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iou··on Patreon laid off their security team
Did they really misspell the name of their own company in a public statement?
iou··on Riding in a peloton is the most energy efficient locomotion – research (2018)
Anyone else misread this as “on a Peloton”?
iou··on If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever
Do you do the full loop with each company? How do you select the companies? Do you feel bad if they’re smaller ones and you’re not serious about it?
iou··on Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
I did a sideload of .mobi today after being rejected by email, no issues.
iou··on Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
I thought the response was a bad thing, but if it just means we’re finally accepting epub as a common default that’s pretty great, right?
iou··on Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
Also send-to-kindle today rejected a mobi I sent by email with:

>>>

Send to Kindle supports the following document formats: Adobe PDF (.pdf) Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) Rich Text Format (.rtf) HTML (.htm, .html) Text (.txt) documents Archived documents (zip , x-zip) and compressed archived documents MOBI (.azw, .mobi) (will not support the most up-to-date Kindle features for documents) JPEG (.jpg), GIF (.gif), Bitmap (.bmp), and PNG (.png) images.

Additionally, Send to Kindle emails now supports EPUB (.epub). Later this year, we’ll also be adding EPUB support to the free Kindle app for iOS and Android devices and the Send to Kindle desktop app for PC and Mac.

iou··on Ask HN: Google Search down?
Place those bets, was it BGP? My money is always on BGP somehow.
iou··on Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
I could see this being an option for Enterprises with concerns around intellectual property or sensitive data leakage.
iou··on What Is Qubes OS?
Conceptually, I love it. I used it since about 2016 until last year, but I had to record some video and use stuff like OBS and it just became impossible (with my skill level) to get working.

I abandoned and went back to Fedora, which is odd as I’d stuck with it through lots of other NVIDIA crap issues and such.

Hopefully adoption increases and one day I can use in a workplace setting.

iou··on Moving Google Contacts and Calendar to NextCloud
I use nextcloud for my card and cal DAV, but I no longer need a lot of the other features of Nextcloud, has anyone else run something like https://radicale.org/v3.html on serverless or something?
iou··on Make Front End Shit Again (2018)
Love that scroll effect
iou··on Attacks on Email Sender Authentication
New and interesting writeup on what ProtonMail flagged to GMail for replaying of email where some empty fields in the original were not DKIM'd and hence injectable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29942900 (it's not my post, but it was the first one here and deserves a comment or two as it is interesting IMO)

iou··on Don’t try to sanitize input, escape output (2020)
Do both pls.
iou··on See how DMARC, SPF, and DKIM work interactively
Really cool!

I did have trouble with the results aligning correctly on mobile.

iou··on Ask HN: How do I protect myself against SIM swap attacks?
Amazing, it seems reasonable that all operators would follow this, I'll have to try this out.
iou··on OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration
I didn't know GIMP had been renamed till now, the repo is archived though, is that just because it's a mirror of some email-based-git approach?

https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse

iou··on OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration
I only used OBS for the first time recently and was blown away by how stable and feature-rich I was. Truly a great OSS project.
iou··on Show HN: Unikraft Cloud Platform: Unikernels-as-a-Service
Ah this diagram helps explain more http://docs.unikraft.org/intro.html
iou··on Show HN: Unikraft Cloud Platform: Unikernels-as-a-Service
It sounds closer to the former (as that's KVM) https://github.com/unikraft/unikraft

What isn't clear is how it inlines kernelspace, whether that surface area is optimized down etc

iou··on Code with Engineering Playbook
As much as one could "nitpick" about ommisions or unnecessary points, for large companies these things are obvious yet necessary.

I also liked the writing style guides that Microsoft and Google put out in recent years:

- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/style-guide

- https://developers.google.com/style/highlights

iou··on An update on our privacy sandbox commitments
Exactly. On the subject of contextual vs behavior based, it was sad that summary of this study was we gave up all that privacy for just 4% improvement );

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/31/targeted-ads-offer-little-...

iou··on Amazon Linux 2022
I do know this, I'm currently putting together a training course on authoring SELinux policy.

Surely the fact that 'disabling SELinux' is the top result on the subject in Google or StackOverflow will tell you that you would be in the minority of developers that like working with it and find it easy to do so.

I think there's more to it than just simply running an app without receiving an AVC complaint in auditd, you need to be able to test that the controls you put in place actually protect the application in some way, this does not come for free with audit2allow and other such generative tools.

iou··on Amazon Linux 2022
Yes,agreed.

& AWS are active in this area moreso with bottlerocket-os https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/security-features-of...

The recent release even incorporating the use of a feature I had previously dismissed as useless (MCS) is really quite neat https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/discussions/...

iou··on Amazon Linux 2022
I'm a big SELinux fan and user.

Enabling it won't in itself secure your company's applications, as the default policies in Fedora only apply to installed services (e.g ssh) that have a policy written for them.

This is probably right on the boundary of the shared-security-model, but I think it would be great if they also offered easier ways for application developers to leverage the advertised feature.

iou··on Amazon Corretto JDK
I guess v11 is a better link to share there https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-11-ug/p...
iou··on Amazon Corretto JDK
They do list the additional patches they do here (for example) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-8-ug/pa...
iou··on Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Zodiac-Killer-ca...
iou··on The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots
I don't think this is "the rise", inline attacks had been a known weakness of these security mechanisms almost since inception.
iou··on Stripe launched 10 years ago today
Is that _not_ what Stripe invoicing is for?

https://stripe.com/invoicing

iou··on Ask HN: Books that teach you logic building skills
Not a textbook (just a book), but still a fun way to intuitively encounter formal logic - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird
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