seems like the best one going, and for the cheapest price for a lot of users. I'm interested in more reviews?
stedaniels··on How many users block Google analytics? (2017)
Analytics driven development is like flying a plane on instruments only with all the windows covered up. I mean, sure, you'll get there, but compared to flying normally you are missing out on so much.

Watching individual user sessions from session recordings provides more depth, but you are still missing out on great swathes of information.

Analytics and session recordings don't give anything near as much concrete data as taking the time to engage with your users. You then use analytics to confirm behaviour.

stedaniels··on How many users block Google analytics? (2017)
Matomo can easily share nginx with whatever site you are running. It's PHP/MySQL, which these days for a low impact site, will run perfectly well out of the box, no running required.
stedaniels··on Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records
jgrahamc is the CTO of Cloudflare. His only supervisor is eastdakota/ Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare.
stedaniels··on Pwn.college
There are far more advanced hacking groups than there are nation states. There are likely more criminal hacking groups in each individual country than there are nation states.
stedaniels··on Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?
The terms you're looking for are Linux Live USB, or netboot. Both often make use of local RAM disks.
stedaniels··on Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
I come across one of these kind of comments every other day. Some of my favourites are from green accounts that registered just to share their knowledge. So many of HN viewers aren't even registered, but when the urge arrives to share, the low barrier for entry means they can. We all get something from it.
stedaniels··on An unidentifiable mechanism that helps bypass the Great Firewall of China
No.

Cloudflare can explain it much better than me.

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-sni/

stedaniels··on Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems
This is incorrect. It's accessed with websockets, that can be run from any webpage, so all you'd have to do is follow a malicious link.

From the article:

> Accessing the Endpoint

> The endpoint, which serves a tool called spectrum analyzer, uses a websocket for communication with the graphical frontend displayed in a browser. Whereas CORS would restrict access to such an endpoint for HTTP requests, websocket is not protected by this protocol. Therefore, it is up to the server to verify the relevant request parameters added by the browser. Because these parameters are never inspected by the cable modem, the websocket will accept requests made by javascript running in the browser regardless of origin, thereby allowing attackers to reach the endpoint. It should be noted that the exploit is not limited to run in a browser. Any place where running code can reach an IP on the local network, can be used to exploit Cable Haunt.

stedaniels··on A list of places to post about your startup/launch
Whilst I'm not the OP, I am in the market for something like this, hence being in this thread.

# It's slow, each page load and column sort is 1.7+ seconds.

# It only sorts in increasing order, not decreasing, and if you'd want only one direction you'd likely want decreasing for followers and Alexa rank.

# Categories (Regions, and Platforms) should be faceted, to keep the UI tight consider the pattern employed by Excel for picking column filters.

# URL and Twitter should be sortable.

# Whole and filtered lists should be exportable to CSV.

Whilst these are all UX related, the last one for content.

# Add a "Type" column, this could differentiate between the type of site: "News", "Directory", etc.

This is all possible with a sprinkling of JS, no need for heavy server-side stuff :-)

I hope my partially unsolicited feedback is useful, have a great day.

stedaniels··on NextMind is building a real-time brain computer interface
Any Brain Computer Interface needs to be locally hosted, non cloud dependent, and open source. A proprietary license can protect the code, but anything touching the brain should be open, transparent, and auditable.
stedaniels··on Randomize HN: Removing the vote threshold for getting to the front page
Perhaps half way down the list inject, advert style, "Three from /newest:" add in three rows from newest, styled slightly differently so viewers can continue to scroll past. You could even try putting these at the bottom instead of half way down. If it was at the bottom, you could increase it to 5 or more. That would be the least intrusive and get the most eyeballs.
stedaniels··on The falling price of a TV set
That and the TV manufacture selling off your viewing habits :-) There are TV's out there that send screengrabs back to their systems.
stedaniels··on Hacking GitHub's Auth with Unicode's Turkish Dotless 'I'
The example doesn't seem to work at all for GitHub's explanation.. they say that their outgoing email server didn't support unicode in the domain part anyway. What am I missing? Was your actual attack on the local part?
stedaniels··on New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
You are ignoring the argument. You are in fact building the strawman for an excuse to point cameras at everyone for the duration of the flight.
stedaniels··on PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
For the untidied version: https://web.archive.org/web/20190330095314/https://news.ycom...
stedaniels··on Understand JWT in 3 Minutes
Why not to use JWT in 3 Minutes: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/19/stop-using-jwt-fo...
stedaniels··on 100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static site
Optimising WordPress is a known and solved problem. I don't mean to undermine your comment but it is trivial for a web infrastructure ops guy to deliver on. There is a lot of fud out there on the topic so it's easy not to see the diamonds in the rough.
stedaniels··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
:-)

I do have touchbar envy! I tend not to look at my keyboard too much on desktop, but when on a laptop it's definitely in my peripheral vision and would hopefully encourage me to learn it's shortcuts. There's a lot of UX work involved to make it all work perfectly though. App's especially, shouldn't just use the touchbar, they should make it easier with visual in app reminders about what's down there. They should do this with the standard FN-keys too for us non-touchbar folk. I'm a big fan of having keyboard shortcuts shown on screen UI's.

There's no denying it can do more in than Fn-keys.

stedaniels··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
I respect your opinion, but all of the examples you gave are already possible with Fn-keys.

I think what the touchbar brings is always active tutorial/reminder as to what's possible with the touchbar. Due to it's very nature you don't have to be taught what's on there, you can see, you then don't have to remember/rely on building up muscle memory.

I imagine it sucks for accessibility. I'd still want one before my faculties faulter, I imagine I'd get some use out of it with my IDE.

stedaniels··on Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network
I am very torn. I really want to upvote this comment, but am equally wanting you to be proved wrong.
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