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allyant··on Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud
Apple use Apache Mesos rather than k8.
allyant··on Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT
Good solution! Openresty could create the JWT and add it to the forwarding headers, although the user would still need a cookie to maintain session with the proxy.

Only disadvantage I could see would be performance.

allyant··on Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT
Just a small 'way forward' for those wanting to have the ability to revoke a JWT after I came up with a solution on my last project: A 'Gateway' - use OpenResty to verify the JWT ID stored in a redis cache using a proxy pass. When the Authentication service grants a JWT add its ID to this cache along with a way of identifying the user. That way the entire advantage/disadvantage of decentralised authentication is not fully weakened and OpenResty + Redis can be relatively fast.
allyant··on HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important
To be fair we can't be 100% sure of that. It is possible they simply hash all the combinations they are going to show you. Could also be stored in an HSM making it a bit more secure.
allyant··on Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
In the Slack admin panel you can change the default call provider from slack to others, one of those is appear.in. Doing this will cause the “call” button in the slack app to auto generate a unique link for appear.in and add it to the chat. Works well if your company won’t scrape together for paid version of slack (such as mine).
allyant··on Mac at Work: IBM Launches Services to Deploy Macs at Scale to the Enterprise
Google - They had to write (And open sourced) their OS X Deployment tool: https://github.com/google/simian. Although not sure if they have over 10,000 OS X instances.
allyant··on “Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
What a horrible idea - what if the suggested method wasn't the intended one?
allyant··on Anger mounts over Barclays ban on rooted Android phones
Sky only do it due to their contracts with the media providers, just like they don't allow airplay. Its not their choice.
allyant··on AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
Doesn't block them here.
allyant··on Mail Pilot App
Don't pay for the iOS version. I was one of those people who ignored the reviews and went and splashed out on it after a while using the OSX version (Which works perfectly fine). Emails would come in hours, sometimes days after they where sent, others wouldn't show at all.

I noticed on their website they are advising to wait for version 2.

allyant··on Apple security rules leave inherited iPad useless
You can 'factory reset' iOS devices through iTunes [https://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414].

This would be the same as google not providing the users google credentials.

allyant··on Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
I am working on a (to be, hopefully) open source support ticket system based on Laravel and Bootstrap (So easily themeable). The primary feature is that it works with, not against other ticketing systems. For example I can 'push' a ticket to github or bitbucket. I also want to try and integrate email, so that sending an email to a support mailbox will automatically create a ticket. It would be nice to also have an API for web sites to use, so support tickets will also be created on errors on the production servers.

Just in the initial planning stages but it would work well in my workflow.

allyant··on Fish shell 2.1
On OSX.
allyant··on Fish shell 2.1
I am currently running fish version 2.0.0 (Love it btw!) - does anyone know if there is a way to manually self update to 2.1? Or do I need to reinstall the package.
allyant··on What is your Sublime Text workflow?
PHP/Rails web developer here using OSX:

I like to keep ST full screen with the file browser hidden (Cmd + K + B) with just the code being displayed. When I need to find a file in the project I simply use the file finder (Cmd + P), or if I can't recall the file name or need to create new files I open back the file browser (Again using Cmd + K + B).

I don't really take full advantage of ST plugins, sometimes use Emmet and have BracketHighlighter installed.

Theme wise I use the Tomorrow-Night-Eighties colour scheme, Soda Dark theme along with Menlo 12 font.

I also keep chrome open full screen again in another window and swipe across to that when I need to view changes (Gets automatically updated when made using the LiveReload app).

allyant··on Announcing the prototype Firefox OS Simulator
Can't Windows 8 / Phone 8 metro apps be written in HTML/JS? I thought I read a while ago that it was a option other than C#.
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