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_asdf_asdfon Hacker News CSRF Vulnerability

Ah, CSRF, the irritatingly low-hanging fruit that every would-be security researcher pre-emptively attacks for attention.

_asdf_asdfon Fraternal Order of Police Data Dump

8 chars, including numeric, uppercase and lowercase...

With sufficient GPU resources (being in possession of a working rig, cloud-based or standalone and air-gapped, all powered-up and running operable software) and talent (experience, and familiarity with an existing framework and an established code base), I'm thinking one person could brute force that, in the privacy of their own home, in a trivial amount of time.

_asdf_asdfon Why BPG will replace GIFs and more

Right-click save as... oh. Not so much.

View source, CTRL-F and...

https://eek.ro/assets/bpg/ambition.bpg

Kind of inconvenient. Not to mention it's a blank white empty space in Firefox, and probably anywhere else not currently supporting the format.

_asdf_asdfon 80 front-end job applications – nearly no one had basic HTML/CSS/A11y skills

...or globalization = g11n

_asdf_asdfon More Air Force drones are crashing than ever as mysterious new problems emerge

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

_asdf_asdfon GM Unveils Maven, Its New Play in Car-Sharing Services

  mvn clean package
  mvn deploy

_asdf_asdfon 90% of the billion dollar unicorn startups are in trouble

Okay, caps lock. You are cool

_asdf_asdfon Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android

And so...

Now it becomes clear...

Now we know who was truly behind the mammoth effort to produce Cyanogen all along.

_asdf_asdfon Investigation: Police Shootings

Wow! And England and Wales are entire countries!

Except...

They are much, much, much smaller countries, and so...

One would actually expect a much, much, much smaller number for them.

Even combined.

Whether by land area or population, they are considerably smaller.

_asdf_asdfon Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

It no worky?

_asdf_asdfon What Happens When Virtual Reality Gets Too Real

Wow, this VR simulation looks and feels EXACTLY like I'm sitting still in a chair, in an air conditioned room, with two pounds of earmuffs and safety goggles strapped onto my face!

Wait, what's that smell? It smells like stale coffee that someone brewed only just a few hours ago...

This is so realistic!

_asdf_asdfon How Blue Lights on Train Platforms Combat Tokyo’s Suicide Epidemic

If all this were generally true of blue light, then a television monitor tuned to an all-blue channel would be just as effective.