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an_account_name··on Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism
CVE-205BC-00001
an_account_name··on Java Virtual Threads Preview
Suspect they're talking about Java - a lot of frameworks do exactly create a thread per request.
an_account_name··on In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features
If they can do a manual review at all, then there isn’t end to end encryption anymore, so I’m missing what the point of client side scanning is.
an_account_name··on Using the “X-AMZN-Trace-Id” Header for Request Tracing Through AWS Load Balancer
If it’s in APLCore it’s still running somewhere, you can be sure
an_account_name··on An SSL cert that is valid for any and all domains and all levels of subdomains
I mean out of the Symantec roots...

Ooh, I bet WoSign would do it!

an_account_name··on Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]
So the mitigation would be to add a check that the generator point in (for example) a CertificateVerify message is the one in the p256 spec (or otherwise the one on the cert, I’m not deep enough to know where it usually lives)?
an_account_name··on Amazon Plans $800M Data Center in Argentina
AWS has a region in Brazil, sa-east-1
an_account_name··on Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years
As they say it’s not “but”, rather “yes, and” so I agree with that and would add that the likely sentience of whales is a huge factor here.
an_account_name··on Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit limiting ability to shut off MCAS
Some of these applications have been withdrawn, but there are in fact some in flight.

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/new-reactor-ma...

an_account_name··on IT Runs on Java 8
What was the relative scale of the two systems?
an_account_name··on Can Uber ever make money?
Can you elaborate? I don't have any context on this other than taking a Lyft in NYC once.
an_account_name··on AWS Web Console Down?
!fq cockroaches
an_account_name··on Fastly S-1
No, this absolutely checks with my experience - I chase 5 and 10ms improvements all the time because we've measured and know it increases conversion.

But it makes sense, too: if the metric here is average latency, that doesn't mean that some users didn't see a much more dramatic increase. Every tiny bit of frustration removed from the experience adds up.

an_account_name··on Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site
Plenty of software runs on platforms other than windows. Plenty of industrial control software, too.
an_account_name··on U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
It's kind of pedantry to bring up here, though, and distracts from the discussion.
an_account_name··on U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
The empirical evidence is there: two crashes.
an_account_name··on U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
It sounds a lot like Trump overrode the FAA, more than the FAA changing its mind.
an_account_name··on Nginx 1.15.9
I read through the codebase and can't assert that couldn't happen... wasn't sure if the ngx_http_ssl_certificate callback could be executed after a point where any of the client-controlled variables from [1] are defined.

[1] - https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_ssl_module.html#vari...

an_account_name··on Nginx 1.15.9
Host headers are transmitted after the ssl handshake.
an_account_name··on Shazam removed all 3rd party SDKs from its iPhone app
I wish there were some public data on the impact of removing those - app start latency, battery consumption, bandwidth, etc. I bet there are positive impacts for the customers other than just privacy.
an_account_name··on Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?
The original Kindle has an SD card slot, swappable battery, and is available on eBay for cheap.
an_account_name··on Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism
Fevers kill. Ibuprofen and acetaminophen reduce fevers.
an_account_name··on Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims
Wow, the Wikipedia page for Kuru says there’s a mutation of the Kuru prion that confers immunity to Kuru. That’s crazy to me, but makes sense from a selection perspective.
an_account_name··on Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (2011)
I haven’t heard anything about what Grab is doing beyond Yegge’s post about it; what’s going on there?
an_account_name··on ATtention Spanned: Comprehensive Android Vulnerability Analysis of AT Commands
I remember there was one that could be triggered just by loading a web page with a specially crafted image file.
an_account_name··on The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
Reminder that lack of accessibility causes legal risk:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_the_B....

an_account_name··on FCC admits it was never actually hacked
I think it’s now the norm to just photocopy off the first envelope a few hundred times.
an_account_name··on Facebook is down
Pfft Amazon outages are cooler.
an_account_name··on How to beat LinkedIn: The Game
Isn’t that only true for free accounts? I think if you pay them like $15 (or use the free trial as grandparent comment suggests) they’ll let you message anyone.
an_account_name··on A drug for smallpox has been approved, even though the disease no longer exists
The US is threatening withdrawal from NATO, a member state is withdrawing from the EU, and international trade wars are heating up between the largest economies. I’m not sure I would count those trends as a sure thing, though certainly they probably have a good bit of wear left in them.
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