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vasachi··on Tesla Is Alienating the People It Needs Most: Study
You do know there are other EV manufacturers, right? Tesla can go bankrupt today, and supply will not be all that worse.
vasachi··on iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin
Say they introduce a bug, that will try to call that API even when there is no key.
vasachi··on Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows
Name one site, that works "not so great" with Firefox.
vasachi··on React Is the New IBM (2023)
Am I the only one, who is frightened, that current stable version of React is almost two years old? Even if React#19 will be mostly backwards compatible (I hope), how many subtle differences will be introduced?
vasachi··on FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
Yes it would work in any other industry. Users can overload a power grid. Users can overload a telephone network. Users can overload a grocery store. NO industry can deal with critical overload without problems.
vasachi··on The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps
OK, but how should an ISP distinguish a good HTTP/2 connection from a bad one (I'm talking about this particular attack)? As far as I can tell, the DoS starts after the connection from bot to server is established, at which point the connection is fully encrypted. Should all ISPs MITM their clients to ensure that all traffic is good and proper?
vasachi··on Encrypted Client Hello
Nope, the bad guys don't care that much.
vasachi··on Encrypted Client Hello
> This removes the last piece of information that can be used to block HTTPS traffic based on the site your visiting without being a party to the exchange.

And that will cause blocks by IP. It's not like authorities in those countries care that much if a user can't access a not-blocked site, as long as they can't access a blocked one.

vasachi··on AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4
"Public network" can mean many things, but in context of IP addresses it usually means a network, that uses a globally addressable IP range. Now, that doesn't mean that the network is globally accessible. It can be tightly firewalled.
vasachi··on AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4
What? Private networks are defined as networks, that use private address ranges[0]. They are most certainly not AWS "rhetoric".

And why are unique MAC addresses a problem?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network

vasachi··on AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4
Good luck administering IPv6 networks, they are so much easier to understand.
vasachi··on AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4
Are hundreds of publicly addressable services better?
vasachi··on AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4
Well, I wouldn't put _any_ service on a public network, unless it is explicitly required. Firewall is all well and good, but security in depth is even better.

Private networking is good. IPv6 doesn't help here at all.

vasachi··on Websites and APIs on Render are unavailable due to Cloudflare network errors
IPv6 can help with a small scale attack, but not a large one. Your ISP can still be DDoSed, although it is a bit more difficult to do that.
vasachi··on Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
Weeeeeeell, Googlebot can just lie about itself, no?
vasachi··on Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing
Actually an interesting point here. What will happen if USA sanctions your country? Can WEI stop working by remotely killing it?
vasachi··on The Adapter Pattern in Go
Honestly, just use a real db in testing. Purity is all well and good, but not at the expense of more bugs caught.
vasachi··on EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling
Well, yeah. At least I can read the smart contract and audit transactions on the blockchain, if we are talking about decentralized exchanges. Google is faaaaaaaaaar less transparent. As in, not transparent at all.
vasachi··on Why I Left Rust
Once on a conference one guy gave a talk about how he overrode python's module loading to load them from a mongodb instance. The reason was, if I remember correclty, because "it was easier for the juniors".

It made me veeeeeeeeery uncomfortable. Still a very good talk.

vasachi··on PyPI will require 2FA by the end of 2023
Well, that is your right as an owner of the packages. By the way, what are those packages?
vasachi··on There was nothing “wasted” about my youth spent clubbing on ecstasy (2021)
They probably would, if it was legal.
vasachi··on Make your database tables smaller
Both tables have an ID primary key, one is also a FOREIGN KEY to the other.
vasachi··on Why to not use JWT (2021)
What? Why whould the signaure be invalidated?
vasachi··on Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
It still is easier to copy, when you own manufactiring process.
vasachi··on Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
Kinda. The problem is your threat model, no? If you think of US law enforcement as adversary, using Amazon products is a very bad idea.
vasachi··on Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
Do American companies manufacture anything in China? Yes. Do Chinese companies manufacture anything in USA? No.

So USA can only watch, while China can actually steal.

vasachi··on Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
Don't they give camera feeds to law enforcement without warrant?
vasachi··on BMW Makes Heated Seats an $18/Month Subscription Service – Again
How would they detect if the car is sold?
vasachi··on Postgres 15 improves UNIQUE and NULL
Oh yeah, totally. But not always. I'm very glad that we now have an option to have both behaviours.
vasachi··on Postgres 15 improves UNIQUE and NULL
It is kinda weird, if you don't know how it works. For instance:

Say you have a unique constraint on two columns (column_a, column_b). column_a is not nullable, column_b IS nullable. Obviously these values are unique:

(1, 2) (1, 3) (2, 2)

But these values ARE ALSO UNIQUE:

(1, NULL) (1, NULL)

It is obvious in hindsight (NULL isn't equal to NULL), but can be quite a surprise.

...

Oh wait, postgres 15 deals with just this situation. Huh.

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