stedaniels

1,483 karma · joined September 7, 2012

ste+hn@username.co.uk

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

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stedaniels··on Google – My Activity

Is this a US only thing? Mine is empty.. UK/Gsuite

stedaniels··on VPN service for hosting public-facing services on non-hosting ISP circuits

The website looks good. Obviously early days since pricing is missing. Probably sorting out value proposition, how much they can get away with charging, etc.

A comparative point is using Cloudflare and Argo tunnel which I'm currently using.

stedaniels··on The humble receipt gets a redesign

Flux [0] in the UK are currently trying to irradiate the paper receipt. It's integrated with Monzo bank too. IIRC there's an API to do whatever you like with the data. I imagine Monzo will start doing cool data visitations to help your spending habits.

[0] https://www.tryflux.com/

stedaniels··on Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190513170015/https://blog.evja...

stedaniels··on JetBlue has started using facial recognition instead of boarding passes

I imagine the OP meant a nefarious third party using someone else's boarding pass?

stedaniels··on Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author

Even better, it would be trivial to write a tool that rephrased what you wrote to be anonymous or even better/worse match someone else's signature.

stedaniels··on Verifications.io Leaks Personal Records of 2B Users

On an isolated network, even the compromise of a low level user/service account of a device/VM/container on that network gives you keys to the kingdom. A layered approach slows down or brings the penetration to a halt allowing time for detection and remediation.

stedaniels··on Keybase is not softer than TOFU

Ever worked in licensing large systems that encompass dozens of differently licensed components? That often costs a lot, for many reasons.

stedaniels··on Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”

Which barely covers a competent person sipping a coffee whilst glancing at the title of your app.

stedaniels··on UK Gov Petitions site crashes after 600k back call to revoke article 50

Andrew White at the GDS[0] wrote about "Scaling the Petitions service following the EU Referendum"[1] back in August 2016. I wonder if we'll have another write up after this petition?

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digit...

[1] https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2016/08/16/scaling-the-petiti...

stedaniels··on UK Parliament petitions website down amid overwhelming brexit rejection

Andrew White at the GDS[0] wrote about "Scaling the Petitions service following the EU Referendum"[1] back in August 2016. I wonder if we'll have another write up after this petition?

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digit...

[1] https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2016/08/16/scaling-the-petiti...

stedaniels··on Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

Whilst I agree with your general thought, I don't think you realise that in certain regions Facebook subsidises it's data usage so it is 100% free whereas Skype and email cost data. I hope that helps you understand where the parent is coming from. Though I obviously know that Facebook is doing this for market share and not to be "good" to people.

stedaniels··on European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings

That's OK, bird numbers have gone down significantly over the decades [0], they'll soon not be a problem.

[0] https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/how-you-ca...

stedaniels··on Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries

It means the ones they use for the customers site, versus the ones they use for their own site.

stedaniels··on Security.txt (2017)

Is been an RFC for almost a decade, RFC5785 [0].

Mattias Geniar has a good write up on it [1].

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785

[1] https://ma.ttias.be/well-known-directory-webservers-aka-rfc-...

stedaniels··on Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting

I think their trying to say.. But Facebook knows the other email addresses you use, due to using Facebook Pixel. The advertiser targets the other email addresses, not the one you use for Facebook.

stedaniels··on Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

In terms of a newspaper.. In Google's case they might just get the headlines of what you're doing, in this case the company/Facebook gets every single word, space, and punctuation.

stedaniels··on NIST Cybersecurity Framework in MOSP

https://github.com/CASES-LU/MOSP

>MOSP is a platform to create, edit and share JSON objects.

>The goal of this platform is to gather security related JSON schemas and objects.

I'm still a bit lost. Can MOSP be translated into infrastructure configurations?

stedaniels··on I Nearly Lost All of My Data

With encrypted upload, you usually get a destination authentication thrown in for free, i.e. you're uploading to the right server :-)

stedaniels··on Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store

You can't just keep making bigger pockets... Your legs and hips bend in ways that a phone can't.

stedaniels··on Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game

This is a very upper class problem. You are vastly over estimating the ratio of smart to dumb devices.

stedaniels··on What Foods Are Banned in Europe but Not Banned in the U.S.?

My apologies, where I come from, the UK, Kinder Egg is colloquially used in place of Kinder Surprise. It wasn't until a week ago, after decades of only knowing one type of Kinder Egg, that I came across Kinder Joy. I've just seen on the Kinder Surprise Wikipedia page.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise the very first line "Kinder Surprise, also known as Kinder Egg"

stedaniels··on What Foods Are Banned in Europe but Not Banned in the U.S.?

Kinder Eggs..

stedaniels··on NHS.UK frontend

You seem to be under the impression that the NHS requirements remained static?

stedaniels··on Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

*flack

stedaniels··on Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast

You are taking about policy here. The article is talking about technical implementation.

stedaniels··on Internal emails cause more trouble for Facebook and its C.E.O.

It wasn't that the "adults" adopted it, it's that the younger generation inevitably grew up and turned into the adults.

stedaniels··on Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome

I'm sorry. I'm out of date it seems. I thought autocomplete="false" worked for non authentication/non common fields. I'll have to check this out in the office later.

stedaniels··on Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome

URLs should not contain PII data. That is a very bad design.

[Edit] I've got the wrong end of the stick it seems.

stedaniels··on YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation financially impossible

It's built into the app. It asks you to grade each response positively or negatively.

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