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abritishguy

1,581 karma · joined April 9, 2013

Daniel Chatfield

Security Engineer at Monzo Bank

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abritishguy··on Gotchas from Two Years with Node
It is good at concurrency which makes it attractive to those coming from node.
abritishguy··on Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP
How is my router admin page supposed to have an always up to date SSL certificate?
abritishguy··on CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner
"double web content transfer times"

That should be speeds.

abritishguy··on Ghost: the 30 minute change that added $60k in annual revenue
The only thing that upsets me about this article is the part where he cites an article saying that most people don't understand statistical significance in A/B testing as a justification for not using it when in actual fact he has the exact same statistical issues by not using it and suddenly loses a bunch of control variables.
abritishguy··on React and Angular Meeting
Yeoman is for scaffolding
abritishguy··on Django 1.8 released
>not suited for large sites

There are plenty of large sites using django

abritishguy··on Amtrak police use of passenger data
In the UK, Cambridge and Oxford have their own police force.
abritishguy··on Dropbox accesses all the files in your PC?
That is the only way you can watch for filesystem changes on Windows.
abritishguy··on “Discuss latest changes to master before releasing”
It is released and consumed via 2 package managers that mandate the use of semver.
abritishguy··on Show HN: I made a command-line iMessage interface
I don't see Apple being happy with that
abritishguy··on CloudFlare's free DNS – does it handle SSL?
I don't think you should use Hacker News for these "one answer" questions.
abritishguy··on Kickstarter switches to Stripe
>work at stripe

That's an understatement ;)

abritishguy··on Kickstarter switches to Stripe
They didn't say that - they said they were killing of the specific package they were using.
abritishguy··on Octohub – The missing app for GitHub
This seems like it should be a dead simple chrome/safari extension. Not an app.

The only thing this app appears to do is let you "tag" repositories.

abritishguy··on The Visual Revolution of the Vanishing of Ethan Carter
I only bought this game because of the stunning visuals and boy is it stunning. This write up is very informative.
abritishguy··on Thunderstrike – Apple EFI firmware vulnerability
That has been known since 2012
abritishguy··on Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor
And without that flag they might as well not be exit nodes - it takes 88 days to be approved.
abritishguy··on Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor
They appear to be using Google Compute instances (based upon the IP addresses) to create TOR relays but since they are not exit nodes I'm not really sure what they are hoping to achieve.
abritishguy··on You Don't Need JQuery
Just use the CDN copy of jquery and it will be cached in the users browser already since so many websites already use it.
abritishguy··on McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first
They need to hire some competent IT people
abritishguy··on McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first
Then why not just force them to change the password on login?
abritishguy··on Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web
"browser-trusted certificate" < it is already trusted by them
abritishguy··on Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite
I like what I have seen with Apple's (apparent) focus on privacy with regards to iOS and the later iPhone models but this is pretty worrying - I'm not one to care about sending my data to some cloud service when it offers some tangible benefit to me, but some of this data is pretty intrusive and I can't see what benefit it is adding.

Assuming everything here is accurate then Apple have screwed up and really ought to rectify this pretty quickly if they want anything they say about privacy to be taken seriously in the future.

abritishguy··on Pulse: open, trustworthy, decentralised sync and cloud service
Look at boxcryptor (works with dropbox)
abritishguy··on Can Someone Be Too Smart to Be a Cop?
Why don't you google it and find out?
abritishguy··on Plastc Card
From my careful reading of their released material this is how I think they are doing it:

They clone the magnetic stripe part of a chip and pin card and then have their own chip and pin layer that they put on top.

In the UK the only reason you can't use magnetic stripe is because no shops allow it (if they do then they are completely reliable for the authenticity of that transaction) - if you could add a chip and pin layer on top of mag strip data then this might work (would still require a lot of fiddling and as far as I can see transactions would have to go via platc like google wallet).

abritishguy··on Plastc Card
That certainly isn't true of the Cambridge one.
abritishguy··on Sile, a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign
I use texpad which has auto-updating PDF preview, it does partial builds so often even with a large complex document it only takes about a second to update (although this is too long in my opinion). Occasionally it can't do partial builds (some libraries screw it up) and then I'm stuck waiting 10 seconds or more for the preview to update.
abritishguy··on Sile, a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign
Looks interesting, the number 1 feature for me is compile time though - I want instant previews which I can't get with latex.
abritishguy··on EveryoneAPI
Doesn't seem to work outside US, an awful landing page and numerous bugs (bitcoin payment doesn't work).
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